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Here is my story. At New Year I made a resolution to lose weight, especially since I'm also starting a new job, so doubly new beginning and all. I used one of those fancy scale in my old workplace that can measure your body by components and was informed I was nearly 60 pounds overweight in fat alone.
Unfortunately, the new job was very stressful. I ended up not having any time at all for exercise (I went to the gym for a grand total of 4 times) and lived a sedentary lifestyle. However, I lost a lot of sleep, had very random sleep "schedule", and on average I slept only 3 hours a day. I also ate very little, usually only 1 meal, which would be something like a <900 calorie sub from Subway, plus in the cookies and a drink. I might also have one Dunkin Donut coffee medium size. Some days I have 2 meals but in those case each meal is a lot less, each in the range of 600 calorie. I never have any extra snacks, never drank soda (the only non-water drink I have is pure fruit juice). All in all, it's impossible for me to get more than 1500kcal per day, well below my 1800kcal base metabolism according to that fancy scale. My only form of exercising is that I had to walk 1 hours to work and back everyday, plus all the staircases. The calorie math should indicate that I should be losing weight, slowly, right? But instead, to my dismay after every single time I stepped on the scale, my weight remained the same.
After 6 months of this, I got too stressed out and I quit for a new job. There was an 1 month break. I moved to a new city 1 month early. During the waiting time, I took a side job as a waiter (got fired after 2 weeks for incompetency), then mixing drink (got fired after 1 week for incompetency). The job is part time, only 6 hours, then 4 hours per day. At this point, I had basically gave up on my resolution. With all the new stuff in the new city, I tried out every restaurant, and I explored every nooks and cranny of the new city. I can't really count, but I probably consumed like 3500kcal per day considering all the Mexican and Chinese food, all the cheeseburgers, and all the random snacks I stuffed myself with (I ate 3-4 meals per day). I also go out 8-10 hours per day since I don't have a car and I want to check out every place in the new city, but not all that time is spent on walking, so once you subtract resting and eating time it's probably 6-8. I also sleep more. Calorie math would tell me that I'm eating less than what I'm spending, but not by much (IIRC the machine said it's 360 per hours of walking intensely, but I'm obviously not walking as intensely, so it should be like 300 per hours, so on average I should be spending only 4100 per day, ie. a 600 deficit). Since it's 4100 per pound of fat it should take 1 week to lose a pound. Since I wasn't even trying to lose weight anymore, I didn't bother to weight myself until the new job, when I made another resolution, again. To my surprise, I lost 18 pounds of just fat (also gain 2 pounds in muscle mass). I probably should have noticed something was strange when I started to have to pull up my pants repeatedly because it kept falling down.
Now it had been a few months, and once again I'm back to my old lifestyle. Still that stressful job, still terrible sleep, still poor eating, still no exercising. Interestingly, I didn't gain back my old weight nor does I lose any more weight.
This just doesn't make sense to me. Is my calorie math wrong?
EDIT: apologize for the lack of flair, I just discovered this subreddit and haven't figure out where the button is (I can only find a flair for username but not the post).
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