Eating rice broccoli and chicken to lose weight, but still gaining?

emmanmcbell

Hello, I'm eating rice broccoli and chicken, counting the portion sizes and calories but after 2 days it still says I'm gaining weight. I wanted to know is this an outlier and if I stay consistent with counting my calories and remaining in a caloric defecit will my body just naturally digest the food? Or does this mean I should stop this diet and try something else?

PS I have only been eating and measuring my calories for the past week. And my fitness pal is saying that I gained 3 pounds in 2 days.

Unicorn_Bacon

2 days isnt enough time to make any conclusion on if your actually gaining

What are your stats? What's your calorie goal? How are you determining your portion sizes? Are you using a food scale? Are you exercising? Are you eating back those calories?
When are you weighing yourself? How many times? How much is it going up?

Also why are you only eating chicken, rice and broccoli?

missysippy930

You need to give it more time. If you are weighing, measuring accurately, and at a calorie deficit, you will lose weight. A week is not long enough.

kshama2001

missysippy930

BTW, calorie deficit rules weight loss........always. It doesn’t matter what you eat. Nutrition is important to overall health though.

harper16

If that's all you're allowed to eat on that diet. Than yes, you should stop.

psuLemon

emmanmcbell wrote: »

Hello, I'm eating rice broccoli and chicken, counting the portion sizes and calories but after 2 days it still says I'm gaining weight. I wanted to know is this an outlier and if I stay consistent with counting my calories and remaining in a caloric defecit will my body just naturally digest the food? Or does this mean I should stop this diet and try something else?

PS I have only been eating and measuring my calories for the past week. And my fitness pal is saying that I gained 3 pounds in 2 days.

I'd highly recommend you stop following a bodybuilding cutting diet. To ensure properly nutrition, you should be eating a variety of foods and adequate calories to ensure you body is being nourished. Vitamin deficiencies can cause a host of issues.


Also, as others stated, start to measure results over several weeks to months.... not days.

lemurcat2

As people have noted, 2 days is nothing. Especially if you hadn't been in the habit of weighing yourself regularly, the starting weight could have been a lower weight day -- due to water weight fluctuations -- and people's water weigh changes all the time anyway. It could be related to starting exercise, variations in when you weighed, or (assuming you are a woman) water weight changes for hormonal reasons and you won't know your patterns until doing this for a while. Be patient and monitor results over the next few weeks.

Also, what are your goals and how many cals are you eating? How are you counting them? (And please tell me you are eating foods other than just chicken, rice, and broccoli.)