Need help! I'm at a loss here!!
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Need help! I'm at a loss here!!
| Fri, 03-26-2004 - 8:26pm |
I am beginning to think, maybe I am just not meant to lose weight. I have done a whole week of 900 calorie days and 40 minutes of exercise and.......gained weight. Has anyone here tried that 500 calorie diet? I am at a loss as to whether or not I am able to lose weight. I am SO angry at myself for letting myself go like this, but I figured 900 calories a day would atleast lose some weight. Any ideas as to what I can do to get this going again? Last week I had 1100 calories a day, and lost weight. But, I think it's because it was my first real week. I heard you should take in fewer calories every week. I am really beginning to HATE eating.
My normal meals are
Breakfast (nothing)
Lunch 45 calories
Dinner 530 Calories
I then do my 40 minutes of exercise (then go to work)
PM Snack 210
Thanks so much!
Brenda

Taking in too few calories can actually backfire. If you take in too few calories, it can put your body in starvation mode and it holds on to all the calories and stores them as fat. That might explain why when you were eating more calories you lost weight, but when you reduced it you gained.
Also, are you drinking enough water? If you don't drink enough water, your body will hold onto that too, which will show a gain.
I just noticed, too, that you don't eat breakfast and hardly eat lunch. That will slow your metabolism way down so that it's almost impossible to lose weight. It's actually better to eat small meals every 3-4 hours to keep your metabolism going.
I hope this helps!
~~Linda
~~Linda
Brenda, if you want my honest opinion, then your not eating enough food!
Brenda.........I definitely agree with everyone else.
Kerry
www.atkins.com
look at the success stories. maybe you could pick up the atkins book from the library or the store.
no matter what you decide to do, i wish you luck. and kudo's for exercising like a good girl.
Serena
273.5/247/150
Atkins since 1/5/04
Listen, you have to eat breakfast lunch and dinner. You can't starve yourself, and if you eat sensibly and exercise just a bit (take a short walk every day for instance) in time it will come. I'm going to quote from Kathleen now: "Each day, you wake up and **need** to consume x number of calories based on height, weight, physical activity. The goal is to balance calories over each day and each week--calories in versus calories out."
Good luck. This is entirely do-able.