How to fix metabolic adaptation?

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  • arizonaj22
    arizonaj22 Posts: 57 Member
    psychod787 wrote: »
    60k steps? Hell, you must just walk all day! No way to "fix" metabolic adaptation per se. I mean, unless you want to "repay" the energy gap. Why do I feel like I'm being trolled? 60k steps a day is like 30 miles. If burn 100 cals a mile, you are burning 3k cals before rmr and tef are taken into account.

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  • arizonaj22
    arizonaj22 Posts: 57 Member
    arizonaj22 wrote: »
    I also weigh everything on my food scale and Do Not eat anything else besides what I track. For some reason the picture option wont function to upload my food journal but heres the written out version in form of calories per food
    300 calories of chicken breast
    100 calories watermelon
    70 cal blueberry
    150 cal beans
    150 cal grits
    100 cal sweet potato
    120 calorie unsweetened almond milk
    100 cal cocoa puff
    100 cal HNcheerios
    100 cal honeycomb cereal
    150 cal tuna
    250 cal beef jerky
    100 cal banana
    200 cal soup
    I'll round it to 2000(its 1990 cal)
    Anyways that's a deficit for the average sedentary male and I'm over here doing all this activity and gaining fat just by looking at food!
    I thought it might be due to undereating aka starvation mode. Which is why I wanted to reverse diet and add calories but it seems that the more I add the more I gain(weight)

    I put what I ate yesterday in my new diary its public ..
  • arizonaj22
    arizonaj22 Posts: 57 Member
    nanamerriman2020 wrote: »
    Bottom line: if you grew 2" in the past few months, it is very reasonable for you to also put on weight. Trying to get back to the weight you knew when you were shorter is probably not a realistic goal.

    Guys tend to reach their full height by age 18, but that is not an absolute.

    Yes but I see a dramatic change in my fat like bigger stomach. Waistline, hip, 0 veins now :( and pants fit tighter and the 5'11 thing is just 2 inches
  • harper16
    harper16 Posts: 2,564 Member
    arizonaj22 wrote: »
    nanamerriman2020 wrote: »
    Bottom line: if you grew 2" in the past few months, it is very reasonable for you to also put on weight. Trying to get back to the weight you knew when you were shorter is probably not a realistic goal.

    Guys tend to reach their full height by age 18, but that is not an absolute.

    Yes but I see a dramatic change in my fat like bigger stomach. Waistline, hip, 0 veins now :( and pants fit tighter and the 5'11 thing is just 2 inches

    Your diary is empty when I viewed it, and what do you do that you walk close to 40 miles a day?
  • KrissDotCom
    KrissDotCom Posts: 217 Member
    I can't even find where to view the diary lol..
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,053 Member
    KrissDotCom wrote: »
    I can't even find where to view the diary lol..

    Do you mean this:

    https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/arizonaj22?date=2020-08-06 ?

    Or are you referring to the fact that there are no entries in it for this last week?
  • L1zardQueen
    L1zardQueen Posts: 8,753 Member
    edited August 2020
    Devil’s advocate here. MFP has been wonky lately. Maybe?
  • KrissDotCom
    KrissDotCom Posts: 217 Member
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    KrissDotCom wrote: »
    I can't even find where to view the diary lol..

    Do you mean this:

    https://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/diary/arizonaj22?date=2020-08-06 ?

    Or are you referring to the fact that there are no entries in it for this last week?

    Yeah that, I guess you can't view from the app.
  • KrissDotCom
    KrissDotCom Posts: 217 Member
    There isn't any entries for the last month lol..
  • arizonaj22
    arizonaj22 Posts: 57 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    I checked the OPs posting history to see if there were any clues to what might be going on. And a Nov post mentioned they were an Asian woman who was bulking.

    Because OP mentioned in this thread that 2000 would be a deficit for a sedentary man, I assumed OP was male.

    OP, if you are a menstruating female, has your cycle been normal during this time of weight gain?

    And you still haven't clarified the height issue - did you grow 2 inches in the last 4 months, or were one or both of those heights a typo?

    It would also be great if you could clarify what you are doing all day to get the daily step count you are getting.

    Sorry this was an account my sister using at the time but gave it to me because she had premium but I ended it because I didnt feel it was worth the money. I'm a male
  • arizonaj22
    arizonaj22 Posts: 57 Member
    rheddmobile wrote: »
    If the OP really did gain 2 inches and also was in the process of transforming from a scrawny boy to a grown man, the weight gain may be perfectly normal.

