Holidays were hard. Only my crazy active life style kept me from gaining A LOT OF WEIGHT. Still gained a few lbs, it seems like I gained 3-4lbs, loose it, gain it, loose it. Basically a weekend would hit and it's be socializing, drinking, eating, ect, and I'd gain, but then the week would hit and I'd be at the gym and I'd loose it again, but then the weekend would hit again and . . .
But Now, thank the Zumba and Diet gods, the holidays are over. One of my gyms closed, but I'm still teaching 7 (probably 8 soon) classes a week, and I'm still trying to jog and train for a 10k or maybe even a 1/2 marathon, but jogging has been hard, seems like I have to do something on my jogging days and I never get to it. In about an hour I plan on going and jogging 5 mi.
Had to re-adjust my calories. I've been in a platue for a long time (pain, and surgeries, and holidays, oh my). For a while I was trying to eat 1650 calories, but that just made me stop counting calories b/c that number felt impossibly low and even when I did manage to stay at those calories, I couldn't get below 215lbs (that's higher than my last number, but I put on a bit of muscle after surgery so although I gained 5lbs my pants got baggy on my). Here's the raw truth, yesterday I burned about 3500 calories, today I'm going to burn 3000 calories. 1650 cals would be enough for a in-active woman trying to loose weight, but I had to realize that I'm no longer an in-active person. So I bumped my calories up to 2000 a day. Even I wanted to freak out at that number, it seems like SO much to eat when I've been going below that number for so long, but I'm already down to 213lbs, so it's working. I think this is going to be what finally helps me break this rut and get out of the 200's forever.
Why am I rambling about this? Because so many of you subscribed to my blog try to eat 500 or 800 calories a day to loose weight and you're NOT going to be happy living that way. Better to exercise, become your own athlete, and eat healthier, than to just starve yourself. You'll get better results, and you'll feel better about yourself. Just something to think about . . .
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