I'm gaining it all back

jodycoady
jodycoady Posts: 598 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I've been on here since Dec, lost 19 lbs and slowly gaining it back, I am not doing anything different, I cheat on the weekends, as I always did, and I've even raised my calorie intake as suggested. I am so depressed and discouraged. I feel like quitting and coming back so I will lose it again like I did before. What can I do? I am super depressed.:cry:
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  • amnsetie
    amnsetie Posts: 666 Member
    You will have to open your diary if you want advice with this.
    We would only be guessing
  • tracypk
    tracypk Posts: 233 Member
    I'm right ther with you. I don't know what to do either. Wish I had a magic solution. I'll let you know if I figure anything out.
  • crystut03
    crystut03 Posts: 25 Member
    i think you can switch your diet up. Sometimes the body will get use to what you are doing and no results will come afterwards...but try switching it up like eating more carbs or less carbs or more protien vice versus...along with continuos exercising and it should kick back into burning metabolism
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    same problem. I have been eating high protein and very clean for over a year, within 1200-1500 calorie range. Then I added cardio and WT, now I "gained" all the weight back up and even more. This is really frustrating. I did first on 1200 calorie diet and lost about 10 pounds, then hit plateau. Everyone said I should bump up calorie and add exercise, so I did...I use to see difference in measurment now I don't see them. Everything just went back to where it began. I am depressed.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    I'm right ther with you. I don't know what to do either. Wish I had a magic solution. I'll let you know if I figure anything out.

    I am in delimma now. Eat or not Eat? excersise or not exersise? this significantly impacts my mood every day now. I want to give it up the I still hope there might some solution I haven't tried? I don't know. :(
  • bizco
    bizco Posts: 1,949 Member
    Double check your settings. As you lose weight the fewer calories you should be consuming. Try changing your weekly weight loss goal. For example, if it's currently set at losing 1.5 lbs. per week, change it to 1.0 lb. per week. Stick with your new goal for at least 4 weeks before making further adjustments.
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    I've been on here since Dec, lost 19 lbs and slowly gaining it back, I am not doing anything different, I cheat on the weekends, as I always did, and I've even raised my calorie intake as suggested. I am so depressed and discouraged. I feel like quitting and coming back so I will lose it again like I did before. What can I do? I am super depressed.:cry:

    If you raised your calorie intake and are gaining, you should lower it back down.

    Having said that, I highly recommend against a cheat day. You could be undoing all the good you did tracking all week. Track it all and be honest with yourself. If you can't sustain the goal you chose, back it off to a goal of .5 lbs/week loss and see if you can eat at that level while tracking every bite and not cheating.
  • paeli
    paeli Posts: 295 Member
    Sorry you're having a rough time, but the worst thing to do now would be to quit! 19lbs is great! You can definitely do this. Have you been exercising at all?
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    I've been on here since Dec, lost 19 lbs and slowly gaining it back, I am not doing anything different, I cheat on the weekends, as I always did, and I've even raised my calorie intake as suggested. I am so depressed and discouraged. I feel like quitting and coming back so I will lose it again like I did before. What can I do? I am super depressed.:cry:

    If you raised your calorie intake and are gaining, you should lower it back down.

    Having said that, I highly recommend against a cheat day. You could be undoing all the good you did tracking all week. Track it all and be honest with yourself. If you can't sustain the goal you chose, back it off to a goal of .5 lbs/week loss and see if you can eat at that level while tracking every bite and not cheating.
    I believe I tried go higher and lower both ways but nothing seems working for me now. :( I also tried a couple of months of losing .5 lb setting and nothing changed either. Sigh..I am really confused.

    I don't cheap. Might be a day or 2 throughout the entire 2 month course.
  • victoria4321
    victoria4321 Posts: 1,719 Member
    What kind of exercise do you do?
  • steviegreeks
    steviegreeks Posts: 35 Member
    Have you readjusted your BMR now that you are a bit lighter? The lighter you are the less calories you need to "exist" I had to go down to 1550 once I lost weight.. Maybe this will help, maybe it wont either way don't give up!!!!!
  • Blanche76
    Blanche76 Posts: 89 Member
    How much are you working out and what kind of work outs do you do? Maybe switch up between cardio and weight lifting, I guess it depends what kinds of food your eating too.
  • vzvghg
    vzvghg Posts: 2 Member
    Have you read the 4 hour body by Tim Ferris?

    He has a weight loss routine and diet for women who have hit a plateau and other diets. I know of one family that did some of his stuff and they all lost some stubborn fat.
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    I've been on here since Dec, lost 19 lbs and slowly gaining it back, I am not doing anything different, I cheat on the weekends, as I always did, and I've even raised my calorie intake as suggested. I am so depressed and discouraged. I feel like quitting and coming back so I will lose it again like I did before. What can I do? I am super depressed.:cry:

    If you raised your calorie intake and are gaining, you should lower it back down.

    Having said that, I highly recommend against a cheat day. You could be undoing all the good you did tracking all week. Track it all and be honest with yourself. If you can't sustain the goal you chose, back it off to a goal of .5 lbs/week loss and see if you can eat at that level while tracking every bite and not cheating.
    I believe I tried go higher and lower both ways but nothing seems working for me now. :( I also tried a couple of months of losing .5 lb setting and nothing changed either. Sigh..I am really confused.

