Thread: It Feels like my stomach is eating itself

Originally Posted by danzik17

Wonder if I'm skirting on the low end then - probably around 2600-2700 according to that and I'm doing 1900-2000 cals.

Possibly. Remember this is just a guideline. There are many things that impact your Daily Caloric needs.

Yah I'm going to try and add protein. My workouts arent usually light.
I do ususally 1-1.5 hours of cardio a day and then an hour of weights...i know some peoplewho only do 20 minutes!

I do 20 minutes or less. And thats only 3 days a week.

ditto, I try to keep it at 20 mins....30 mins is really pushing it for me.

It's too friggin' boring otherwise....even with TV's, mp3's etc... I'd rather do a weight circuit personally.

Here's the thing, you are consistently upping your cardio activity while still keeping your caloric intake the same. Your body is literally starving to death as I tried to explain before when I was convincing you to eat more. If you start to eat what you should be eating you're going to gain some weight initially because your body being in starvation mode is going to want to store more fat with what it gets.

The only real way to break out of this is very slowly start increasing your caloric intake on a weekly basis. I seem to remember us discussing having you at 1400 calories, so if you're at 1200 it would seem you're atually DEclining your intake. Believe me I know it's hard for someone like you wanting to tone up and lose weight to convince yourself to eat MORE but I swear to you it's the best thing you can do and you'll find in the end it will help your workouts and weight loss.

I jsut dont know what else to eat?

ditto, I try to keep it at 20 mins....30 mins is really pushing it for me.

It's too friggin' boring otherwise....even with TV's, mp3's etc... I'd rather do a weight circuit personally.

If you want to keep yourself from feeling that dull boredom you can actually take small breaks like running for 10 minutes then getting off for 5 minutes and doing some calisthenic type stuff like pushups and what not, then either getting back on and running some more, or going to a different station like a cycle and doing 10 minutes there. Studies have been done that shows the small rest period does not have any effect and you'll burn as much as you would if you just went on continuously. I have been favoring this more and more because that bit of rest also allows/encourages you to put more intensity into the next 10 minute block (or however long you want it to be).

Cayla you can still eat the same things you're eating, but slightly increase the portion sizes. Then when you've increased it to a certain point you can more seriously consider adding more types of food.

And you're killing me with this one apple for a meal thing... isn't there anything else you can at least add to that? I know this sounds gross but a friend of mine cored an apple and filled the center with cottage cheese, I think I'm gonna try that.

Bigger portions eh. Alright I'll give it a shot

I eat probiotic yogurt everyday, and i feel my stomach is really unsettled if i go without it now. You could give it a try

The one i eat is called Onken Biopot, and comes in a 500g tub. I eat 100g every morning when i get up before i go to the gym and the macros are 100kcal / 16g CHO / 4g Protein / 4g Fat. Theres also a natural one which has lower fat, and half the calories, and i used to eat that with a passion fruit squeezed into it. Mmmmm

Yah i LOVE yogurt.
I forget when it was, but one day i read grams of sugar in yogurt and stopped eating it. The sugar free can;t be good for you so i just stopped eating it. I'd love to eat it again though
le sigh

you do to much cardio cut down the time and up the intensity.

Why wouldn't the sugar free be good for you?

I just mix yogurt with me post workout shakes, when I DO eat it. I just use plain yogurt with live culture. Live culture helps your digestive system a lot, so food passes better.

chemicals
i hate eating shit "flavoured with splenda"

I like just plain ol low fat yogurt, but 1/2 a cup has like 16g of sugar

Splenda is just Dextrose, Sucrose, and Malodextrine, it's a benign sugar. Not the nasty chemical stuff like Equal or what not which not only has dangerous chemicals... but it tastes like crap too.

yah i dont like artificail, altered anything (with the exception of whey)

Stevia?

I've tried stevia. don't like the taste of that either. too strong haha

And the 16 g of sugar from plain yougurt. I wouldn't worry about too much unless the ingredients say sugar in it.

Natural Sugar sources are fine in moderation. Just avoid the likes of manufactured sugars.

Plateau Max ... all I got ta say is

Damnit Cayla beer doesn't taste good either but we all convince ourselves it does!

Lol true enough PMax...true enough

Originally Posted by Plateau_Max

Damnit Cayla beer doesn't taste good either but we all convince ourselves it does!

Pardon

You know... I just read there's a product called "PMax Ultra".... I think I'll bottle my sweat and call it that.

Originally Posted by Plateau_Max

Damnit Cayla beer doesn't taste good either but we all convince ourselves it does!

Hey buddy, you just crossed the line

Thanks for the suggestion on the break. I've done something similar before where I've gone elliptical, burpees and then dragged my arse back to the elliptical. It was good mentally, but I wasn't sure how the change in activity affected things. Sounds like not much.

Originally Posted by DontStop

chemicals
i hate eating shit "flavoured with splenda"

I like just plain ol low fat yogurt, but 1/2 a cup has like 16g of sugar

You're sweating the small stuff there. Don't forget, yogurt with live cultures have a lower carb count than what's on the container. Now where was that thread...oh yea, here:
Jodi or Emma-Leigh: Yogurt and Counting Carbs

get your minds out of the gutter.

I'll check out that thread