Weight gain after a month of overeating

saraheid

After years of being overweight I finally.reached my goal weight very slowly and steadily and honestly.without much effort but now I have gained 6 kilos in 6 weeks of overeating everyday. It's depressing me and giving me anxiety! If I gained 6 kilos in 6 weeks, would it be possible to loose those 6 kilos in 6 weeks if I stop overeating & go back to my normal eating? How long would it take to loose

Lietchi

6kg = 46.200 calories
So gaining 6kg in 6 weeks means eating 1100 calories per day over maintenance
And losing 6kg in 6 weeks implies a deficit of 1100 calories per day (1100 calories less than maintenance)

If you're only 6kg overweight, that's not a good plan, a large deficit like that will most likely backfire. And a large deficit of 1100 calories per day is not what I would call 'normal eating'. So no, it will most likely take longer than that.

Without knowing your height and current weight, it's hard to say what is an appropriate rate of loss for you.

saraheid

I am currently 167cm and 70 kilos

Lietchi

You're at a BMI of (just above) 25. 6kg in 6 weeks definitely is not a good idea. Try 0.25 or 0.5kg per week, that will be a more sustainable approach (= a daily deficit of 225 or 550 calories per day).

saraheid

Based on what you said I need to cut back 1100 to loose it in 6 weeks whoch is obviously not healthy so I'm assuming that means cutting 550 I should be able to loose it in 12 weeks which sounds reasonable and doable.
Thanks for the info!

cmriverside

saraheid wrote: »

Based on what you said I need to cut back 1100 to loose it in 6 weeks whoch is obviously not healthy so I'm assuming that means cutting 550 I should be able to loose it in 12 weeks which sounds reasonable and doable.
Thanks for the info!

Theoretically...but in reality you may lose quite a lot of it fairly quickly by just going back to eating at your maintenance calories.


I wouldn't put a time limit on it since you just recently lost weight and then gained some scale weight right afterwards. That first year of Maintenance is pretty slippery in general. I was all over the place in weight in that first year after my 80 pound loss.

KickassAmazon76

The sad thing is... it's way easier to over eat for a long time than it is to eat at a deficit for the same amount of time. Given that it's not a lot of weight, I'd echo the above that you should look at a half pound a week rate of loss and use it as a learning experience.

Good news is that you've beat it before and you can do it again.

PAV8888

I will actually disagree with most of the statements above because it sounded to me that you lost weight sensibly and then immediately entered into a pretty good clip rebound regain

I mean your specifics would have to get looked at and I don't know if you were logging and how diligently while you were losing and while you've been gaining

But it seems to me the most important thing here is to stop the gain: much more than re-starting the process of losing.

I would strongly advocate aminus 250 or maintenance. Giving you time to try and figure out what's been happening during the past 6 weeks.

How did you go from whatever deficit you were applying to lose weight to a surplus that has led to you gaining rapidly?

Sure maybe only 2/3 of this weight is real and the rest is water weight but there sure seems like there's been a substantial coloric surplus in there.

Did you reduce activity change the type of food you're eating stopped logging you're extra hungry.... You do have to work a little bit on figuring this out almost in my mind more important than turning around and rapidly re losing to then quickly get back to the same point and then potentially do the same thing...

wunderkindking

I'm with PAV, here.

You really need to look at what went on in your mind that led you to regain, AND figure out how to maintain your weight going forward.

That is going to be a much bigger hurdle than simply getting some pounds off again. You need to make sure this isn't an again and again and again situation. Maintaining can be hard. Small deficit, and plan on that basically being your life, with the addition of like... a glass of milk, an apple and tbsp of peanut butter. You want to AVOID suddenly having a lot more calories to play with and going hog wild. The step from lose to maintain at the end should be as small as possible if you're inclined to going overboard.