I started loosing weight after I started eating more and stopped caring so much, how is this possible?

[Anonymous]

I used to restrict my eating, but when that didn't work and I was still gaining weight, I decided to just stop worrying about how much I ate or what I ate. Im NOT saying that I just started living on junk food and ice-cream for breakfast. What Im saying is that I may have had the occasional chocolate bar, and milkshake on the weekend, although I still ate good, nutritional food with high protein and vitamins for 85% of my diet. I stopped caring about portion and how much I ate and just ate till I was completely full. After 2 weeks I started dropping weight, I weigh 115 lbs now and my body seems to have stopped loosing weight and is happy now. Looking back I realize that this doesn't make any sense, Is there something wrong with my digestive system or something? How is this possible?

[DaChillCookie]

Wait whut. I've been restricting my diet as well, now I don't care anymore and I eat whatever I want. I don't know if I'm losing weight or not but people keep saying I look so cute and plump around my leg regions but my waist and stomach is tiny. I have the same problem

[chucks22]

Lots of different factors could be there. Maybe you're more active? Less stressed? Maybe you starved yourself too much before and body was overcompensating? I don't know. But, happy for you that you lost weight.

[Asker]

im not more active- same as before

[chucks22]

How much weight we talking?

[Asker]

15 lbs

[chucks22]

Was hoping maybe just water weight. I don't know. You got me. I mean, you are young. When I was your age I could drop 15 lbs without doing too much. And, you didn't lose anything before you gave up?

[Asker]

nope

[chucks22]

So, you're doing all the same things just eating more? Right?

[chucks22]

If so, you might want to see a doc.

[Cuintan]

If you restrict your calorie intake too much your body thinks there's a famine going on and reacts to the threat of starvation by getting hyper efficient at every last calorie out of every morsel of food.

[young718]

You may be eating foods that are better for losing weight, or getti my the nutrients u need in a certain area and that is helping u loose weight