OH my gosh this is hard

graysmom2005

Watching my "work" go backwards is really taking it's toll. I know I need to wait it out, but feeling bloated, and watching my body physically going backwards on PURPOSE feels so unnatural. Watching my waist and hips get plumper, jeans fit tighter, and then continue to force feed myself is agonizing. I know it's supposed to be temporary, but not seeing a difference for 4-8 WEEKS and watching it get worse is putting me into such a complete panic.:frown:

TripleJ3

I am right there with you! I just squeezed into a pair of jeans that were loose over a week ago. I wanted to cry! I keep telling myself I didn't eat 3500 cals and not work out but its still pretty hard!!

rubybeach

We are right there with you......keep this in mind;

I keep telling myself I didn't eat 3500 cals

So much of this is the will power to keep going, regardless of what we're seeing or feeling. Hang in there!

scottc561

If you are really eating below your TDEE you really should not keep gaining weight for very long. Once your body adjusts to the increased carbs and water you should level out. That should not equal fat gain, but glycogen and water weight. You have to remember you are not gaining fat if you are eating less then you burn. Ive only been doing this for 1 week and my weight is going down after the initial gain from what i explained above. IF you are truly gaining fat your numbers may not be correct, remember the calculators are just estimates. I wear BMF link so I know my TDEE daily within 10% and I go by that to adjust my intake. If I were just going by the calculators and for a month or more not losing but gaining then I would revaluate my intake and outake. You really shouldnt be gaining for that long.

ps-there are a ton of varibles and without knowing them it's hard to say for sure what's going on. Are you taking measurments? How accurate do you think your calorie estimates are as far as intake? I know for me I am not perfect at estimating my calories of food I eat sometimes.

graysmom2005

If you are really eating below your TDEE you really should not keep gaining weight for very long. Once your body adjusts to the increased carbs and water you should level out. That should not equal fat gain, but glycogen and water weight. You have to remember you are not gaining fat if you are eating less then you burn. Ive only been doing this for 1 week and my weight is going down after the initial gain from what i explained above. IF you are truly gaining fat your numbers may not be correct, remember the calculators are just estimates. I wear BMF link so I know my TDEE daily within 10% and I go by that to adjust my intake. If I were just going by the calculators and for a month or more not losing but gaining then I would revaluate my intake and outake. You really shouldnt be gaining for that long.

ps-there are a ton of varibles and without knowing them it's hard to say for sure what's going on. Are you taking measurments? How accurate do you think your calorie estimates are as far as intake? I know for me I am not perfect at estimating my calories of food I eat sometimes.

Hi there! I have a BMF too. :-) My average is over 3000 due to my job. I've been eating at 2300. I use measuring spoons, cups, and a food scale for everything. cereal is put in a measuring cup, creamer in a tablespoon, meat always weighed etc. Since January I was doing 1700-2200 max every day depending on my activity. I've just started bumping it to 2300 every day. My waist is up an inch and my hips are up a half inch. What makes it disheartening was it has taken me since January to lose the 8 pounds from Christmas/vacation that I gained. I was thinking the 1700-2200 was finally working per my dietician. But then I stalled. Again. And would bounce from 153-156 endlessly. ENDLESSLY. No matter what. I had cut back on carbs a lot so maybe that has something to do with the gain? I was really happy with my results, but couldn't figure out why I couldn't go any further...and I'm thinking it was my too big deficits. Today I taught 60 min spin, walked the dog for 40 min, and I have Sh'bam practice today which will be an hour of dancing. I know I need to feed my body, but going from success to temporary failure is a hard pill to swallow. Thanks for all the support guys. I need it!

scottc561

If you are really eating below your TDEE you really should not keep gaining weight for very long. Once your body adjusts to the increased carbs and water you should level out. That should not equal fat gain, but glycogen and water weight. You have to remember you are not gaining fat if you are eating less then you burn. Ive only been doing this for 1 week and my weight is going down after the initial gain from what i explained above. IF you are truly gaining fat your numbers may not be correct, remember the calculators are just estimates. I wear BMF link so I know my TDEE daily within 10% and I go by that to adjust my intake. If I were just going by the calculators and for a month or more not losing but gaining then I would revaluate my intake and outake. You really shouldnt be gaining for that long.

ps-there are a ton of varibles and without knowing them it's hard to say for sure what's going on. Are you taking measurments? How accurate do you think your calorie estimates are as far as intake? I know for me I am not perfect at estimating my calories of food I eat sometimes.

