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  • poesch77
    poesch77 Posts: 1,005 Member
    Alright.....thanks everyone for all your input. Gonna drop my calories ONCE AGAIN and see what happens....still gonna let up on working out......5-6 days per week was stressing me out.
  • cebreisch
    cebreisch Posts: 1,340 Member
    I think it comes down to how "real" you're being with tracking things. My husband has done Insanity workouts and P90X, and I don't think he's ever burned 600 calories doing it - I don't know, maybe he has, but I don't remember seeing numbers that high. Usually his numbers were about half that. I agree with the reply you got on cutting that burn in half and seeing how it affects things. Personally, I'd not work out for a week and be a logging fiend on the food journal (I mean even count the ketchup!) to see what happens. I've lost my weight without doing much in the way of exercise at all.

    Usually when I gain or plateau, it's because of my logging being not entirely accurate.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Read my original post....my Doctor told me to eat 2,000 calories per day or more to start losing again. I know that seems like a lot that is why I am putting myself out there.

    It does seem like a lot. I am an advocate of following doctor's orders, but if it's clearly not working it might be time to tweak that advice on your own or schedule another visit for updated advice.

    I'm sure some women can lose on 2000 calories, but it sounds like you are not one of them. There really is no more accurate test than trial and error.
  • happycauseIride
    happycauseIride Posts: 536 Member
    I didn't look at your diary. There are enough other posts about that, but I will agree that 2000 calories is probably too much. I would cut back to 1500 good quality calories. Nothing packaged or out of a box. Eat whole foods and get plenty of protein. Also make sure you are drinking water. It will help with the pooping issue. Don't eat anything with artificial sweeteners in them and don't drink pop.

    Now this second part is something I learned from personal experience. I started losing weight in August of last year. I was doing well, dropping about 10 pounds a month until December. Then I hit a plateau in November after losing about 40 pounds. I tried upping my calories, lowering my calories, upping my workouts. I went from walking on my treadmill to running every day. I made it to week 7 of C25K and then I developed tendonitis in my ankle. I was working out so much, I hurt myself and the whole time I lost only 6 pounds in three months. I took 3 weeks off of exercise completely. I did none at all. I ate right, stayed within my calories and started slowly walking again at the beginning of this month and started back on strength training. I work out at home so I do squats, planks stuff like that. But guess what? I have lost 7 pounds since the 1st of this month!! I believe that that break that I took was what my body needed to start losing again. And to top it off, I am still only walking on my treadmill. I still can't run without pain.

    Morale of this story is that you may have overworked your body and it's time to give it a break. But you have to get the eating under control. Eat good foods as much as you can. Lord knows I'm not perfect and the 7 pounds this month would probably be 12 if I was. :) Keep trying. You can do this, if you believe you can.
  • mamaomefo
    mamaomefo Posts: 418 Member
    I would suggest not weighing so often. When we weigh every day we tend to let it upset us if there is a gain. Our weight fluctuates daily due to sodium, water intake...BTW drink lots of water...etc. so, I would suggest weighing every two weeks.
  • poesch77
    poesch77 Posts: 1,005 Member
    I wish I loved water but I dont and am rarely thirsty. I hardly ever drink pop. I struggle to get the recommended 8 glasses per day......
  • hilldiggity
    hilldiggity Posts: 166 Member
    I wish I loved water but I dont and am rarely thirsty. I hardly ever drink pop. I struggle to get the recommended 8 glasses per day......

    I used to hate drinking water, until I started adding fresh lemon to it. I'd just drop a slice right into my mug. Eventually I didn't need the lemon anymore and now I can drink water fine. But there are also alternatives. I don't know what the MFP consensus is about adding flavors to your water, but what about some Crystal Light? Or something like it? Just my 2 cents.
  • jsd_135
    jsd_135 Posts: 291 Member
    I would suggest not weighing so often. When we weigh every day we tend to let it upset us if there is a gain. Our weight fluctuates daily due to sodium, water intake...BTW drink lots of water...etc. so, I would suggest weighing every two weeks.

    I would agree with this. I weigh every Friday morning, somewhere between 9 and 10 a.m. I also don't own a scale; I weigh myself on the same scale at my gym.
  • jsd_135
    jsd_135 Posts: 291 Member
    One suggestion: I see you have two young (very cute) children. One of the biggest things I've cut out of my diet are my kids' leftovers--you know, those yummy PB&J sandwich crusts they don't eat, rest of the slice of pizza, the piece of cake or pie not finished. If I do eat them, I log them. This morning my daughter didn't finish her dish of yogurt and fruit. I hadn't had my snack yet, so I decided to finish it. It wasn't a lot of food, but after I logged it, it was 100 calories. If you do enough of that in the course of a day/week, it adds up to real consequences.

    Just a thought. It may not apply to you. I personally hate wasting food, but I'm no longer serving as our living disposal.

    Good luck. Your family, you included, is gorgeous.

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