Hey guys,
Day 3 is almost over.. my day went great, I had a busy day at work and a busy night at home. I didn't have time to go for a walk as planned. It's 21h00 and I'm still not done, but I choose to be since I need to relax a bit before going to bed..
I had a workout scheduled tonight but I postponed it to tomorrow, my calf is feeling better but it's still not 100% back so I think waiting one more day to get back out there running might be the best solution in order to keep going strong for a while...
Since yesterday I'm having lots of questions regarding my daily calories intake. In 2012-2013 I lost about 35 pounds but then plateaud for the longest time even and ended up being sooo discouraged about plateauing that I slowly stopped measuring. Also, the only time I was loosing weight was when I was eating about 1250-1500cals a day... As you may know, this is not a lot a food, but that was what the Sparkpeople website was recommending based on my age, weight, activity level and etc etc.. I just had a baby at that time, wasn't nursing and couldn't do much more than walking but again, it was January and it gets pretty darn cold here to go outside with a newborn baby (-30c is pretty hard on an adult so I can't imagine how it feels for a new born qc: )
So as the months got warmer and the baby older, I stated exercising a lot more.. I was doing Zumba twice a week plus an other hour at the gym and some walking... I started plateauing then, so I adjusted my activity level in SP and it brought me up to 1500-1700 cals a day, so I stuck to that daily intake.. still no weightloss. So I switched up my activity and started to do MmaXouT (if you haven't heard of it, look it up it's an amazing workout) and canni-cross, still no weightloss.. ended up hurting my ankle pretty bad (took 1 year of physiotherapy and accupunture to get it back to "almost" normal) so I stopped all "impact activity'' and started swimming instead.. still no weightloss... so now I'm back to square one, well not entirely but you know what I mean.
So let me get back to the questions I'm having. I wear a FitBit Charge HR (and before that a Jawbone UP24) that keeps track to my activities throughout the day, also my fitbit syncs with Sparkpeople (where I keep track to the food I eat), right now, I'm sticking to 1250 - 1350 cals a day as it's the only range that worked for me in the past but both Fitbit and Sparkpeople say that based on my activity level during the day I should actually be eating between 1450 - 1700 cals and I serioulsy don't know what do to... I don't want my calories differential too big because I know that when your body goes crazy and decides to store all that energy (fat) but I don't want it to be too small so I won't see no results...
Also, while working out on tuesday I noticed I had less energy than usual (it was my third day a 1250 cals), yes my calf was hurting but I didn't feel as "pumped" as usual even though I was motivated to workout..
But as far as weightloss goes this week I'm perplexed... I've weigh in on sunday, and this morning.. wearing the same clothes and it would seem that I already lost half of the pounds I have to loose for this bet... I know this is mostly water weight as I just started measuring food and all.. but still, I'll double and moslikely triple check tomorrow.
Well if you read that far you're amazing, that was a really long blog! I'll try to keep it shorter next time.
Thanks for reading and have a good day!
Marie