How Many Calories Do You Eat? (Weight Loss)

[PinkBike]

five weeks on a modified south beach diet and i lost nothing. then my first week on WW (flex) i lost 2.2 pounds, since then i've gained .4 the third week and .6 this week. i'm at 145. we rode 75 tough miles sunday, and i watched my points intake the whole week. i just think something is wrong. like do i need to jumpstart my metabolism? how? do i need to eliminate something specific from my diet? maybe i'm gaining muscle but i still have the love handles i never had before, and actually i was always kinda muscular, even when i weighed 127. how do i get rid of The Flab? do i need a nutritionist and how do i find one?

[Torrilin]

five weeks on a modified south beach diet and i lost nothing. then my first week on WW (flex) i lost 2.2 pounds, since then i've gained .4 the third week and .6 this week. i'm at 145. we rode 75 tough miles sunday, and i watched my points intake the whole week. i just think something is wrong. like do i need to jumpstart my metabolism? how? do i need to eliminate something specific from my diet? maybe i'm gaining muscle but i still have the love handles i never had before, and actually i was always kinda muscular, even when i weighed 127. how do i get rid of The Flab? do i need a nutritionist and how do i find one?

A nutritionist is not a bad idea. They generally work with you and a food diary to help you find the problems in your particular way of eating. No one way of eating is good for everyone.

I've been spending a lot of time terrified that I'd tip over into a diabetic weight range because of the family history of type 2 diabetes. Healthy for me is 120-135, and I'd gotten up to 168lbs. Finally, after weeks of both of us paying attention to what I was eating my partner figured out the problem. The extra calories from wine with dinner (an average of a glass a night) and from fruit juice were what was doing it. My brain doesn't treat them as food, so they're as bad for me as soda if I don't watch the portions and how often I have them. Milk, my usual tea with a spoonful of sugar and Gatorade all seem to be fine for me to drink as much as I want.

So I've stopped the wine and fruit juice, and so far it's having a measurable effect. I'm down by about 8 lbs over the last 3 weeks. That's much faster than is healthy, so if the weight loss does not slow down over the next week or two, I'll have to figure something out. I may have dropped below a sensible caloric intake by cutting them out cold turkey.

[michelem]

do i need a nutritionist and how do i find one?

PinkBike -

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