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on 10/8/19 12:29 pm
Hi All,
I'm a bit more than halfway to goal, so I started a fitness regimen to help me maintain my weight loss without reducing my calories too much. Seemed like sound reasoning.
I'm 4 weeks into my program and I am HUNGRY. I don't notice it so much right after a workout, but within a few hours, up until the next day, I am legitimately hungrier than normal. My whole goal was to stay on the same calorie amount while I continue to lose, but I've been eating 300-500 extra calories a day since working out. So, I have no real next benefit in calorie restriction.
I can take break even, but my carb cravings have sky rocketed.
What do you do to combat this? Pre-workout snack? Increased protein?
I don't do Keto. I keep my carbs around 75g. My protein is around 60g. I try to drink enough pre and post workout.
Ideas please.
Congratulations!
Surgery Date: 10/18/2018
6'1" Male
HW: 471. SW: 459 (post). GW: 225
Good luck with your surgery tomorrow. I agree with Wombat, walking after surgery will help alleviate gas pains following surgery. It was a fast paced and easy recovery period for me, hope it is for you too!
I have had several stalls, even shortly after surgery. My surgeon talked about people with "low bmi" (35-40) and how it will take a full 12-18 months to reach goal. Hydrating will help aid your weight loss.
To set up the weight tracker, go here:
https://www.obesityhelp.com/manage/tickers/
When you click the pink plus sign in the top right corner of the site, pick "log weight." The site uses that data to populate the ticker.
Sparklekitty / Julie / Nerdy Little Secret (#42)
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VSG 2013, RNY conversion 2019 due to GERD. Trendweight here!
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Real life begins where your comfort zone ends
Absolutely. Listen to your body.
For me - when I started, I slowly increased my fasting window. Eventually it became 14 -16. I started doing that to improve motility of my small intestine, and to help with my IBS. I really started doing that when I was app 8-10 lbs above my goal, when I already accepted that it was to hard to diet to lose that. What surprised me how quickly I started losing, and how relatively easy was to lose even past my goal of 150-155. I eventually settled at 140-145. But if I gained back to 150 - I would be ok with that.
After I posted my response to you I noticed that you are 3 years post op.
One thing that was essential to lose weight for me was absolutely no alcohol and no diet soda.
Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG
"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"
"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."
