Losing weight

saqass2008864
saqass2008864 Posts: 1 Member
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hi guys, I’ve gained 7 kg in the past 2 months because I have not been consistent enough with gym and my meals. Any advices ?

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,705 Member

    First things first.

    That's LOT of over-eating. Rein in that food intake. Log your food every day.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 36,606 Member

    Any chance you have a serious health condition that would suddenly add body weight - water weight or some kind of fast-growing tissue? 7kg in 2 months is very fast gain. It's possible to do that by eating excess food lots over maintenance calories, or being dramatically less physically active (not just exercise activity - all of it, job, home chores, commute, exercise, etc.). However, I'm doubtful that it's possible to do that without noticing you're doing it.

    Gaining 7 kg in 60 days (round numbers) would mean eating on average around 900 calories daily more than you burn through your total lifestyle. If you've been inconsistent enough with eating/gym to get there, then OK. But if there's isn't something obvious . . . honestly, see your doctor.

    Nine hundred calories of food is like 2 peanut butter sandwiches on hearty bread, or a couple orders of McDonald's large fries, or 2 liters of sugar soda (e.g. coke), or one of the big Steak N Shake milkshakes with candy bar pieces in it, on average every day. Nine hundred calories of exercise would be around 2-2.5 hours of weight lifting, or a 100 kg person running 45 minutes or so at about 10kph, again on average every day. It could be a combination of eating more and moving less, sure . . . but it still would be pretty noticeable, IMO. And since either of those is "on average daily", so on the eating side it could be a giant eat/drink blow-out on the weekend, maybe. Maybe.

    But yes, that is possible. I'm not being specific in that way to be shame-y. Food isn't sin, not gymming isn't sin: Shame doesn't apply.

    What I am doing is trying to quantify, because that's such fast gain I'm worried about your overall health, not just mental health, but physical health. Try to think of me as your concerned old internet auntie who wants you to thrive and be healthy. There are serious health conditions that can trigger fast weight gain. If it doesn't feel like your "more eating, less gym" is putting you into the kind of quantitative zone I described above, please see your doctor soon.

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