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Originally Posted by Etana
REPAIR movement questions:
If, as Leigh appropriately points out, I am so sedentary now, I must say I do really fear adding calories to my diet. The thought of a 2000 calorie diet immediately triggers a vision of weighing 10 pounds more in 8 weeks. I will have faith and will follow advice.
But perhaps since I'm not really an "overtrainer," but more of a "laze" , I should be doing some light stretching yoga or easy social walking during stage 1 and 2? Like 30 min 4-6 times a week?
When I lived in the city, and when I lived without a car, and when my foot was fine... I have been thinking how much more active I was, even as a chubby gal. Moving to the suburbs is a real car-thing, and I see just from these early conversations what a bad impact it has had on my general movement through the day.
I have another question which I'll put in a separate post.
thanks, Etana
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Don't fear the 2000. You need to eat more to help your metabolism start working again. Especially more carbs. The "refeeding" part of Metarepair is a keypart of the program. You wont' get to the point of eating that amount of calories for at least 4 weeks. I think it is the 5th or 6th week that is the refeed week. From what I have read from other's who have done it they only gained like 1-2 lbs. By the time you get to that your metablism should be working much better.
Being sedentary has no impact on how you do the program. This is about REST. Now walking slowly for 30 minutes probably won't hurt anything but you really are not supposed to be doing any extra activity outside of what you need to do for life. Don't try to tweak the program. It is very precise and meant to be done as writen.