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Good Bad & The Monkey
If you run a 500 calorie/day deficit you'll lose a pound a week. 52 pounds a year. I wouldn't want to go much more than that if you're also increasing your exercise since your body needs fuel to do all this new moving around stuff.
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
keep running.
rectumdamnnearkilledem
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
I think you should be eating way more! Unless you have been told otherwise by a doctor, you should eat no less than 1200 calories a day or risk putting your body into starvation mode. You need calories to just function! So you're burning calories by just being alive, and then you're burning a bunch more by running. Your body then puts itself into starvation mode. Essentially, it holds onto everything you give it, because you're not getting enough to eat, and your body wants to protect itself. Eat more! Healthy calories. Add a handful of almonds. Protein shakes. Protein bars. If you continue the way you're going, I'm afraid you're going to end up hurting yourself.