Gaining Weight :(

atypicalsmith

mccindy72 wrote: »

The food scale is definitely a must. Measuring foods is inaccurate. You can be off by hundreds of calories a day by measuring. One good example: If you measure just a 1/2 cup of oatmeal, and then weigh it, it will be approximately 50 calories more than the recommended weight serving. That's just one item. Multiply that by all your foods throughout the day, and you can definitely be way off.
As far as exercising, machines are notorious for overcalculating calorie burns. A good HRM is the way to go. (with a chest strap).

I tend to overestimate calories eaten and underestimate calories burned through exercise. I've stalled several times, but overall I continue to lose. I do weigh my food occasionally, but am not freakish about it. I love to exercise but don't do it nearly enough, which is why I'm stalling now. Own up to what you're doing, and it will all work out.

Lisa1971

TheOwlhouseDesigns wrote: »

Ariel1774 wrote: »

Thank you to all of you who are trying to help me figure this out. I know you keep saying it must be I'm eating more but that is my frustration. I'm doing the same thing with MFP now as I was when I started and as I was when I was losing weight consistently. I haven't changed how I eat. If anything I work out more now than I did last year! Guess my next step is a good food scale and heart rate monitor to make sure that I'm accurate with everything. But again my frustration because I haven't changed how I eat!

at one point you dont lose weight anymore with the same calorie amount because your deficit is gone
When you weigh less your deficit is getting smaller and smaller

Now you lost weight with MEASURING! your foods and going by serving sizes before. But because you dont have a deficit anymore you eat probably in a small Surplus so gain weight

Gaining weight is always when you eat to much.

Now for the measuring part and serving sizes
You dont eat at 1200 calories! you eat more than you think when you dont use a food scale for ALL your food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVjWPclrWVY

Really try weighing your food

I was tricked a couple times with serving sizes like a taco for 81 calories per serving of 56 gram which was really 98 calories when i weighed it.
Cheese cake 1 serving 46 gram ( 1 piece) when i did weigh it, it was not 46 gram and instead of the 210 calories per serving i ended up with 253 calories.

And it is not much the differences but do that over the day with a couple of foods and you can end up very easily with a couple hundred more than you know.

On the other hand i had some serving sizes weighing less too

Weigh your food!

Thanks for that video! I will def be weighing my food instead of measuring it out!