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| Weight Loss | 1,000 calorie a day diet | Sep 09 2007 06:34 (UTC) |
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| Oh believe me I understand how metabolism works. And that muscle burns more calories and exercising allows you to eat more. However that seems to not work for me. When I had a gym membership I didn't lose any weight. When I stopped going to the gym and restricted my calories I started losing weight. And I'm not exactly leading a sedentary lifestyle. I have a 1 1/2 year old son. I am very active. Just not in the traditional exercise sense. The more I work out, the higher my metabolism gets, the more I eat the more weight I gain. It seems to work backward for me. So while it may seem crazy to most people it works for me. I just want a detailed diet to follow so I know exactly how many calories I'm eating a day. It's hard to me to know how many calories are in everything I'm eating. | |||
| Weight Loss | 1,000 calorie a day diet | Sep 08 2007 20:45 (UTC) |
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I'm in San Diego Ca. I did see a nutritionist when I had gestational diabetes and had to give myself insulin. But now that I'm insulin resistant without being pregnant I'm assuming they think I remember what they told me while pregnant. Although it's different now since I don't have to be on a diabetic diet. But yes I would like to go to a nutritionist and get a sample daily diet so that I can follow it and know that I am eating exactly 1,000 calories. Although I think in order to lose now I need to eat less. I should eat between 800-1,000 a day. My doctor also told me that it was all about calories and not exercise. He said that for me it will be restricting calories and little exercise. Like walking only. We decided that when I reach my goal weight I will probably not be able to eat over 1200 calories a day at the most if I want to maintain it. Normally I would think he was nuts but for the first time in my life I have lost and kept off 60lbs. So I think he might be on to something. It sucks to have this metabolism, but at least I found a way to work with it. |
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| Weight Loss | 1,000 calorie a day diet | Sep 06 2007 23:30 (UTC) |
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Thank you so much! I love that! Both the bubble bath idea and that staying the same weight and losing are both very good. I hadn't thought of it that way. I was just frustrated the scale wasn't going down. You are absolutely right. Not gaining is still better then gaining! Gotta think positive! Thank You!
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| Weight Loss | 1,000 calorie a day diet | Sep 06 2007 23:26 (UTC) |
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I know I was prepared to go in with my food diary and say "SEE I'm hardly eating anything WHY am I not losing weight!" I've also gone the other route and eaten 5 small meals a day. Nothing seemed to work. So I ate very little and started losing weight. Well duh right? ;) Everyone around me started thinking I wasn't eating enough etc etc. Long story short the reason I have an endocrinlogist is to figure out why I can't lose weight. I have a metoblic disorder and I'm insulin resistant. Those two combined make my body take what I eat and store it and keep it and turn it into fat. I am on metformin which is a pre-diabetic drug which has helped tremendously by telling my body to let go of the sugar and use it, burn it up and get it out of my body. My Dr. has said that some people (myself included) have such low metabolisms that they don't require as much food as others. And really it's only 200 less calories then the average diet. And all blood work has come back amazingly healthy. I'm the healthiest and skinniest I've ever been. And I use the term skinniest losely. I'm 180. But I started at 240. But I can't budge from 180 it's been a few months now. I was losing 5lbs a month so now it's frustrating. |
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