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I can't believe how much I eat and still maintain my weight. To recap, I'm not trying to lose weight anymore. I'm trying to live in balance and accept my body for what it is. I've lost around 35lbs and weigh around 155, on a good day, after a good workout, first thing in the morning, stark naked. My goal weight was 145 but I stopped trying to reach that number when it became clear to me that I just didn't want to lose the last 10 pounds. I didn't want to live constantly in a gym, constantly feeling guilty about food. I still battle bad body image and still have rough days accepting myself for not being my goal size 10. But I'm working on it.So I'm maintaining. And living. This is what a typical living diet looks like:
breakfast: smoothie(two fruits, soymilk, green veggie powder), Lara bar, or oatmeal and Lara bar
snack: cashews, or latte, or vegan cookie of some sort
lunch: sometimes skipped, sometimes salad, sometimes latte, sometimes tofu stir-fry
snack: latte, or carrots and humos, or apple and almond butter, or cashews
dinner: salad with lots of veggies and tofu, or portebello mushroom sandwich at a bar, or soup and salad and bread, or frozen cheeseless pizza
dessert: never missed
add a couple of alcoholic beverages of sometimes, and you have yourself a day in the life of my caloric intake.
Crazy! When I was trying to lose the last 10 pounds, this is what I would eat
breakfast: scant amount of oatmeal, fruit, coffee, soymilk
snack: hah!
lunch: salad, bean salad
snack: hah!
dinner: salad, tofu
dessert: hah! alcohol: hah!
How is it possible to go from these two extremes? And, please note that I went down 5 pounds once I started eating more. I hovered at 160 for the goddamned longest time before giving up. I have also been exercising much less due to my injury and girlfriend.
Speaking of girlfriend, she is out of town for two weeks and I am on Spring Break so I will be updating much more frequently than usual. I miss her. Is this wrong? We've been seeing each other for only a couple of months and I miss her. She's become a regular at my apartment, especially on Saturday afternoons.
posted by chaos @ 2:13 PM
2 Comments:
How is it possible? Because lowering your caloric intake tends to lower your metabolism. Digesting food takes quite a lot of energy all by itself. If you remember your chemistry, it takes a lot of effort to take a protein or carbohydrate apart, store the componnets, then put the parts back together in a new form.
OTOH you're still reaping the metabolic benefits of all your previous exercise, not just running, but also weight training. Muscle burns calories, as you know. At some point, if you don't or can't get back to that workout routine, you could start to gain weight. So you might consider cutting back a tad on the "treat" calories until your injury is healed. And a multivitamin wouldn't hurt, to help the healing, too. Good luck.
A multi-vitamin is a really good idea, thanks. I hear you on cutting back on treat calories too. I know that I should, especially in the alcohol department. Liz
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