Congratulations Kathy and David on a great week. :app:

Wendy, don't beat yourself up right now. Just concentrate on healing. Then when you star feeling better, take it slow and easy.

I am experimenting with what I have been told this week. I will find out on Monday if it actually works. I have to keep my carbs the same, right around 20, but have to increase my carbs from vegetables to around 15. I also have to increase the amount of protein that I am taking in. That means pushing my calorie intake up another 200-300 points per day. Kind of like priming the pump. Right now, my body is holding on. I am told that this will make my body lose weight more efficiently. Go Figure!

Right now, I am at about 1800 calories per day. My BMR is at 2400 and I am averaging about 500 calories per day from working out. When you take in all the other things that I do, a low estimate is that I burn about 4000 calories per day, just to maintain my current weight. If I up it to about 2000 calories, then I should still have a deficit of 2000 calories per day. By my calculations that should be about 4 lbs. lost in a week! So far the scale hasn't budged this week.