    30 miles a day is a lot of walking. Like, 8 to 10 hours a day. Is that really what’s happening?

    Definitely I understand that usually taller=gain of weight which is normal. However, this much for almost 2 inches AND a huge growth in my stomach,hips,waist tighter cloths etc... should not be happening imho
  • arizonaj22
    arizonaj22 Posts: 57 Member
    L1zardQueen wrote: »
    Devil’s advocate here. MFP has been wonky lately. Maybe?

    Yes I agree. It has rarely opened up to the point where I can log. Fortunately I was able to put the foods I had yesterday in today's log
  • arizonaj22
    arizonaj22 Posts: 57 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    You reset muscle efficiency by detuning your adaptation.

    In other words you do nothing or something else till your tuned body... de-tunes!

    It is the reverse of performing better.

    If you're walking around all day to burn calories to control your weight you do have an issue that should be discussed with your doctor and a referral to a specialist.... you're not going to spend the next 60 to 80 years walking like this every day all day.....

    Take a couple of rest days.

    Full rest days.

    No walking around.

    Couch all day. 6,000; not 60,000 maximum steps

    If you can't, ask yourself why you cannot and whether this is healthy. And discuss your findings as per above.

    Thank You very much for the advice! So this might be too much to ask but do you know how long it takes on average to de-tune? Maybe a week? And I'm just assuming that symptoms that my body reset is just losing weight once I reintroduce normal activity(lifting and moderate walking like 15k steps while maintaining a moderate diet)?
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,864 Member
    arizonaj22 wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    OP, I'm not sure if this is a typo or not. Are you saying that 4 months ago you were 5'9" and 135 lbs and now you are 5'11" and 175 lbs? Are you still growing?

    Regardless, 135 lbs would be quite underweight for 5'9 or 5'11.

    I'm just having a tough time getting my head around all your numbers. You are talking about getting a number of steps that would require walking for most of the day, all your calorie numbers are nice round numbers, your weight gain is again round dramatic numbers.

    If you have in fact gained 40 lbs in 4 months while eating 2000 calories daily and taking 50,000 steps a day, all I can suggest is a doctor's appointment.

    I already asked like 5 different doctors who specialize in dietary fields and nutritionists and all did not have a direct answer. They just pulled the "everyone has a different metabolism " card or something along the lines of it. I was 135 after doing like a 3 day fast to lose those final vanity pounds and just wanted to test myself. But normal weight at the end of my cut was around the 140s

    Did you have those tests at the end of this fast? Some metabolic testing reacts to fasting and gives incorrect results. Sure, those tests should be done x hrs after the last meal, but several days of fasting can throw the results off.
  • arizonaj22
    arizonaj22 Posts: 57 Member
    yirara wrote: »
    arizonaj22 wrote: »
    kimny72 wrote: »
    OP, I'm not sure if this is a typo or not. Are you saying that 4 months ago you were 5'9" and 135 lbs and now you are 5'11" and 175 lbs? Are you still growing?

    Regardless, 135 lbs would be quite underweight for 5'9 or 5'11.

    I'm just having a tough time getting my head around all your numbers. You are talking about getting a number of steps that would require walking for most of the day, all your calorie numbers are nice round numbers, your weight gain is again round dramatic numbers.

    If you have in fact gained 40 lbs in 4 months while eating 2000 calories daily and taking 50,000 steps a day, all I can suggest is a doctor's appointment.

    I already asked like 5 different doctors who specialize in dietary fields and nutritionists and all did not have a direct answer. They just pulled the "everyone has a different metabolism " card or something along the lines of it. I was 135 after doing like a 3 day fast to lose those final vanity pounds and just wanted to test myself. But normal weight at the end of my cut was around the 140s

    Did you have those tests at the end of this fast? Some metabolic testing reacts to fasting and gives incorrect results. Sure, those tests should be done x hrs after the last meal, but several days of fasting can throw the results off.

    Oh no no my apologies if I was unclear. It was just near the end of my cut where I was on my high horse and tried to see how low I could go(like how boxers go for super low weigh ins. I was excited because of creed the movie and just decided to try to aim for a low as possible weigh in)

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