Doug Egge

You cut your calories way down, increased your activity too much, the result of which was a stress response, which looks like pain, hair falling out, I don't feel good, that kind of stuff.

On top of it, you don't have a low stress lifestyle.

So I've worked with medical professionals and I've worked with nurses and you are in one of the more difficult parts of nursing and pediatric.

That's very difficult, very emotionally.

It could be taxing and you know this, I don't need to tell you this, but just for people listening, it's a very difficult job what you do.

Moving forward, what you want to do, Jesse, is you want to focus on building your metabolism, not on cutting things.

Cutting things with your stress and exercise is a recipe for disaster.

Now, I get the fear of gaining weight, and a little bit might happen through the reverse diet process, but you're not going to blow up.

That's not going to happen.

That would only happen if you stopped strength training, you ate tons of garbage, and you did it for a while.

But you've already built your metabolism pretty well, especially considering where you came from.

With that strength...

You're doing great.

I don't think MAPS Anabolic Advanced is appropriate for you.

I think traditional MAPS Anabolic would be good.

Muscle Mommy might be good.

One of our MAPS 15-style programs would be good with your daily activity and stress.

And then what you want to do is you want to slowly reverse diet.

Are you still tracking?

I cut back way too low.