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Thank you, that's really useful :) Tbh, that's what I was kind of driving at when I said I have a couple of " cheat days" a week ( eating almost normally) to avoid starvation mode- ie the slowing of the metabolism due to consistently low calorie Intake. Others on here were pretty definite that there was no truth in…
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Am I supposed to be eating back my calories after gym? Ok, here's a typical day re. Diet and exercise. 7am - weetabix and skimmed milk 7.30-8.30 gym- 250 calories burnt ( I use a heart rate monitor hooked up to treadmill and input my age/weight/height and it tells me what calories I burnt up, so I guess pretty accurate?)…
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I haven't gone into it that thoroughly.... Maybe I need to take a closer look at my diet? I've been calorie counting with no real regard what foods they were, just the calorific amount.
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Starvation mode refers to the body hanging on to fat reserves if it thinks good us suddenly in short supply. A consistently low calorie diet will slow the metabolism and reduce weight loss, unless the body is tricked with the odd calorie surge- ie , cheat days.
