I've lost 30kg in 15 weeks.
At first I was really happy but now I'm worried about how it might be affecting my health. I also look dreadful.
I've been eating an average of 1800 calories a day the whole time with a focus on protein and nutrient dense food. However, I haven't really exercised and I haven't done any sort of strength training. I really really regret that. Life is so busy it often feels impossible to find the time.
How bad is my muscle loss going to be?
I've still got about 20kg to go until a healthy BMI. I know my loose skin is going to be terrible because I've lost so fast but if I slow down and start resistance training will it have any sort of positive effect or am I too late?
TDEE calculator puts my maintenance calories at my current weight at about 1850 but I'm still losing about 1.5kg a week eating 1800. So do I up my calories? MFP gives me a daily allowance of 1300 but that leaves me tired and miserably hungry so I always go over. And yes, I'm weighing and logging everything accurately so I'm not undereating.
I look like a deflated balloon. I've aged about 20 years, my face looks terrible and saggy. I feel good in myself, plenty of energy etc. but I just look awful.
I've just gone up to 7.5mg as that's what my prescriber recommended because the food noise was getting bad and I was getting really snacky and hungry in between meals. Now I'm thinking I should go back down to 5mg to slow the weight loss down.
I don't know. Maybe now I am getting smaller the losses will slow down anyway because it will be harder to be in a deficit so I should just keep going?