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:
That was quicker than I thought but it really was mostly the extra weight of the food, water and glycogen stores. I will see by Saturday if I lost anything past this, which I'm expecting to lose another pound probably. I'm also thinking the smart scale's muscle mass calculations are a joke, more on that in my end-of-week post.
I realized it's been a little over 12 weeks since my last exercise break and I can feel it in my body that it needs a week off to settle down from all the inflammation and stress that exercise brings. So starting today, I'm taking a week off all exercise until next Tuesday - no hiking or weight training, etc.
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