dont understand???

hibbard
hibbard Posts: 2
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi Everyone
This is my first time to post here, so I want to give you a little background. I lost 80 pounds over about 2years and in the last year I have gained back 38 pounds. I have not really changed what I was eating...I am on the food lover diet no sugar white flour sort of stuff. I may have been eating a bit more sugar then last year but not alot. I quit smoking and in the first few months I had a sweet tooth. Since I was gaining I went back to Jazzerise and still continue to gain a few pounds each month. I have also had my yearly check up and all my labs came back normal. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong or give me some advice on what I need to change. I just dont understand????
Donna

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,996 Member
    Gaining weight means you're eating more than you're expending. That's pretty much it.

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  • TrainingWithTonya
    TrainingWithTonya Posts: 1,741 Member
    Unfortunately, it's a little more then calories in versus calories out. You may be eating the exact same amount of calories now that you were last year but are gaining because you've actually slowed your metabolism by losing muscle with a weight loss program based on diet alone. In order to lose weight and keep it off, it takes a combination of healthy diet, resistance training to maintain muscle (which burns more calories at rest), and cardio to keep the heart healthy and burn off the body fat. While you can lose weight on the scale with diet alone, it's the exercise that will promote the loss being from body fat and not lean tissue.
  • azazelrabbit
    azazelrabbit Posts: 137
    Ditto these ^^

    It doesn't matter what you are eating, but if your calories in exceed your calories outt hen you will gain weight.
    Fact of life, sorry :(
  • zeikiya989
    zeikiya989 Posts: 80
    Yes say same as above. How many calories are you eating daily? How many calories are you burning daily?
  • rileysowner
    rileysowner Posts: 8,332 Member
    Ditto. Assuming you are logging here without seeing your food diary it is pretty much impossible to comment beyond saying you are eating more than you are expending either because you are eating more than you think you are or because your metabolism has slowed down for one reason or another.

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