cmnold

Thank you for your feedback. Yes, the trainer did assess my fitness level and took into account injuries and weaknesses. He weighed me and will be doing measurements next week. Also is going to be evaluating my food diary and eating habits. He said I was a lot stronger than he thought I'd be :-) I did feel like he was…

Definately not eating enough. If you're exercising 5-6 times a week you're probably eating less than your BMR. Try raising your calories up to maintenance level for a week, then lowering back down to 80% of your TDEE. http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/680246-tdee-bmr-what-they-are-and-what-to-do-with-them?hl=tdee I…

Update: - ok so I decided to do a metabolism reset so I upped my calories to 1850 for 2 days, then 2K for 2 days to get up to maintenance level where I planned on staying for 2-6 weeks till my metabolism recovers. I got on the scale this morning fully expecting to see an increase because of my depressed metabolism since…

Looks like I did have a lot of carbs on that day, but they were all good carbs. Brown rice, 100% whole wheat muffin, etc. Nevertheless I shouldn't have had the tortilla shell. As far as the little treat of chocolate, yes I do sometime eat one small nugget of dark chocolate to ward off cravings and because dark chocolate…

I saw someone using a machine at the gym that I was unfamiliar with but looked like a lot of fun. It was a Helix Lateral Trainer which moves in an eliptical lateral motion instead of forward like a regular eliptical. I was really nervous to try it - either I'd end up doing it wrong or not be able to do it for very long I…