1 Week Post Fast: Maintained Weight Loss

10:58 PM

This morning I weighed 159.8 pounds. When my fast ended last week, I weighed 155 pounds at my lowest (actually I did drop to a little below 155, but we can ignore that). This week I've been eating a lot of food, sometimes over 3000 to 4000 calories per day (although I also exercised every single day). I don't think there's been a single day this whole week where I ate less than 2500 calories, and yet my weight is now just 5 pounds above my lowest, which was predicted and expected, especially having food in my gut again.

The 5 pounds weight gain from my lowest is mainly from glycogen stores being refilled, which is mainly water, and also from having food in my guts again. So I'm pretty happy that I basically didn't gain any weight despite eating so much, and I did eat a lot.

Maintaining and losing weight are challenges themselves. Once we lose weight, it is its own challenge to keep it off. I somehow don't feel any smaller or weaker despite being 12 pounds lighter. I also feel like Asians have smaller bones and frames, so I actually have to drop down to the low 140s weight range to become lean and muscular. I still have so much fat on me. This is why I don't look much thinner in the mirror at 160.

When I was 155 at my lowest weight during the fast, I did look skinny and gaunt, but that was because I had nothing in my glycogen stores. Right now after having eaten for a while, my face, body, muscles, are all fuller, and I look basically the same as prior to the fast. I'll put up a photo at some point. But yeah, I still have so much fat on me. I don't look lean at all despite being only 14% body fat now.

I think I'll do a cut for weight loss next time though, instead of doing a fast. I'm just going to eat 1600 calories a day, 160g of it being protein or so, all vegan plant-based protein of course, and in theory I should become thinner while maintaining muscle mass, making me appear more ripped once I get my weight down.

I am very sleepy now. Every day I try to improve my life in every way possible. I feel like I fail in this mission so much.

Sigh.