Hi again,
Really need some help here,
August last year my scales hit 312lbs and that was it i'd had enough of constantly being "the biggest person" in any situation so it was time to do something about it - maybe 45 was a bit too late but hey when it's time it's time!
So I begin replacing one meal a day with a shake and eating healthy, the pounds soon started coming off but over Christmas and new year I started getting back into old habits.
So anyway, 5 weeks ago I decided that making small changes and trying to stick to them wasn't the way I needed to go so I ordered VLCD sachets for complete meal replacement. I have been doing really well on them, not sticking totally to what they say but my only snacks are plain popcorn and grapefruits.
So far since August last year I have lost over 60lbs and feeling pretty good. Last week however I had a couple of days where I was so busy with work I didn't have my sancks and I ate just 600 - 700 calories a day, overnight I lost 1.2lbs after the first day then dropped nothing the next. since then (after being told off by numerous people that 600- 700 calories a day is not enough and I could do more harm than good I have upped this a bit. But with healthy foods like a vegetable meal (roasted courgette, mushroom, carrot, sweet potato in passata and garlic totalling 105 calories) and things like poached eggs on spinach and been exercising more instead. Friday I went for a bike ride and yesterday I spent 2 hours in the pool swimming for at least half that time - to the point i could hardly walk.
All this to find I have put on 3 lbs in just a coupld of days. I really don't think it's muscle or fluid retention as I haven't done much to really build muscle and I have been drinking 3 - 4lts of water a day.
I just don't think it would be healthy to drop back down to 600 - 700 calories a day, although i really wasn't hungry for anything else those days I have been told that organs can begin shutting down and I already have missed periods by being on the VLCD so I don't wanna risk anymore.
Any advice would be great. What am I doing wrong?