I think i need to try and find out what's going on with me! Yesterday i was up to 104.7kg from 103 on Friday. MFP is also showing a fairly healthy deficit against their calculated target calories and that's without their already built in ~800kcal per day deficit from my baseline.
I've been pretty good without booze during January bar a couple of spikes. I was down around 102kg in mid January and since then my activity has ramped up a decent amount with my Garmin showing that i did almost 10hrs of activity last week including 2x 3+ hr bike rides. I kept assuming my weight was just water gain after some heavy activity days and assumed a correction would happen but it seems to be increasing.
Snacking has been at a minimum and breakfast has generally been fruit/yoghurt/homemade granola. Lunch is a huel shake and then tea is just a regular meal (chilli/curry/chicken and rice etc). Most days i actually seem to be having an additional huel as MFP says i'm considerably under my calorie goal and i'm conscious of the impact on exercise if i don't have enough.
The assumption would be i'm over estimating calories in, but the huel is easily calculated. My breakfasts are consistent (half banana, maybe a bit of kiwi, 2 tablespoons of Greek yoghurt and then a tablespoon or 2 of homemade granola). I know the granola isn't especially healthy, but with it being homemade there's no huge amount of sugar like shop bought stuff.
Evening meal is then usually guessed at, but i usually go for an input of around 800kcal which "feels" right for the kind of meals i mention above in a normal to large sized portion. If i have any wraps with it then they're also easily calculated.
Calories burnt is calculated by my Garmin, and whilst i know these apps have a reputation for overestimating. Most activity is through bike rides with both HR and Power data and also updated weight/height entered. The deficit above i mention is i usually try and only eat back 50% of the "burnt calories".
To be putting on ~2kg in as many weeks suggests i'm miscalculating by around 30,000kcal (assuming i'm working towards losing 1kg a week at 7,700kcal deficit and seeing the swing the opposite way). Surely even the worst guess based estimates can't be that far out!
Going to be interesting over the next few weeks. I'm not going to change what i'm doing quite yet because i fully believe i'm on the right track with activity/diet and putting this down to a freak few readings, but will be interesting to see if there isn't a correction and then i need to really try delving into things.
I've been pretty good without booze during January bar a couple of spikes. I was down around 102kg in mid January and since then my activity has ramped up a decent amount with my Garmin showing that i did almost 10hrs of activity last week including 2x 3+ hr bike rides. I kept assuming my weight was just water gain after some heavy activity days and assumed a correction would happen but it seems to be increasing.
Snacking has been at a minimum and breakfast has generally been fruit/yoghurt/homemade granola. Lunch is a huel shake and then tea is just a regular meal (chilli/curry/chicken and rice etc). Most days i actually seem to be having an additional huel as MFP says i'm considerably under my calorie goal and i'm conscious of the impact on exercise if i don't have enough.
The assumption would be i'm over estimating calories in, but the huel is easily calculated. My breakfasts are consistent (half banana, maybe a bit of kiwi, 2 tablespoons of Greek yoghurt and then a tablespoon or 2 of homemade granola). I know the granola isn't especially healthy, but with it being homemade there's no huge amount of sugar like shop bought stuff.
Evening meal is then usually guessed at, but i usually go for an input of around 800kcal which "feels" right for the kind of meals i mention above in a normal to large sized portion. If i have any wraps with it then they're also easily calculated.
Calories burnt is calculated by my Garmin, and whilst i know these apps have a reputation for overestimating. Most activity is through bike rides with both HR and Power data and also updated weight/height entered. The deficit above i mention is i usually try and only eat back 50% of the "burnt calories".
To be putting on ~2kg in as many weeks suggests i'm miscalculating by around 30,000kcal (assuming i'm working towards losing 1kg a week at 7,700kcal deficit and seeing the swing the opposite way). Surely even the worst guess based estimates can't be that far out!
Going to be interesting over the next few weeks. I'm not going to change what i'm doing quite yet because i fully believe i'm on the right track with activity/diet and putting this down to a freak few readings, but will be interesting to see if there isn't a correction and then i need to really try delving into things.
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