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  • sunnybeaches105
    sunnybeaches105 Posts: 2,831 Member
    edited June 2016
    Eating too few calories caused you to stop losing weight? 100 grams is too much protein while strength training and it (rather than too many calories) caused you to stop losing weight? I strongly suggest you step back and stop speculating because these two statements couldn't be more wrong.
  • Neanbean13
    Neanbean13 Posts: 211 Member
    Agreed. In a deficit you can't build muscle. You might see a slight change if just starting out but it won't notice a difference over night. And if you mean lifting as in you are lifting HEAVY maybe 3 or 4 times a week, eating at a surplus then yes you'd experience muscle weight gain. Not being in a deficit not doing a couple of lunges with light dumbells. (Peoples definition of using weights varies!)If you've come to a halt in weight loss I recommend having a day or two of a mass calorie surplus to shock the body into receiving food then go back to your calorie deficit level. Your body might be too used to a deficit.
    Or keep the cals the same and up the cardio?
  • huntersmom2016
    huntersmom2016 Posts: 185 Member
    Almost everyone seems to go through a plateau during their weight loss. I did, but I changed my MFP goal of 2 lb loss a week to 1.5 lb loss and pushed through it. One theory is that your body gets to a certain point and it needs time to "adjust". Changing your goals and current stats can help. Also changing your exercise can help. Try something different to shake things up a bit. Shaking up your exercise routine will probably be the most helpful in getting things moving again. I hope this helps. And whatever you do... Never give up!
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,201 Member
    In actual fact the higher protein is helpful to you especially if exercising and in a deficit.

    Any macro will get stored as fat during a condition of surplus; none will be stored as fat during a deficit.

    if you were to trace each ingested macro and follow its course through your body, protein would be the least likely to be converted to fat as it takes the most energy to move from protein to fat storage.

    If you are an untrained individual with sufficient reserves of excess fat and a novel (and appreciable) exercise stimulus you CAN gain muscle mass even during a deficit. Your overall weight trend will be downward; but slower than you would expect based on your deficit.

    2lbs overnight is water. Whether it is water due to sodium, muscle repair, TOM, or previously lost fat where the cells had been temporarily filled with water... it is interesting that you can tell the difference :smiley:
  • yasminara
    yasminara Posts: 247 Member
    You're not an idiot, finding the right balance for your body is always hard and we're all trying to figure it out :)
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Oh, I see. We're and you're not able to talk about your actual food intake because you don't have your diary open to public. If you were having 3 protein shakes, it isn't the protein making you gain. My protein powder has 200 calories per scoop. If I mix it with 8 oz milk I can get way more calories. If I multiply that by 3 I can get close to 1000 calories from the protein shakes. If you were having 3 protein shakes and eating 1200 calories, that puts your intake at close to 2200 calories, which probably eliminates your calorie deficit. This works so much better when you have your diary set to "public" and are honest, accurate, and thorough with logging every morsel that crosses your lips.
  • normalicia11
    normalicia11 Posts: 474 Member
    zoeysasha37 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    cruisin4losin wrote: »
    I can't seem to control my fat grams. I stay with 1500 calories a day. My dr says less will put my body in starvation if I eat too little.

    @cruisin4losin ask your doctor how anorexics and prisoners of war manage to keep losing weight when eating very, very low calories. How are they not in starvation mode? I would love to hear his explanation :smile:

    I'd also be very curious to hear this explanation.

    Me too, it doesn't make sense to stop lossing weight when you're eating very little
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    Don't worry about different methods of calculations as you'll end up confusing yourself (more)! Set MFP up with your weight, how much you want to lose in a week and eat that much. It's simple
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    You stopped losing because you're either eating too much or retaining water.
  • beatyfamily1
    beatyfamily1 Posts: 257 Member
    Yeah I think you guys are right about the water retention. It may have been the simple carbs I ate that caused water retention. I eat complex carbs a lot, but the simple carbs may be my problem. This explanation is more reasonable: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/expert.q.a/10/08/water.weight.fluctuates.jampolis/index.html

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