[Snowdogs]

I'm sure this is somewhere in the forum - but not even sure how to begin searching for it with out spending hours digging through old posts.

I'm on Purple with bars (luna).
I've started going to the gym at lunch time to get in 30-40 minutes (3-5 days a week). Most will be cardio (med. to high intensity) with some strength training.
I'm also trying to jog/walk or bike 2 miles 5 nights a week (approx. 30 minutes)

So do I need to add more food? At what point are you supposed to add some, and what?
I currently don't measure my protein - I just go by 1 chicken breast, 1 pork chop, 1 steak, 1 hamb. etc. (I pick fairly small sized pieces, not the biggest). I actually don't measure much (SHAME !) - I eyeball it, and I have a good understanding of serving sizes.

[FITNOTFATT]

Hi,

I too am on the purple w/ lites. I was told at the COD that if I start to do more than 5 hours of excercise per week then they would need to know so that they can add more food. Looks like 5 hrs. is the magic number. Hope that helps!

[Joni135]

Snowdogs - if you are consistently doing all that exercise, then the COD would up your plan. However, if you are not hungry and still losing, I would stay where you are at. Why mess with something that's working.

[Snowdogs]

Thanks Joni - that's what I was thinking too.

What is the extra food that they add - I'd imagine a S & P or maybe a Fruit instead of the S ?

[Dan2112]

Wow.. I totally forgot about that... Now that I'm walking more each day, plus playing raquetball once a week and doing a personal training session twice a week... I wonder if and what I should be doing as far as adding more food?

I think I should probably add 1F and 1N... fries and nachos!

[marzbe]

5 Hours a week is the magic number for more food. At that point it's up to Red. I thought in the beginning I was in the norm with the Red for exercise. Turns out, it's not a common thing in the last year I'm one of two clients that COD has stabalized and maintained on Red due to activity level. There were several phone calls and e-mails to the dietician asking how to do things during stabilization.

As for my exercise routine I do 30 minutes of resistance 4 times a week. I do 30-45 minutes of cardio six days a week. I do not work a desk job, the one day I wore a step counter I walked 8000 steps (roughly 4 miles ) all while carrying piles. I never thought I actually was that active until I started logging it, go figure.