Need more calories, can't handle any more volume!!!

Mobil2004 · July 2014

Hi all- I am in a really weird place with my weight loss. First let me give just a bit of back ground. I'm 32 with 4 children that are 8, 5, 4, and 5 months. I did NOT get fat by over eating which is why it has taken so long for me to figure out how to get it off. I actually caused my metabolism to run screaming from my body by not eating enough. I now have 135 lbs to lose. I am set at a little under 1600 calories per day as my goal and I'm working out at least 5 days per week with an average burn of 500-600 calories per day. Because I've gotten so used to NOT eating it's been a struggle for me to stop every few hours and shove food in my face (with 4 kids and a photography company to run I simply forget). I thought I was doing great because I was eating somewhere between 1200 and 1500 calories per day. Then bout a week ago I started having to stop my workouts half way through because I was getting dizzy. Like REALLY dizzy. My hubby pointed out that there are some days that I'm only netting 800 calories after my workouts are logged. Well.............that definitely explains it! It's amazing what you find when you actually pay attention to ALL factors of an equation huh? My problem is that I can't hold any more food than I'm already consuming! I eat until I'm full and I'm trying my best to go high protein (especially after the work-out), moderate carb (especially before the workout), lean fats, low sugar and sodium. Are there foods that have a highly dense calorie content that I'm just not aware of?? I think my food diary is public if looking at it will help with any answers. I do have to add that I am not a breakfast person at all. Eating too much in the morning makes me feel nauseous regardless of what it is. I've found that smoothies and weight loss/protein shakes work best for me in the mornings. I do trail mixes and yogurts for snacks and I get veggies with lunch and dinner almost every day. With 4 kids I cook A LOT and there is very little processed food in my house. I need more calories...like a TON more....if I have any chance of eating back my burned work-out calories so any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks so much!!!

nikknight · July 2014

Maybe you should try getting your calories through nut/seed butters.

Mobil2004 · July 2014

Maybe you should try getting your calories through nut/seed butters.

I do use peanut butter and almond butter in my protein shakes but I don't do those everyday. I have a gluten sensitivity that causes my psoriasis to go crazy so I try to stay away from bread as much as possible. I do buy gluten-free bread but it's just not as good. Any other suggestions for using nut butters other than in my shakes and on bread? I like them a lot but I don't want to just eat spoonfuls. Thanks so much for the suggestion!

vismal · July 2014

I'm very confused. You got 100+ overweight by not overeating? Please explain how that happened? Science tells me that the only way to gain weight is to eat more than your body burns in a day. Even if your energy expenditure was greatly reduced from prolonged under eating you still should not have been able to gain weight unless you ate more then you burned.

DanceswithWow · July 2014

Hello

A female with 4 kids asking or I would say beating down the walls for more calories is a rare consequence indeed..

My name is Dances with Wow

But in reading your back story and taking a look at your diary both your processes and day to day procedure needs to morph..

You have time as concern..and you have a food intake behavior to fix..right away..

You are running your own business or managing one I presume..

Your hormones are on over drive trying to compress time and conduct activities efficiently, then be a mom and hopeful a hot wife.. Thats a heck of lot of giga watts of out put you need to juggle and maintain..

Your diary is a weak conductor of knowledge in solving this..
and there is an ongoing learning relationship with your body that has to be embraced.. for any suggestions to work in its entirely

The first issue is to solve both the volume and so called calorie problem. Your calorie problem isnt a counting the numbers or eating this or that issue.. its a food energy problem..

You need a range of foods that yield and give off a max amount of nutrient density.. not calories - calories are the heat associated with eating the food.. food energy is your body extracting top notch nutrients..and it is your obligation to teach your body how to release lipolytic enzymes.. the only hormone agent of the body that communicates with body fat, the only hormone agent that can translate for unwanted body fat, and the only hormone agent that can give the deweaponizing order for unwanted body fat to stand down..

your task is to populate your metabolism through out the entire day with strong, potent, blood stream body fat street fighters..

To do this you need to know your protein number.. (Pn#) its your base line biometric of your metabolic need..Think of this as sales volume per day..How many sales do I need on average to maintain my business..This is your metabolic master key and designates your portion size. it allows you access to the back door of hormone operations..

here comes the process.. instead of cooking and eating then documenting..

