So my walking yesterday was interesting. I increased the time to 11 minutes, and the morning session went fairly smoothly. The afternoon session, however, was rough. I did it, but I felt like I was dragging a 10-ton weight around behind me. I really wish I could figure out what's causing this tremendous afternoon fatigue and general ickiness over the last week or two. I do reasonably well (for me) in the mornings, but by 2 or so in the afternoon, I'm out of energy, aching, and pretty much done for the day. Very strange, particularly since I'm normally an afternoon/night person. Anyway, yesterday's meals...
Breakfast: 1 egg, scrambled, 3 pieces bacon - 1.55g
Lunch: Low-carb wrap "sandwich" - 8.75g
Snack: None
Dinner: Creamed Chicken w/Mushrooms, 1 1/3 cup frozen green beans - 11.39g
Dessert: None
Sodium: 2679mg
Veggies: 8.48g
Total: 21.69g
I know I've mentioned this before, but one factor that's been on the radar as a possible reason for my plateau and slow weight loss is the possibility that I'm actually not eating enough calories and as a result putting my metabolism into starvation mode. I think it's probably a factor, but I'm really not sure how to solve it. Increasing my carbs to 25g daily helped a little bit, but I'm very leery of increasing them any higher than that. My daily calorie intake averages 1100-1200, and although every calculator I've used comes up with a different number, they all agree that I should be eating more.
Eat more, lose more. I like this concept. The problem is that I'm full. I don't want to eat any more! As I type this, it's two minutes to lunchtime, and I'm still full from breakfast. That happens every single day. Some of you have mentioned that I'm not eating my snacks and dessert, and that means that I'm not sticking to my "every three hours" schedule. That's why. Eating when I'm not actually hungry is part of what got me to 400 lbs in the first place, so I don't think it's a good idea to do it now. I need to somehow come up with ways to add calories without adding either carbs or volume to my meals. I could easily add more meat for calories with little or no effect on carbs, but that would increase the volume I'm eating. I actually tried that a while back, I just cut up an extra chicken breast and added it to dinner. I couldn't finish. Thoughts and ideas would be welcome!
I was informed (by a friend actually using it/drinking it) Green Tea is suppose to help with energy. She says it works wonders. Father in law says the same thing. Father in law drinks lipton diet green tea and my friend takes the pills. Just an idea. I am going to try it starting next month, I will let you know what happens. :D
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