Tripling my exercise blew through my stall

[JohnSantos]

Upped my exercise to 3 hours a day, which is probably too much but hey. Now I'm losing weight like a lab rat. Explosively blew through my stall.

Approaching 40 lbs lost soon, but only problem is I'm REALLY tired at night, like epic corpse kinda tired.

[Elizellen]

Re: Tripling my exercise blew through my stall

You might need to eat more food (doesn't that sound odd advice to someone in the process of losing weight? )

[JulieB]

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Wow! 3 hours a day - that's some serious dedication!

[Emre Yigit]

Re: Tripling my exercise blew through my stall

As a big fan of Atkins + exercise, I know what you mean by explosive weight loss. However, while it does indeed ramp up your metabolism, maintain muscle mass and increase your weight loss, there can be such a thing as too much exercise.

If you're feeling drained, take a day off. Sure, the weight loss will decelerate, but your body needs time to recuperate.

Also, you may find that you will need magnesium, potassium and maybe calcium supplements if you start to cramp.

[mk2100]

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WOW...that is like superman's workout! you are definitely doin work. I hope you are proud of what you've accomplished so far. Keep it up!

[liv]

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Wow -- that is great but well a lot
Maybe you should also think about making your exercise more effective - mixing things up. Are you mainly doing the cycling? Try several different things to challenge the muscles in different ways as well.

[JohnSantos]

Re: Tripling my exercise blew through my stall

Well, here's what I'm doing:

Weights for an hour 3x week.

Then an hour of "real" hour of aerobics on either Elliptical or treadmill (switch every day).

Then 1 or 2 hours of TV-watching my favorite Food Network shows while putting the treadmill on a light walk (2.5, no elevation)

My gym rocks, there's nobody EVER there. It's like being in my living room. I could probably just go in my jammies. Guess I'll tweak my supplements or something, cause I'm like grunting in pain when I go to bed.

[liv]

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My husband always thinks I am crazy for watching the foodnetwork show while I am exercising. Glad to hear I am not the only one

[not2late]

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When I was on OWL and eating 35 net carbs daily, I hit a period where wasn't gaining or losing pounds or inches. I upped my exercise, it did nothing. I upped my fat, lowered my fat, upped my calories, lowered my calories, lowered my carbs---nothing. Then I re-read the book and saw that "regular exercisers" had CCLLs greater than 60. I fit Dr. Atkin's definition of a "regular exerciser", so I increased my carbs and BINGO!, I started losing weight (pounds and inches) again. When all was said and done, my CCLL increased from 35 to 50 net carbs daily.

[ErinB]

Re: Tripling my exercise blew through my stall

Then I re-read the book and saw that "regular exercisers" had CCLLs greater than 60. I fit Dr. Atkin's definition of a "regular exerciser", so I increased my carbs and BINGO!, I started losing weight (pounds and inches) again. When all was said and done, my CCLL increased from 35 to 50 net carbs daily.

I'll need to look for that in the book.

I do cardio on the big Precor elliptical at my gym, keeping my heart rate within doctor-prescribed target range (135-140), for one hour a day six days a week. I do two lower body and two upper body weight workouts a week. I started this two weeks ago because weight loss had stalled and I figured my little cardio rider machine was not enough exercise for me anymore.

Do you think this applies to me? Kinda' scary thinking of bringing up my carbs that much.

[JohnSantos]

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I only worked out an hour and a half today. I consider that my day off.

[not2late]

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I'll need to look for that in the book.

I do cardio on the big Precor elliptical at my gym, keeping my heart rate within doctor-prescribed target range (135-140), for one hour a day six days a week. I do two lower body and two upper body weight workouts a week. I started this two weeks ago because weight loss had stalled and I figured my little cardio rider machine was not enough exercise for me anymore.

Do you think this applies to me? Kinda' scary thinking of bringing up my carbs that much.

I was walking 5-6 miles daily (doing 10 minute miles), plus I was doing weights and yoga on alternate days. That more than satisfied the definition of a "regular exerciser" according to Dr. Atkins. And according to Dr. ATkins, regular exercisers can have CCLLs greater than 60 net carbs daily.

You don't bring up your carbs all at once. You do it gradually. The first step is to move to OWL phase.

[ErinB]

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You don't bring up your carbs all at once. You do it gradually. The first step is to move to OWL phase.

Thanks for the reply.

No worries about moving to OWL. As it says below my name over there, I have moved on to the third level of OWL, but mostly so I can have the occasional snack of almonds or walnuts or macadamias and my extra 5 carb serving of veggies. (I am hooked on that pumpkin treat.)

I suppose I do now qualify as a regular with exercise. I think, because I see all those young people moving so fast and lifting 2-3 times as much as I can, I tend to think I'm not doing much ... even though I am dripping with sweat during my cardio workout.

Did I say "sweat?" Couldn't be. Ladies don't sweat. We glow.

[not2late]

Re: Tripling my exercise blew through my stall

Thanks for the reply.

No worries about moving to OWL. As it says below my name over there, I have moved on to the third level of OWL, but mostly so I can have the occasional snack of almonds or walnuts or macadamias and my extra 5 carb serving of veggies. (I am hooked on that pumpkin treat.)

I suppose I do now qualify as a regular with exercise. I think, because I see all those young people moving so fast and lifting 2-3 times as much as I can, I tend to think I'm not doing much ... even though I am dripping with sweat during my cardio workout.

Did I say "sweat?" Couldn't be. Ladies don't sweat. We glow.

I've had several "a ha!" moments during my Atkins. One was the first snowfall during my Atkins. I felt like I could shovel my walkway. Not only was I able to do that, but I was able to shovel the driveway and sidewalk. It was really shocking because I had the energy to do it---usually I tired out while shovelling the walkway and had to pay one of the neighborhood kids to do the rest.

Another "a ha!" moment was that spring, I went to the garden center to buy some fertilizer. The kind I wanted only came in 40 pound bags. To my surprize, I was able to pick up that 40 pound bag easily and when I got it home, I was able to carry it from my car to backyard. It was surprizing because I didn't think I had the strength to do it---since the most I worked out with were 5 pound weights. But I did.

So I never stressed out that others were running 10 miles daily, doing 20 reps with weights 4 times heavier than I was. I had strength and stamina I never had before doing what little I did.

[ErinB]

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I suppose I can look at it that way, too. I shoveled my driveway last winter and I heft a 60-pound server (home network) around when needed. Not bad for a 65-year-old female who was very ill and totally sedentary three years ago (until the thyroid treatment began to kick in).

I am also doing workouts with from 30 up to 135 pound weights (strong legs). Took me a long time to start doing that, but it is paying off. After just two weeks on the new program at the gym, I have lost five pounds. Naturally, I would love to see that kind of progress continue, since it took me a year to lose the first 65 pounds.