When I’m at a 200-400 calorie deficit for a while I can still be very active, but my mood feels flat and I have a hard time getting excited about anything.
My wife coaches teen athletes and the signs she’s taught to look out for are not weight loss but withdrawal, depression, poor digestion, feeling cold etc. Not to say that you’re doing something unhealthy, just that low mood is a known effect of being in an extended calorie deficit and not necessarily an effect of the semaglutide.
As you go further into deficit you tend to downregulate other stuff (eg bone and tissue maintenance) before losing weight faster, so the amount of weight loss only gives you an lower bound on your deficit. It might be worth tracking your calories and seeing how much more you can eat before your weight loss stops—you might find that a higher intake gives you better mood while still losing weight.
A reasonable estimate for a sedentary person is https://www.omnicalculator.com/health/bmr-harris-benedict-equation multiplied by 1.2. Plus any activity on top. Worth calculating—you might be at a much bigger calorie deficit than you think.
When I’m at a 200-400 calorie deficit for a while I can still be very active, but my mood feels flat and I have a hard time getting excited about anything.
Thx. I was thinking:
1kg is roughly 7700 calories
I’m losing a bit more than 1kg per month
Deficit of 9k calories per month is 300 kcal daily
Please let me know if that doesn’t make sense : )
My wife coaches teen athletes and the signs she’s taught to look out for are not weight loss but withdrawal, depression, poor digestion, feeling cold etc. Not to say that you’re doing something unhealthy, just that low mood is a known effect of being in an extended calorie deficit and not necessarily an effect of the semaglutide.
As you go further into deficit you tend to downregulate other stuff (eg bone and tissue maintenance) before losing weight faster, so the amount of weight loss only gives you an lower bound on your deficit. It might be worth tracking your calories and seeing how much more you can eat before your weight loss stops—you might find that a higher intake gives you better mood while still losing weight.