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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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Just so you know I read through all the other posts before I answered.
In the nicest way, everyone is over complicating it. There are really two things you can do.
-Don't do the training and just do the diet for a while and see how you do on that. you may just be too sensitive to the sugar drops, especially on the lower carbs.
and/or
At a point, and please don't take this as rude, you just have to suck it up.
What I mean is that when you are at a level that you are at...
-10/15 pounds left
-dieting down for a while
-at the point where your are giving my book a try because lets face it "warp" is so much more appealing
Then you probably suck at dieting. If you suck at dieting then don't aggravate yourself as much as possible and do the best you can to suck it up.
You know what eating healthy is, you are doing the best you can to get good protein, keep satiety up, etc.
All you can do now is just suck it up and push through it. If the hunger is too much to take or you are just too low of energy then there is always the theromogenic option. I don't in general throw that out there cause people don't "get it" but it is an option.
However, I recommend just try the diet part and see how that fits on you. A LOT of people have fantastic success with just...shocking enough...eating less
