Comments | easternpromise: Dressed for success

easternpromise

Dressed for success

Aug 31, 2012 17:54

I have an appointment booked in with the nutritionist (henceforth CM) for Monday at 5pm. This is a very good thing, since I got on the scales this week and discovered that despite cutting out most of the nice stuff from my diet for the last 5 weeks, and exercising like a dervish I have lost... 0.2lbs ( Read more... )

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xidia September 1 2012, 20:47:31 UTC

I do wonder if CM might tell you that you're exercising too much? If you're burning way more than you're eating (I sometimes have the opposite problem, but from no exercise and <1000 calories a day) then your body will be in starvation mode and you won't lose weight. Now, I'm not a nutritionist, and I don't play one on TV, so this might not be the case. :)

easternpromise September 1 2012, 22:40:45 UTC

I've got to be honest that I'm not 100% convinced by 'starvation mode'.

This is an interesting article (nb: not saying this is proof positive either way, but does give a different side to the argument) http://fattyfightsback.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/mtyhbusters-starvation-mode.html.

IME, it's perfectly possible to eat a whole heap of not very much (500-800 calories a day), and exercise a whole heap of a lot (up to three hard sessions a day) and still lose weight. The trick is in *what* I eat, I think, and that's where hopefully CM will be able to make the difference.