i need advice! ASAP please

rlmadrid

thank you all for your responses and advice. one thing i keep seeing is fit it into your calories. well if i want to go out and say have a tenderloin with fries (my all time favorite) thats just not going to fit my calories unless i workout like a mad women and restrict what i eat the rest of the day and that doesnt seem normal or the way to live to me. i dont understand how i could eat all this stuff before and be fine. i had to of been eating more then i do now but yet i weigh more now. i just dont get it!!

Metabolism changes, lifestyle changes. It could be that simple. I was tiny, under 135 at 5'9" until I was 18 in university. The secret was an obsession with soccer. I was working out 5-6 days a week without thinking about it and I was young. I never had to think about calories. In university I stopped playing competitively, only pick-up games and no practices. I started stressing, and being confined to my desk, with a bowl of various study treats. As well, my metabolism was slowing with age, and the end of growing vertically. The horizontal growth started. It sucks, but everyone goes through it. Being conscious of intake and output will help. Good luck!

nichojanes

I understand that it can be hard to fit the food you want into a daily calorie regime.

perhaps it would be better for you to use the reports to view you intake on a weekly basis. I tend to try to have 'naughty' foods, like chinese, indian, kfc, mcdonalds, at the weekend and then I can control my intake for the rest of the week to balance it all out.

Sidesteal

i just dont see how you can fit these things in within your calories unless you are super restrictive the rest of the day or exercises like crazy so you have extra calories to eat.

You're correct, but it's probably not quite as extreme as the above.

Example: If I want pizza, my previous meals would be vegetables and lean sources of protein (low-ish carbohydrate and low-ish fat, very high protein). Then I'll have macro space to eat pizza, which would typically be higher in carbohydrate and fat, and not all that high in protein relatively speaking.

I call it "eating like a bro" for the day so that I can fit in some junk later on. It's effective but depending on how calorie dense the food item is that you're trying to "fit", it CAN get frustrating.

BUT, I'd like to also interject with something: Are you competing? If the answer is no, perhaps you can find a way to just take a day here and there where you shut MFP off, and just go live a normal life and eat what you want? I know the thought might be scary and it might slow down your progress, but mental health is important. My assertion is that finding a balance where you do this a bit more frequently might allow you to not go as crazy on these "free days" because they're happening more often.

Then again, I could be full of crap.

Gwoman2012

I'll be honest...I don't think logging is for you.

I would go back to doing what you were doing before you joined MFP. Maybe consciously try to eat protein since you want the muscles but that is it.

It's actually not uncommon to end up heavier, it's called "yo-yo dieting"...get yourself off the cycle before it begins again!