For the past couple of months I’ve been changing my diet to include more home cooked food like vegetables mixed with shrimp, and eating more probiotic and prebiotic food like plain kefir/chia seed pudding, fermented pickles, homemade miso with seaweed, and replacing cravings for soda with an occasional kombucha.
I also recently incorporated regular exercise in the past 2 or 3 weeks at about 4 times a week. 15 minutes of cardio, 45 minutes of full body strength training (or segmenting muscle groups if one feels too sore to safely work out), and then 15 to 20 minutes of cardio before leaving the gym; roughly an hour to an hour and a half depending on how I feel.
I’ve also been significantly increasing my water intake. Started aiming for a gallon a day since the meds I’m on dehydrate me (40 mg of Vyvanse for ADHD), it helps with digestion, and the dry ass winter air sets me skin on fire.
But since Sunday I haven’t felt like working out and have gotten constant cravings for junk food. Wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for fried stuff and having been told by my doctor that my cholesterol is high and I need to cut back on fried foods and red meat; the latter isn’t an issue since I wanted to adopt a predominantly pescatarian diet and care a lot about my gut biome.
My starting weight was 181 and I’m down to 157 (5’5” 29F) and while my goal weight is 132 I also want to build muscle tone. Most of my protein is from kefir, chia seeds, and shrimp but when I need a post work out meal and don’t feel like cooking I get ready made sauce-less and non-fried sushi from the Korean grocery store.
I don’t want to completely ignore my cravings, while also considering my cholesterol, since it’ll just make me likely to binge but I feel like I’m losing the momentum to work out consistently.
What do you do when you feel too tired to exercise, start craving more processed food, and are experiencing a weight loss plateau?
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