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It does seem like attempting this process without getting sleep is a bad idea. Won’t it just backfire? Maybe these ladies should back off from it until they know they can get proper sleep?
Thank you J-lo- I did it for a short while and liked the great stretched out relaxed feeling after class, but it is a pretty intense form of exercise, possible too intense. I guess it depends on how the individual’s metabolism reacts to those conditions. I could see how some people’s bodies might really respond well to it, with proper hydration.
Something I noticed and thought strange is that some people go 5-7 days a week for many months, and are allegedly burning hundreds and hundreds of calories per class, and still don’t have great bodies. And through my research I found that a lot of “experts” say you need to go five times a week to see your body transform- that’s a LOT of time and effort.
Thank you- I guess I was just hoping that for some people the rest and refeeding process “naturally” is much shorter, and that maybe I could possibly be one of these people.
It’s interesting to read the symptoms of people recovering from low metabolism due to extreme restricted diets/exercise.
I think my own low temps were caused mostly to poor stress management and poor sleeping habits, as I’ve always had jobs that require me to work nights, and for the past several years was working two jobs as well as parenting and finding little time for sleep. I think I was in a constant state of low level and sometimes high level stress that must have been the root of many of my problems, including low metabolism. I have always been concerned with diet/body image/excercise, but never too disciplined about it.
I wonder what recovery due to mainly lack of sleep/high stress looks like compared with recovery from crazy dieting and over excercise?
Matt recommends progressive exercise, where you do slightly more each session. Is this the only way to get more fit after refeeding or do people have success losing weight with regular low intensity(like a short jog every day or every other day, or one aerobics class a week) exercise? Anyone know?
Also, anyone have experience with Bikram yoga and its effect on metabolism?
Has anyone completed the refeeding phase in a relatively short amount of time? Like a month or less?
I notice a lot of people who are refeeding are rebounding from extreme diet and exercise lifestyles- is there a chance that the length of rehab time could be less for people who were just somewhat “out of whack” before? I noticed that my temps are easily staying above 98 after just a couple of weeks.
I had low temps before and have had cold hands feet and uneven energy as long as I can remember but my worst issues were negative attitudes towards food and eating as a way of stress management which helped create cycles of high stress in my life, not really restrictive dieting or extreme exercise.
I’m just hoping to be able to speed up this process.
Woah, 90 degrees?? I don’t have any advice but that seems dangerously low.
So I think it’s been about two weeks. My temps are steadily above 98 degrees. Even when I wake up in the morning. They were between 95 and 97 previously. I think I’ve gained 2 pounds. I feel less bloated in general, but still heavier than is comfortable. A strange symptom I’ve noticed is a sore throat with coughing at night while in bed, not sure what that is about.
My schedule is a little weird- I work evenings at a restaurant, so I often spend between four and six hours on my feet moving around pretty quickly nonstop. I usually eat breakfast when I get up, then once before work at around three or four, and then after work, with snacks throughout as I feel are needed. So my meal times are usually 10am, 3 or 4pm, and then maybe 10pm. I’m not sure how the night time activity at work or eating so close to bed time affects things.
Kristi I have similar stats as you- same body type, weight, never an extreme dieter but with the attitude that any time I ate fattening, sugary, simple carb-y type foods I was eating poorly. I never did any sort of endurance sports but I have been a regular moderate jogger off and on for about eight years.
I feel like this process will not be so extreme for me either. I’m already seeing higher temps after a week and don’t feel too terribly worn out or anything.
I have been doing this for about a week. I decided to try it because I’ve always had digestion problems as well as cold hands and feet and low body temps, and a bloated stomach. I’ve tried several different diets but never for very long at all and have generally not been very disciplined with my eating habits. I did try to stick to whole grains, low fat, no soda, no fake sugar, etc when cooking at home though. But sometimes I would not adhere to any of that stuff and just eat junk or whatever I wanted. Stress has always been a main factor in my eating habits. I am late twenties, 5’2″, and not really that overweight but my stomach has always felt disproportionately bigger than the rest of me.
I’ve been eating a lot of junk food- fast food, store bought cookies, hot dogs, soda, chocolate milk, etc. I am drinking a lot less fluids. There were a few days where I was daydreaming about gulping down lots and lots of water and wanted more fluids than what I needed, according to my body temps and urine color, but that has subsided.
Already I am seeing my temps consistently 98 or above. I’m glad that has changed so quickly, so maybe this refeeding phase won’t have to last months and months. I also notice that my moods are more even through out the day. I used to be very sensitve to sugar, and also loved to eat it, so I often had a lot of anxiety due to it. I’m eating a whole lot of sugar now but don’t notice the effects of it so much. Eating it right before bed does make my thougths race some.
I’m tired a lot. But I felt pretty low energy before, too. I have noticed that I wake up at 4 am often and then go back to sleep, like Matt said would happen.
