morganstuart's Journal, 12 Sep 21

for what it's worth: i somewhat was at 1500 cals a day and my nutritionist brought me back to 2000 and i am looking more weight with this setting 

7 miles!!! That is wonderful. Great job. 

Sounds like a plan! Kudos on your achievement!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 

You Got This!! 

Power to you!!! That is quite a long walk, congratulations!!! For me at least it took time to really understand how to stay at that low calorie and still feel full, but I lol the power of tracking those calories taught me quickly. But, ☺️ I wish you the best of the luck!…. And that you are joy too sore, just that slight “feels nice” kind of tired muscle. 

Don't drive your body too hard. Set up a routine that you can live with in a healthy way. 

Remember slow and steady. Take care of yourself and don't push yourself so hard that you're making unsustainable changes and crash dieting. If you get 5 lbs a week with changes you can stick with all year you'll lose more and keep it off.  

Also the recommended loss is 1-2% of your body weight a week so what's a reasonable goal today won't be the same a few months from now.  

You can take tumeric tea , instead of Ibuprofen. That’s natural and world better :) 

You can buy powdered, sugar free electrolytes. These help when your body is stressed from exercise, sweating or fasting. I get cramping in my fingers and feet and the electrolytes help pretty immediately. 

good job on the long walk. but honestly, 10lbs in a week is unrealistic and not to mention unhealthy. why don't you shoot for 2 or 3 lbs and if you get a little more consider your goal beat and be happy about it.  

Agree with @rickstewart. 2 lbs a week is considered rapid weight loss. If you get more that’s great but to aim for ten you could make yourself sick and/or disappointed. Awesome job on the walk! 

Excellent walk! Nicely done. Strongly encourage you to focus on activity goals, over which you have 100% control - miles walked, calories in, tracking, etc, rather than scale goals. And set your mind to delivering those activities every single day for a year. Do that and the scale will take care of itself. Let's go!  

You’ve lost 4 pounds this week! That’s amazing. 10% of your body weight in a month is the most I’ve seen people lose and keep off. I agree with everyone that said focus on what you can do consistently. You’re doing great! 

Seven miles is a lot, Morgan. You did it and that's great. Just be careful that you don't injure yourself pushing too hard right off the bat. You're doing a great job, keep it up. 

you can try to eat more protein too. 7 miles is great 

Cramps after intense walking! My nightmare! Lots of nights after walking, i slept at the chair because i woke up of pain beyond imagination while at bed, shaking, cold sweat, begging for salvation from this pain. In my case i have found that it has nothing to do with magnesium or potassium. I am more than full of them. My problem has to do with dehydration. Weighing myself before and after walking i know that at summer i lose 9 pounds of liquids. So i force myself to drink as much water as i can hours before i go for walking, trying to reach that number. I weigh myself before and after walking. So i know how much liquids i have lost and how much i need to counterbalance. And i have no more cramps. 

I love your efforts. Please heed the warnings of some commenters. We want you to be successful in the long term. You got this and we are here to help... 

@ACBellerose I do not think that cramps promote muscle growth. Most probably the contrary takes place. Also i do not think that i am capable of do intense exercise not giving my body the chance to recover. I do not have an athletic structure. I see other people in this forum doing whole body weights workout daily for years or endless cycling miles per week. I was never able to recover that soon. 

T, the ability to excercise, recover, build muscle doesn't happen overnight. The current condition of your body matters. Age matters. The right energy source, rest, stretching before & after is required. It's a discipline. Patience is required. What's on FS are snapshots. The details of how, when is not immediately clear to me. Most are successful with keto, Keto doesn't work for me. I'm in this to get healthier, not just to lose weight. I'm not willing to make my liver work that hard. My liver is shot from alcohol & fat intake, not enough rest. Other folks ate sugar for energy, I ate fat. Complexity of our work/lifestyles requires alot of energy. Most of us forget, healthy habits b/c we let ourselves get too tired. Now eating poorly & not exercising enough is a habit. Habits take will power or months to break & replace with healthy ones. What worked for my body 10 years ago, no longer applies. I tend to overeat, undereat, when I don't get rem sleep. I cannot function without my 8 hrs. My natural sleep rythm does not match my life's demands. I'm working to get them closer together. When work requires you to have all kinds of hours, it takes a toll. Every 7 years or so we get a whole new body, I like my next one to be healthier. I'm like the sumo wrestler, ate to perform. Now I want perform without all the eating.🙂 Each person requires a modified program. Health management is not a one size fit all. It's more like one size fit most. Lifestyle, $$, personality, Body type, Starting point all adds to the equation. I was very active when I was young. It's torture to sit, study & work. I did not have a sedentary lifestyle. Overwork can make a person fatter when we're not mindful. Age, injury, jobs, family demands, prevented excercising, feeling better & being stronger. Putting everyone else's agenda first doesn't do our bodies any favors. Long work hours, sometimes weekends, long commutes & family demands are draining. Stress from missing workout classes, b/c there's another mtg. Eating while working, eating while staring at the tv b/c we are too drained to hold a conversation. Biz Food & drinking habits adds to the toll. I'm looking to reset, recover, rekindle my body, refresh, strengthen my body, remind my body what hard work it needs to do to carry me another few decades. As I mentioned, folks in the