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I keep gaining weight...what am I doing wrong?
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According to the limits, heavy exercise is if you workout 6-7 days a week. Daily exercise is if you workout 7 days a week and have a physical job as well:
Heavy exercise (ex: exercising 6-7 days/week)
Daily exercise (ex: exercising 7 days/week and working a physical job)
I can guarantee you don't need that many cals. let's just start at the beginning, by knowing how much you eat for the next three weeks. wwe will weigh you every day until then. after, by comparing your net change to your accounting, we will know if you had a negative, positive, or neutral energy balance over the three week span.
then we will have your actual TDEE instead of this ridiculous conjecture, and you'll have clear parameters for achieving your goals.0 -
I can guarantee you don't need that many cals. let's just start at the beginning, by knowing how much you eat for the next three weeks. wwe will weigh you every day until then. after, by comparing your net change to your accounting, we will know if you had a negative, positive, or neutral energy balance over the three week span.
then we will have your actual TDEE instead of this ridiculous conjecture, and you'll have clear parameters for achieving your goals.
Sounds good! While I'm at work today, I'll have to figure out how to make my diary public (it's set at private right now, I think). And add pics...maybe.
I appreciate everyone replying...much better to hear I'm probably not doing it right and need try to figure out how to fix it than sitting here crying into my coffee...ha0 -
I understand you run daily, but running 5 miles is not really what if consider heavy exercise. You are female right? You won't need over 2000 cals. I'd gain for sure eating that much. You shouldn't be hungry eating that amount.0
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Aside from some of the comments that have already been mentioned I recommend that you 'Try a different scale'. Some scales are not that accurate and it would help just to have a second one just incase one is delivering faulty readings.0
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I understand you run daily, but running 5 miles is not really what if consider heavy exercise. You are female right? You won't need over 2000 cals. I'd gain for sure eating that much. You shouldn't be hungry eating that amount.
Wrong. While I can't say with any degree of certainty that she does need more than 2000...most women running 5 miles a day would NOT gain on that amount (2000 calories). I'm substantially smaller and eat 2000 daily without weight gain and I don't run 5 miles a day.0 -
So to be clear, in the last week or so you started running a whole lot more? If that is the case, and you are measuring your food and drink consumption very carefully, you likely have something like this going on, http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/200544-why-do-you-sometimes-gain-weight-when-starting-a-new-exercis0
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Yeah, 'weight' gain can definitely be water, and that won't be figured in any calories in vs out sort of math. The tape measure is better than the scale for me with water issues (from heavy exercise or TOM), but even then bloating can mess up the measuring.
Basically, patience is the biggest thing you need to do if that's the problemThe weight loss trend will outnumber the water weight lbs given enough time. The water pounds can go away, too, but for me they typically come up again, lol. The entire trend line goes down, though, but it took weeks for me to see mine do that. 3 weeks would definitely not ever be long enough for me because of hormonal water weight fluctuations in that short a period. People who lose at a fast rate, generally those with more to lose, could do with 3 weeks and still see their downward trend, probably.
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Water weight. just have patience and keep working hard. You could be losing inches so that's a good thing too! ive been working out and lost maybe 2 lbs but ive lost 5 inches off of my waist. im slimming before losing pounds I guess! Everybody is different! don't give up!!0
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