Audio Blog 011: How Eating More Helped Me LOSE Weight!

Half Size Me

Heather A. Robertson

Nutrition, Fitness, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 September 2013

⏱️ 9 minutes

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by Heather Robertson In this audio blog, I share with you the results of my experiment to increase my calories and reset my metabolism. In case you don't know about my experiment, after doing a metabolic reset from April until the end of July, I decided to take a deficit on my calories to lose fat. For the month of August, I reduced my caloric intake by 15-20% of my total energy expenditure, which was based on data collected from my Body Media Armband*. Once you hear what happened, I think you'll be really blown away... I know I was! I hope my experiment can help you realize starving yourself to lose weight is not the answer. To find out more, please download and listen. (*This is an Amazon Affiliate link. When you use this link to order a product from Amazon, you pay nothing extra and you're showing your support for Half Size Me!) AUGUST NUMBERS So, here are my numbers for the month of August: Monthly calories burned according to Body Media Band 76,089 Monthly calories eaten 62,533 Total deficit in calories not eaten 13,556. If you divide my total deficit by 3,500 (number of calories in a pound), it comes out to 3.8 pounds. My deficit percentage for the month was 17.8% Average daily calories burned for the month 2717.46 (per day) Average daily calories eaten for the month 2233.6 (per day) Average daily deficit of 484.14 calories (per day) THE RESULTS .... you will need to listen to the audio blog to find out :) CALORIE EXAMPLES The following are examples of how many calories I burned and how many calories I ate each week. Calories burned each day (results calculated by my Body Media Band): 8/15: 2502 8/16: 3040 8/17: 2677 8/18: 2703 8/19: 2675 8/20: 2716 8/21: 2754 Calories eaten each day: 8/15: 1911 8/16: 2305 8/17: 2498 8/19: 2615 8/20: 1987 8/21: 2292 WORKOUT EXAMPLE The following is an example of my workouts for one week: Thursday: 10-minute run with 20-minute yoga flow Friday: 15-minute run warm up; 60-minutes weight lifting Saturday: 45-minute run Sunday: 30-minute walk Monday: 10-minute run; 60-minute weight lifting Tuesday: 35-minute interval training Wednesday: 10-minute run ; 60-minute weight training AUDIO BLOGS MENTIONED Audio Blog 002: Why I stopped trying to lose the last 10 pounds Audio Blog 007: The Best Five Pounds I Ever Gained! (Part 1) Audio Blog 008: The Best Five Pounds I Ever Gained! (Part 2)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another half-size-me audio blog. I am Heather, and in this particular
0:05.4	audio blog, I will be covering what the end results were for me for the month of August. I took a
0:10.9	deficit and I did a no-scale challenge. So this was an exciting month for me. I have loved all the
0:17.4	changes that I've been making and all of my personal fears that I have been taking on
0:21.9	in the last several months. I have many, by the way. I used to fear, what if I don't exercise,
0:28.6	will I go back to my old ways? So, I took a rest week and I came back even stronger and more
0:33.2	willing to work. I feared if I stopped attending weight watchers, will I gain the weight back?
0:37.9	The answer is no. I have to find my own way, and by learning to trust myself, I found something
0:42.9	that is working better for me right now. Do I have to do long, drawn-out cardio classes to stay in shape?
0:49.2	No. I can do some cardio, but I don't have to live in fear of killing myself at the gym.
0:55.1	I have had so much success with body pump. So what if I weight train on my own? Will I still be in
1:00.7	good shape? The answer? Yes. I have improved in many areas since switching up my routine. Another fear?
1:07.5	I don't like how I feel with my eating and I feel I may have slowed my metabolism down over the time that I dieted.
1:13.6	What if I gained tons of weight while doing a metabolic reset?
1:16.8	I gained around five pounds, and it was so worth it for me.
1:20.6	The chance to eat my body's needs were, and I know I'm capable of losing five pounds since I have lost 170.
1:27.3	The big mother of all mother
1:29.7	of fears that I have faced is the scale. What will I do if I can't see my weight every day or
1:36.1	multiple times a day? Guess what? I survived. Two weeks no scale and then a month no scale. And I
1:42.3	lived to tell the tale. The second time was by far the
1:45.7	easier of the two since I had already done the two weeks before. I will continue to push myself,
1:51.2	set new goals, and work on picking away at my fears one by one. I am excited to see what lies ahead in
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