My experiment...
So I am tired of trying to fight the few pounds I still want to lose as a result of my last injury. So I am pretty much going alone on this. I tried to just resume my workout schedule and eat the way I did as my works typically leave me at a caloric deficit when eating the way I did working out preinjury. Well no go.
SO.....
I have decided to drastically reduce my calories and cut way! back on the carbs, not that I ever was high in carbs anyways, typically 100-150 a day and mainly complex carbs.
Goal for the next 2 weeks is to maintain a 1000 calorie deficit when factoring RMR and calories burned at the gym. 2 things required to accomplish this.
1) Reduce Caloric Intake. When eating is something you have done as a scheduled event rather than something based on precieved hunger it is difficult to reduce. Essentially I just have to drop meals from my schedule. Well this has a large impact on my protein intake.
2) Increase workout. Either intensity or duration of physical activity needs to increase to increase caloric burn.
But the downside is that this possibly will make me more prone to injury as the lack of carbs in my diet will mean that I am going to be processing protein as a fuel source, not an ideal source of fuel when doing cardio. The reduction in calories in turn means that I am reducing the amount of protein I supplement which was what allowed me to maintain my protein intake levels.
Typically come lunch times I am sitting around 90 grams and 800-900 calories. Yesterday I managed to drop to 1300 calories but only 124 in protein carbs were 59 and a workout burn of 1800 leaving my total burn for the day around 3500.
I am planning on doing this for 2 weeks at this point to see what happens.
SO.....
I have decided to drastically reduce my calories and cut way! back on the carbs, not that I ever was high in carbs anyways, typically 100-150 a day and mainly complex carbs.
Goal for the next 2 weeks is to maintain a 1000 calorie deficit when factoring RMR and calories burned at the gym. 2 things required to accomplish this.
1) Reduce Caloric Intake. When eating is something you have done as a scheduled event rather than something based on precieved hunger it is difficult to reduce. Essentially I just have to drop meals from my schedule. Well this has a large impact on my protein intake.
2) Increase workout. Either intensity or duration of physical activity needs to increase to increase caloric burn.
But the downside is that this possibly will make me more prone to injury as the lack of carbs in my diet will mean that I am going to be processing protein as a fuel source, not an ideal source of fuel when doing cardio. The reduction in calories in turn means that I am reducing the amount of protein I supplement which was what allowed me to maintain my protein intake levels.
Typically come lunch times I am sitting around 90 grams and 800-900 calories. Yesterday I managed to drop to 1300 calories but only 124 in protein carbs were 59 and a workout burn of 1800 leaving my total burn for the day around 3500.
I am planning on doing this for 2 weeks at this point to see what happens.
Paul C.
First 5K 9/27/20 46:32 - 11 weeks post op (PR 28:55 8/15/11)
First 10K 7/04/2011 1:03 First 15K 9/18/2011 1:37
First Half Marathon 10/02/2011 2:27:44 (PR 2:24:35)
First Half Ironman 9/30/12 7:32:04
First 5K 9/27/20 46:32 - 11 weeks post op (PR 28:55 8/15/11)
First 10K 7/04/2011 1:03 First 15K 9/18/2011 1:37
First Half Marathon 10/02/2011 2:27:44 (PR 2:24:35)
First Half Ironman 9/30/12 7:32:04
One question: WHY???
You KNOW this is about good health and wellness. Not a magic number. Maybe your body is "happy" where you are. If you injure yourself again (which will be a matter of when not if), then you'll be back to square one.
Why not modify your expectations and live at the current weight with the current amount of physical activity? It seems that would be safer to do long term.
Have you fallen and bumped your head? Has someone hijacked your password? This doesn't sound like the Paul I know!
Hugs
You KNOW this is about good health and wellness. Not a magic number. Maybe your body is "happy" where you are. If you injure yourself again (which will be a matter of when not if), then you'll be back to square one.
Why not modify your expectations and live at the current weight with the current amount of physical activity? It seems that would be safer to do long term.
Have you fallen and bumped your head? Has someone hijacked your password? This doesn't sound like the Paul I know!
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