You and your hubby take turns batching what you eat and create strategies such as using the crock pot to make sure you are stocked and supplied days in advance..say every other day.. Now you have bought some time with your self and the kids..

Volume... your protein number sets the volume.. you add carbs to up your energy level for work outs..switching every two or three days between carbs you like and carbs that are not double digit in sugar content.

Use leafy greens, legumes and stews for high powered food energy without adding more volume..

Workouts ;

you are wroking out like you are training for the Ididarod competition.. no need to go at it like a dog..4days max.. especially since your body needs to store up food energy to make read for it to be used..

drop workout volume to 4 days..with one of those days circuit training or cardio only or yoga only.. just to allow equilibrium to re establish itself..

Avoid training like a barbarian at the gate.. Every training program out there is designed on the addicted to exertion fatigue model.. it fails and frustrates the end user every time unless you the end user becomes committed to becoming a slave to the process.
one who drives an economy,, They have formal system in place that grows in tandem with a growing family.. they foolishly think you can just pull time out of the air and make fitness a priority but..thats the lie they tell themselves..

I was one of them until I solved all those my self..out side the illusion of fitness

I was once upon a time all in but now I see it made me waste years of time..getting in shape..when I could have save 60% knowing what I know now..

You want unwanted body fat to go fast, you want a more firm flowing and fantastically feminine physique, fix the back drop of your process and you speed up and get to your goal..in half the time..

Hope this helps..

Friend me.. can send as much as you need to begin exuding and emitting life force, as the way your doing it now..robs zaps and cripples ay such notion...

dead end is that path and has been fro millions trying

My name is Dances with Wow.. I help individuals just like you command life force

Which means matching up or pairing foods that will give you great bang for your metabolism at every sitting.,.

For

MelodyandBarbells · July 2014

I'm very confused. You got 100+ overweight by not overeating? Please explain how that happened? Science tells me that the only way to gain weight is to eat more than your body burns in a day. Even if your energy expenditure was greatly reduced from prolonged under eating you still should not have been able to gain weight unless you ate more then you burned.

Exactly. You have to consider everything with calories. Alcohol, splurge days, eating at restaurants, movies, other people's houses. Condiments, dressings , etc

And now that you need a few more calories , can add back a few of those things in moderation. If you truly got overweight eating little to nothing by way of calories EVERYDAY, you definitely should get to a doctor to be examined for a possible metabolic disorder (srs). Even if the high cal day only happens once in a while, depending on your average intake it can still properly explain weight gain. I think sorting this out and understanding how you got overweight will definitely improve the chances of your long term success

That said, read post 4 here she compiled a list of ideas on how to add calories without much volume

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1331494-1200-calories-per-day

Kalikel · July 2014

If your grocery store has a nutritionist, ask them!!!

If you are willing to eat junk food, adding calories is easy. Candy is quick and easy. Extra peanut butter. Put butter on your veggies. Grab a shake at McDonald's -you can get half or more of your daily calories right there! Cake, cookies. If you're willing to go for junk, it's easy.

It isn't like you can make more unhealthy meals - you have four children to feed!

Adding calories eating healthy food is really hard. You have to eat SO MUCH of it! It's kind of impossible.

Granola bars aren't too hard to eat, are kind of healthy and filling. You could have one bar for breakfast and one for a snack.

Eat a little more pasta.

That's all I've got, but I'm not a nutritionist.

