Apr 28 2008
Slim Fast, After Week 3
I don’t want to talk about it.
I am the same stupid weight. I have been the same stupid weight for two weeks now even though I haven’t cheated with the food. And I would be working out if it wasn’t for my allergic asthma right now. And maybe I’m sleeping too much, but my Zyrtec knocks me out such that I don’t remember conversations I have while sleeping, that I don’t hear an alarm next to my face on the highest volume possible.
It seems to me I have a few options:
- Lower my calories (again). I am reluctant to do this because I don’t want my energy levels so low that I do nothing but sleep and further screw up my metabolism.
- Work out more frequently. Worse comes to worse, I can jog in place and lift weights inside my happy second floor apartment. Or dance or do yoga.
- Give up on the diet completely and eat a metric butt load of brownies for lunch.
I’m a persistent bugger, and Option 3 requires me to enter into a mindset that I know will not be good for me. Not now nor in the long-run. Looks like Option 2 is my choice for this week. We’ll see how it goes.
Hungrily Yours,
Edna
hm, pool membership?
have you/M been measuring out the food you are eating? Sometimes things are more or less than we think. The first thing people say is to revisit what you are eating and make sure you’re eating as many cals as you think you are (so you’re not eating more than you think and also not putting yourself into starvation mode with too few).
Good luck with #2. I’m back at the gym myself now.
We do measure our food. We use a postal scale to weigh our snacks and package them into serving size bags. and I know Michael measures and calculates our dinners - including things like butter and salad dressing and Parmesan cheese. On days when I sleep more, I do tend to eat a few hundred calories less, so the sleep or the calorie adjustment there could be problematic (both probably are)
The pool at our apt opens the weekend we’ll be in Ithaca. I’m so excited. Until then, to the gym with me, I guess.
ok, OT: are you guys going to come out to the sheep + wool festival this weekend? sheep & wool. Mom, Michelle, and I are coordinating and if you guys are planning to come I’d like to see you! I’m hoping to watch the sheepdog demonstrations this year.
Our daily intake is typically between 1760 and 1840 Calories, depending on the specifics of snacks and dinner. I’m very scrupulous about keeping dinner between 700 and 750 Calories every day — I measure everything.
We have almost exactly the same BMR, so our current eating plan ought to cause both of us to lose about 1 3/4 pounds per week.
I think the problem is definitely too few calories rather than too many, since we would theoretically need to be eating 875 more Calories per day just to maintain our weights and there aren’t a whole lot of metabolic problems that are that dramatic. I also don’t think I’m unconsciously slipping an entire stick of butter into every single dinner.
There’s probably an option #4 here (eat more calories, but not in the form of a metric buttload* of brownies) but I’m still with you on #2. It’s got to be better to try and restore your metabolism through exercise than through consuming more calories; I think the latter could raise the specter of yo-yo dieting.
* - ±0.94 imperial buttloads