Please Explain Calories to me!!
Ok, so I decided that I’m doing something totally wrong. I’ve been so fixed in my brain that I can only eat 1200 calories a day to loose weight. Yes, just like every articles say… this plan has backfired on me. I’ve noticed over the last couple years that I can’t get past a certain weight. I’ll get down to about 156 and this is from only eating 1200 calories a day and working my butt off. This does me well for about two weeks. Then things starting getting in the way and for some reason I start to thing its "all or nothing" in terms of my diet.
If you read some of my past blogs you will see that I have been a binge eater. I havn’t binge eaten since The beginning of the summer, but I NEVER want to go back to these ways. EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER!!!!! It’s the worst feeling ever. So I’m trying to get out of this mode. I love eating clean, it makes me feel so much better so i’ve been doing this a little more consistantly over time.
My point is that I need to try a new strategy. Instead of eating only 1200 calories a day (which is two weeks out of four doable) I’m just going to vary the calories I eat a day from 1300 to 1600. I think this will allow me to speed up my metabolism and Keep me from ever getting really hungry. Also, I think I’m going to eat more in the mornings because I tend to eat more later and that might be from the lack of food I eat earlier in the day. Hopefully this will all make a difference.
Please let me know what you think!! I want eveyone’s input here. If I thought something through wrong, tell me!! I love learning new things and even better, using the things I already know and actually applying them to my life!
Love all.
Bianca
Galatians 1:10
September 22, 2009 at 10:37 am
Space out your eating throughout the day, spacing it evenly. That means eating 5-7 smaller meals, every 2-3 hrs. Don’t look at any of them as snacks. Make them all heathly clean meals, just smaller than the traditional 3 large meals per day. THIS will keep the metabolism raised & provide better nutrients to your body. And yes, you were not eating enough cal’s per day at 1200. Your body reacted by slowing things down.
1 lb of BF is equivalent to 3500 cal’s. So it takes burning 3500 cal’s MORE THAN CONSUMED to drop 1 lb of BF. So 1-2 lbs per weeks is doing very well. Just don’t starve yourself trying to get there.
GOOD LUCK.
September 22, 2009 at 9:16 pm
yes, yes. Thanks for reminding me! I do all of that aswell. The problem is that I somehow find my way back in my old ways from time to time.