Needing to loose 10 pounds

[BunnyJean 123]

On 8/25/2017 at 9:34 AM, MowryRocks said:

@lovergurl , @Introversion

Thank you for the advice. I had the same concern, but calls to the Nut have gone unanswered. I guess if I don't hear from him today. I'll try a bump up and see what happens.

They are right hon. I'm pre-op and we just talked about this in my life skills class. I was working out like you for years, 1000 cal diet MAYBE. Nothing, I built muscle but that's it. Went to my dr...he said (have since only seen women) move more eat less. Wouldn't even discuss what I WAS doing. Sometimes I worked out so hard with a personal trainer, I would vomit on way home on side of the road. My trainer couldn't understand it. Had me do a food diary. STILL didn't pick up on it. I actually read an article while skimming around online about under eating and over working. Your body does shut down. The things he was saying made PERFECT sense to me. I was living them. As are you. I would increase the cals a bit and maybe drop down the exercise just a bit. I know it's scary. It was very very scary for me to eat more. Good luck to you.

[Apple1 2,572]

I agree that there needs to be a balance between exercise and amount of calories. It is sometimes a hard balance to achieve when you are less then a year out from WLS. I am going through this now myself with wanting to increase my running mileage, but not able to eat much more then 1200 calories.

Everyone's bodies respond differently though. I went and had my RMR tested and right now my metabolism does not appear to be negatively effected by the amount of exercise I am doing. I am still losing an average of 3 pounds per week eating 1000-1200 calories and running 15-20 miles a week.