Mobil2004 · July 2014

Ok let me clarify. My daily routine used to be....Up at 6 with kids, cup of coffee and take them to school, back home with remaining kids and at the computer for business related things. Up and at house work after a couple of hours or so then lunch for kids (usually something I don't like such as PBJ). Another cup of coffee while working some more at desk while kids nap. Now it's about 1:30 and I realize I'm hungry. Take time for something quick like a sandwich, hot pocket, tv dinner before I have to leave to go get kids from school. Home from pick up and start homework. 2 hours later start dinner and work on house work. Eat around 7:30 when hubby gets home and in bed by 9. Looking back I can fairly closely estimate that I was taking in roughly 500 calories in coffee, and about 900 between lunch and dinner. BUT other than dinner none of those calories were healthy calories. A total of 1400 calories with only a moderate activity level. Weekends were different but even worse. Same calorie intake but much more on the go with photo shoots and kids activities. I am seeing a doctor and following their weight loss program. I go in once per month for a weigh in, BMI test, blood work, the whole nine! This is the same doc I've seen since I was 12 so he definitely knows my history. Oh I also forgot to include that I have taken Luvox for moderate to severe OCD for years now and that was a factor in my weight gain as well. I have since come off the medicine in hopes to "reset" my metabolism and lifestyle before going back on. Being off the medicine is really tough on me mentally because now my only means of controlling the OCD is through relaxation exercises but it will be worth it in the end. My OCD is directly related to my weight. The heavier I am the worse it gets. I am now staying away from as many processed foods as possible and trying to eat at least 5 times per day. I've cut back to one cup of half caff coffee in the mornings and nothing but water for the rest of the day. I've never been an alcohol or soda drinker and only have the occasional glass of sweet tea because here in the south one glass of sweet tea can be a weeks worth of sugar intake but that's the only way we like it! I can tell HUGE differences in my energy levels so far and my body just feels better............until I start to work out. Then if I haven't taken in enough calories the day before I get weak and dizzy. Hope this helps to clarify how I got here.

MelodyandBarbells · July 2014

So being OCD I don't suppose it's a good idea to suggest that you weigh as much of your food as possible, since so many of us do underestimate our calorie intake? :happy: Certain medications do mess with our metabolism so I wish you the best in your journey!

LiftAllThePizzas · July 2014

1- What is a lean fat?

2- Stop demonizing foods.

"Clean eating" is ridiculous and destructive and this is exactly why.

WalkingAlong · July 2014

Eat nut butters on fruit. Cook with more oils. I'm sorry if the walls of text had reasons those don't work. I can't read without some paragraph breaks. Internet-itis, maybe. I say that to be helpful, not to ridicule. Good luck!

MelodyandBarbells · July 2014

1- What is a lean fat?

2- Stop demonizing foods.

"Clean eating" is ridiculous and destructive and this is exactly why.

Lean fat - 93% lean beef vs 75% for example?? That said I tried a 93% lean turkey and threw the batch out after one serving. The fat does add a certain moistness and more flavor. Holy crap, moistness is a word!

brower47 · July 2014

1- What is a lean fat?

2- Stop demonizing foods.

"Clean eating" is ridiculous and destructive and this is exactly why.

This.

Kalikel · July 2014

Ok let me clarify. My daily routine used to be....Up at 6 with kids, cup of coffee and take them to school, back home with remaining kids and at the computer for business related things. Up and at house work after a couple of hours or so then lunch for kids (usually something I don't like such as PBJ). Another cup of coffee while working some more at desk while kids nap. Now it's about 1:30 and I realize I'm hungry. Take time for something quick like a sandwich, hot pocket, tv dinner before I have to leave to go get kids from school. Home from pick up and start homework. 2 hours later start dinner and work on house work. Eat around 7:30 when hubby gets home and in bed by 9. Looking back I can fairly closely estimate that I was taking in roughly 500 calories in coffee, and about 900 between lunch and dinner. BUT other than dinner none of those calories were healthy calories. A total of 1400 calories with only a moderate activity level. Weekends were different but even worse. Same calorie intake but much more on the go with photo shoots and kids activities. I am seeing a doctor and following their weight loss program. I go in once per month for a weigh in, BMI test, blood work, the whole nine! This is the same doc I've seen since I was 12 so he definitely knows my history. Oh I also forgot to include that I have taken Luvox for moderate to severe OCD for years now and that was a factor in my weight gain as well. I have since come off the medicine in hopes to "reset" my metabolism and lifestyle before going back on. Being off the medicine is really tough on me mentally because now my only means of controlling the OCD is through relaxation exercises but it will be worth it in the end. My OCD is directly related to my weight. The heavier I am the worse it gets. I am now staying away from as many processed foods as possible and trying to eat at least 5 times per day. I've cut back to one cup of half caff coffee in the mornings and nothing but water for the rest of the day. I've never been an alcohol or soda drinker and only have the occasional glass of sweet tea because here in the south one glass of sweet tea can be a weeks worth of sugar intake but that's the only way we like it! I can tell HUGE differences in my energy levels so far and my body just feels better............until I start to work out. Then if I haven't taken in enough calories the day before I get weak and dizzy. Hope this helps to clarify how I got here.

