More than Just Pounds

I finished my 2nd week of my cut and I'm down -1.2 pounds!  I was surpised I lost so much because I went WAY over my calories last Saturday on day 1 of my week and ate 2616 calories.  My 7-day average for this past week was 1892 calories, so I didn't do too bad on average thankfully.  I also didn't exercise as I expected to, so my deficit wasn't even 500 calories, more like 250 calories maybe but I still lost and that's great!

Time will tell if this MATADOR metabolic reset really works for me personally.  If you look at when I started this to reset my metabolism, I was at 162.0 and then I ate at 2300 calories for 2 weeks and went up to 164.6.  Now, at 2 weeks later of my cut, I'm down to 161.6.  So, I have lost a total of 0.4 if you go by the very beginning of this experiment, as you can see in the chart below.  However, remember, it's about more than just pounds!  This is about resetting my metabolism for the long-term and being able to eat more and still lose and I'm accomplishing that finally.

July was a success because I had consistent exercise, I started the MATADOR experiment and ate at maintenance for 2 weeks and reset my metabolism.  I'm still tracking my old scale and new scale because they are so different and it helps to see since I was so used to the older scale from the beginning of my journey.  

Here is my July calendar of calories eaten, exercise done and scale weight:

I'm on the 5th day of my cut down to 1800 calories and it has been very difficult.  The crazy thing is, before I upped my calories to 2300 for 2 weeks, eating 1800 calories was never hard, I actually was comfortable at 1700 calories before.  So, it goes to show that you can reset your metabolism by raising it and then drop back down and find those calories are really low for you.  Also, pretty much all the weight that I gained the 2 weeks of maintenance is now gone already: