Gaining weight despite being on point

Pamela_Sue

When you reached your goal, did you gradually increase deficit calories up to maintenance calories over time, or did you jump from deficit calories directly to maintenance calories? I don't know if this makes a difference, but am throwing the question out there.

psychod787

apullum wrote: »

Your calorie calculation is off somewhere, and/or there's an undiagnosed medical issue going on. It's possible that your Fitbit is overstating your calorie burn, which happens sometimes. Even an HRM can get it wrong in some situations. You might also be unintentionally using bad MFP database entries. Still, 30 pounds in 5 months seems like more than just a few bad entries and a little bit of exercise calorie inaccuracy. That indicates an average surplus of approximately 700 calories a day [(3500 cals/pound * 30 pounds)/150 days], which is way more than what I'd expect from minor logging errors.

Here's what I'd do:
- Have folks double check your MFP food log by making it public.
- If you haven't had a medical checkup recently, do that and make sure everything's in order.
- Go back into a deficit to reach the weight you want to maintain.
- Once you get back to your goal weight, "reverse diet" by gradually adding calories back until your weight stabilizes. That's your maintenance calorie goal.

Ok. I just wanted to add, imho, there is something OP is not telling us. I am n=1 here, but I have been on a "bulking" aka regain cycle for 6 months. My predicted tdee by most calculators have ne at 3100 calories a day. My actual level is more like 3300-3400. I have had roughly 10lbs of weight gain over that 6 months. My average intake was 3600. My weight gain was more rapid at first and then began to slow down after 8lbs or so. Why? Well my tdee went up as I was carrying more mass. TDEE goes up 80-110 calories per 10lbs on average. So.... math is not adding up. Jmho

AnnPT77

psychod787 wrote: »

apullum wrote: »

Your calorie calculation is off somewhere, and/or there's an undiagnosed medical issue going on. It's possible that your Fitbit is overstating your calorie burn, which happens sometimes. Even an HRM can get it wrong in some situations. You might also be unintentionally using bad MFP database entries. Still, 30 pounds in 5 months seems like more than just a few bad entries and a little bit of exercise calorie inaccuracy. That indicates an average surplus of approximately 700 calories a day [(3500 cals/pound * 30 pounds)/150 days], which is way more than what I'd expect from minor logging errors.

Here's what I'd do:
- Have folks double check your MFP food log by making it public.
- If you haven't had a medical checkup recently, do that and make sure everything's in order.
- Go back into a deficit to reach the weight you want to maintain.
- Once you get back to your goal weight, "reverse diet" by gradually adding calories back until your weight stabilizes. That's your maintenance calorie goal.

Ok. I just wanted to add, imho, there is something OP is not telling us. I am n=1 here, but I have been on a "bulking" aka regain cycle for 6 months. My predicted tdee by most calculators have ne at 3100 calories a day. My actual level is more like 3300-3400. I have had roughly 10lbs of weight gain over that 6 months. My average intake was 3600. My weight gain was more rapid at first and then began to slow down after 8lbs or so. Why? Well my tdee went up as I was carrying more mass. TDEE goes up 80-110 calories per 10lbs on average. So.... math is not adding up. Jmho

I 100% agree with the bold . . . but feel like it's important to leave room for the possibility that he's not telling us because he doesn't know himself.

psychod787

AnnPT77 wrote: »

psychod787 wrote: »

apullum wrote: »

Your calorie calculation is off somewhere, and/or there's an undiagnosed medical issue going on. It's possible that your Fitbit is overstating your calorie burn, which happens sometimes. Even an HRM can get it wrong in some situations. You might also be unintentionally using bad MFP database entries. Still, 30 pounds in 5 months seems like more than just a few bad entries and a little bit of exercise calorie inaccuracy. That indicates an average surplus of approximately 700 calories a day [(3500 cals/pound * 30 pounds)/150 days], which is way more than what I'd expect from minor logging errors.

Here's what I'd do:
- Have folks double check your MFP food log by making it public.
- If you haven't had a medical checkup recently, do that and make sure everything's in order.
- Go back into a deficit to reach the weight you want to maintain.
- Once you get back to your goal weight, "reverse diet" by gradually adding calories back until your weight stabilizes. That's your maintenance calorie goal.

Ok. I just wanted to add, imho, there is something OP is not telling us. I am n=1 here, but I have been on a "bulking" aka regain cycle for 6 months. My predicted tdee by most calculators have ne at 3100 calories a day. My actual level is more like 3300-3400. I have had roughly 10lbs of weight gain over that 6 months. My average intake was 3600. My weight gain was more rapid at first and then began to slow down after 8lbs or so. Why? Well my tdee went up as I was carrying more mass. TDEE goes up 80-110 calories per 10lbs on average. So.... math is not adding up. Jmho

I 100% agree with the bold . . . but feel like it's important to leave room for the possibility that he's not telling us because he doesn't know himself.

This could be true. If he is eating out a lot. Having someone else cook his food... ect. I can state, as @quiksilver1606 can attest, most 95% or so of my intake was made in my kitchen from single ingredient weighed food. Was not until this month that I took the advice of a professional who deals with body comp work to lighten the *kitten* up and let my body kind of guide me some.