Please hit the "return" key every few sentences. It's so much easier to read.

If your doctor is on board, great. Yay that. You need to discuss the dizziness with him.

If working out is making you dizzy, stop it until you discuss the dizziness with the doctor. It's not normal. It's probably not anything serious, but who knows?? Not me!! Get to the bottom of it before you continue working out.

Good luck!

_HeartsOnFire_ · July 2014

Hello

A female with 4 kids asking or I would say beating down the walls for more calories is a rare consequence indeed..

My name is Dances with Wow

But in reading your back story and taking a look at your diary both your processes and day to day procedure needs to morph..

You have time as concern..and you have a food intake behavior to fix..right away..

You are running your own business or managing one I presume..

Your hormones are on over drive trying to compress time and conduct activities efficiently, then be a mom and hopeful a hot wife.. Thats a heck of lot of giga watts of out put you need to juggle and maintain..

Your diary is a weak conductor of knowledge in solving this..
and there is an ongoing learning relationship with your body that has to be embraced.. for any suggestions to work in its entirely

The first issue is to solve both the volume and so called calorie problem. Your calorie problem isnt a counting the numbers or eating this or that issue.. its a food energy problem..

You need a range of foods that yield and give off a max amount of nutrient density.. not calories - calories are the heat associated with eating the food.. food energy is your body extracting top notch nutrients..and it is your obligation to teach your body how to release lipolytic enzymes.. the only hormone agent of the body that communicates with body fat, the only hormone agent that can translate for unwanted body fat, and the only hormone agent that can give the deweaponizing order for unwanted body fat to stand down..

your task is to populate your metabolism through out the entire day with strong, potent, blood stream body fat street fighters..

To do this you need to know your protein number.. (Pn#) its your base line biometric of your metabolic need..Think of this as sales volume per day..How many sales do I need on average to maintain my business..This is your metabolic master key and designates your portion size. it allows you access to the back door of hormone operations..

here comes the process.. instead of cooking and eating then documenting..

You and your hubby take turns batching what you eat and create strategies such as using the crock pot to make sure you are stocked and supplied days in advance..say every other day.. Now you have bought some time with your self and the kids..

Volume... your protein number sets the volume.. you add carbs to up your energy level for work outs..switching every two or three days between carbs you like and carbs that are not double digit in sugar content.

Use leafy greens, legumes and stews for high powered food energy without adding more volume..

Workouts ;

you are wroking out like you are training for the Ididarod competition.. no need to go at it like a dog..4days max.. especially since your body needs to store up food energy to make read for it to be used..

drop workout volume to 4 days..with one of those days circuit training or cardio only or yoga only.. just to allow equilibrium to re establish itself..

Avoid training like a barbarian at the gate.. Every training program out there is designed on the addicted to exertion fatigue model.. it fails and frustrates the end user every time unless you the end user becomes committed to becoming a slave to the process.
one who drives an economy,, They have formal system in place that grows in tandem with a growing family.. they foolishly think you can just pull time out of the air and make fitness a priority but..thats the lie they tell themselves..

I was one of them until I solved all those my self..out side the illusion of fitness

I was once upon a time all in but now I see it made me waste years of time..getting in shape..when I could have save 60% knowing what I know now..

You want unwanted body fat to go fast, you want a more firm flowing and fantastically feminine physique, fix the back drop of your process and you speed up and get to your goal..in half the time..

Hope this helps..

Friend me.. can send as much as you need to begin exuding and emitting life force, as the way your doing it now..robs zaps and cripples ay such notion...

dead end is that path and has been fro millions trying

My name is Dances with Wow.. I help individuals just like you command life force

Which means matching up or pairing foods that will give you great bang for your metabolism at every sitting.,.

For

vismal · July 2014

This still makes no sense. You simply cannot become 100 lbs overweight eating 1400 calories a day with a moderate activity level. Unless you have a severe metabolic disorder this just isn't possible. I'm not sure it's possible even with a metabolic disorder. I'd start by seeing an endocrinologist and have them test for everything...

sltovey · July 2014

Ignoring the trouble with the idea that you can gain 100+ pounds without overeating, here are some ideas related to your specific question - how to get more calories through eating healthy* foods without more volume:
1. No low fat anything, so for instance eat whole milk yogurt
2. Granola - so, so many calories in such a little amount
3. Nut butter, like previous posters have said
4. Put sour cream, guacamole, and butter on anything you can
5. Calorie-dense whole grain breads

*healthy here means real food...but anything can be healthy if eaten within your calorie budget once your macros are satisfied

Good luck!

