More is Better

During the HMR Diet classes, they tell you that sometimes you have to practice a thing they call "More is Better." In my straightforward and mathmatical mind, the less you eat and the more you exercise, the faster you will lose weight. Well, sometimes that isn't true.

As I've mentioned, our bodies have about a million different variants to how they run. Sometimes fewer calories means that your body reacts and lowers your metabolism. The exercise helps to counter balance that. The other thing that can raise your metabolism? Eating more.

But I want to lose weight as fast as I can. How can eating more help? Two ways.

One - through the magic of body chemistry itself. If your body is eating the same number of calories every day, it gets used to that and sets the metabolism accordingly. So eating a little higher on the calorie scale will cause the body to turn up the furnace and burn more to compensate. Since my typical day on HMR involves getting about 600 calories. A More is Better day might involve having about 900-1000 calories. (Still well below my caloric needs in any given day.)

Two - by keeping me on plan. Sundays seem to be a hard day for me on the plan. I'm more dissatisfied by my options on Sunday. I crave "real" food on Sundays. So I designated this Sunday a More is Better day. In addition to my regular five shakes, I had two "pumpkin cookies" and an HMR Entree. My total calorie intake was about 950. Yet I felt like I had really splurged. I was able to stay on plan and not eat something "out of the box" by eating more of the stuff that I am allowed to eat. Brilliant.

And this morning... the scale was down by three pounds. While I know it isn't possible to lose three pounds of fat in one day, it seemed like a sign to me that I did the right thing with the More is Better.

Tomorrow we will see what effect a root canal has on weight loss. What fun!