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Diet Advice?
Okay, so I've been dieting since August, and I've lost 15 pounds or so. That's good, and it pleases me immensely.
HOWEVER. I've been eating 1200 cal/day for like 3 months. According to online calculators, this should equal about 2 lbs/week in weight loss. Instead, I've been holding pretty much steady except for in January, when I lost a bunch. This is starting to piss me off pretty seriously, mostly because it takes constant control to eat that little and it's maddening that it's not really producing results. I'm starting to think that it's too little. I'm walking 30 min/day now with the Jonie dog, and I'm really starting to think that my body is hoarding calories instead of burning them because I'm eating too little. Does that actually happen, ya think? According, again, to online calculators my body should be using about 1900 a day; I'd have to have no metabolism to speak of to not lose weight eating as little as I do.
So I've been thinking that I should up my intake to about 1400 per day. If it doesn't work, I can always go back down, right? I'm just worried that I'm running out of patience and won't give it enough time...it's not that I'm running out of patience for dieting, it's that I'm running out of patience for giving changes I make enough time to really settle in...
Right. Anyone have any thoughts on any of this? I'm not sure what I'm really trying to say, I'm just frustrated and I want to be 140 lbs again, dammit!.
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If you don't take a multivitamin, you should definitely start. Maximum benefit for minimum work is never a bad thing, especially if, if your diet really consists of only what you listed, your intake of a number of vitamins is dangerously low.
If you ask me (and no one ever does...that's their problem $), I think you should bump the calorie count up at least 30% (replace the lean meat with regular meat, or add more fish into your diet if you can), and focus more on boosting your exercise regimen. Walking around for 30 minutes a day really isn't going to help you as much as you think it will - if at all possible, you gotta try and exert yourself more. Right now even I'm thinking of possibly getting an elliptical for my microscopic apartment (remember my hole? :P) for my (unfortunately) not so microscopic girlfriend - efficiently burning off larger swaths of calories will not only accelerate weight loss, but will help develop tone in your legs and chest. You're already cute, but you with tone....*blowakiss*
They're expensive machines, but they're definitely worth it. Minimal risk of injury, near maximum calorie burnoff efficiency for the work you'll be doin on it. You should consider one.
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-- Gerardo
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Thanks for the help! :)