Camino66 · July 2014

Mobile,
If your metabolism is down, you have no chance of losing weight. You will have to eat over maintenance (300 - 500 more calories) for 3 to 4 weeks to bring it back to normal. Try taking your temperature in the afternoon every day for 4 days or so. If thew average temperature is below 98 degrees your metabolism is reduced. The only way to get it back up is to eat over maintenance. Once you get it back up you should stay at or slightly above maintenance for a few more weeks. Then you can start cutting back into a deficit. Hope this helps.

pleasepleaseno · July 2014

...Do you measure & WEIGH everything?
It doesn't seem likely, and it's really important to do this because people UNDERESTIMATE what they're eating.
Be honest with yourself.

That said, avocado, cooking oils, cheese, nuts can up calorie intake.

sympha01 · July 2014

Agree with everything people are saying about not demonizing "bad" foods or glorifying "clean eating" as well as the skepticism about gaining THAT much weight by eating too little unless your doctor has diagnosed and is treating you for a very serious thyroid problem. That aside, it's easy to get more fats in if you've got too big a calorie deficit and need more calories too!

1. Nut butters go great with fruits (try on apple slices), many vegetables, as well as on graham crackers and I imagine on gluten free CRACKERS since you said you don't like gluten free bread.
2. Nut butters make AWESOME ingredients in marinades and pasta sauces. Anything with peanut sauce (makes a great dip for veggies as well as basted on meats) for instance. Sesame sauce w/ tahini, etc. etc. etc.
3. Just eat nuts themselves. You don't have to eat much volume at all to get those fat numbers high. Any nuts are good, but personally I'd steer you towards the highest fat ones like walnuts and not the perennial diet food, almonds. But if you LOVE almonds, yeah eat those. If you prefer avoiding processed food, it's easy to get unsalted nuts. And you can toast them yourself and add whatever spices you like if you need a flavor boost for some reason. I often like putting cocoa powder on nuts and eating them alongside fruit.
4. Cheese. Cheese cheese cheese.
5. Eat avocados once in a while. (Eat them all the time if you can afford them!!!)

WalkingAlong · July 2014

...Looking back I can fairly closely estimate that I was taking in roughly 500 calories in coffee, and about 900 between lunch and dinner. BUT other than dinner none of those calories were healthy calories. A total of 1400 calories with only a moderate activity level...

I would strongly suspect poor estimating over metabolic damage.

Mobil2004 · July 2014

Ok so with the exception of a some very helpful links, and the people that actually offered suggestions of different foods, I've gathered that I somehow have given the impression that I "demonize food" and I could possibly have a severe medial condition. For those that offered suggestions I say thank you, thank you, thank you. I had not thought of nut butters in combination with fruit other than peanut butter and apples which I'd grown tired of. Gonna do almond butter and strawberries tomorrow. I also didn't realize that avocados were such a great option so thanks for that one too!

I'm also going to do the temperature thing as well. I know that my metabolism was way down when I started but I didn't know I could track it using my temp!

I do measure and weigh as much of my food as possible but it's not easy to weigh ground beef raw when I'm cooking enough spaghetti for an entire family of 6.

I'm not the type to use medical conditions as an excuse so I really wasn't trying to go into all of that. I'm being monitored by a very well respected doc for my area that I trust explicitly. Eating too little is certainly not the only factor in my gaining but it's one of the larger ones and almost the only one I have any control over. I have spoken with him on the phone concerning the dizzy-spells and he said it was looking like a calorie deficit as well. I'm scheduled to see him this coming week and until I do I have backed off the more strenuous workouts.

I don't, by any means, demonize food. I LOVE food and can't see any reason to make myself eat food that I don't like. I drink 2% milk because that's what I buy for the kids and I eat non-fat yogurt because I like it much better. It's not as heave and sweet to me as full fat yogurt. Other than that I eat normal food like pizza and hamburgers as long as the breading is gluten-free. I was born and raised in the south! We all love our food!

