Hello @whang I am no longer breastfeeding. I was very healthy my entire pregnancy. I went from pre pregnancy weight of 145 and my 1st month pregnant I lost 10lbs. Down to 135. When I had him I was 150 and left the hospital at 145. It wasn’t until I was at about 6 weeks into breastfeeding I plumped up and just exploded to 162 from there.
Did you mean you wouldn’t, or would follow those items for my carb intake.
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When eating carbs these are the sources I could go for. I think it’s best to eat carbs.when your body needs them. Breakfast, and pre and post work out primarily
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Why for breakfast @jackolee? To lower morning cortisol?
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Your body is in a fasted state in the morning and will have some room to convert carbs to glycogen for daily energy without storing fat. A slow digesting carb like oatmeal will give you energy for your day.
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Your cortisol will raise the longer you remain eating at a defector. One day of higher carb intake in general will help reset your levels. The leaner you are the more often you need to do this. You can google controlled refeed day and learn more. Right now I don’t think you’d need to do this more than once every 4-6 weeks.
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Is this aimed at me or @sam_brown0429? If it’s the former, I’ll add that nugget of info to the mental bank as I’m not really dieting at the moment.
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Haha! Oops, sorry bout that!
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Thank you @jackolee
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@sam_brown0429 how are you doing?
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Its going good, im excitied to see what my check in Saturday looks like. I have found a comfortable weight and pushing through workouts to keep my heart rate up. So before i had 5 sets at 15 each, Ive bumped it down to 4 sets at 12, comfortable rate. 12 seconds between sets. Here is my food intake for the week
Monday- 1,261 cals intake at 42% carb, 19% fat 39% protien
Tuesday - 1,241 cals intake at 39% carbs, 26% fat, 35% protien
Wednesday - " "
Thursday - " "
What do you think
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At the times I was trying to lose weight before, I always found it helpful to weigh myself everyday, morning (empty stomach, after taking a dump and peeing) and in the evening. That way, I as soon as I see an increasing trend in my morning weight and/or evening weight, I immediately know I screwed up the last few days. Dunno, try it out, it could help.
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Looks like you’ve found your stride and are consistent, which I continue to believe is 95% of the battle.
I’d find ONE way you’re comfortable progressing your workouts every week or two. For instance, you already bumped down the reps, so I assume you bumped up the weight. In another week, you can either add weight, add reps with the same weight, or shorten rest periods (which you really can’t do at this point). Just keep it reasonable and amusing; the important thing is hitting the workouts - which you’re doing. Great work!
On the diet, it looks like you can stick with it - this is the key; extra great work! It wouldn’t make sense to have any opinions on whether it’s effective until we see your progress update (and you’re widely doing both weight and inches/ pictures), so let’s check back after that.
Keep moving along!
Thank you!!! I weighed myself this morning. Now keep in mind I weighed 157 last week and so this is a bit bumming. 156.5 this a.m. I didn’t have time for measurements and pics so I will do that in the a.m. MAYBE ill see a difference there. This week i REALLY made sure to keep my heart rate up during workout and then do like a HI IT cardio. Ran for 30 sec walked 40 etc. Really felt it.
The angle is a little different, and I’m not an expert on this stuff, but I’d say you’re making visual progress.
You still lost weight this week! My rule of thumb is typically to stay the course unless you lose nothing for 2 weeks. I’m sure everyone will have 1000 opinions, but every change is both a variable and a stress to your body - you have to give it time to adjust.
You’re doing great and seeing progress - stick it out!
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This is my weight for the last 30 days, look how it stays consistent for some days it goes up and it goes down, and then it takes a dive.
I’m tracking it everyday and really don’t care about the weight, I’ll know within 5 - 10 days if the weight goes up or down.
You know how to do it, you’re loosing weight already, so keep at it. Don’t go to low on calories. Just enough, keep protein high at least a gram pr lbs BW: adjust carbs and fat after that.
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Im new to the tracking carbs, fat, protein, but i think im slowly getting it. I dont track my weight like you do i just weigh at the end of every week. My bf is bulking and gaining muscle and im not sure how you guys do it LOL, he weights him self every day like @whang does, morning, evening, after poops. ETC and its always so different. HAHA.
@TrainForPain yes they are different angles. One was self timer and the other i got help with last night---- learn as you go LOL
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@mortdk awesome practical example!
@sam_brown0429 you’re on it! There is no “perfect” anyway
That’s where you could be so unfortunate to hit a low on one week and then the next week a high.
I have my scale in the bathroom, I just stand on it every morning… You don’t have to write it down or anything, but you’ll see the weight fluctuate every day, some days it stays very much the same and some days it goes up or down. I KNOW that when I hit a new very low number, it’ll go up the next day or too, level out and drop again.
I can’t say enough that you ARE LOOSING weight so you’re doing the right thing.
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