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I have been on a bit of a plateau. I have gone up and down like a bouncing ball since around the first of the month. Overall I am down a bit so I am bouncing in the right direction. This week I have increase my activity level by a bunch. Hopefully the extra activity will help the scale move with fewer up bounces.
I still have today's menu to plan. Have had breakfast and its time for a snack. I think I should get the snack in before I try to plan the rest I the day. I am so hungry that right now everything sounds too good. Yogurt and berries will get all that in line in nothing flat.
Upping my activity has really increased my appetite. My level of hunger is pretty close to what it was those first days when I decided to get this weight off. I told myself then that hunger was my friend, it meant that my body is using the foods that I am putting in my mouth. I also remind myself that I am eating so often and so much that the hunger will be taken care of very soon! And with healthy, satisfying food.
I love good food! I also have a new definition of what good food is. In my mind, when I heard "good food" I heard yummy, tasty, pleasurable. Now I know that good food is nutritional first, is also tasty and pleasurable, and although the taste is still only momentary and the real pleasure is not instant gratification, but it is slower in that it gives me longer lasting energy which in turn enables me to have a totally different life. You gotta love that!
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I find if I increase my calories but not above my RDI, I break the plateau. You can plateau if you don't have enough calories. It makes your metabolism stall. Be sure you get at least 1200 calories per day. If you exercise a lot, you might have to increase your minimum to 1400 or 1500.
22 Jul 10 by member: Runesinger
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Thanks for the input. I have upped my burn by about double this week. I have been around 1400 calories for a while and now up closer to 1500. I am hoping to see a change. I am not a very patient person when it is something I want. ; )
22 Jul 10 by member: datadoll
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Sounds excellent!!! I've learned that it's a down fall to let ur self get too hungry(we tend to eat everything in sight) Small filling foods are a great way to prevent this!!! Bounce ur way to weight loss..I like the sound of that!!!
22 Jul 10 by member: Angelbaby1965
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I've told myself that very same thing about hunger. It's my friend. When I go to bed at night, I now prefer having hunger pangs to feeling bloated and overstuffed like I used to feel.
23 Jul 10 by member: cocobutt
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Oh, I so agree cocobutt. (love the nick btw) My thinking is, the time that I spend being hungry is real fatloss time. (my thinking, no science behind it). Well I do not want to go hungry ALL the time, but when I go to bed, I think, "ah, hungry for 8 hours without even being aware of it, now that is the way to lose pounds." LOL Like I said, no science behind it, but it is what I want to believe.
23 Jul 10 by member: datadoll
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