I do know that not eating enough is just as bad as eating too much and I am consciously trying to eat more frequently throughout the day so that it becomes habit. It's tough because kids can so easily become grazers and I don't want them to do that at their ages. We've had talks about which changes I'm making and why and that has helped them to understand why they can't snack whenever they want to also.

I really appreciate all of the helpful responses. Some of the MFP links I've read but I had not seen others.

MelodyandBarbells · July 2014

I'm also going to do the temperature thing as well. I know that my metabolism was way down when I started but I didn't know I could track it using my temp!

I do measure and weigh as much of my food as possible but it's not easy to weigh ground beef raw when I'm cooking enough spaghetti for an entire family of 6.

Body temperature?! :huh:

Any shway, I was just wondering do you use the recipe function on MFP? Something like spaghetti with ground beef (evenly distributed) actually sounds like a great option for recipes. Weigh all the ingredients, add them to the recipe, get total calories. Weigh the entire yield after cooking, then you can weigh your portion and know how many calories it is. If you're doing meat balls instead it could be a little tougher. Next time you're making the same meal, just update the quantities that change in the recipe. For example, the weight of my chicken may change, but I'll keep other ingredients like light butter, Dijon mustard, honey, etc constant for simplicity

tinetochange · July 2014

I also gained a ton of weight not eating alot, ( the wrong things) after being diagnosed with celiac disease I slowly started to lose the weight. I have been using avocados, spinach,chia, flax seed, and pea protein in my morning smoothie for an extra boost.

DianeinCA · July 2014

OP: there is absolutely no way you could have gained over 100 pounds without eating more food than your body needs. With one exception: a severe medical problem and you should see your doctor, both to have blood drawn and possibly to have a X-ray/ultrasound.

Barring a severe medical problem...you need to start weighing your food and writing down everything you eat.

If you look at this as a data-gathering expedition and not a judgement on you or anything you do, writing down exactly what you eat -- including the weight of every single item -- is the single most valuable thing you can do to figure out what's going on.

SLLRunner · July 2014

...Looking back I can fairly closely estimate that I was taking in roughly 500 calories in coffee, and about 900 between lunch and dinner. BUT other than dinner none of those calories were healthy calories. A total of 1400 calories with only a moderate activity level...

I would strongly suspect poor estimating over metabolic damage.

This.

One simply does not get overweight by not eating enough, unless you are growing a tumor or something like that. That's just not how it works.

Weight loss is accomplished from eating less calories than you burn.

Sarauk2sf · July 2014

Hello

A female with 4 kids asking or I would say beating down the walls for more calories is a rare consequence indeed..

My name is Dances with Wow

But in reading your back story and taking a look at your diary both your processes and day to day procedure needs to morph..

You have time as concern..and you have a food intake behavior to fix..right away..

You are running your own business or managing one I presume..

Your hormones are on over drive trying to compress time and conduct activities efficiently, then be a mom and hopeful a hot wife.. Thats a heck of lot of giga watts of out put you need to juggle and maintain..

Your diary is a weak conductor of knowledge in solving this..
and there is an ongoing learning relationship with your body that has to be embraced.. for any suggestions to work in its entirely

The first issue is to solve both the volume and so called calorie problem. Your calorie problem isnt a counting the numbers or eating this or that issue.. its a food energy problem..

You need a range of foods that yield and give off a max amount of nutrient density.. not calories - calories are the heat associated with eating the food.. food energy is your body extracting top notch nutrients..and it is your obligation to teach your body how to release lipolytic enzymes.. the only hormone agent of the body that communicates with body fat, the only hormone agent that can translate for unwanted body fat, and the only hormone agent that can give the deweaponizing order for unwanted body fat to stand down..

your task is to populate your metabolism through out the entire day with strong, potent, blood stream body fat street fighters..

To do this you need to know your protein number.. (Pn#) its your base line biometric of your metabolic need..Think of this as sales volume per day..How many sales do I need on average to maintain my business..This is your metabolic master key and designates your portion size. it allows you access to the back door of hormone operations..

here comes the process.. instead of cooking and eating then documenting..

You and your hubby take turns batching what you eat and create strategies such as using the crock pot to make sure you are stocked and supplied days in advance..say every other day.. Now you have bought some time with your self and the kids..

