[desiree]

Thanks again, Scribess, wow 5'8"---Tall---gosh I am only 5'2", thanks for your input, and i am going to buy that gowear, it is so amazing the things they have out now days, could not even tell you what my maintenance level is right now? The one great thing about the MRM book too, is I guess you really don't have to know just follow the steps, add your 10% and your good, but to be honest with you, I love to eat, but I am full all the time, and now carrying the extra weight and mostly bodyfat, It is not the being fat part that really bothers me it is the extra weight--it weights me down, I feel sluggish and tired, But this week according to the plan i get to do 3days of cardio and 2 days of light weights, so that should hopefully make my appetite come back for one and give me some energy, i was hoping just upping my calories would make my body happy and would be energetic on its own, but not happening. I am really glad to hear your progress, you seem to be handling it great,now are you doing the MRM as well or are you just doing plan on your own?? You seem to have come along way and I wish you the best in getting to goal!!

Naive, thanks for your response as well, and please don't misunderstand that I just want to be thin, trust me I have been thin my whole life, I truly just want to be healthy NOW!! It is just frustrating, and when you do get lean and see great results and you see other people working out hard and runners, etc, You wonder--what did I do wrong, I had this girl tell me one day, you are on a great healthy diet, you look great, and the only thing you did wrong Was you stayed on the diet too long--the diet I was doing was more of a bodybuidling type diet and she said that diet is for 12weeks max then you need to take diet break--hmmm 1 1/2 years I guess was too long, but I got hooked on the results and i was truly feeling good, I guess when i added all the running to the equation, I was suppost to EAT!! Gosh if now it was that easy if just eating could really turn all this around--My hair and nails, and my period yeah are not signs of good health, but this past week is the first time in a year my thyroid has been normal, so I am hoping now somethings will turn around, My obgyn was not concerned about my periods at all, have not had them in 3yrs an she says that is real common with atheletes, but have just switched docs and he wanted me to start on progesterone for 5 days to see if that kicks it in, he said you don't necessarily need a period if you are not going to have babies, but it does show your body is in good health!! So I have the prescription, have not decided to take it yet, just went Friday and had boatloads of labs done, want to wait and see what that shows first, but I will pm you, would love you hear your story, and how you are getting thru it all!!

Etana, just went on amazon, going to order that thing, how cool is that, of course, I had to have had a fast metabolic rate before, do I really want to know what it is now, haha!! I agree it will help, not only get me thru this, but for the future, I will tell ya I had it done a little over a year ago and it was 1300 after working out really hard and dieting for so long, but now I just had it done a month ago and it was only 1000?? Not good!! thanks for the tips, I did read some where that you have to pay monthly but not to amazon right?? I will get the details and order tonight, thanks so much!!

Leigh,

thanks for you time, your knowledge,great article, so many things hit home when you see it in black and white!! Wow, thanks so much, I will be upping calories tomorrow, and hoping to feel a little less sluggish and tired and hope to get appetite back, with adding in the little bit of exercise-=65% of my heartrate, Gosh not use to that, I am hyper as you can tell and use to doing interval, etc, so my guess is I better have my ipod on or TV, cause will probably be a little slow for me, haha!!

Thanks again everyone, Dessie