Gaining weight instead of loosing

musicfan68

liannebaker17 wrote: »

ATM my calories burns are 680 so I have to eat under this to loose weight? That can't be right

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Psychgrrl

liannebaker17 wrote: »

Weightloss is one thing I will never understand. I do think though that if I have another gain this week I'll go back to slimming world. As I had constant losses following slimming world

You didn't gain weight. Unless you ate 10,500 calories over the level you need to consume to maintain weight (you're currently eating at a deficit) in the last week, which is really unlikely.

OP, you might be better served by getting your own scale and weighing daily along with using a weight trending program like Happy Scale (iPhone) or Libra (Android). These programs use an algorithm to predict the overall trend of your weight, once you have a few weeks of daily data. You'll see how your weight fluctuates with food, hormones, exercise and not get freaked out over a few pounds of food and water in your system.

That being said. It's up to you. My biggest concern is that SW, from what I've heard from folks here, doesn't necessarily help you develop the habits to maintain your weight loss. But if you plan on doing it forever, it could work.

I eat whatever I want, within my calorie goal, and lost over 120 pounds. Weight loss doesn't result from the magic of omitting foods or food groups. It results from a calorie deficit. How you get there is up to you.

Good luck!

Christine_72

liannebaker17 wrote: »

ATM my calories burns are 680 so I have to eat under this to loose weight? That can't be right

@liannebaker17 680 is just what you burned through exercise, this is on top of your normal daily burn/living. Look up your BMR, there are loads of bmr calculators on the net, this number(calories) is what you'd burn parked on the couch or lying in bed all day. It takes a lot of work and therefore calories to keep your body running, heart beating, brain functioning etc etc

When you entered your details into MFP, the calories it gave you are what you need to eat to lose weight, you then eat 50-75 or 100% of your exercise calories back on top of mfp's calories, this part is trial and error. Some people can eat all of their exercise calories back, others need to tweak their numbers a bit.

liannebaker17

Christine_72 wrote: »

liannebaker17 wrote: »

ATM my calories burns are 680 so I have to eat under this to loose weight? That can't be right

@liannebaker17 680 is just what you burned through exercise, this is on top of your normal daily burn/living. Look up your BMR, there are loads of bmr calculators on the net, this number(calories) is what you'd burn parked on the couch or lying in bed all day. It takes a lot of work and therefore calories to keep your body running, heart beating, brain functioning etc etc

When you entered your details into MFP, the calories it gave you are what you need to eat to lose weight, you then eat 50-75 or 100% of your exercise calories back on top of mfp's calories, this part is trial and error. Some people can eat all of their exercise calories back, others need to tweak their numbers a bit.

Thank you that makes sense