Gaining Weight 'Cause you don't eat enough...
jthalberg
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Does anyone have experience with this? I've lost about 100# and started gaining some weight back after kicking up exercise. Nutritionists and friends advised that my body is starving and now storing becuase I'm exercising and not eating enough. Thoughts?
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Not if you haven't changed your caloric intake. Nutritionists and friends are mistaken. What it most likely is is water retention from the increased activity.0
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No, you cannot gain weight by eating too little. It might be water retention.0
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Yes, you can. I sent you a message because I don't like the drama these threads tend to breed. Listen to your nutritionist, they have the degree in this stuff
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- Nutritionists don't necessarily have a degree in this stuff.
- Are you still counting calories? If you increased exercise, it could increase your appetite leading to eating a bit more without even realizing it.
- And as others have mentioned, if you are stressing your muscles more with your increased exercise, it could be water weight.
- Have you been adjusting your calorie goal as you lose? You might have gotten your weight down to a point where you need to eat a bit less to maintain.
For more specific answers, we would need to know your stats, how long you had been losing, how long you have now been gaining, and where your calorie goal is.
Congrats on your weight loss - 100 lbs is amazing!0 -
Does anyone have experience with this? I've lost about 100# and started gaining some weight back after kicking up exercise. Nutritionists and friends advised that my body is starving and now storing becuase I'm exercising and not eating enough. Thoughts?
Welcome, and congratulations on 100 pounds lost!
Unless you are emaciated, such as the guys in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment, your body is not starving. Starvation mode does not happen to the common dieter, or someone who is not emaciated and has lost a certain amount of muscle and fat.
If you are gaining weight, then you are eating more calories than you burn. As we get smaller, our caloric levels need to be adjusted because we do not need as much to function.
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You would get immensely rich if this were true because you would have broken the secret to violating the laws of thermodynamics0
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i don't have any comments other than congrats on your weight loss so far and don't give up! congrats to you! i know you must be very proud! hang in there!!
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Not a good question to ask on this forum...at all. I would give you my two cents on it, but the last time I did, I got ripped to shreds by a couple people. But congrats on the weight loss. Outstanding.0
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Does anyone have experience with this? I've lost about 100# and started gaining some weight back after kicking up exercise. Nutritionists and friends advised that my body is starving and now storing becuase I'm exercising and not eating enough. Thoughts?
I'm calling troll
-no avi/friends/weight loss tracked/anything filled out
-starts thread for "thoughts" on [insert buzz word topic] never returns
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Difference of opinion I guess. My experiences have been more along the lines of what they talk about in the EatMore2WeighLess group on here. That's what I wrote in the PM to the OP and suggested he check that group out.0
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Next time you don't want discussion about your PM, send it without announcing it on the thread.Difference of opinion I guess. My experiences have been more along the lines of what they talk about in the EatMore2WeighLess group on here. That's what I wrote in the PM to the OP and suggested he check that group out.
Friendly advice, not criticism.
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I'm not calling troll (because that's not what it means to me), but I am wishing for a bit more info about the OP: such as current weight, height (gender and age)...ThePhoenixIsRising wrote: »Does anyone have experience with this? I've lost about 100# and started gaining some weight back after kicking up exercise. Nutritionists and friends advised that my body is starving and now storing becuase I'm exercising and not eating enough. Thoughts?
I'm calling troll
-no avi/friends/weight loss tracked/anything filled out
-starts thread for "thoughts" on [insert buzz word topic] never returns
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Thank you and I really wasn't trying to start anything, just wasn't sure the OP would see my PM so I mentioned it figuring he would probably check back on his post. Had no idea I was opening a can of worms
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They were also worked to death, tortured, not protected from the elements, et cetera, et cetera.
Plenty of people go on 800 calorie a day diets. They are not suffering the way the victims of the Holocaust did.
I think it is an outrageous injustice to the people who suffered so horrifically to have dieting compared, in any way, to their suffering.
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Your nutritionist as well as some friends may be addressing what they suspect is your stifled metabolism or whacked out hormones. If this is the case, you might gain back some weight. What they're probably telling you is that you're under eating.Does anyone have experience with this? I've lost about 100# and started gaining some weight back after kicking up exercise. Nutritionists and friends advised that my body is starving and now storing becuase I'm exercising and not eating enough. Thoughts?
That's my guess.
And well done losing the weight; good luck with your continued progress.
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You don't like drama, yet you are creating plenty with your response. Anybody can call themselves a nutritionist.Yes, you can. I sent you a message because I don't like the drama these threads tend to breed. Listen to your nutritionist, they have the degree in this stuff Good luck!
You and the nutritionist are 100 percent incorrect.
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Oh boy. This is gonna be fun. First of all, congrats on the weight lost so far!
Secondly, and it's really hard to say this without having some kind of tone, so just take it for what it is. There is no way you are going to gain weight by eating less. How would that even happen? Fat is just created from nowhere? Maybe you breathe too much air too? How many calories does air have?
