sarah's simply filling food diary
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Atomic pink
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Wow - good going on the insanity! Food looks really yummy but do make you are eating enough if you are doing the Insanity work out each day. If you think about it Purpled is on maintenance points and using some AP too and still losing since doing Insanity. Now you have a heart rate monitor and know exactly how many calories you are burning would it be worth eating back 1/3- 1/2 of your exercise calories? And while I know you want to do high protein low carb at the moment (which I think is an excellent idea) when you are exercising that much each day it might be worth making sure you have one portion of carbs a day - either with breakfast, lunch or dinner.
But well done on an excellent start to getting back on plan. Are you feeling positive about things at the moment? I hope so. I think your food and exercise plan sounds really sensible. I am gradually coming to the conclusion thats it finding something that works for us as individuals rather than slavishly following the eating plan that someone else has come up with. At the moment I am trying to base my meals far more around SF but have mentally made a few tweaks to make it work for me. Like being about to have 2pp worth of nuts or seeds rather than oil allowance, lean lamb being free and 0% fat yogurts being free as long as I only have 1 a day.
But well done on an excellent start to getting back on plan. Are you feeling positive about things at the moment? I hope so. I think your food and exercise plan sounds really sensible. I am gradually coming to the conclusion thats it finding something that works for us as individuals rather than slavishly following the eating plan that someone else has come up with. At the moment I am trying to base my meals far more around SF but have mentally made a few tweaks to make it work for me. Like being about to have 2pp worth of nuts or seeds rather than oil allowance, lean lamb being free and 0% fat yogurts being free as long as I only have 1 a day.
bulldogdaisy
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sarah88 said:
The calorie burn is never ending!! That's good that you're not hungry though,exercise tends to make me hungry!
Atomic pink
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Yeah I see your point but you wouldn't have to eat them on "crap", you could just have more normal healthy stuff. Its just that from what you have put your calories for the day are only just over 1200 calories so when you consider the exercise you have done you have effectively only eaten 500 calories. I completely get not wanting to undo all the hard work you are doing with the exercise (I get quite stubborn about not eating exercise calories too) but just make sure you are eating enough each day not to damage your metabolism. Maybe as you are calorie counting putting eveything through a site like my fitness pal for a week or so until you get used to it? That way you can calculate how many calories you actually need a day to achieve certain results?
Just ideas. Not intended as criticism as what you are doing in any way, shape or form. I think your food and exercise plan sounds really sensibly just don't want you being harder one yourself than you need to be!
Just ideas. Not intended as criticism as what you are doing in any way, shape or form. I think your food and exercise plan sounds really sensibly just don't want you being harder one yourself than you need to be!
Atomic pink
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You said you did kettlebells as well? And there are some push ups and things in Insanity isn't there? Any weight bearing exercises increase your calorie burn for longer than just cardio. One of the personal trainers at my gym was saying that doing weights burns extra calories for up to 48 hours whereas as the calorie burn from cardio work pretty much stops when you stop doing it.
bulldogdaisy
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Atomic pink said:
That's interesting about the weights vs cardio workout!
sarah88
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I dont take offence atomic and I appreciate ur advice, maybe an OSS sachet for breakfast or some all bran would help give me some carbs! It's prob less than 1200 Cals atomic as the burgers only come in 660 Cals!
I just did the 8 min abs kettlebells workout, and I do remember ppl saying u still burn Cals after exercise but I didn't realise it was this much, perhaps that's how insanity burns 1000 Cals, 500 odd for the workout then the other 500 after I'm in at 951 Cals now! Gonna wear the watch all day tomorrow and see what I burn!
I just did the 8 min abs kettlebells workout, and I do remember ppl saying u still burn Cals after exercise but I didn't realise it was this much, perhaps that's how insanity burns 1000 Cals, 500 odd for the workout then the other 500 after I'm in at 951 Cals now! Gonna wear the watch all day tomorrow and see what I burn!
bulldogdaisy
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Yea think thats why they say bout exercising in the morning as you have all day of burning calories then! That's good you've added some carbs :0)
Atomic pink
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The roll sounds a very tasty addtiion to dinner 
Would be interesting to see what happens if you leave the monitor on all day tomorrow. I guess you burn calories just by being alive so it would be interetsing to compare what it said on a day when you aren't doing any exercise to one where you are. That way you could directly compare how many more calories you burn after you have finished your workout.
Would be interesting to see what happens if you leave the monitor on all day tomorrow. I guess you burn calories just by being alive so it would be interetsing to compare what it said on a day when you aren't doing any exercise to one where you are. That way you could directly compare how many more calories you burn after you have finished your workout.
icklerockchick
slow but steady!
Yeh you naturally burn loads of calories in a day anyway but obviously it will be loads more due to insanity. It will take a while to get used to eating enough but as atomic says doing something like Mfp for a week or so would be a good plan as not eating enough and doing a lot of exercise is a mistake a lot of people make and it really does you no favours weight loss wise and can really mess up metabolism in the long run so yeh on a high exercise day things substantial meals are a must x
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sarah88
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Atomic pink said:The roll sounds a very tasty addtiion to dinner
Would be interesting to see what happens if you leave the monitor on all day tomorrow. I guess you burn calories just by being alive so it would be interetsing to compare what it said on a day when you aren't doing any exercise to one where you are. That way you could directly compare how many more calories you burn after you have finished your workout.
That's a good idea atomic! I bet I'd hardly burn any on a day of no exercise! I'm now on 1109 Cals, that's prob only my food intake! But every day will b different like I'm doing roast tomorrow so that will b more pp/Cals than today, hopefully it will even out, I don't wanna make myself feel like I should have a peanut butter kit Kat chunky just to make up for the exercise! But then I don't wanna b not loosing weight cause I'm not drinking enough?! Ugh y is it so hard? I thought about getting some dried fruit for snacks as I do like dried fruit and I think it's much better to use extra Cals on that than choc but does dried fruit have much carbs?
Atomic pink
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You might be better off with some nuts and seeds with your dried fruit as well. But yeah, that would be a sensible way to make up the extra calories. But I will grant you probably less fun than a chunky kit kat. Although as I have never tried one I do not know for sure...
bulldogdaisy
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sarah88 said:Thanks daisy! I actually enjoyed the roll!
Glad you enjoyed it :0)
icklerockchick
slow but steady!
Atomic pink said:
What have you never had a chunky Kitkat :-O ???!!!!
Atomic pink
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Nope. I have had a normal kit kat though!!
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