Hi Everyone,

I've been lurking around this group for awhile now and it's been great to see everyone's successes and how supportive everyone is.

Here's some information about me: I'm 27, 5'4, 145lbs and I've been living in Madrid for the past 2 1/2 months. This has been a huge lifestyle change and I've become far more active than I could ever have imagined. Aside from 2 hours of cardio and body weight exercises (don't have the money for a gym and I live in creaky, old apartment building with a very strict landlady, so no exercise videos for me!) most days of the week and the general amount of walking I do here, I've managed to drop weight very quickly. I still have about 2 weeks left in Spain, but it's occurred to me that a)I probably don't eat nearly enough for my activity level, b) that activity level is going to decrease dramatically when I move back to California.

I want to lose weight and look good and I don't want to screw up my metabolism by doing that. Any suggestions of what I can do now to help stabilize my metabolism and how I can adapt that to a new, less active lifestyle in California while not undoing everything I've worked hard for up until now?

One of the other reasons I'm reaching out to you is because I realized that my actual workouts have become less fueled. I feel tired doing them and my guess is that I'm not eating enough to to sustain them.

Thanks so much for all of your help!