Just think about it for a second. Do some googling.0 -
You don't like drama, yet you are creating plenty with your response. Anybody can call themselves a nutritionist.Yes, you can. I sent you a message because I don't like the drama these threads tend to breed. Listen to your nutritionist, they have the degree in this stuff Good luck!
You and the nutritionist are 100 percent incorrect.
Really, I was looking for a dietician and said nutritionist instead and I was getting referrals to specialists in digestive disorders.
ETA: nm you are right, I don't know why I was getting sent there0 -
Are you gaining muscle tone? A pound of muscle takes up less space than a pound of fat. I went through what looked like a weight loss plateau on paper that concealed the fact that I was losing a lot of fat and gaining muscle from my workouts.0
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OP you should have just titled this post I am in starvation mode so said my friend and a nutritionist...you answered your own question in the question.Does anyone have experience with this? I've lost about 100# and started gaining some weight back after kicking up exercise
After kicking up exercise you will retain water and glycogen in the muscles which looks like weight gain.
You do realize I could be a nutritionist if I spent 100$ on an online course.
The eat more to lose weight group is not about not being in starvation mode it's about educating people that you don't have to go on a VLCD to lose weight. This is because if you eat VLCD you don't have the energy to move as much as you could be moving with more fuel in your body.
And so as not to offend, think about people with eating disorders...they eat far below 1200 normally and they do not hold onto fat, they are slowly starving themselves to death.
After a period of time yes if you eat VLCD your metabolism adapts but that is not your body "holding onto fat" it is your body saying "holy crap I am not getting enough nutrition, vitamins, minerals, macros etc and I need to reduce my usage"
So it starts with non essential operations such as hair growth, nails etc...moves onto other things and then later starts with lean mass and eventually moves to the organs...where you then will suffer greatly....but no where in this scenario does your body say
"whoa I am not getting enough food let me store or create fat from no where"0 -
Does anyone have experience with this? I've lost about 100# and started gaining some weight back after kicking up exercise. Nutritionists and friends advised that my body is starving and now storing becuase I'm exercising and not eating enough. Thoughts?
I think the 'starving and storing' is a common fear because it has a grain of truth, sort of. Your body responds to decrease in calories by being less active across a day (despite intentional exercise).
I agree that your weight gain can be water retention from your new exercise regimen and you could also be gaining some muscle (yes, even at a deficit).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11063433?dopt=Abstract
CONCLUSIONS:
"Energy restriction produces a transient hypothyroid-hypometabolic state that normalizes on return to energy-balanced conditions. Failure to establish energy balance after weight loss gives the misleading impression that weight-reduced persons are energy conservative and predisposed to weight regain. Our findings do not provide evidence in support of adaptive metabolic changes as an explanation for the tendency of weight-reduced persons to regain weight."
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Doubtful on the muscle.WalkingAlong wrote: »Does anyone have experience with this? I've lost about 100# and started gaining some weight back after kicking up exercise. Nutritionists and friends advised that my body is starving and now storing becuase I'm exercising and not eating enough. Thoughts?
I think the 'starving and storing' is a common fear because it has a grain of truth, sort of. Your body responds to decrease in calories by being less active across a day (despite intentional exercise).
I agree that your weight gain can be water retention from your new exercise regimen and you could also be gaining some muscle (yes, even at a deficit).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11063433?dopt=Abstract
CONCLUSIONS:
"Energy restriction produces a transient hypothyroid-hypometabolic state that normalizes on return to energy-balanced conditions. Failure to establish energy balance after weight loss gives the misleading impression that weight-reduced persons are energy conservative and predisposed to weight regain. Our findings do not provide evidence in support of adaptive metabolic changes as an explanation for the tendency of weight-reduced persons to regain weight."
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Doubtful on the muscle.WalkingAlong wrote: »Does anyone have experience with this? I've lost about 100# and started gaining some weight back after kicking up exercise. Nutritionists and friends advised that my body is starving and now storing becuase I'm exercising and not eating enough. Thoughts?
I think the 'starving and storing' is a common fear because it has a grain of truth, sort of. Your body responds to decrease in calories by being less active across a day (despite intentional exercise).
I agree that your weight gain can be water retention from your new exercise regimen and you could also be gaining some muscle (yes, even at a deficit).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11063433?dopt=Abstract
CONCLUSIONS:
"Energy restriction produces a transient hypothyroid-hypometabolic state that normalizes on return to energy-balanced conditions. Failure to establish energy balance after weight loss gives the misleading impression that weight-reduced persons are energy conservative and predisposed to weight regain. Our findings do not provide evidence in support of adaptive metabolic changes as an explanation for the tendency of weight-reduced persons to regain weight."
Agreed, if there is muscle gain it isn't enough to register on a scale.0 -
This is just a blog but he links to a study. There is plenty of evidence that new exercisers can gain some mass fairly easily, just not for long and not a whole lot, usually.Doubtful on the muscle.
http://muscleevo.net/calorie-deficit/#.VEJqn_ldUa8
"In summary, some people can and do build a decent amount of muscle while they’re in a calorie deficit."
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