5lb weight gain

tracypaprocki

For the first time in almost 2 years I am consuming more than 1200 calores, i am now consuming 1500 (of course I eat my exercise calories also. My question is...could I be gaining weight because my body is just adjusting to more calories and leaving starvation mode behind or am I truely eating too many calories. And if its just my body adjusting how long should I expect to gain weight? Any help is appreciated.

tracypaprocki

For the first time in almost 2 years I am consuming more than 1200 calores, i am now consuming 1500 (of course I eat my exercise calories also. My question is...could I be gaining weight because my body is just adjusting to more calories and leaving starvation mode behind or am I truely eating too many calories. And if its just my body adjusting how long should I expect to gain weight? Any help is appreciated.

hamilton4beaumont

I was just checking to see how you are doing with this one! Have you continued to gain or have you started to drop weight and inches? I'm in your shoes too. I bought an HRM and am eating 1800 calories because that's what my HRM basically is showing me as what I should have for a 500 calorie deficit on days I don't workout! Totally nuts and I feel like a pig... and too chicken to get on the scales. Let us know!

hamilton4beaumont

I was just checking to see how you are doing with this one! Have you continued to gain or have you started to drop weight and inches? I'm in your shoes too. I bought an HRM and am eating 1800 calories because that's what my HRM basically is showing me as what I should have for a 500 calorie deficit on days I don't workout! Totally nuts and I feel like a pig... and too chicken to get on the scales. Let us know!

hamilton4beaumont

I was just checking to see how you are doing with this one! Have you continued to gain or have you started to drop weight and inches? I'm in your shoes too. I bought an HRM and am eating 1800 calories because that's what my HRM basically is showing me as what I should have for a 500 calorie deficit on days I don't workout! Totally nuts and I feel like a pig... and too chicken to get on the scales. Let us know!

kerrilucko

For the first time in almost 2 years I am consuming more than 1200 calores, i am now consuming 1500 (of course I eat my exercise calories also. My question is...could I be gaining weight because my body is just adjusting to more calories and leaving starvation mode behind or am I truely eating too many calories. And if its just my body adjusting how long should I expect to gain weight? Any help is appreciated.

You answered your own question here. You body is collecting all those extra calories, preparing itself for when you start starving yourself again and it needs them. I'm not sure how long it will last but you WILL eventually start losing as your body realizes that you are not going to cut off its energy supply. It is pretty important I think, for you to steer clear of the scale for awhile. I'd go as long as a whole moth if you can, because if the scale continues to rise, you may get discouraged and assume this isn't working. Wait a month THEN weigh, I bet you'll have lost something by then and that way you won't have to suffer through the gaining process! Good luck and welcome! You are definitey doing the right thing! :flowerforyou:

tracypaprocki

Thank you for your help. It would be entirely too hard to stay away from the scale. I weigh every day some times many times a day (I am obsessed). I will keep you posted.

MisdemeanorM

Thank you for your help. It would be entirely too hard to stay away from the scale. I weigh every day some times many times a day (I am obsessed). I will keep you posted.

You know weighing multiple times a day (or even daily) just weighs the amount of liquid in your system and varies greatly depending on if you just ate, if you drank a glass of water or if you used the bathroom recently... It does not reflect your actual weight gain or loss. You will be much happier if you do weekly check ins (or start slowly and do every other day then semi weekly! and then cut down to once a week!) Plus, you will actually be able to see results on the scale if you lose .5 - 1.5 lbs a week rather than fluxuate back and forth by ounces daily. (I agree to lay off the scale completely until your body gets out of starvation mode!! If you MUST weigh yourself during that time, be sure to mentally consider the extra lbs the energy that is going to help you kickstart your metabolism once you are back on healthy-calorie-count track!)

Your goal should be toward a healtier lifestyle - which is mostly about how your body feels (somewhat toned and not winded at simple tasks!) not your weight! (Remember, muscle weighs more than fat!) As long as you are obsessed with the scale you are likely not doing what is best for your body but just what is "best" for the results you want to see on the scale!!

(I've known people who did not want to drink extra water becacuse they weighed themselves so much and did not like that it made "their weight go up"!!!)