over doing it?

chatonne
chatonne Posts: 7
edited September 20 in Fitness and Exercise
Ok, so this is my daily routine:
I do 100 crunches, 3 to 2 times a day, everday.
25-30 push ups, 3 to 2 times a day, everday as well.
I run every other day for 3 to 5 km.
I've just recently incorporated yoga 4 times a day for an hour and starting advanced salsa lessons once a week.
This is done on 900 calories a day. I'm afraid that if I start eating more, I'd gain weight since my body's so used to this kind of treatment!

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  • FireMonkey
    FireMonkey Posts: 500 Member
    Well, if you want my honest opinion, I think you ought to see somebody to get help. This sounds obsessed, not healthy. If you're doing all this exercise on 900 calories a day you're starving your body.
  • danarochelle
    danarochelle Posts: 212 Member
    I'd have to agree....you need to eat more if you're exercising that much! But, hooray for you for your discipline!:glasses:
  • linzismith
    linzismith Posts: 139 Member
    wait, how many hours a day are you spending working out? it sounds like upwards of 2 or 3. that amount of activity practically qualifies you as a professional athlete.

    how long has his been going on? I ask because I played soccer in college, and one of the girls on the team, who was one of the best and fastest players, had an eating disorder. she didn' purge and throw up, she just severely under-ate.

    she started around june, when she began training for fall season. The harder she worked out, the more afraid she was to undo all her hard work with eating. when the season started in late august, she was in fantastic athletic shape. she was one of the fastest runners and an excellent ball player.

    in early september, the team went to a tournament in hawaii. there's a picture of her in her bikini that is sickening to look at, she looks like a holocaust victim (you can count all her ribs, see her hip bones protruding out, and her face is so gaunt it made her ears look like they were sticking way out). But we all thought "there's no way she has an eating disorder, otherwise she wouldn't be able to play as hard as she does on the field."

    within two weeks of that trip it all came crashing down. first she got a chronic injury (pinched sciatic nerve) and then one day she just collapsed mid-game on the field. she was put into counseling right away, and had to stop playing soccer for the rest of the season on trainer's orders. we still saw her for the rest of the season, and she would always talk to us about how hard it still was to make herself eat, even though she knew that denying herself didn't get her anywhere.

    the irony of the situation is that she did it all to be a better soccer player, and in the end, she wasn't able to play soccer at all. the point is this: you are working out and watching what you eat to be a healthier, more fit person. if you keep working out for hours a day on only 900 calories--you may feel good now--but it WILL catch up to you. I'm not saying don't work out like you are. I'm a college athlete and a former wildland firefighter, working out is a big part of my lifestyle. but on 2-3 hours a day, you should be eating at least 1700-2000 calories, depending on your daily workout. just use the calculator on your home page. if you eat less than 1200 caloies AND workout, when you click "I'm done logging" it will tell you tha you are damaging your metabolism at that rate.

    good luck.
  • Daniel78
    Daniel78 Posts: 37
    With that form of regiment you should be consuming 900 calories a day on top of your normal daily needs just to get through your workout. I used to run a 5k followed by 30 minutes of elliptical trainer cardio for a solid 60 minutes of cardio from Mon-Fri. I would consume an additional 600 calories per day on these days so I wouldn't crash and burn. My protein is always double what it should be at roughly 100-200 grams per day which is fine. My carbs are always half of what they should be and it seems to work well for me. I'm averaging 1 pound lost per week and have lost 15 pounds in the past three months.

    900 calories per day? I consumed more than that a day as a fetus! I don't know how you stay awake!

    I maintain a high protein diet so that my body doesn't become catabolic and use my own muscle for fuel on the days where I don't consume enough calories. At the end of the day I count up what I had and am somtimes under by 500-1000 calories for the day. I'll try to find a quick calorie boost snack and pop something high in protein before I go to bed so my body isn't starved. If I'm not hungry and am fine on energy I'm not going to sit down and consume 1000 more calories. That's just plain nuts.

    If you're only consuming 900 calories a day with that workout regime you might be actually gaining weight because your body is going into self protection mode. It'll slow your metabolism and store all of the calories you consume as fat and quit burning them. If I'm under 1600 calories for the day this will happen to me.
  • chatonne
    chatonne Posts: 7
    I meant I do yoga 4 times a week, but I think everyone got the gist of it
  • BrendaLee
    BrendaLee Posts: 4,463 Member
    Ok, so this is my daily routine:
    I do 100 crunches, 3 to 2 times a day, everday.
    25-30 push ups, 3 to 2 times a day, everday as well.
    I run every other day for 3 to 5 km.
    I've just recently incorporated yoga 4 times a day for an hour and starting advanced salsa lessons once a week.
    This is done on 900 calories a day. I'm afraid that if I start eating more, I'd gain weight since my body's so used to this kind of treatment!

    Do you do anything besides exercise?

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    You need to eat more, obviously you know that. You may gain a few pounds in the beginning, but once your metabolism gets back to normal, you'll lose it- unless you're already underweight.
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