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Hi Gail!
I wanted to take a quick minute and answer your questions!
When I initially lost 110 pounds, my intake was @1200-1400. I began exercising slowly until I built up to 6x/week. That was almost two years ago, and since then I've built up my fitness level immensely. I still exercise the same amount of days, but have increased my time to 1-1.5 hours per session. I heavy weight-train 2x/week (rotations of both strength and endurance training), circuit train 1x, and do cardio 3x, with one or two of those workouts being interval training. I ended up really getting into working out, set some high goals for myself, and then researched as much as I could to see what types of exercise would help me attain those goals. I've now packed on a lot of muscle which really revs the metabolism, even at rest. Interval training burns tons of calories and continues to do so for hours afterward due to glycogen depletion/replacement. I crosstrain so that I'm always shocking my body. My resting heart rate has gone from 74 to 55 because of these workouts. A side benefit to all this is that my metabolism is about as jacked-up as it can be! The thing that caused me to regain 15 pounds was my binging--and man, can I binge! When I knew the weight had to come off again, I found a website (I'm sorry I can't remember the name!) in which you plug in your height, weight, age, level of daily exercise, etc., and it gives you the amount of daily calories you need to maintain. I put in 125 (goal weight) and it said I needed to eat @2200 calories to maintain with my current level of exercise. So, I took that number down a few hundred (1700-1800) and so far it's working just great (as always, your mileage may vary
)! It's pretty much the intense, consistent exercise and increase in metabolism which allows me to eat what I do and still lose. I just need to put my horrible eating habits and binges to rest for good!
Hope this helps!
I wanted to take a quick minute and answer your questions!
When I initially lost 110 pounds, my intake was @1200-1400. I began exercising slowly until I built up to 6x/week. That was almost two years ago, and since then I've built up my fitness level immensely. I still exercise the same amount of days, but have increased my time to 1-1.5 hours per session. I heavy weight-train 2x/week (rotations of both strength and endurance training), circuit train 1x, and do cardio 3x, with one or two of those workouts being interval training. I ended up really getting into working out, set some high goals for myself, and then researched as much as I could to see what types of exercise would help me attain those goals. I've now packed on a lot of muscle which really revs the metabolism, even at rest. Interval training burns tons of calories and continues to do so for hours afterward due to glycogen depletion/replacement. I crosstrain so that I'm always shocking my body. My resting heart rate has gone from 74 to 55 because of these workouts. A side benefit to all this is that my metabolism is about as jacked-up as it can be! The thing that caused me to regain 15 pounds was my binging--and man, can I binge! When I knew the weight had to come off again, I found a website (I'm sorry I can't remember the name!) in which you plug in your height, weight, age, level of daily exercise, etc., and it gives you the amount of daily calories you need to maintain. I put in 125 (goal weight) and it said I needed to eat @2200 calories to maintain with my current level of exercise. So, I took that number down a few hundred (1700-1800) and so far it's working just great (as always, your mileage may vary
)! It's pretty much the intense, consistent exercise and increase in metabolism which allows me to eat what I do and still lose. I just need to put my horrible eating habits and binges to rest for good!Hope this helps!
Then last night, I fell asleep at 9pm, slept until dh's alarm went off at 4:30 am, then fell back to sleep until ds's alarm went off at 7! I'm a horrible insomniac and usually only get a few hours of sleep a night, and when dh's alarm goes off I'm usually up for good. But I was just so exhausted last night that I went down like a load of bricks when I put ds to bed, and 
Both physically and mentally, I am feeling so rejuvinated today!
So now I have that sweet, yummy, just-baked cookies smell in my house, but not the guilt that goes with it! I had a really hard time not baking my favorite, chocolate chip. But let's be real--they'd never stand a chance against the dreaded Chocoholic Syndrome from which I so greatly suffer! 
I don't know if I should just go off-program and enjoy all the yummy stuff, or at least give a shot at staying OP. I'll be exercising tomorrow morning, so I'll just have to concern myself with my food intake. I think I'm going to try and fall somewhere in the middle of these two choices. I won't deny myself any food I want, but I'll try not to go crazy with the *volume* of the food I eat. Aye carrumba! Mass quantities of chips y salsa es muy mal, queridas! 
Try and stay OP all day and then enjoy your dinner with your hubby.
You can always work it out tomorrow morning with Cathe and Allie.
Have a wonderful evening!
) and I skipped dessert. When we got home that evening, our ds9 said he saved up some of his money for our anniversary and for our present wanted to take us out for ice cream (hmmmmmm...ice cream just happens to be his favorite--what a coincidence!) So even though I certainly didn't need it, I had a single scoop of cookies and cream in a dish. Dh payed for the ice cream, so ds ended up with his favorite dessert and he got to keep his money. Somehow this seemed to work out better for him than for us! 
Clever boy.
Ooooooooo, I was just so mad at him and I reverted to my destructive behavior of emotional eating. Now, we don't have much junk food in the house, but nutritional content doesn't matter when you eat 4 chocolate protein bars, two big pieces of homemade bread with butter, and everything else I could get my hands on! Then besides being angry with dh, I'm angry with myself because I have done this a thousand times and still haven't learned my lesson about the downfalls of emotional eating! 
Sorry for the loooooooong vent. I'm feeling much better now that I'm back in control of my eating. Why oh why go I give up that control in the first place? 
it through instead of eating it through. i can't tell you how many times I have told myself I would be at my goal and maintaining there for a long time if I wouldn't self-destructive 4-5 times a month!
Hey! I know! We can start our own band!!! Kimmy Kim, Tracy Trace and the WISHers Bunch!
Perhaps a song with Tom Cruise or Val Kilmer???
We'll take requests!)
