If lots of calories & carbs equal weight gain? Why am I still losing weight?
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I don't think she's asking for help. I think she's telling us that she has a setpoint.0
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Carbs have nothing to do with weight gain or loss except temporary water retention.jessica_sodenkamp wrote: »I've lost almost 20 pounds, but my diet is calorie heavy, with most of those calories coming from carbs. I'm 5'4" and do not exercise regularly at all.jessica_sodenkamp wrote: »@jessica_sodenkamp
How tall are you and approx what age? Are you here at MFP to reach specific goals? How much do you currently weigh?
Are you happy or unhappy about your weight loss?@jessica_sodenkamp
How tall are you and approx what age? Are you here at MFP to reach specific goals? How much do you currently weigh?
Are you happy or unhappy about your weight loss?
I'm about 5'4", 23 y/o. Trying more than anything to just be healthy, so I'm eating a lot of nutrient rich foods. Currently weigh 111 pounds. My calorie intake is around 2500-3000/day.
Example day:
Breakfast- 800-1200 calorie fruit smoothie
Lunch-
800 calorie fruit meal or starchy cooked meal (potatoes, rice, etc.) with veggies
Dinner- 800-1000 calorie cooked meal (rice, pasta, potatoes) that includes a salad or veggies
I feel great but was just really surprised about the weight loss, because I'm a stay at home mom and spend most of my time at home. Sure I breastfeed, but does that really account for all those calories?
I looked back in your diary to May. You only logged about 5 days, all of them under 2,000 calories, and none look like they were measured with a scale. Just cups, tsp, medium, etc.
So being that you are not counting accurately in your MFP diary, there is no way for us to know why you are losing weight on all the calories you claim to be eating. I can only guess that you are overestimating the calories you are eating, and not accounting for the breastfeeding and fluid loss from having a newborn.7 -
Not to derail this thread, but if the list of food consumed by OP is correct, how much potassium is she consuming?
7-11 bananas and then maybe two more meals with potatoes....
Isn't there a level where it gets unhealthy?2 -
This thread feels like a plug for...someone. Someone who will tell you you can eat an excess of calories which includes a 1200 calorie banana smoothie and still lose... I don't dare say out loud.11
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »This thread feels like a plug for...someone. Someone who will tell you you can eat an excess of calories which includes a 1200 calorie banana smoothie and still lose... I don't dare say out loud.
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PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »This thread feels like a plug for...someone. Someone who will tell you you can eat an excess of calories which includes a 1200 calorie banana smoothie and still lose... I don't dare say out loud.
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*slaps a zipper onto your pie hole*3 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »This thread feels like a plug for...someone. Someone who will tell you you can eat an excess of calories which includes a 1200 calorie banana smoothie and still lose... I don't dare say out loud.
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*slaps a zipper onto your pie hole*
Mmmmm....pie
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jessica_sodenkamp wrote: »@jessica_sodenkamp
How tall are you and approx what age? Are you here at MFP to reach specific goals? How much do you currently weigh?
Are you happy or unhappy about your weight loss?@jessica_sodenkamp
How tall are you and approx what age? Are you here at MFP to reach specific goals? How much do you currently weigh?
Are you happy or unhappy about your weight loss?
I'm about 5'4", 23 y/o. Trying more than anything to just be healthy, so I'm eating a lot of nutrient rich foods. Currently weigh 111 pounds. My calorie intake is around 2500-3000/day.
Example day:
Breakfast- 800-1200 calorie fruit smoothie
Lunch-
800 calorie fruit meal or starchy cooked meal (potatoes, rice, etc.) with veggies
Dinner- 800-1000 calorie cooked meal (rice, pasta, potatoes) that includes a salad or veggies
I feel great but was just really surprised about the weight loss, because I'm a stay at home mom and spend most of my time at home. Sure I breastfeed, but does that really account for all those calories?
I really think you're overestimating your calorie intake. Your dinner resembles what I'd describe as my dinner and mine is usually 500-600 calories, accurately weighed. That said, if you are losing weight while overestimating and you want to stop losing weight, eat more. A good answer to this discussion is "donuts".2 -
nikolausi88 wrote: »Not to derail this thread, but if the list of food consumed by OP is correct, how much potassium is she consuming?
7-11 bananas and then maybe two more meals with potatoes....
Isn't there a level where it gets unhealthy?
If you have a medical issue that impairs your regulation of potassium levels (kidney issues, etc) then yes. Otherwise, the human body is more than capable of dumping the excess fast enough to keep up with eating normal potassium rich foods. Otherwise, the world record for banana eating would have resulted in a death.
It is not capable of keeping up with injections of potassium chloride and similar.0 -
PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »This thread feels like a plug for...someone. Someone who will tell you you can eat an excess of calories which includes a 1200 calorie banana smoothie and still lose... I don't dare say out loud.
You mean Freegle the Plantain girl, right?5 -
smotheredincheese wrote: »PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »This thread feels like a plug for...someone. Someone who will tell you you can eat an excess of calories which includes a 1200 calorie banana smoothie and still lose... I don't dare say out loud.
You mean Freegle the Plantain girl, right?
