Weight Gain with a 1200 calorie diet.

GothicaAdore

This week I had a couple of days where I went above 1200 calories but yesterday was my highest calorie day at about 1500 calories. I gained half a pound this week. Does this mean my maintain calories will be somewhere between 1200 and 1400 when I move to maintenance calories?

Is this a common issue for people who have been on this diet long term?

I'm trying to not be frustrated but I only seem to lose around half a pound a week when I do keep to 1200.

gigglesinthesun

no it means for some reason (hormonal, exercise, lack of sufficient bowel movements) your overall weight was 1/2lbs heavier then last week.

Chances are high it is not a fat gain, but since you haven't really given us any other stats everything else is guess work.

sanfly

Agreed, very unlikely to be anything more than normal weight variation if you're eating 1200-1500 cal. Keep it up for at least 2 weeks, then see how you go.

Also, I'd recommend you get a food scale & a Heart Rate Monitor to make sure that you're being as as accurate as possible with your food intake and exercise calories