    I don't cheap. Might be a day or 2 throughout the entire 2 month course.

    "I cheat on the weekends, as I always did" ... from your original post.

    So... um, do you cheat or not?
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    I've been on here since Dec, lost 19 lbs and slowly gaining it back, I am not doing anything different, I cheat on the weekends, as I always did, and I've even raised my calorie intake as suggested. I am so depressed and discouraged. I feel like quitting and coming back so I will lose it again like I did before. What can I do? I am super depressed.:cry:

    If you raised your calorie intake and are gaining, you should lower it back down.

    Having said that, I highly recommend against a cheat day. You could be undoing all the good you did tracking all week. Track it all and be honest with yourself. If you can't sustain the goal you chose, back it off to a goal of .5 lbs/week loss and see if you can eat at that level while tracking every bite and not cheating.
    I believe I tried go higher and lower both ways but nothing seems working for me now. :( I also tried a couple of months of losing .5 lb setting and nothing changed either. Sigh..I am really confused.

    I don't cheap. Might be a day or 2 throughout the entire 2 month course.

    "I cheat on the weekends, as I always did" ... from your original post.

    So... um, do you cheat or not?

    I am not OP. I am just in the same boat with her.
  • Lozze
    Lozze Posts: 1,917 Member
    Honestly without public diaries we're all guessing.
  • Fitness_4_Jess
    Fitness_4_Jess Posts: 55 Member
    ...how do you know it isn't you getting more muscle? I had that problem during a previous weight loss excursion. I found the formula for figuring body fat %'s and I found that losing body fat, but gaining muscle can be the culprit sometimes.
  • misty0413
    misty0413 Posts: 212
    I would limit cheat days to once a week, not all weekend. I agree with everyone else open that diary just for friends if no one else.
  • Helloitsdan
    Helloitsdan Posts: 5,564 Member
    Eating too little and working out too much will do this.
    Yikes!

    How tall are you and how much do you weigh?
    Age?
    Body Fat?
  • mamagooskie
    mamagooskie Posts: 2,964 Member
    Well I think it might be time to do something different, try to not cheat on the weekends, if you upped your calories go back to lowering them, try working out more often or longer, watch sodium, drink more water.

    There are many many things you can do to get back to losing weight.
  • QueChulaYo
    QueChulaYo Posts: 71
    Well I think it might be time to do something different, try to not cheat on the weekends, if you upped your calories go back to lowering them, try working out more often or longer, watch sodium, drink more water.

    There are many many things you can do to get back to losing weight.


    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS......AND ALL OF THE ABOVE, BUT NEVER QUIT!!! YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOU, NO CAN CHANGE IT FOR YOU, YOU HAVE TO BE COMMITTED TO IT, AND GET SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT, AND TRY TRY TRY AGAIN AND AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!11
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member

    I am not OP. I am just in the same boat with her.

    Sorry. My confusion...
  • Christine1110
    Christine1110 Posts: 1,786 Member
    Can you make your diary open for everyone. It's hard to help without knowing what your eating.

    You do understand that to gain or lose it only take 3500 calories either way. If you eat anything you wont on the weekends....you will only be setting yourself up for trouble!!
  • badapdos
    badapdos Posts: 132
    Don't raise your calorie intake/eat more if you haven't worked out for the day. Or that's at least what I did.
  • Redheadllena
    Redheadllena Posts: 353 Member
    Based on what some earlier posters wrote, I would agree that it could be muscle weight replacing what used to be 'fat' weight. My best indicator is my clothing- does everything from your lowest weight still fit? Numbers can be deceptive. Don't give up! Try, try again, and when that doesn't work, try something else :)
  • jackiecroberts
    jackiecroberts Posts: 115 Member
    Without seeing your diary, it is hard to know. Define weekend cheating? Is it fri through sun or just one day? Also, it depends on what type of food you are actually eating. My food diary is open, have a look at it if you would like. I have been slow and steady with about a pound loss a week, but I am going in the right direction. Good luck to you, just keep on going!!
  • jodycoady
    jodycoady Posts: 598 Member
    Sorry you're having a rough time, but the worst thing to do now would be to quit! 19lbs is great! You can definitely do this. Have you been exercising at all?

    Yup, I have been exercising. Maybe I'll go on a carb diet, not too sure what to do
  • jodycoady
    jodycoady Posts: 598 Member
    Based on what some earlier posters wrote, I would agree that it could be muscle weight replacing what used to be 'fat' weight. My best indicator is my clothing- does everything from your lowest weight still fit? Numbers can be deceptive. Don't give up! Try, try again, and when that doesn't work, try something else :)

    It's around my stomach, so it's def not muscle.
  • Skinny_Beans
    Skinny_Beans Posts: 405 Member
    Do you look/feel like you've gotten chubbier again, or could this be muscle?
  • jodycoady
    jodycoady Posts: 598 Member
    You will have to open your diary if you want advice with this.
    We would only be guessing

    I'm not comfortable with opening my diary....It's nothing personal...don't get me wrong, I' m not binging on cookies or ice cream. And I usually cheat on Fridays and Sats, always lost before and now I'm really bombing...the cheating I do is with beer and snacks, but I do not drink on weekdays - ever. p.s I'm 35 and was skinny my whole life but when I hit 32 everything changed. I lost all the baby weight too, so I can't blame it on pregnancy.

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