I gain weight by eating healthy????????????
annabellechipps
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I understand that weight is fluid. I do not understand my weight. I skip breakfast and lunch almost everyday, which helps with the weight loss. Two days ago i ate only grilled vegetables at dinner time and nothing else. I weighed 128.7. Yesterday i didn't eat breakfast or lunch but i did eat a bunch of cookies, Doritos, peanut butter, three pieces of pizza, and some cake. For some reason, i only weighed 128.2. Today, i ate a large ceaser salad for lunch and a tiny bit of chinese food for dinner and some wheat thins. For some reason i ended up weighing 129.4????
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No matter if you're eating "Healthy", you have to still be in a calorie deficit to lose weight. Only eating once a day, still doesn't mean you're eating in a deficit. You need to figure up how many cals you need for you, then stay at that number. Once you stall, you need to drop a bit, or add more activity.8
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1. You can easily gain weight on healthy food. It's all about calories.
2. You can't judge the day to day variance and need to look at your weight over longer periods, like 4-6 weeks.
Caesar salad is pretty calorie dense. Chinese probably means soy sauce and lost of sodium so lots of water retention (I go up a lb after eating sushi). Stop focusing on the day to day weight. If you need to weigh weekly to take your focus off of it, do that. Or use a trending app (trendweight.com is one, there are others) to focus on the trend instead of todays number.
*kitten*. This morning was the lowest number I've seen. But I know I will go up a bit again. My trendline on my weight is steadily going down.4 -
Eating healthy has nothing to do with weight loss/gain. As others have said, weight loss isn't linear.
Your eating does concern me though. Only vegetables one day, followed by nothing but "junk food", followed by mostly a salad? Eat some variety, and aim for a healthy amount of calories.12 -
Not the whole picture but a potential factor: On first glance, I'd guess that your "healthy" foods have a lot more fiber than your "not healthy" foods. It takes 30+ hours for food to transit your digestive system. While it's in there, it adds to your body weight. And the carbs' and sodium's follow-on water weight is an issue, besides.
I hate to be this blunt, but you're thinking about this incorrectly.
Body weight jumps around from day to day, even if you eat the exact same number of calories. That's despite the fact that if you're trying to gain or lose or maintain weight, it's the calories that truly matter. It's probably even going to happen if you could find a way to eat the exact same foods in the exact same amounts every day, because exercise, healing, time of month for women, and more all can cause water weight. Don't worry about it. Water weight isn't fat. Food in your digestive system isn't fat.
Weight fluctuation is normal and natural. It's your body working correctly.
Furthermore, excess calories don't become fat the exact day you eat them. They have to be digested and metabolized/stored and such. There will be a delay. There's no magic formula to know that delay. Ditto for fat losses - they take time for the processing to occur.
I put "healthy" and "not healthy" in quotes above because that's part of the incorrect assessment. Whole ways of eating - the totality of how you eat, as a matter of routine - can be healthy or not healthy. Individual foods? It's all about how they contribute to that way of eating, in terms of macronutrients, micronutrients, satiation, and tastiness . . . oh, yeah - and calories. Pizza - protein, veggies, carbs, fats - is a potential positive contributor to a healthy way of eating, in the right portions at the right time. Ditto Doritos and even cookies/cake.
Just set up a rational calorie level to achieve your goals, eat a balanced and well-rounded array of foods to hit that calorie target routinely, and you'll accomplish your weight goals over a period of time (which is longer than one day). Stress and drama burn no calories - they don't help.26 -
Eating healthy has nothing to do with weight loss/gain. As others have said, weight loss isn't linear.
Your eating does concern me though. Only vegetables one day, followed by nothing but "junk food", followed by mostly a salad? Eat some variety, and aim for a healthy amount of calories.
^ This.8 -
OP do you see your lifestyle as healthy?
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When you skip meals your body stores anything it can as fat incase its being starved again.
Google, why I'm not losing weight when I eat less. There's hundreds of articles0 -
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When you skip meals your body stores anything it can as fat incase its being starved again.
Google, why I'm not losing weight when I eat less. There's hundreds of articles
aworkoutroutine.com/starvation-mode/12 -
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Did you exercise?
My weight will go up 1-2 kgs in a day if I do a big run. Your 1.2 lbs is just a normal daily fluctuation.
This is what normal weight loss looks like, as logged in my Happy Scale app:
It goes up and down all the time, but if you're logging accurately and sticking to your calorie limit, there is an overall downward trend.
Read the Most Helpful Posts, and hang in there.5 -
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I didn't say that at all. Google scholar is used by universities where I look up researched articles because I went through the same thing.
