Tried to eat more it does not work

LizKurz

Will everyone l have been listening to you and have up my calories today and so far so good but l am feeling very fully though.

Scrolling through your diary, you have eaten more today, that's a great job! I would try to eat this amount for a few days before upping it.

Since you're already getting in so much exercise with walking, I would suggest on the days you walk, don't do the JM DVD's. If you don't walk, do the DVD, but know you don't have to do it three times. Once is good enough. Even twice if you're going to be hardcore. But three times is really excess IMHO.

Sorry but l just love doing and will be always doing JM DVD 3 times daily...Love the way it makes me feel when l have finished it..

Don't be sorry to me, I'm not the one that has to live with the issues you're having with regard to not losing weight.

And as to telling the person to check out what you really ate, they were exactly on the money, you ate nowhere near what you werew supposed to, I simply glossed over it, because you did eat a bit more than the days prior, and that's improvement. But they are right, you have more progress to be made if youre going to continue to work out crazily.

Helloitsdan

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acidosaur

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ffL573XI50

LOL.

runlaugheatpie

I was looking at your diary Tania and I also noticed that you eat the same things on a regular basis. You may also want to vary your diet a bit. I know you are busy but there are things you can do to change it up. For example, you can plan snacks ahead of time by prepping small fruit and yoghurt cups or just chopped veggies for on the go (I didn't notice that you eat much of fruit and veg). I also have a very busy life and I do a lot of food prep on Sundays and during the week try to cook extra portions so I can take leftovers for lunch. You can easily up your calories a bit by drinking 2% milk, eating yoghurt, cottage cheese, goat's cheese (if you don't have dairy issues). You can also bulk up and add good carbs to your diet by eating veggies with your meals.

The thing is you have to be willing to change if something isn't working for you. I can tell you something that I learned the hard way - overtraining WILL land you on the long road of the plateau, so if you keep burning MORE calories than you consume in a day you are going to end up with all sorts of issues like too much cortisol and maybe even adrenal fatigue.

Of course it's your decision but I'm also a woman in my 40's with a busy life and you really don't have to learn the same hard lesson that I've experienced in the last 2+ years if you make the choice to do something that's better for yourself (like NOT doing 30 DS 3 times a day).

tania2287

Hey Tania,

Serious question. How are you measuring the grams of chicken/rice and the 1 tablespoon of carrots/1 floret of broccoli?
The reason I ask is that these portions are a bit odd, and I would sure hate for you to be underestimating your calories eaten. Chicken and rice actually can add up.

Digital scales that is how

tania2287

Looked at your diary, eating more means eating more HEALTHY foods, not an excess of carbs and bread and takeout, lol.

That is right eating more healthy. I don't have a high carbs or eat much bread only started to eat bread now...As for takeout do not eat much of that all..Just had a busy couple of days as easter was around the corner and have been getting ready to go to Melbourne..But takeout is Subway which is a healthy chose is l was going to get takeout l did choose it healthy as l can..

Helloitsdan

Ive found that eating a 90/10 ratio is pretty good for 99% of the people on my numbers.
90% whole foods and 10% junk.
That way you wont have to obsess over foods as much.

So on a 2k a day diet you get 200cals of whatever you want.

Having Protein and Fat at 30% each tends to help the fat some off pretty quickly too.

BlessedShauna777

3 weeks? your kidding me right?? it seems like your looking for a quick fix and upping ur cals WILL NOT give you that.

caroline_g

Thanks for that l agree..I do eat every 2-3 hours throughout the day so l am keeping my body in fuel so that l do not burn out and l am very fit and on the go all day long with 3 kids and work to keep me busy and l am very happy eating around 1200 or least.

I am not going to eat the calories that l am burning l find that not right, why burn calories if you are only going to eat them back?

You burn them because it gives you a healthier lifestyle. Because it tones your body. Because it can help to reduce blood pressure, heart rate etc. Because it increases your metabolism (more muscle, more burn). Because you'll look more toned rather than skinny fat. You eat them back to give your body enough fuel. Because it stops you going into starvation mode, which by the sounds of it you were and probably still are in. Because you preserve muscle and lose more fat. Because it helps keep your metabolism raised so that you can keep the weight off easier. There are lots of reasons to exercise beyond burning calories, it is right and the benefits for you eating them back far outweigh not eating them back. But to be honest, you'll do whatever you want regardless of what people on here say anyway.

Louizl

Tania, I am so glad to hear that you are trying to increase your calories. Please keep trying to up them to a level where your body can function adequately without doing damage to itself in order to just keep you alive.

