About to throw in the towel

jamie31

Over the past 6 to 7 months I have become extremely frustrated with my weight. I am 6'2" and last summer at this time i weighed 195. I am an athlete that plays volleyball, basketball and softball ( i play at least 4 softball games a week). In november my weight jumped to 205 in a matter of weeks. I did not change a thing. I was still eating the same and working out the same amount of hours. Since then my weight has gone up to 210!!!!!!! I have tried just about everything to fix it included going extremely low carb ( i was unable to sustain this because with how active I am i was left with absolutely no energy). I cant seem to figure out what went wrong over these months to make me gain 15 pounds. Some of the workouts i do are : Insanity, Turbofire, Insanity Asylum, biking, running and weight training. My workouts are always mixed up and I am always adding new things in so I know it cant be that my body is used to them. Any ideas or input is appreciated. I have looked up so much and have even considered that i was in starvation mode ( i normally have alot of extra calories left each day) i tried eating more for a few months but still didnt see the scale go down. I know some people will say that it may be muscle that I have gained but while i am still in the same size clothes as last year they do not fit as well. my thighs look fatter and my stomach is bigger.

Jenscan

If your weight went up and you didn't do anything different, I'd really suggest consulting a doctor for an underlying health condition that would be causing it.

lucky1ns

Are you on any medications?

I started on astatin and gained 20 lbs. since November

Dr. Doesn't believe me and wont take me off them. It is apparently dangerous to stop taking them on your own.

erickirb

Is it possible that "starvation Mode" happened to you. I noticed quite a awhile ago that your net calories are much lower than your MFP goal intake. You may be burning too many cals and not taking in enough, and your metabolism finally had enough.

The only suggestion I would have it to try eating close to maintenance calories (plus your exercise calories back) for a few weeks to see if that gets things moving again.

supermom1114

I would check with your doctor. There may be a medical condition at the root of this, most likely metabolic, something with the endocrine system, my first guess is thyroid but I'm no doctor. Really push for them to keep testing and if one doctor gives up move to another. The human body doesn't just magically pack on pounds while you're eating right and working out. I don't think it was startvation mode either because usually that just means your weight stays the same, maybe goes up a few lbs but not 15. Some of it could be muscle but if your clothes are actually fitting tighter and things seem a little softer then I doubt it. Muscle gain usually makes you appear smaller despite a higher weight and you'll feel harder. Definitely go see your doctor.

jamie31

I have had my thyroid among other things tested when i consulted my doctor a few months ago. Everything came back fine, thyroid was good and even my cortisol levels were normal. The doctor had thought maybe I had a high level of cortisol which was what was making my weight go up. That not being the case he put me on water pills to see if maybe i was retaining water. Those did not help and I am kind of at a standstill with the doctor. Medically there seems to be nothing wrong

supermom1114

hhmmm, maybe relax on the workouts for a bit, eat maintenance calories and see if that helps. I still don't think you're in starvation mode and I know you said you ate maintenance for a few months but if you continued with high intensity workouts it may not have helped. Maybe your body is just wiped out. Even elite athletes take a couple months off from hard training to just let their bodies rest. Even if you take rest days while training, your body still takes a pounding, especially with the high intensity exercises you mentioned. Stay active, still do things you enjoy like playing sports but maybe cut down on the extreme workouts and eat healthy maintenance for a month or so. The pounds might not drop off during that month but when you get back into things and cut calories again you'd probably see them slide right off

jamie31

hhmmm, maybe relax on the workouts for a bit, eat maintenance calories and see if that helps. I still don't think you're in starvation mode and I know you said you ate maintenance for a few months but if you continued with high intensity workouts it may not have helped. Maybe your body is just wiped out. Even elite athletes take a couple months off from hard training to just let their bodies rest. Even if you take rest days while training, your body still takes a pounding, especially with the high intensity exercises you mentioned. Stay active, still do things you enjoy like playing sports but maybe cut down on the extreme workouts and eat healthy maintenance for a month or so. The pounds might not drop off during that month but when you get back into things and cut calories again you'd probably see them slide right off

So you think its possible that working out too much is what is causing the weight gain?

supermom1114

I think it's possible that your body is tired, your metabolism is slowing down, and anything you do eat is being saved as fat because your body is just stressed. I've taken a few kinesiology classes but not enough to feel fully confident about my answer and flesh out a list of reasons. All I know is sometimes our bodies do weird things and react in weird ways to the stress we put it under. For example, I don't know if you watch biggest loser but this past season there was a girl, Courtney, who had lost 100lbs before going on the show and was getting close to losing 100lbs on the ranch. I mean she consistently lost like 5+ lbs a week for many weeks. But then even with the best trainers, healthy foods surrounding her, and pushing herself in workouts she had like a month straight where she lost a lb a week and I think had a gain in there somewhere, can't remember exactly. I mean the girl had lost almost 200lbs and was working out like a rockstar day in and day out. Her body just freaked. I know its not the same situation as yours but I'm just trying to say, even someone with the best fitness advisors around her and who was no slacker by any means, had a time where her body didn't cooperate no matter what. I'd just cut back on the hardcore intense workouts, stop thinking about your weight so much, take that mental stress over it all away, and just do fun stuff like sports for a while, don't track foods, go off of intuitive eating. Eat when you're hungry and stop when you're not, I'm sure you know what you should be eating and how to balance it. Just take the pressure off for a month and see what happens.

mlb929

I follow the Fat Flush Plan by Ann Louise Gittleman - she is a firm supporter of the theory that exercising too much can be problematic to weight loss.

milaxx

Your diet looks pretty decent. Perhaps it is your metabolism changing. I noticed quite a bit of processed foods. Have you considered tracking your sodium for a bit? limiting my sodium works better for me than water pills which actually make me sick. i would monitor it for another 3 months and check back with the doctor if the weight keep going up.