Week 2 Macros:
Date: 4/10/17
Height: 5’9″
Weight: 142.5 (Beginning Weight 142.2) = gain of +0.3lbs
Macros: Last Week – 130C/130P/120F (2120 cals)
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Week 3 Macros:
Date: 4/17/17
Height: 5’9″
Weight: 142.8 (Beginning Weight 142.2) = gain of +0.6lbs
Macros: 130C/100P/100F (1820 cals)
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This Morning:
Date: 4/17/17
Height: 5’9″
Weight: 142.3 (Beginning Weight 142.2) = gain of +0.1lbs
Macros: Intuitive eating
Sometimes we need to learn to recognize when all signs are pointing you toward a different path. I ask my clients to trust me when it’s time to place our focus elsewhere and I am doing the same with myself right now.
I have been in a caloric deficit for three weeks now (I cut calories by another 300 a day last week) and I literally haven’t lost any weight or seen an appreciable change in body composition…in fact I weigh more…not by much, but it’s more nonetheless. It’s no fun to be REALLY hungry and see the scale go up!
Why didn’t my body respond? There are several reasons:
- I am in the middle of treatment for a candida overgrowth (and will be for several more months)
- I am on week 10 of a major kitchen/family room renovation (I am cooking for the family in our laundry room)
- I haven’t been sleeping well
Those are not prime conditions for going on a diet. When you are under stress your body does NOT want to drop any fat. Its funny…if I client came to me and told me that they had items 1-3 above going on in their life right now I would have told them that this wasn’t a good time to attempt a cut. Somehow I didn’t think through that one for myself.
My plan from now through the end of my candida treatment and kitchen renovations (hopefully just a few more weeks) is to eat intuitively and continue to train. I know how to eat and what to eat to best fuel my body and that is what I am going to do. Eat when I am hungry and eat until I am full. I plan on eating three square meals a day and will continue eating along the principles of the Autoimmune Paleo Diet. I have successfully reintroduced tomatoes, several seed and nightshade spices, and eggs, so those will be a part of my diet in addition to the AIP.
I am very comfortable with my current physique, so this cut wasn’t something I needed in order to feel comfortable in a swimsuit for the summer…it was more a fun way to document a cut. Fortunately I have already done so. For those of you interested in seeing what the process is like to go through a cut, click HERE.
If you would like me to help you get ready for summer, please click HERE to learn more about my programs.
So smart of you to listen to your intuition and take the time you need. You do look freaking fantastic!
Thanks lady! With age has come some perspective 😉