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After a week of my weight bouncing all over the place for a couple of weeks, I am finally making forward progress again. I had to increase my calorie intake to do it....who would have thought you would have to tell me to eat???
Anyway, after adjusting my exercise and calorie intake, I am finally seeing some changes. I had actually gained a couple of pounds due to my body thinking it was starving on 1400 calories. For a smart girl, I can do stupid pretty well.
Monday, I am going in for bloodwork to check my thyroid levels. They typically run borderline low--so I am hoping that there might be something that they can do to boost these just enough to jump start my metabolism a little bit. With all of the exercise I am doing, I just want to make sure that everything is working as effectively as possible. I really do not want to be putting this much time into planning and exercise to see the scale stagnate due to something totally beyond my control.
Right now, I am so happy that I am back down on the scale, and am really praying it continues.
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That's a really interesting observation about the calorie level. How many minutes of daily exercise do you average? I've had a week of "I do not feel like it." And finally went out for a run today.
Good luck Monday.
17 nov. 11 por el miembro: Athena63
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I talked to a dietician, and she informed me I was about 400-500 calories below what I should be eating. I am working out between an hour and an hour and a half of cardio Monday-Friday. I do strength training 3 days a week. Cardio consists of Elliptical, Bike, Swimming, or walking. I usually alternate it up a bit. When I stopped losing, I paniced and dropped calories and upped my cardio. My body thought that I was starving and started holding onto every calorie to maintain....it slows down your metabolism is what the trainer at the gym said.
I have started using www.myfitnesspal.com to log food and exercise. It adjusts your carbs, protein, fat , calorie intake based on your workout. Hopefully this will prevent me from doing anything stupid from here on out.
17 nov. 11 por el miembro: Hope_Springs_Eternal
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I tried my fitnesspal but found it more difficult to log food on that website. plus I thought the calorie burns were overestimating the value of the workouts.
I'm interested to see how this works for you. are you switching to the other website completely?
18 nov. 11 por el miembro: Athena63
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I am going to bounce back and forth. I am logging my food there, because it adjusts for exercise. I am using the calorie burn on the machines, and not using their values. If it is something where I don't know--like walking, I am using what the treadmill at the gym says I burn per mile, because that is usually a totally flat surface, and most trails are not usually totally flat.
I really like the challenges here. If you want to friend me there too, my id there is jennim1974.
18 nov. 11 por el miembro: Hope_Springs_Eternal
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