THE ONLY WAY YOU GAIN IS IF YOU GO OVER YOUR GOAL?

Stilllosing26

Quick question. When I wasn't using MFP, and I was out of shape, and had a lot of fat, was it because I was eating more calories then I was burning during the day? Or was it the type of food I was eating. If I spent the whole day eating unhealthy fatty foods, but burned MORE calories than I ate, would I gain, and store fat? Or was the SOLELY and ONLY reason I became fat because of me eating more than I was burning? Will I gain fat again if I eat a fatty food or so a day, yet stay at my recommended goal on MFP? Will my body keep storing fat like it use to, or not because of my deficit?

DebbieLyn63

I am on a high fat low carb diet where my Fat intake is about 65% of my calories. Losing steadily. Eating fat doesn't make you fat, unless you eat more calories than your body burns.

_KitKat_

Weight is ONLY surplus, maintaining or deficient. If you eat more than you use, you gain. If you eat less than your body uses, you lose weight. If you eat what you need, you maintain.

Stilllosing26

I am on a high fat low carb diet where my Fat intake is about 65% of my calories. Losing steadily. Eating fat doesn't make you fat, unless you eat more calories than your body burns.

Very Interesting

swaggityswagbag

I eat this way too. It helps keep me extremely satiated at around 1400-1500 calories a day, something I never could do when I ate mostly carbs and "low fat" foods.

Stilllosing26

I eat this way too. It helps keep me extremely satiated at around 1400-1500 calories a day, something I never could do when I ate mostly carbs and "low fat" foods.

I see

megsmom2

WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING IN ALL YOUR MULTIPLE TOPICS???? damn, now I'm doing it too.....

leggup

The only way to gain weight is to eat more calories than your body needs to sustain its current weight. If you maintain your weight at 1,900-2,000 calories and you eat an extra 500 calories of hamburger/carrots/lettuce/low fat cheese/anything, you will gain weight. It doesn't matter what those extra calories come from.

Dr__Girlfriend

Or you can gain weight if you're putting on muscle. I gained about 15 pounds, but I LOST 2 dress sizes. YAY, MUSCLE!

Fat doesn't make you fat. use www.iifym.com to figure out how much fat, protein, and carbs you should be eating based on your goals. It also has a way better calorie calculator than MFP.

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Strokingdiction

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JUST FYI.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

The only way to gain fat is to go over your maintenance calories, or to have a medical condition that messes up the way your body processes certain foods (which is still going over maintenance, it's just that the calories out side of the equation is messed up).

You can gain water weight several ways: sodium, exercise, time of month if you're female, alcohol, or dehydration. But that kind of weight is temporary.

You can gain muscle by either eating at maintenance, lifting, and getting enough protein or by eating at a surplus. You can gain a VERY SMALL AMOUNT in a deficit if you're a newbie (think ounces, not pounds) or if you're returning to lifting after time away.

AwesomeGuy37

Topic: THE ONLY WAY YOU GAIN IS IF YOU GO OVER YOUR GOAL?

No. Correction: "Topic: THE ONLY WAY YOU GAIN IS IF YOU GO OVER YOUR MAINTENANCE?" - Yes

Quick question. When I wasn't using MFP, and I was out of shape, and had a lot of fat, was it because I was eating more calories then I was burning during the day?

Yes.

Or was it the type of food I was eating.

Some foods do increase appetite.

If I spent the whole day eating unhealthy fatty foods, but burned MORE calories than I ate, would I gain, and store fat?

No.

Or was the SOLELY and ONLY reason I became fat because of me eating more than I was burning?

Technically, yes.

Will I gain fat again if I eat a fatty food or so a day, yet stay at my recommended goal on MFP?

No. Calories determine weight loss and gain.

Will my body keep storing fat like it use to, or not because of my deficit?

I don't understand the question. The body doesn't store fat on a deficit.

Aaron_K123

Quick question. When I wasn't using MFP, and I was out of shape, and had a lot of fat, was it because I was eating more calories then I was burning during the day? Or was it the type of food I was eating. If I spent the whole day eating unhealthy fatty foods, but burned MORE calories than I ate, would I gain, and store fat? Or was the SOLELY and ONLY reason I became fat because of me eating more than I was burning? Will I gain fat again if I eat a fatty food or so a day, yet stay at my recommended goal on MFP? Will my body keep storing fat like it use to, or not because of my deficit?

Yes. No. No. Yes. No. Not.

mike_ny

I am on a high fat low carb diet where my Fat intake is about 65% of my calories. Losing steadily. Eating fat doesn't make you fat, unless you eat more calories than your body burns.

That sounds a lot like the way I lost 40 pounds and got fit. My fat intake was and still is anywhere from 50% to 60% of my calories with my protein at around 30%, only leaving 10-20% for carbs. It seems the more fat I ate, the faster I dropped the pounds. Fat and protein are great fuels and they don't net 100% of the calories consumed like carbs do. It also helped me feel full longer since fat and protein take longer to digest, so it was a lot easier to stay within my calorie deficit than it would have ever been with a high carb low fat diet. Carbs just don't fill me up. They're fast energy and then they're gone. I can eat them all day and still be hungry, which is how I gained the weight in the first place.

People just refuse to accept that high fat diets are a healthy way to lose weight as long as your total calories stay within your target. My doctor is fine with it, though. He was cautious at first, but he's very pleased with my results. I'm down to a healthy weight and my cholesterol and triglycerides have gone from being high while overweight and eating a low fat diet to being at the extremely low range while eating a high fat diet, with much of that fat being saturated. I also eat four or more eggs a day, so dietary cholesterol obviously doesn't determine blood cholesterol levels.

collingmommy

Don't judge me ppl but I used to think that if you didn't eat fat you wouldn't get fat... lol... I was.... well... not very knowledgeable. But I now know better. This topic reminds me of the idea of that. And to think, I cut out peanut butter and milk for a long long time (3 to 4 weeks).

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