Patronising me may feel smart to u but it's kinda *kitten*. But thanks for yr input
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When you skip meals your body stores anything it can as fat incase its being starved again.
Google, why I'm not losing weight when I eat less. There's hundreds of articles
If this were true, then intermittent fasting (IF), as a weight loss strategy, would not work. However, many people use the IF strategy very successfully. (I wouldn't, but that's beside the point.)12 -
Yep ok.
I intermittent fast twice a week. Not everyday.
I'm wrong. Admit defeat. Thanks everyone4 -
I didn't say that at all. Google scholar is used by universities where I look up researched articles because I went through the same thing.
Patronising me may feel smart to u but it's kinda *kitten*. But thanks for yr input
Please read the link above in response to your post. Starvation mode doesn't happen. Your body does not store extra fat when you underfeed it, it simply can't. What you posted above is simply 100% wrong and is not supported by any recognized science.
It is one of the biggest diet myths out there and is one of my biggest annoyances.16 -
You will not be healthy eating only one meal a day.
If you eat 3 meals a day and healthy snacks in between you can still lose weight.
Lots of vegetables,lean meats and fish, and "good" fats found in nuts,avacado and olive oils.
Limit carbs especially sugar and try not to eat processed foods.
Also drinking 2ltrs of water each day will help with weight loss.
Also try to remember that "low fat" foods usually have a heap of sugar and other additives making them worse than the full fat varieties.
Hope this helps.
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I sincerely apologise for pissing everyone off. Obviously my thoughts on skipping meals then eating junk is wrong. I'm wrong and yes, I have much to learn which is why I joined in the first place. I'll refrain from commenting in future. Sorry all. I honestly thought starvation mode was "a thing". Thanks for pointing me into the right direction and helping me understand more clearly about not this topic23
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No one is perfect and I hope my comment didn't come across as being rude. You were asking for advice, nothing wrong with that and you admitted that you had made some mistakes diet-wise.
Try not to let it get you down or stop you from asking questions in the future, that's how we learn. 3 -
Ireneesexton9 wrote: »You will not be healthy eating only one meal a day.
If you eat 3 meals a day and healthy snacks in between you can still lose weight.
Lots of vegetables,lean meats and fish, and "good" fats found in nuts,avacado and olive oils.
Limit carbs especially sugar and try not to eat processed foods.
Also drinking 2ltrs of water each day will help with weight loss.
Also try to remember that "low fat" foods usually have a heap of sugar and other additives making them worse than the full fat varieties.
Hope this helps.
1. There is nothing wrong with eating 1 meal or several meals a day. This is personal preference.
2. No need to limit carbs, either.
3. Nothing wrong with processed foods.
4. Drinking an arbitrary amount of water does not help with weight loss. Water is for hydration.
5. No, low fat foods are not usually loaded with sugar.
Calories are all that matter for weight loss.14 -
Sorry but that's just not the case. Have you actually looked at the nutrition panel of these foods??
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Why do people continue to say limit carbs. Their basically all i eat and iv lost 83 pounds in 9 months...Their what my body needs people need to stop demonizing them as a rule for EVERYONE
Also eating processed foods. And low fat foods...
And all my calories within a short period at night often.7 -
How many calories are you consuming in a day? Weight fluctuates a lot, particularly for women, thanks to our whole monthly thing. Additionally, exercise and higher sodium intake will create some water retention.1
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I sincerely apologise for pissing everyone off. Obviously my thoughts on skipping meals then eating junk is wrong. I'm wrong and yes, I have much to learn which is why I joined in the first place. I'll refrain from commenting in future. Sorry all. I honestly thought starvation mode was "a thing". Thanks for pointing me into the right direction and helping me understand more clearly about not this topic
Nah, don't refrain from commenting. It's a conversation. Everyone gets to play.
If we're lucky, we'll collectively work our way around to a sensible answer for most people's questions. It's a group effort.
I like your forthrightness, and the fact that you're reading & thinking along with writing, by the way. I hope I can manage to do likewise. 15 -
You can lose weight by doing these things
Eating a lot of processed foods and too much sugar will not make you healthy though.
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Sorry but none of what you listed sounds like healthy eating... skipping meals? Chinese food? Pizza? Are you even counting calories at all? Or paying attention to your macronutrients?
By the way it IS very possible to gain weight truly eating healthy foods if the amount of calories is too high. It's also counterproductive to be skipping meals and eating so little sometimes interspersed with days eating too much and very unheslthy- that's how you crash your metabolism and then gain weight when you binge.
Please try to lose weight slowly with a proper daily calorie goal, regular meals, and exercise.
Do not weigh daily- daily fluctuations in weight mostly have to do with water retention/hydration, not actual fat loss.4
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