On track team

Hi Carla! I am mighty confused myself! My dietician was VERY concerned that I wasn't eating enough. She said I had actually lost some lean muscle this time, which essentially means you are losing metabolism. The higher your lean muscle weight, the higher your metabolism burns. If you don't eat enough and you exercise a lot, it can dip into your lean muscle and burn that instead of your fat. Especially when you have lower body fat percentage to begin with. She said anything lower than 1500 calories a day would put me in starvation mode. She said she would really prefer to see me eating 1800-2400 calories a day, with as active as I am. She told me no more weight loss because my body fat is only 20% and any lower than that is what can cause problems, like no more periods, etc. She told my husband to call her if I lost more weight! Mean, huh?! My problem is that my body feels like it wants to eat. If I go to the gym and exercise really hard, I get dizzy and that feeling won't go away until I eat. Which is why I almost always eat a banana with peanut butter after I work out. Anyway, I've started feeling a sensation of hunger when I've exercised a lot. It's not the same "stomach growling" hunger that I felt before surgery. But I feel light-headed, dizzy, and just have an intense desire to eat something quick! This is what scares me ... I don't want to "want" to eat! If that makes any sense at all! I have this deep fear of eating too much. I know I was much happier when I just didn't care to eat! Every time I go to the gym, I have it calculated how many calories I've burned and I will literally stay there and keep running or whatever until I have "enough" calories burned! My husband is freaking out on me thinking I'm anorexic because I literally don't leave until I feel I've burned enough calories. And I have this deep desire to just keep going to the gym. That way I feel like what I'm eating is getting burned off. OK, I sound nutty, don't I????? Deanna

I do the exact same thing myself.. i wont get off the elliptical until I burn 500 calories. than I know I will burn about 300 doing weight training. than 500 for step class. Today I estimate I will burn about 1500 calories at the gym but I know I am only putting in 1000. I want to burn every calorie at the gym that I eat for the day. Thats why I wonder if i am in starvation mode. Today alone I will go two times.. 30 elliptical at level 10 --60+rpms.. work out with trainer.. than I will go back for one hour of step class and work out on my arms for an hour.. I estimate I will burn about 1300 cals at the gym by the time I am done.. In the mean time.. i have had one protein shake and one 270 cal meal for a total of 520 cals. I will eat maybe 400 hundred cals more for the day totaling 920 calories and burning 1300.. I do this everyday to make sure I am burning what I eat. I dont think its good either and I have been getting dizzy a lot to and wanting to eat. I stop myself from eating all the time.. I want to loose that last 10 pounds.. when i talked to the nut she said it was ok to loose it and told me not to worry, but inside I am scared to death I may be hurting my body by what I am doing. My whole body concept is so off right now I dont know what is right or wrong. I see you are in about the same boat as me in this area, but at least your nut seems to know what she is talking about.. mine just kind of goes with the flow and is young with little experience behind her.

Deanna You have to eat they way you exercise...we know you need more food than the rest of us (who hardly work out)...LOL you will never be fat again with the new lifestyle you have chosen... you and Carla are different... you burn more calories than most of us...so listen to your nut.. LOL I think what you have done (losing the weight and becoming a runner is totally amazing)... you and Carla are great examples for others.