So due to my of my debbie downer post yesterday I received some good advice via Facebook from some good friends and my sisy. After reading the comments and talking with Denny I learned a lot of new things and realized I needed to change some things up.
So my mistakes:
1. not enough calories, I was eating about 900 to 1000 a day-not 1200 to 1300. In doing this I slowed my metabolism down a lot since my body was on the verge of starvation mode, which is not good since I already have a pretty high metabolism anyways.
2. My pedometer shows I burn on average about 400 calories just by walking around the office on a daily bases doing my job plus the working out in the evening. Thats a lot of calories to burn off when I really wasn't taking in that many.
3. I did not know my body burns calories why I am sleeping and while I am doing nothing. I thought when I wasn't doing anything I wasn't burning anything. Wrong. Did you know by sleeping your body burns 90calories in an hour?! I didnt.
4. I was eating healthy...to healthy. I needed a little chocolate in my life.
So I have decided to eat more by making sure I have a morning and afternoon snack, along with one or two sweet treats a day. This will bring my calories up a little more and get my heart happier too :) I will still be working out the same, this wont change and is still necessary to get the results I want. I will also still be keeping my food diary but this is more for my information and to keep track of everything I eat. I would recommend a food diary to anyone! Writing it down and adding up all the calories adds up ALOT faster written down then in my head. (I cant cheat that way)
Im still going to keep up with my life style change...just amp it up a bit :)
Again, all helpful advice is still appreciated :)
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