Posts by rebanator

I would love to do more weight training... but the lack of money prevents that.

The last couple days I have upped my calorie intake because I was eating far too little for my amount of exercise. I sslept in and kipped a day of workout to let my body recover, drank plenty of water, and wham - my weight dropped. Yesterday I ate a very healthy 1540 calories and only went for a run which burned 277 cals. At the end of the night, add in 2 small cocktails to raise my calorie intake even more, so I probably finished the day at about 1750-1800 cals. I weighed in this morning at 106.4. Pleasant.

As far as my workouts, I believe my body is becoming "accustomed" to my 5 mile a day runs, so it is not responding. Beginning on Monday, I am adding different cardio workouts in to my routines -- jumping rope, sprinting, jumping (all this will be done in the convenience of my work place), etc, so I will only be running every other day. Hopefully this will help kickstart my metabolism and I will feel even better, because yesterday and today I felt like a whole new person.

Bump.

No one ever answers my questions about these things.

I'm trying to figure out what my deficit is, how much I should/shouldn't be working out, how much I need to be eating on my workout days, how much I need to be eating on my non-workout days, what my actual activity level is, etc.

Someone out there has got to be able to help me understand all this!... or at least nice enough to try to help me...

Really? I didn't think that was very active... I know running 4-5 miles is pretty vigorous. But my other conditioning is very... non-vigorous, haha. And the rest of the day I'm just hanging around the apartment, watching TV, getting minor things done. I guess I didn't realize it was very active. Well ok then, I suppose I should be eating more then!!

foxfire... no offense taken. I realize I'm a little too concerned. I don't think I'm quite obsessive. I used to have an ED and what I am now is WAY different than what I was then. I'm just very critical of myself, and it stems from my past with eating disorders. I'm a firm believer that people with eating disorders never FULLY recover. It's something that it always going to be with us, whether we like it or not. Unfortunately, my demon criticizes me too much, and I'm an idiot for listening to it... but I'm trying. I know I am not fat. I know I am not even close. But sometimes I'll get WAY too critical and it just sets everything else on fire. I was at work tonight, and I was like "I'm an idiot. I look great. I feel great. There are people out there with worse conditions than myself and I need to be more positive." And that helped. Sometimes I just need my inner psychologist to speak up - that's all. But I do understand I'm too critical of myself... but I've always been that way. And I am working on it! :o) But thank you for your advice!

I'll give this a lil bump myself. Just ate my first-ever Kashi bar, and thoroughly enjoyed it! :o)

Yay for new treats!

Thanks everyone.

I do eat veggies. A lot of them actually. I just didn't have any yesterday. As for drinks, I do count my calories in drinks. Yesterday was just a water day. The only other drinks I usually have are orange juice and milk. I also use peanut butter daily, on my bread usually. Toasted, or as a PBJ sammich.

I'm trying really hard to get in all my calories. I'm in a big slump right now because I basically feel like CRAP. But I'm trying real hard :)

Yeah, I'm taking today off. I haven't gotten much sleep this week so I took today to sleep in a little bit. I'm going to run all my errands and clean the apartment today instead of my usual run, shower, eat, work schedule. Hopefully it'll help a little.

I wish I had a gym membership to change up my exercise routine a little. I do all my running outside so there's not much I can do to change it. I've added in some sprints... but I can only sprint so far due to bad ankles and knees. What other things can I do to change up my exercise routine a little bit?

The weight gain may also have something to do with that when I reached my goal of 105, I did allow myself to be eating more of the processed foods/carbs. I was eating them, but limiting them. But when I reached my goal, I allowed myself more of them. Maybe that's contributing?

Yeah I think 400 is a little high too. I'm trying to google it, but not having much luck. I'm not sure exactly how big it is. The typical soft pretzel you would get at a sports event...

If I liked the whole egg... I would eat the whole thing! But I can't stand yolk!

I need to be trying to eat more than 1200 though, based on my activity level. I run 5 miles a day, which burns 400-410 calories. Add in any substitute teaching (not every day), coaching gymnastics (running afer 3 and 4 year olds can be quite the workout!), light conditioning... I'm supposedly supposed to be eating more like 1700 cals. But that number scares the living daylights outta me!

I was reading other posts and someone mentioned soup, and I decided it sounded yummy for dinner tonight! No low-sodium soups in the cupboard, so I'm just gonna go with Campbell's Chunky Savory Chicken with White and Wild Rice...

 ...now I will be excited for dinner!