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MiladyB · 03-28-2008, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by porshh951

please please eat people. Its not the end of the world. If you starve your body you wont loose anything and you will hurt yourself.

at 3 months eat more at 6 eat more at 9 eat more. Continually increase your calories and your workouts to compensate. This is the end is what shapes your metabolism and will keep your body fit and not in a staved state.

When your body knows you will feed it, it will go ahead and use what you are eating now. This is vital to your weightloss and long term success.

My mother only eats 1100cals a day and she doesn't loose a pound. She increases her cals to like 1300 for a day or two and gains two pounds instantly and then freaks out. What she doesn't realize is her body is hording her cals whenever its fed instead of using them. If she would continue to eat 1300-1400cals a day she would see the weight she gained level off and then she would start to loose. Continuing to loose right past where she started.

Eat people.....its not the end of the world and its the only way to train your body.

John, is 100% correct on this. People if you find yourself in frequent stalls the first thing you should do is start food journaling and counting those calories and protein. It is one of the best tools you can use to help yourself. Be honest with yourself because if you aren't you are the only person you are hurting.

You NEED to be getting in those calories. I know you think...well the first month I only ate like 400 calories and I dropped LOADS of weight so why isn't that working now? It's exactly like John and Jim have said...your body starts to panic because it is afraid that it won't be getting what it needs to survive, so it hangs on for dear life to everything you put in your mouth and hoards whatever it can to survive. BUT when you increase your calories it is almost like your body heaving a HUGE sigh because it realizes the food is coming again. It relaxes its hold on the calories you do take in and it starts to utilize them instead of hoarding them.

So FOOD JOURNAL...and look at those calories, proteins, water and increase them...because people...at only 300-400 calories a day you are starving yourself! You really are.