Lily
Gold Member
Okay, wise people of Minimins. I need some exercise advice. More specifically, I need some "what plan should I be doing" together with exercise advice. 
Let me explain. At the beginning of the year, a colleague of mine said that she'd like to get a bit fitter this year and go walking in her lunch hour. And I thought it would be a great idea and said I'd join her.
I soon discovered that trying to walk for an hour on 450 calories a day didn't seem to be working too well (I got ravenously hungry in the evenings, unsurprisingly, perhaps (so kept cheating) - and felt completely done in to boot). So after seeking advice from my CDC, I upped my Cambridge plan to 810.
This has admittedly helped a lot (it seems to have curbed the urge to cheat), but I still find that I'm getting really tired. Today we managed 4 miles and right now, I feel quite poorly, to be honest.
Now I know I could just cut back on the walking a bit, maybe work back up to the levels I'm currently doing over a longer period of time. But my colleague and I have signed up to do a 10-mile midnight walk for charity on May 1. It's something I really want to be able to do - and I think I will be able to - but I'm wondering whether I'm being just a little bit too ambitious to try doing this on 810.
What do you think? My weight loss is pretty woeful on 810 as it is, so there's a big part of me that's reluctant to go up to 1000 calories. But is the reason my weightloss is woeful because I actually need more calories? I'm kind of confused as to what my body needs right now!
Any advice would be enormously appreciated. I should add that before we started walking at the beginning of the year, I was completely unfit and thought that walking for 20 minutes was pretty good going. I'm quite proud that I can keep going for more than an hour now!
But walking isn't that intensive an exercise, is it? So shouldn't 810 be enough?

Let me explain. At the beginning of the year, a colleague of mine said that she'd like to get a bit fitter this year and go walking in her lunch hour. And I thought it would be a great idea and said I'd join her.
I soon discovered that trying to walk for an hour on 450 calories a day didn't seem to be working too well (I got ravenously hungry in the evenings, unsurprisingly, perhaps (so kept cheating) - and felt completely done in to boot). So after seeking advice from my CDC, I upped my Cambridge plan to 810.
This has admittedly helped a lot (it seems to have curbed the urge to cheat), but I still find that I'm getting really tired. Today we managed 4 miles and right now, I feel quite poorly, to be honest.
Now I know I could just cut back on the walking a bit, maybe work back up to the levels I'm currently doing over a longer period of time. But my colleague and I have signed up to do a 10-mile midnight walk for charity on May 1. It's something I really want to be able to do - and I think I will be able to - but I'm wondering whether I'm being just a little bit too ambitious to try doing this on 810.
What do you think? My weight loss is pretty woeful on 810 as it is, so there's a big part of me that's reluctant to go up to 1000 calories. But is the reason my weightloss is woeful because I actually need more calories? I'm kind of confused as to what my body needs right now!
Any advice would be enormously appreciated. I should add that before we started walking at the beginning of the year, I was completely unfit and thought that walking for 20 minutes was pretty good going. I'm quite proud that I can keep going for more than an hour now!
But walking isn't that intensive an exercise, is it? So shouldn't 810 be enough?