Every time I started an overly restrictive diet (less than 1500), I always ended up failing spectacularly after awhile when my body started rebelling against the perceived famine. I spent a lot of time thinking about the foods I wasn't eating and feeling deprived.
This time, I stayed around 1500-1600 for weight loss and I'm now maintaining around 2000. I'd like to eventually maintain around 2400.
I was very concerned with mucking up my metabolism and starving myself and losing muscle not fat and ending up worse off metabolically than when I started. I kept telling myself "hot furnace, hot furnace" - I wanted to reach a healthy weight, by eating healthy foods (that I liked!) with a healthy metabolism.
Last edited by Glory87; 11-11-2005 at 03:18 PM.
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