Please help me from going insane!

DizzyLinds
DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
My weight never seems to have gone down. Since last summer it's gone up and up. Admittedly I spent years eating very low cal and doing masses of cardio. Since last November I started to eat more, reduced the cardio and began more lifting and interval style training. I've upped my protein and good fats. I have seen a differnce in body shape and strength but recently I've felt a lot heavier and thicker, clothes feel tighter. Weighed at the gym today after a while and in the last two weeks I'm up 5lbs. I was trying fasting as recommended by a few people. Thing I found was I wasn't eating high on non fast days. I have just stopped doing stronglifts as I did it for over 6 weeks and felt I hit a wall. Thought I'd drop the weights a bit and do a bit more cardio last 10 days.

I eat well during the week and weekends have more, maybe out for dinner and alcohol.

Could you guys just take a look at my diary? For your info, im 28, 4ft 11, and was around 56.3 and now up to near 58kg. I train 3-5 times a week and am a PE teacher so quite active at work. My personal trainer said my body fat last time about three weeks ago was near 24%.

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  • love4fitnesslove4food_wechange
    love4fitnesslove4food_wechange Posts: 6,897 Member
    Well, it seems that you're eating really well. Perhaps you should try just maintaining for a while. Then reduce your calories slightly. Your bodyfat isn't very high at all so you don't have much weight to lose. I think you should resume weights, toss the scale, eat at maintenance and then resume dieting after 4-6 weeks of maintenance. Seems like you've been trying some things that are detrimental to your metabolic race (i.e. fasting) and you want to recover from this 100% before trying another "diet."
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    Have you tied to get your RMR done? If you did tons of cardio and vcld, then your metabolism could have adapted and is a lot lower than expected.


    Also, I still think the alcohol is killing your progress.
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    How do I get my rmr done?
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    I agree I need to curb the weekend alcohol
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    How do I get my rmr done?

    Medical centers and even local universities have the options. I would suggest google.
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    Is it easy to do in the UK?
  • kenazfehu
    kenazfehu Posts: 1,188 Member
    How are you doing with water intake? I see 0
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member

    Also, I still think the alcohol is killing your progress.

    http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html

    Summary: no
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    Oh as I'm in the UK I don't drink 'cups', I drink litres. Generally I drink 2.5-3 litres per day of water
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    I skimmed the alcohol bit. I generally will have dry wine or vodka with soda. My drinking habits are no different really to when I was lighter.
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,994 Member
    I noticed that your morning eggs look under represented. Many of the database entries would list two large eggs to be around 200 kcal. Also are you sure about the banana bread coming in at 92 kcal? My normal brown bread (home baked in bread machine using a Waitrose packet) is 120 kcal per slice. Everything else today including the estimates for exercise calories looks reasonable.

    Just wondering if a few inaccuracies could mean you are not quite eating the deficit you think you are.
  • RoughDiamondUK
    RoughDiamondUK Posts: 151 Member
    Oh as I'm in the UK I don't drink 'cups', I drink litres. Generally I drink 2.5-3 litres per day of water

    A cup is 250 ml. :) (Well, technically it's a little less, but 250 ml works for me.)
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,994 Member
    Also are you using a food scale? I see an entry in your diary for 25g of brown rice. Could be right as your diary seems quite disciplined, but 25g is a very tiny portion of rice.
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    Right...I have one egg....I use the calories from the box...one is is aroundv80 cals. I mix this with egg white which isn't that many calories.

    Yes I use a digital scale.

    The banana bread is a small bar by a company cale Nakd so I use their nutritional information on the box

    Yes, I do have 25g of brown rice...measured out dry.

    as for cups of water....looks like I'm on track with that.

    Exercise is logged using my polar ft4
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    Bump
  • acpgee
    acpgee Posts: 7,994 Member
    Hmm.. so it's counting inaccuracies. Hope someone can help.
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    Yep, i log very accurately my food and training. This is why i'm so baffled. Surely i can't gain fat on 1500-1700 calories a day. Even if i do eat out over the weekend, wouldn't i have to eat 3000 calores over my maintainance to gain 1lb of fat...i'd have to eat over 5000 calories then? That is something i know for a fact i don't do.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator

    Also, I still think the alcohol is killing your progress.

    http://www.leangains.com/2010/07/truth-about-alcohol-fat-loss-and-muscle.html

    Summary: no

    Interesting.. i am glad you posted it. But i also found this interesting:

    * For this day, restrict your intake of dietary fat to 0.3 g/kg body weight (or as close to this figure as possible).

    * Limit carbs to 1.5 g/kg body weight. Get all carbs from veggies and the tag-along carbs in some protein sources. You'll also want to limit carbohydrate-rich alcohol sources such as drinks made with fruit juices and beer. A 33 cl/12 fl oz of beer contains about 12 g carbs, while a regular Cosmopolitan is about 13 g.
  • Roshellexo
    Roshellexo Posts: 60 Member
    You say you put weight on over the past few weeks? Any chance of pregnancy...?
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    One last thing, have you ever considered giving up a certain food group to see if you have an intolerance? I ask this because my wife just went through the same thing. It turns out, she has an intolerance (not allergy) to wheat that is associated with her heart condition. Maybe try gluten free for a month or diary free. My wife has has a very difficult issue with weight loss over the past 2 years and after 2 months of gluten free, she has started to lose weight again.
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    No not pregnant. I am on birth control and very strict with this too! Have been on it for last 13 years non stop.

    I had a food intolerance test a few months agon and nothing significant was brought up. I was told to maybe reduce dairy but i wouldn't say i have that much.
  • jadesign19
    jadesign19 Posts: 512 Member
    Have you taken your measurements and compared them?
  • DizzyLinds
    DizzyLinds Posts: 856 Member
    Yep. waist isn't too different but i'm up on my thighs and hips.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,431 MFP Moderator
    No not pregnant. I am on birth control and very strict with this too! Have been on it for last 13 years non stop.

    I had a food intolerance test a few months agon and nothing significant was brought up. I was told to maybe reduce dairy but i wouldn't say i have that much.

    Where you test for an intolerance or an allergy? They are actually different, lol. Sorry, not trying to be a pain, but want to clarify.

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