That sounds fine to me as long as you haven't been limiting yourself to 400 calories or something. With the weight you were at it's a lot easier to drop pounds faster when you start to change your lifestyle; expect that weight loss to happen less rapidly now that you're in the 225lb range so don't get discouraged.
Thank you. I have been on what I might call a "steep" calorie deficit, but only in terms of what my suggested intake is for my level of activity (1900/1500 every other day vs 3000). It feels like all I really need. I'm not hungry during the day, and I haven't been losing any of my musculature or anything, i.e. my lifts are approximately the same. There are some days where I appear to shed an entire pound, but I think that's explainable by water retention and what my meals are like.
I hope you are supplementing with a multi vitamin, shifting your energy generation from the stomach to the fat cells can leave you with vitamin deficiency if you were borderline at the start.
I'm just over six foot. Truthfully, I've reduced my carb intake and increased the vegetables in my diet to the point that hitting 1900 calories in a day can be kind of challenging. I try to account for everything I eat, and there's a possibility I don't hit my diet goals every time, but I feel full after a meal, so. My actual intake might look more like 1700/1350 on some days. I do supplement with protein powder here and multivitamins there, and like I said, I feel great.
That's a solid ass weight loss program.
It's stupid yeah, the heavier you are the faster you'll lose weight at first, at 10lbs per month it's really good progress, it shows that you got willpower, keep going.
You're gonna gain weight. It's just a given. Try to do light exercises like walking and try and just eat normally. But the biggest takeaway is that loosing weight after the baby is going to be hard. Give yourself time. I've been post partum for almost a year with my second and just now felt 'Right' enough to exercise and diet and start loosing baby weight. Hormones and mood is gonna affect you - that year after I felt weird and not myself and wasn't taking care of little things like diet and skincare because I was focused on the baby. But you get over it and you will get back to not feeling like a skin walker.
Gaining muscle mass is always a good idea.
Idk what to say with the taste buds, but maybe start small with the exercise. Instead of pushing yourself to fatigue, push yourself a bit and then stop and do it every day. If you can only do 10 press ups (for example) before fatigue then do 5 to 7 then stop (or whatever it is that you do for exercise). Better to be easier and consistent with the exercise instead of killing yourself with the exercise and quitting.
