Sparrows Experiment

yeah for the most part. I don't have much of an appetite unless I work out but I'm sure that will shift eventually too. I'm not sure how long I'm supposed to sit on this number and I hope my weight doens't go crazy in the meantime. My BMR is around 1400 and I burn about 700-800 cals a workout so thats 2100-2200 cals. dang.
I think Leip encouraged me to try and hit 1800 and then bounce between that and 2200. whewee. that'll take some doing.
 
Yup keeping the body guessing is a good strategy - not only in working out but also in nutrition. I generally keep my food intake the same on the weekdays, and weekends are my cheat days usually - seems to have worked out well. (Cheating usually means having a beer or two, or pizza or some other good stuffs).
 
well everything went well but dinner was a little off. I made the kids spag. and meatballs and had tiny reminents of homemade spag. sauce still in the pan. I cut up a huge chicken breast and kinda coated the strips in the sauce and let it fry in there. Added some parm cheese at the end and I swear it tasted like breaded italian chicken you'd get at some restaurant. SOOO good. I put a sprinkling of cilantro (I'm addicted to cilantro for ALL things) on top and dipped some cut veggies in FF sr cream. OMIGOSH it ended up being divine. so I think I may have gone over (whoo hoo) but who cares. I went back to the gym and did 30 min on the eliptical and 15 min walk all pretty slow paced. I had a tiff at home and needed a stress relief. lol.
 
Sorry about the tiff but you got some exercise. Supper sounded good. I think I'm gonna have to come over and have supper w/you one night.
 
I'll bring my daughter and fly out there, but it would have when i have money to afford the plane tickets..:D Oh yea..I'd bring Greene too. I'm sure he would love to go to California.
 
yeah that plane ticket thing...is quite the challenge. I'm looking myself for some decent fares to Georgia. errr its quite expensive!
 
Today is, on the whole going splendidly.
breakfast: 2 scoops vanilla whey, 1 c 2% milk 350 -not blended
snack: 1 serving hot oat bran, 4 whites, 1 whole egg 280
lunch: 1 lc ww tortilla with chicken breast and romaine lettuce, 1 bite sugar free ice cream 350
snack: celery sticks with 2T natty butter 200
dinner: large salad with chicken breast or tuna and 1T olive oil with balsamic
1500+

This is easier than I thought! I have the most amazing ravenous appetite today. Usually when I eat I get full and my tummy feels distended for about an hour and then when the next one comes I'm still quite content and don't want to eat anything, and I usually feel fat all day. lol. Today I've been finding myself watching the clock like "when do I get to eat again???" cause my food is not really making a dent in my appetite. crazy. Yesterday after dinner I had the most AMAZINGLY yummy brownie with frosting. It was leftover from the memorial this weekend. my mom always sends food home with us so she won't eat it. ha. anyway, I found myself hungry before bed and was too tired to make rational decisions so I had one that was kinda big but I didn't care. I had it, it was YUMMY and then I had a bottle of water and passed out at 9:30~! thats some sort of record. I'm usually up well till midnight. I slept till 7! wow. today I was a pound less than I've been in a while. that was really nice. not that it really MEANS anything but it was motivating none-the-less.

GYM: Legs: leg press, walking lunges, ham curl, calf raises
3000 yd (120 lap) swim with the triathlon club. haha. I hate when they invade my lane. errr
 
It's always a nice surprise when things turn out better than expected... Sounds like your body is responding to the increased calories quite well - congrats
 
LOL sure. We'll bust a move to your workout tapes after dinner. haha. Be sure to bring them :)
 
thanks leip. You gave me the swift kick in the rear I needed so thanks to you! I think I can keep this up, it doesn't seem too hard but I know there will be days I just don't want to or I gain weight and I'll want to cry. ;) At this point I'm just listening to my body for clues as to when to move off around this number. Like last night I went over 100 cause I was still hungry, no big deal (although my choice of brownie wasn't the greatest). somedays may be more, some less. But thats normal. I'll try to bump it up again eventually. Do you think for now 1500 is OK? Can I hover here a little while? I mean, there are tons of people who work out and eat this amount to lose weight and don't have a starvation mode issue with it. Do I need to continue upwards because of my activity or history? This is the part of the whole thing I get a little hazy on. I need some insight.
 
Yeah like I said if doing it slowly feel comfy then do it that way. I mean in the grand scheme do i think you may need to up it again, most likely, however doing it slowly is a way to lessen weight gain or even keep up weight loss. I myself moved slowy from 1500-1600 to where I am now. If I stopped losing weight or gained a little after a about 2-3 weeks then I upped again. I myself had a hard time believing my activity was justifying for a while. But I would keep bumpig and Because of doing this I only had weight loss from calorie gains thus far. So stick with the 1500 or lil more for a 2-3 weeks, see how it plays out, if you contiue losing this stay, but if you hit another plateau then try knocking it up to 1600+ and so on. Your doing so great that really I am just so proud.
 
I'll have to remember that one. I think you answered my question too because I was feeling like Sparrow. So many questions to ask, you don't want to ask them at one time.:D
 
Having a rougher time of it today. Not as hungry. ha. can't win em all ;)
Breakfast: 2 scoops whey, 1 c ff milk, 1 sausage link (too good to resist from dem kiddos)
gym
snack: 1 scoop whey, 1 c 2% milk (I had to jet outta the house, its all I could do quickly)
lunch: 1 large lc ww tortilla, 1 can tuna 3 large romaine lettuce leaves, 2 T ff sr cream
snack: 2 T PB on celery
dinner: 1 chicken breast, raw veggies homemade flax dressing on top of chicken
1536
gym: Treadmill
1 mile 6.5 warm up
1 mile 7.5 8:00
1 mile 7.8 7:42
1 mile 8.3 7:13
1 mile 6.5 cool down

OK I was VERY thrilled with this workout. First of all up till now my fastest mile has been over 7:30. Here I was busting out a 7:13 mile, paced and at the end of a workout! SO I know I could go sub 7:00. I felt great and tight and fast. I have noticed a huge difference in my core muscles since using the stability ball and doing more core exercises at the gym. I can keep my muscles tight through running which allows me to go faster and farther keeping my form. its great. The reason eating is harder today is because of the sprinting. Whenever I have a really really tough workout, I'm way less hungry.
 
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