More like Froyo the Space Cadet.4 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »jessica_sodenkamp wrote: »@jessica_sodenkamp
How tall are you and approx what age? Are you here at MFP to reach specific goals? How much do you currently weigh?
Are you happy or unhappy about your weight loss?@jessica_sodenkamp
How tall are you and approx what age? Are you here at MFP to reach specific goals? How much do you currently weigh?
Are you happy or unhappy about your weight loss?
I'm about 5'4", 23 y/o. Trying more than anything to just be healthy, so I'm eating a lot of nutrient rich foods. Currently weigh 111 pounds. My calorie intake is around 2500-3000/day.
Example day:
Breakfast- 800-1200 calorie fruit smoothie
Lunch-
800 calorie fruit meal or starchy cooked meal (potatoes, rice, etc.) with veggies
Dinner- 800-1000 calorie cooked meal (rice, pasta, potatoes) that includes a salad or veggies
I feel great but was just really surprised about the weight loss, because I'm a stay at home mom and spend most of my time at home. Sure I breastfeed, but does that really account for all those calories?
I really think you're overestimating your calorie intake. Your dinner resembles what I'd describe as my dinner and mine is usually 500-600 calories, accurately weighed. That said, if you are losing weight while overestimating and you want to stop losing weight, eat more. A good answer to this discussion is "donuts".
I agree with this 100%. I am in maintenance, and am eating a very wide variety of foods including all the things the OP mentions for dinner. In looking at my last week, my dinner calories range from 512-988 with an average of 655. (The 988 "outlier" day was a day where I did two long workouts and REALLY needed the calories-so the added calories were very intentional.)
Without careful measuring, I don't think the OP can conclude with confidence that she is eating 800-1000 for dinner.
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jessica_sodenkamp wrote: »I've lost almost 20 pounds, but my diet is calorie heavy, with most of those calories coming from carbs. I'm 5'4" and do not exercise regularly at all.
What do you consider to be "calorie heavy"? Calorie needs vary by individual as per their stats and overall activity..."calorie heavy" would be pretty relative to the individual. Also, carbs have jack *kitten* to do with your weight.3 -
smotheredincheese wrote: »PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »This thread feels like a plug for...someone. Someone who will tell you you can eat an excess of calories which includes a 1200 calorie banana smoothie and still lose... I don't dare say out loud.
You mean Freegle the Plantain girl, right?
I believe it's spelled Fraudlee.5 -
emmydoodles83 wrote: »How long ago did you have that baby? are you breast feeding, that burns a lot of calories.
Nursing only requires about ~500 calories or so a day from what I have heard.0 -
OP does not log, in another post thought she only needed 2-5% protein from calories, thinks she is over eating yet has no proof.... she's either very misinformed or she's trolling.4
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A person on my feed calculates about 500 calories for a couple of minutes of breastfeeding.
So its plausible you can eat well over 2000 calories and lose....0 -
annaskiski wrote: »A person on my feed calculates about 500 calories for a couple of minutes of breastfeeding.
So its plausible you can eat well over 2000 calories and lose....
It's 500 calories per day when breastfeeding a baby younger than six months. Once solids are established, that number drops, 300 per day is a pretty good average in the second six months of baby's life. It's not that they burn 500 calories per couple of minutes, it's that adding 'one minute of breastfeeding' at 500 calories is simpler than trying to figure out how many minutes you spent nursing, and how many calories per minute that ends up being, IYKWIM. But, yeah, nursing mothers are often told not to go below 1800 cal per day. Someone who doesn't need to lose weight might need to go quite a bit higher than that.
Problem is, the OP is not logging much at all, and when she does she only guesstimates her portions. She has no earthly clue what her CI is, much less her CO.1 -
tlflag1620 wrote: »Problem is, the OP is not logging much at all, and when she does she only guesstimates her portions. She has no earthly clue what her CI is, much less her CO.
This.2 -
tlflag1620 wrote: »annaskiski wrote: »A person on my feed calculates about 500 calories for a couple of minutes of breastfeeding.
So its plausible you can eat well over 2000 calories and lose....
It's 500 calories per day when breastfeeding a baby younger than six months. Once solids are established, that number drops, 300 per day is a pretty good average in the second six months of baby's life. It's not that they burn 500 calories per couple of minutes, it's that adding 'one minute of breastfeeding' at 500 calories is simpler than trying to figure out how many minutes you spent nursing, and how many calories per minute that ends up being, IYKWIM. But, yeah, nursing mothers are often told not to go below 1800 cal per day. Someone who doesn't need to lose weight might need to go quite a bit higher than that.
Problem is, the OP is not logging much at all, and when she does she only guesstimates her portions. She has no earthly clue what her CI is, much less her CO.
Like I said above - I calculated how much my kid was eating, based on how much pumped milk she got at the sitter and how often she nursed -- and how much weight she gained.
*she* was taking in at least 600-700 calories a day for awhile, 100% of which came from me. That fits with the number I just looked up on Livestrong. Another site says that at 500 calories a day you're still pulling 250 calories from maternal fat stores, too. It takes metabolic energy to turn food into breastmilk.
Long story short? If she's even moderately active and not tiny? Maintaining on 2500-3000 calories a day is not just believable, but likely.
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