Plateaued and am now gaining weight

SLLRunner

You put your body in starvation mode. You need more calories for the amount of exercise you are doing

Please explain how an overweight person can be in the same metabolic state as a person who is severely underweight and literally starving. :huh:

I would also like the same answer.

Here's a great read: http://fattyfightsback.blogspot.com/2009/03/mtyhbusters-starvation-mode.html
And this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/761810-the-starvation-mode-myth-again

Will_Thrust_For_Candy

If you are overestimating everything by double - and I mean actually logging twice as much as you are really eating - then you haven't been eating enough. You would have lost weight initially and now you'd be in starvation mode. Your weight is in the healthy range for a 5' female. Be careful, you don't want to kill your metabolism. It takes a lot to get it going again.

:noway: Not this at all.

mimieon

It is no use to debate about whether you were probably over or underestimating when you were eyeballing. Start ACTUALLY weighing your food, limit eating out, stick to the plan and see what happens. If you start losing again, you know you were overestimating. If nothing changes or you still gain weight, come back with accurate information (a well-documented food/exercise diary, based on weighing your food) and then people can help you evaluate further.

ladyraven68

But don't eat back your exercise. If your daily goal is 1230. Then thats all you should eat. No matter how much your exercising. Burn more than you eat. If you eat it all back it kind of defeats the purpose.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/818082-exercise-calories-again-wtf

Francl27

Yep, weigh your food (don't even use cups and spoons.. use a scale). Then eat your exercise calories back (just make sure they are accurate, otherwise eat 50% back or something).

heybales

Please explain how an overweight person can be in the same metabolic state as a person who is severely underweight and literally starving. :huh:

I would also like the same answer.

Here's a great read: http://fattyfightsback.blogspot.com/2009/03/mtyhbusters-starvation-mode.html
And this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/761810-the-starvation-mode-myth-again

More of an explanation of what is generally meant by starvation mode, ie adaptive thermogenesis, not starving, as many in the world are doing.
Plus the studies as to what you can do to yourself that you may have wished you had not done and how long that negative effect may last - more studies brought out in the thread too as to possible long term consequences.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1077746-starvation-mode-adaptive-thermogenesis-and-weight-loss?

One of those situations of how you can effect your ease of maintenance in the future by your choices now.