Hi there! I have a BMF too. :-) My average is over 3000 due to my job. I've been eating at 2300. I use measuring spoons, cups, and a food scale for everything. cereal is put in a measuring cup, creamer in a tablespoon, meat always weighed etc. Since January I was doing 1700-2200 max every day depending on my activity. I've just started bumping it to 2300 every day. My waist is up an inch and my hips are up a half inch. What makes it disheartening was it has taken me since January to lose the 8 pounds from Christmas/vacation that I gained. I was thinking the 1700-2200 was finally working per my dietician. But then I stalled. Again. And would bounce from 153-156 endlessly. ENDLESSLY. No matter what. I had cut back on carbs a lot so maybe that has something to do with the gain? I was really happy with my results, but couldn't figure out why I couldn't go any further...and I'm thinking it was my too big deficits. Today I taught 60 min spin, walked the dog for 40 min, and I have Sh'bam practice today which will be an hour of dancing. I know I need to feed my body, but going from success to temporary failure is a hard pill to swallow. Thanks for all the support guys. I need it!

Well that helps, you are not eating enough imo. I usually burn around 3300 according to bmf and eat that minus 500. Which is pretty close to the tdee-15%. If you are burning so much and only eating 2300 calories your deficit is too large considering you are close to goal weight. If you had 100lbs to lose you could probably do that and get away with it for awhile. But really you should have a small deficit when your close to goal.(i am going by your ticker since I don't know your goal weight.) And yes if you were really cutting back on your carbs and then suddenly upping them you will see a gain, but it is not a fat gain its water and glycogen in the muscles. I highly doubt with the amount of exercise you do daily that you have actually gained fat weight. You are probably retaining alot of water, since large deficits have been shown to cause your body to increase cortisol which will cause water retention. The longer you do this the harder it will be to reverse. I just started this diet and am alreadly seeing results, I beleive it works because it makes scientific sense. Eat a smaller deficit so your body does not think you are starving bascially, hence it wont fight you every step of the way.

ps- i know it's hard to increase your food intake so much. Hell I even refused to do it for sometime even though I knew I should. I finally did up my calories a few months ago from 1500-1800 to 2000 a day. Then couple weeks ago off a whim I upped it to 2300 which was still way to low. So last week I upped it to 2700 to 2800 and bam weight loss has occurred for the first time in weeks. And on top of that I have lost half an inch off my waist in the last week and I have been eating like I am not on a diet. People see me eat and can't beleive I am on a diet lol. They don't understand you don't need to starve yourself to lose weight.

ANewLucia

Scott nailed it right on the head, you aren't eating enough. You go through stabilizing when you eat more especially having been low carbing. Take the big leap of faith and bump to the 2500...make sure you are doing 40/30/30 and give it 4 solid weeks.

graysmom2005

The 3000 is an average from a 28 day report from my BMF. Since its average (some days lower some more) is it still cool to rock the 2500? Yesterday was my day off for example so I burned 2900. Thanks guys and tha k you Lucia!

scottc561

The 3000 is an average from a 28 day report from my BMF. Since its average (some days lower some more) is it still cool to rock the 2500? Yesterday was my day off for example so I burned 2900. Thanks guys and tha k you Lucia!

Thats how most people do it, but myself I like to tailor it a little. What I do is eat tdee-15% tomorow of what I burned today. That way if I have a low burn day today I make up for it tomorrow. You don't have to do it this way obviously, but that's the way alot of people I know in the bodybuilding world do it when they are in a cut. The reason being is what you eat today is actually supplying you nutrition well into tomorow. Which is why I eat the day after cut, if that makes sense? That way I can adjust my intake based on the prior days burn. I'm a little more complicated then most, so don't take that as what's best, just as an example.