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Originally Posted by LaraT
I have been doing the OPT plan the last week and according to the calorie calculations I should be at 1200 per day. Most days I was between 1200-1300 but I am feeling so hungry and weak on this intake and having trouble getting through workouts that are about half the intensity I was previously doing. I wound up having a binge after 4 days just out of feeling so deprived and starved. Now of course I feel totally demoralized and like a failure (which of course doesn't help the situation)
Should I decrease the deficit and just aim for a slower loss? I want to get it off as fast as I can but it seems like 1200 cals is just so low it is not sustainable for me. Or maybe I am just a wuss....
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Perhaps you under estimated your activity level? I am on the OPT plan too and I have never felt weak or extremly starved. I do have a fairly large amount of fat to lose (50 pounds or so), so perhaps my body is using the fat stores to make up for the loss. This week I am doing the 4th week and doing a 40% deficit, and still haven't felt weak, but since it is a rest week my acitivity level is down. Granted I haven't been 100% compliant this week (see my logs). But on the days when I meet my calorie target I haven't felt any different.
So it makes me wonder what it the difference between my experience and yours.
Oh - and when I "messed" up on my eating it wasn't because I felt stared, it was just not being a very smart gal!