Volume... your protein number sets the volume.. you add carbs to up your energy level for work outs..switching every two or three days between carbs you like and carbs that are not double digit in sugar content.

Use leafy greens, legumes and stews for high powered food energy without adding more volume..

Workouts ;

you are wroking out like you are training for the Ididarod competition.. no need to go at it like a dog..4days max.. especially since your body needs to store up food energy to make read for it to be used..

drop workout volume to 4 days..with one of those days circuit training or cardio only or yoga only.. just to allow equilibrium to re establish itself..

Avoid training like a barbarian at the gate.. Every training program out there is designed on the addicted to exertion fatigue model.. it fails and frustrates the end user every time unless you the end user becomes committed to becoming a slave to the process.
one who drives an economy,, They have formal system in place that grows in tandem with a growing family.. they foolishly think you can just pull time out of the air and make fitness a priority but..thats the lie they tell themselves..

I was one of them until I solved all those my self..out side the illusion of fitness

I was once upon a time all in but now I see it made me waste years of time..getting in shape..when I could have save 60% knowing what I know now..

You want unwanted body fat to go fast, you want a more firm flowing and fantastically feminine physique, fix the back drop of your process and you speed up and get to your goal..in half the time..

Hope this helps..

Friend me.. can send as much as you need to begin exuding and emitting life force, as the way your doing it now..robs zaps and cripples ay such notion...

dead end is that path and has been fro millions trying

My name is Dances with Wow.. I help individuals just like you command life force

Which means matching up or pairing foods that will give you great bang for your metabolism at every sitting.,.

For

Try again...her diary is closed.

Plus....lol

Sarauk2sf · July 2014

...Looking back I can fairly closely estimate that I was taking in roughly 500 calories in coffee, and about 900 between lunch and dinner. BUT other than dinner none of those calories were healthy calories. A total of 1400 calories with only a moderate activity level...

I would strongly suspect poor estimating over metabolic damage.

This.

One simply does not get overweight by not eating enough, unless you are growing a tumor or something like that. That's just not how it works.

Weight loss is accomplished from eating less calories than you burn.

^^agreed.

Sarauk2sf · July 2014

Mobile,
If your metabolism is down, you have no chance of losing weight. You will have to eat over maintenance (300 - 500 more calories) for 3 to 4 weeks to bring it back to normal. Try taking your temperature in the afternoon every day for 4 days or so. If thew average temperature is below 98 degrees your metabolism is reduced. The only way to get it back up is to eat over maintenance. Once you get it back up you should stay at or slightly above maintenance for a few more weeks. Then you can start cutting back into a deficit. Hope this helps.

1) she has gained weight - therefore she is eating over maintenance. Eating even more will make her gain even more weight

2) Could you explain more about how you work out your metabolism through taking your temperature? Could you link to something that explains it.

queensandria · July 2014

2) Could you explain more about how you work out your metabolism through taking your temperature? Could you link to something that explains it.

Temperature and metabolism is typically a holistic medicine practice (often linked to thyroid and adrenal disorders). A quick google search gives hundreds of results on the topic but i haven't gotten into the study-science meat behind the correlation. I personally suspect i have hormonal and/or adrenal issues that are a direct relation to long term digestive dysfunction. ETA: my typical daily temps are 96 when i wake up and up to 97.9 at night this last week. Not sure what that has to do with any of the above but meh knowledge is power xD

OP i thought you were talking about me with your inital post xD i have never been a big eater but the weight piled on rapidly! It took my body having a total hissy fit internally for me to really get down and dirty with what i was doing to it. I dont know about slow metabolisms vs just cico but since ive been sick and tracking the little bit that i can eat, the weight is coming off like crazy (granted id prefer a slow weight loss at normal calorie levels but you do what you can until problems get resolved). Just stick with what you can do and up it as often as you feel capable. You are the only one that experiences the agonies, defeats, illnesses and health gained from making your choices.

Side note: ive been experimenting with a lot of high cal high protein gluten free foods that im dying to try! Let me know if you want to chat about any ideas ive come up with!

chrisdavey · July 2014

eat more food, that you like.

Stop using diet options. Reduce portions of fibrous veg for starchy veg.

Eat ice cream.

Hope that helps.

Need more calories, can't handle any more volume!!!

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