Saturday 24th January

Two exceedingly bad days have passed. I have exceeded my TDEE on both Friday and today to the total of 495kcal. I am not happy with myself but I can accept that I may not reach a full pound loss this week. My nice little spreadsheet that I’ve worked out, with formulae and everything, is great because when I get to the end of the week I know what my total weekly deficit is.

If I get to the end of the week and my only deficit is 3000kcal (the total of calories cut out on the two fast days) I shouldn’t have lost a full pound. A pound weight loss is roughly equivalent to a calorie deficit of 3500. With some rough working out a calorie deficit of 3000 is equal to 390g of weight loss.

When I talk about “weight loss” I’m talking about fat loss, as opposed to the initial loss of retained water. Fat cells hold a lot of water and toxins, that’s why we get cellulite and are told to drink lots of water when we are dieting (not just because it can ward off a hunger craving) .

It’s times like this, when I’ve worked out rough weight loss, that I’m glad I’m working in metric these days. If I’d still been working in stones and pounds I might feel more disheartened if it didn’t show on the scales, at least with kilos you get the decimal point.

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