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Date Posted: 09:38:15 05/30/02 Thu
Author: Sherry
Subject: Christine
In reply to: ChristineM 's message, "Still Around" on 09:09:07 05/30/02 Thu

Hi, your story and mine are similar. I started at 282 (not far from where you started), lost 50 pounds fairly quickly and then stopped losing.

I recently learned something that initially helped and I think would continue to help if I am able to stick to it.

Increasing calories.

I started by measuring my caloric intake and found out that according to experts I am eating way too LITTLE. I found that I was consuming about 1300 to 1400 calories a day. Based on my weight I should be consuming something like 2700 a day to lose. (more to maintain).

The formula is (to lose weight) that per day you should eat 12 calories per pound that you currently weigh. 15 to 16 calories per pound for maintenance.

IF you fall more than a 1000 calories below your caloric needs for maintenance (15 x current weight) then you put your body into starvation mode and it refuses to drop weight.

When I learned this I increased my calorie consumption to about 2000 calories (for a few days) and immediately dropped another five pounds.

It was hard for me to stick to that many calories a day so it went back up again fairly quickly, but I am retrying the idea of increased calorie consumption for the June challenge. Maybe this will help you too?

Sometimes when we are so overweight we get used to hardly eating anything, and think we are doing ourselves a favor. Instead we are slowing our metabolisms down and harming our weight loss efforts. It is a hard mind set to get out of "less calories = more weight loss" but it is an equation that ISN'T true if you go too low.

True I think with this diet we can become so sick of protein that we forget to continue eating enough of it, and wind up substituting fat or carb foods.

It is also true that our bodies sometimes need time to recover from rapid weight loss. I have been at about the same weight for a year and a half, but the other day I took my measurements and found that a year and a half ago when I first took them, (after the 50 pound loss) although my weight was the same, my measurements were from an inch to an inch and a half smaller in every spot I measured (except for around my neck).

I also did the calculations in the Protein Power book and discovered that I have gained 9 pounds of lean body mass (muscle that you don't want to lose) while losing fat, even though the scale hasn't changed.

I urge you to take your measurements and record them somewhere to refer to later. You may be losing inches without pounds for awhile.

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Sherry Response -- ChristineM, 12:46:40 05/30/02 Thu