In the past you had been netting (or minus netting!!) less calories than I was several years ago when I weighed 83 lbs, when anorexic. You might feel great doing this for a while, but I can guarantee, it will catch up with you in a big way. There will come a time when your body says "no more, I can't do this" - this is generally right at the stage where your body has tried everything it can to slow down or halt every "non-vital" process (metabolism, skin, hair, nails, hormones, cognitive function) and has started eating organ tissue, yes that's right, it cannibalises the liver, kidneys and other organs. I am certainly no expert in this, but going from what my psychiatrist has said to me in the past, If you are seriously undereating for an amount of time and your body isn't getting enough calories and nutrients, in particular, protein, your body will eventually start to eat muscle from your heart - that's why a lot of anorexics die from heart failure.

You say you are a healthy example for your children, I'm sorry, but exercising so frenetically every single day and eating so little is promoting a very unhealthy, dangerous lifestyle to your children. Change it now while you can. Please listen to all these posters who are giving great advice, they are trying to help you. I am learning so much myself. Thank you all for the great advice.

Tania, I wish you all the best on your journey.

fittiephd

You literally have/had an eating disorder. You will feel full when you're upping your calories because your body isn't used to it, just like anoxrexic's are when they start eating more. Just keep eating more, use the calculations everyone gave you.

aido1ce

I was eating 1000-1200 for 4 years. A year ago, my weight loss slowed down to a halt. I was essentially losing and gaining back the same few pounds.

With much help from members on this board, I raised my calories to 1400 NET two weeks ago. It was scary, but I made a promise to myself that whatever the scales said I would keep going for a month.

Almost immediately I felt slimmer. I no longer felt bloated. Within 3 days, I started to feel hungry, as in, my tummy started growling before meal times and before breakfast. I hadnt felt hunger like this in years. Still the scales stayed the same. But my clothes began to feel looser and my face looked slimmer. I'm only talking about two weeks here, remember. My stomach became flatter too - before, it looked distended.

And when I stop losing, I shall increase my calories further as I know I cannot gain weight if I eat under my TDEE. My BMR is 1429 although it's probably much lower in reality as I've been under-eating for so many years,

I have more energy. Last week, I wiped a whole 30 minutes off my half marathon distance and yesterday, I completed a cross country and extremely hilly marathon.

This week, I dropped 1.5 pounds. The next day I dropped another pound. I am now into "new territory" - as in, I am now losing fresh new pounds.

I cannot believe I'm writing this. I would have firmly been in the "1200 or bust" camp but I knew my metabolism was so slow and I was feeling cold all the time.

Try it. Just for a month. And if you get no results try increasing by another 100 per day. Surely it's worth the investment of 2 short months isn't it?

But make sure you keep exercising and eating those extra calories with good stuff.

I'm at the same position as you were! had a bad habit of eating less than my bmr for a long long time and had been at a stall for
more than a year now. this week I started eating more with a minimum of 1500 calories each day and Im starting to feel that growl and craving for food again which is great! I jut have a question for you, on those days when u exercised, did u eat back all your calories, some of it or none? say you burn 500 calories in a day- did u end up eating 1900 calories for that day?

Caitlinhappymeal

Okay, so don't eat back your exercise calories and don't eat enough for your body to do it's job. Why are you even posting about it then? Is eating too little working for you? Fabulous. Continue starving yourself then.

you sound bitter, this site is about support not criticism, it wouldn't go amiss to show some!

01divey

I agree to both sides of the story. I agree firstly that you need to listen to how YOUR body reacts to your calorie intake level, to a certain extent.

BUT what most people simply do not realise is that although you may not FEEL hungry, your body needs more than 1200 calories. simple, and especially if you are excercising/working out too. 1200 calories may be enought to "get by" on, but your body needs to recover and repair, and as we know, for the vast majority of people 1200 calories is below our maintenance level, just to GET BY.
Where do the nutrients come from to repair and rebuild from exhaustion and or muscle fatigue/breakdown? it cant, as the amount of nutrients available to the body is being restricted. Your sure to be losing "weight", which will mainly consist of muscle/water. Fat is very hard to burn, and relies mostly on a healthy metabolism + a small deficit from your maintenance calorific needs.
Losing weight isnt the be all and end all, just wish people would see that is isnt about weight, its about fat loss.
Slow and steady.

P/S i have been there and done it, from 18 stone at aged 15, to 10 stone on a "crash diet", ended up skinny fat and put 5 stone back on within two years as i simply returned to my previous habits and assumed i'd be ok. I am now 23 and have now maintained at around 13 stone after dropping back down and losing around 8-9% bodyfat, and managed to gain around 8lb Lean mass. I look a lot more defined and feel amazing.
I lost weight slowly on around 1600 calories, but hit the almost inevitable plateau for 2 months. I upped my calories by around just 200 a day, not a huge amount, but enough to supply my body with the nutrients it needs to keep my metabolism fired up nicely, i then after 3 weeks or so began losing again at a steady rate.
Learn for yourself or take on board some advice from someone who understands both sides to the story.