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Hello, I'm 5'3 and 160 pounds. I recently went to the doctor (last Thursday) and he noted to me that I need to lose 20+ pounds.
Now since last Thursday I have lost 5lbs. Well now I'm wondering if I hurting or depriving my body of the correct foods.
For lunch I'll have a Slim Fast drink (200 calories) and that is usually around 2. I wouldn't eat anything again until 6:30 which is usually dinner. And my dinner is usually 600-800 calories.
But here is the thing in between that I work out for 45 mins to an hour. Which when I do it I do 100 cruches,200 arm exercises with weights, and bike ride for 40 mins.
Does it seem like I'm doing to much?
Thank you to anyone in advance!
One problem is that you aren't eating enough in the first place. If you stay that active, then you need more than only 800-1000 calories per day. Your body is putting itself in starvation-mode, and the weight you lost was probably water weight. As soon as you start eating normally again, you'll gain it back and maybe more. My suggestion. Eat a somewhat large breakfast, (300 calories at least??figure out what works for you) and then a snack, then lunch, a snack, and a tiny dinner. Before you work out, eat something small(you could just work out after you eat your snack). Make sure that in the 20 minutes after you finish working out that you eat something to replenish the glycogen you burned off. If you don't eat anything, then your body will resort to burning muscle to compensate for the lost energy. If you can keep the muscle you have and build on it, you'll burn more calories when you are at rest. Make sure that you eat plenty of fruit and veggies with a lot of fiber and eat whole grains rather than white breads. Whole grains may have more calories, but white breads have no nutritional value, and therefore are considered empty calories. Hope this helps, I know it's a lot. Just try to stick with it, you can do it!
(Rating: 5) Thanks! I'll give that a try!