Losing weight and exercising more is hard. I kind of hate it at the moment.
Again, I would like to seriously hat-tip those folks who have done the awesome work required to lose lots of weight. I am a weenie, needing to drop a scant 24 lbs., some of which I have already shed. But the discipline required is a freakin' PAIN!!! 'Cause not only do you have to monitor yourself to see that you don't eat too much, you also have to monitor yourself to make sure you're eating enough.
So, I started eating less junk. Great! And I started eating smaller portions. Wonderful! And I started exercising more-- two or three miles on the track instead of one. Super! Only now I find myself with NO energy AT ALL. Tired all the time. Weak. Irritable. Angry at the world.
WELLLLLLLL.... I haven't been keeping a proper food diary lately. And, come to discover, I've been STARVING MYSELF. Not good!!! :P So, I need to maintain around 1300 cal/day, and I've slipped down below 1000 cal/day, so, yeah, I THINK I've discovered the source of the "no energy" problem. Like, LITERALLY no energy! Not enough calories to run my life. Dumbass!
This, in turn, makes me feel truly terrible for the chronically hungry. How hard it would be to live your life, to work all day, and to care for children, while having not enough to eat. This world is not fair, and humans need to help each other if we want it to be a better place for all. It makes me wish that all those folks in the EEC who are trying to ban genetically engineered crops would live and work for one month under starvation conditions and see how they like it.
Ok, enough ranting for one day. I hope all is going well for you and yours!
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I sympathize. It's amazing how easy it is to accidentally starve yourself just by cutting out the junk food.
What I've done that seems to really work well for me is to "replace" the junk food with whole-grain, high-fiber stuff and lots of veggies. I learned that fiber is the single greatest weight-loss tool in the world. It gets rid of excess water in your body, it provides your brain the carb energy it needs but the body digests it differently and more efficiently than it does refined carbs, and high-fiber foods make you feel fuller faster and for longer. So you don't need to eat as much, but you still get the nutrients and energy that your body needs.
I can literally eat an entire bag of Doritos in a single sitting, and still be eating a few hours later. But when I switched to whole-grain black bean and corn tortilla chips (they come in a much, much smaller bag) I found that I naturally only ate the recommended serving size printed on the bag. They filled me up too quickly, even though they're wonderfully good! Add some of my homemade spinach dip to the mix, and I eat even less while getting more fiber plus the deliciousness of cheese.
That's my $0.02. :)
Oooh, I want your recipe! :D :D :D
http://topyourfragileself.blogspot.com/2008/11/to-make-my-awesome-spinach-dip.html
Dudette! Perkiness requires lots and lots of fuel!
The good fuel. But still!
I haven't been hungry for a while and have felt tired which causes a vicious cycle! I've forced myself to eat more good food and feel somewhat more energetic again. Argh!!
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