Sisterhood HCP Week 2

How many calories are you alloted to eat in a day, before exercise, and how many calories do you earn from doing your exercise? I have my days, like tonight, when I get a crazy number of calories burned from playing volleyball. If I ate all the calories added together, I'd have to eat over 3,000 calories in one day. I think it's insane to do it, so I just make sure to have a healthy snack when I come home from the gym.

I'm supposed to get in a little over 1300 and I earn anywhere from 350-660 depending on how long I exercise for. At the very least 350, yesterday was 460 I think. Last night after posting I did have a snack, but, that was only about 170 calories. Then I was done, went to bed perfectly full. I think most of it is because we live in the boonies and have been snowed in on this mountain for about a week and a half now. So I don't have to worry about the temptation of eating out or bad food out of necessiity of grab and go to work. I cook everything. And when all you have in the freezer is elk, deer and boneless/skinless chicken, I'm not exactly rackin up the calories. It's good because I haven't had to alter my eating habits all that much, but now with burnin so many calories, I just don't wanna go into starvation mode. :grumble:
Here's my menu from yesterday:
Breakfast -- Red beans and rice (1 1/2cups) with an egg (sounds weird, but yummy leftovers), 3 cups of coffee with creamer -- 350 cals
Lunch -- salad with turkey and dressing -- 135 cal
Dinner -- Chicken breast, broccoli, and twice baked potato (with sour cream) -- 251
Snack -- eating right chips -- 110
toast with honey -- 170
Total for the day -- 1016 plus my 460 exercise calories
maybe that gives you a little insight? I ate plenty, and I don't think that force feeding myself is good neither is eating junk food just to fill calories? Any other opinions?:ohwell:

How many calories are you alloted to eat in a day, before exercise, and how many calories do you earn from doing your exercise? I have my days, like tonight, when I get a crazy number of calories burned from playing volleyball. If I ate all the calories added together, I'd have to eat over 3,000 calories in one day. I think it's insane to do it, so I just make sure to have a healthy snack when I come home from the gym.

I'm supposed to get in a little over 1300 and I earn anywhere from 350-660 depending on how long I exercise for. At the very least 350, yesterday was 460 I think. Last night after posting I did have a snack, but, that was only about 170 calories. Then I was done, went to bed perfectly full. I think most of it is because we live in the boonies and have been snowed in on this mountain for about a week and a half now. So I don't have to worry about the temptation of eating out or bad food out of necessiity of grab and go to work. I cook everything. And when all you have in the freezer is elk, deer and boneless/skinless chicken, I'm not exactly rackin up the calories. It's good because I haven't had to alter my eating habits all that much, but now with burnin so many calories, I just don't wanna go into starvation mode. :grumble:
Here's my menu from yesterday:
Breakfast -- Red beans and rice (1 1/2cups) with an egg (sounds weird, but yummy leftovers), 3 cups of coffee with creamer -- 350 cals
Lunch -- salad with turkey and dressing -- 135 cal
Dinner -- Chicken breast, broccoli, and twice baked potato (with sour cream) -- 251
Snack -- eating right chips -- 110
toast with honey -- 170
Total for the day -- 1016 plus my 460 exercise calories
maybe that gives you a little insight? I ate plenty, and I don't think that force feeding myself is good neither is eating junk food just to fill calories? Any other opinions?:ohwell:

I couldnt agree more i get i think 1300 calories which is way too much for me to eat and thats before the 300 or so i get for excercising . i am always under my calories and im talking as low as 300 calories left over and yesterday i was 600+ under :noway: but dont get me wrong i eat i just apparently am not eating high calorie foods. i eat lots of salad and fish, chicken, some meat and low carb tortillas and im eating more than usual since i am forcing myself to eat breakfast, now every day since i have started i have been told that i am putting myself into starvation mode :huh: am i supposed to force myself to eat when i am not hungry? am i supposed to eat more when i am even if i have eaten a normal sized portion and an appropriate meal? i am also noticing ill go over my protien (not by so much but enough) but i am on a low low carb diet so i eat lots of protien :bigsmile: but everything else is really low i think what i am going to do is just keep eating the way i am 3 meals a day south beach low carb and not worry :bigsmile: although how can i not help getting worried when i read every day that i am putting myself into starvation mode and that this can slow down my weight loss results??? :noway:


who would have thought not eating enough could slow down losing weight :huh:

Looks like there are some military families on here. We're one too. DH has been in for 13 years, started out in Marine Reserves, went to Army Reserves and is now National Guard. In 13 years he has never been deployed. Unless you count working at the border with BP. Anywho, ya'll are awesome for what you do as wives of deployed men!!

I have a pretty high opinion about military wives... Whether their spouses have been deployed or not!! Maybe I'm a TEENSY bit biased... Out of the three your husband has been in so far, which one did you like the most?

Good morning, everyone!!! I am feeling sore and doing well!!! We got snowed on again last night... And I don't know if it has made the news nationally, but there's an active volcano that I live next to called Mt. Redoubt. We are hearing predictions that it's going to go any day now, which means we have to get ready to deal with the ash that may come from it!!! Keep us in your prayers, I've never dealt with anything like this before!!!:ohwell:

IS this the group with the breastfeeding moms in it?

Good morning, everyone!!! I am feeling sore and doing well!!! We got snowed on again last night... And I don't know if it has made the news nationally, but there's an active volcano that I live next to called Mt. Redoubt. We are hearing predictions that it's going to go any day now, which means we have to get ready to deal with the ash that may come from it!!! Keep us in your prayers, I've never dealt with anything like this before!!!:ohwell: