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Oh Dark ThirtyBased on your total calories consumed for today, you are eating too few calories. Not only is it difficult to receive adequate nutrition at these calorie levels, but you could also be putting your body into starvation mode. Starvation mode lowers your metabolism and makes weight loss more difficult. We suggest increasing your calorie consumption to 1200 calories per day minimum. Doesn't that sound like a boxing coach advising a fighter to lean into the punch coming his way? It does to me. But that's the message that I'm receiving from the experts at MyFitnessPal. I've lost sixty pounds thus far. (That's the real purpose of this posting – so I can brag.) Forty pounds of that have come off since I started tracking my diet and exercise on MyFitnessPal.com on August 9, 2012. I've recommended this website in the past because it's the best I've ever found and it's free! I started out with Weight Watchers but their screwy system doesn't count fruits and vegetables as though they don't have any food value. However, I've hit a plateau. I've weighed in the mid-two-hundred and forties for six weeks now. It's been frustrating. So, I checked out the reports section on MyFitnessPal last night and discovered that my net calorie intake dropped about the time I stopped losing weight. Really? Really! Obviously, I have no lack of will power. It's just that, according to them, my net calories are too low. Net calories include the total food consumed less the calories burned during exercise. The dramatic peaks and valleys in this chart are explained by the fact that I try to workout on an elliptical machine four times per week and practice Hatha Yoga seven days per week. I just began the yoga in early May. Yes, I miss a day or two here and there, usually when I have grand parenting duties.
So, should I increase caloric intake? That is, eat more. Do you have any idea the danger in telling a person who has battled his weight all his life to “eat more”? Yeah, that's a recipe for disaster...
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