Ok, I give up.

cuarrech

On eating too little in the hopes of losing faster, and thinking serious restriction was the only way.

I'm a sad example of the typical pattern: Starve and binge and crash. And with a myriad of health problems, from what I'm reading, probably related to that. Overall, I maintained (with fluctuation) no matter how long I tried to force myself through those restriction periods, or what macros I used... So I've been stewing and thinking, I read through "In Place of a Roadmap 2.0" and I've been reading Matt Stone on the web and others with similar thoughts. It's about the only thing I haven't tried yet, and there's so many success stories here with that. So, I'm thinking, why not?

The only issue I have now (except minor weight gain, I'm hoping glycogen+water) now that I can eat (carbs!) is that I don't want to unless it's booze or chocolate, which though it really bumps up the cals isn't very nutritious (though there've been a few celebrations and, ahem.. girl issues recently. Excuses, excuses.). It's only been several days that I've really started making the mental switch, but I'm not very hungry, even at my first meal of the day so I've been forcing myself through almost every meal. I do need more consistent and earlier sleep, perhaps that's the other piece. Hard when family works for a company in another time zone 3 hours behind, though.

On the plus side, at least around mealtimes and exercise times I feel warmer, and I'm apparently warmer at rest, too. I tested my temperature this morning in bed (without the heater on!) and though I still felt a little chilled subjectively, my temp was almost 98! 98!! I can't believe it. I used to be 96 or lower, my mom is that way too, and I just thought that was the way it was. Unfortunately although I now have a warmer body, I still have icy digits. I hope that changes soon, too.

I haven't felt like exercising much for a long time - the binge cycles post restriction always coincided with physical crash cycles, this last time a few months long, but the desire is coming back, a little. Even went for a little bitty walk with some sprints today, and "sneaked" around the house (lunges) and did some half push-ups just because I felt like it. It's nice to feel like it again. I look forward to starting up some weight training and more intervals.. just not too much, too fast, right?

Here's looking forward to more improvements to come.

_stephanie0

good idea on the upping calories...

i was eating 1200-1500 too. i thought i was okay, but now im eating 1700-2300/day and all my lifts have gone up and i FEEL way better, and im even losing weight! (i may need to eat MORE cause im trying to gain some muscle)


good luck:flowerforyou:

lotusspark

I agree. Trick your body and try different things.

drmerc

I agree. Trick your body and try different things.

I've never seen any evidence that one can trick their body