Increasing My Calories
I’ve increased my workouts so I have to increase my calories because I’m STARVING! And I’m SCARED!
I never thought I’d say this but Dr. Phil has really screwed with my brain. I used to follow his Ultimate Weight Loss Solution. To kick start, you eat 1000-1100 calories a day for 14 days. In phase 2, you eat roughly 1200 calories a day until you reach your goal weight. The third and final phase is the maintaining your weight and eat around 1800 calories a day. Talk about a diet that you can’t stick with! I stayed so hungry and irritable the whole time. Don’t get me wrong. I lost weight like crazy but it was impossible to keep it up. So after 2 pregnancies and gaining back a literal butt-load of weight I knew I couldn’t go back to that kind of “so strict I wanna kill myself” diet.
Long story short I’ve been following The Best Life by Bob Greene and I love it. BUT I haven’t been sticking to his recommended calories because it just seems too good to be true. I work out at what he calls a Level 3 which is 5-6 days a week with at least 2 days of strength training. He says I can have a whopping 1800 calories. At first I was only eating around 1200 calories because I kept seeing that bald head saying “how’s that workin’ for ya” whenever I would consider eating an extra apple - heaven forbid! I was so hungry and so I slowly increased to around 1500 and I’m still hungry. I was sitting in bed last night thinking about my grumbly tummy and realized that my way of thinking is really messed up. Here I’ve been scared to death to increase my food and log those extra 300 HEALTHY calories on Fitday but I don’t think twice at scarfing down some peanut butter crackers and a Little Debbie cake at 10:30 at night because I can’t sleep for the hunger pains! OMG!
So today is the day I start believing in what’s been working for me.
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