1200 cals + exercise= GAINING WEIGHT?!
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Her diary is open and she is def not starving herself. So let's not say to eat more just because she said she is at 1200 cals. Most days she is eating more than 1200, and it doesn't look like she is netting under 1200 either...... The answer is not always hey you need to eat more!! Check out Road maps or whatever. Some people are actually just different.
Not sure what it can be, maybe your metabolism needs time to change? How long have you noticed weight gain? Are you doing Strength training? This could be temporary.
I creeped your diary also :noway:
I think that you are eating OK. Maybe you need to just relax a little bit and stop worrying about the scale? I know it is hard to do, but put the scale away and go with toning for a little while?
Otherwise what works for me if I hit a stop sign is eating heavy carbs for a couple of days then going back to the original eating.
When I say heavy carbs I mean like baked potatoes, bread, pasta if you like it and stuff like that and lots of water drinking. You will bloat up for sure and put (most likely a bit of weight on the scale if you haven`t hidden them) but when you go back to your `normal diet` things will start to move again.
I know people do not want to risk putting on a little weight on the scale, but I am 99.9% sure that it will work
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Wow. I could have written this. We are weight loss twins. I have been stuck as well but now working with a person who gave me a Metabolic Assessment I am eating MORE and losing again. go figureAlthough it is completely counterintuitive, eat more=lose more, especially if you are working out a lot (or a little). I got stuck at 205 lbs (49 lbs loss) and could not bust through for many months. I tried going low cal (average 1400 cal / day) and actually gained weight and inches. And felt like crap. How could that be? I think my body went into starvation mode and lowered its BMR to compensate for my stupidity. It thought it was starving and took action. That's when I started tracking calories via myfitnesspal and decided to up the daily intake to 2,000 cal. That has restarted weight loss and now I'm on track again for my goal weight of 185 lbs.
For the lean gains question, you should eat right after your workout. Eat a lot. Waiting until noon completely screws up your metabolism and will make you loopy.0 -
Contrary to the suggestions that you're not eating enough, I'm questioning the calories in the foods in your diary.
They may be correct, I'm not familiar with a lot of the brands but...
The low fat mayonnaise. How much is a serving? Although the Hellmans website says how many calories per serving (which matches what you have) it doesn't tell me how much a serving is (useless info in that case imho) and if the jar itself does say, how much are you actually putting on?
Same goes for the chicken deli slices. I'm more used to seeing 30cals per oz so 3 slices for just 25 grams total seems too good to be true to me...
The same goes for a lot of the other foods...0 -
Newbie here.... Please educate me. What do TDEE and BRM mean?0
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Eat more, nuff said0
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The simplest answer is that you're eating more and exercising less intensely than you think.0
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Newbie here.... Please educate me. What do TDEE and BRM mean?
Please search the forum or Google these common terms.0 -
Here's the problem with this religious mantra 'eat more to lose more' - this *might* be the issue if she is not losing but just maintaining her weight. But she says herself that she is GAINING weight.
There is no possible way she can gain weight (actual mass, so excepting transient inflammatory weight) by eating less than her total daily energy needs. None. That would be violating some fundamental laws of physics.
The refrain 'you're not eating enough!' is MFP dogma, but it cannot apply when someone is gaining. I have my doubts it applies when people are maintaining, too, but that's not relevant here.
To the OP - perhaps you have a very efficient metabolism and you don't need as many calories as you think. Another MFP dogma is '1200 calories or DOOM!!!'. But if you're eating that, working out and still gaining weight, you are not expending more than you're consuming. Simple as that. Perhaps you're eating more than you think.
If you have a history of undereating you may have minimal muscle mass, rather than a 'broken metabolism'. I would suggest you see your doctor and discount a medical reason for your weight gain, then start working on rebuilding your muscle mass. Transient weight gain might be necessary in the short term to permit your body to gain some muscle.
But I would not to leap to the conclusion that increasing your intake further will result in weight loss. It doesn't add up.0 -
I have my calories set at 1200 and don't always eat the exercise calories back. I love to exercise so I usually have a ton there to work with as far as food calories go. If you are uncomfortable up'ing your calories, then may I suggest a cheat day? One day, usually a weekend day, where you eat whatever you want - provided that you are back on track for the rest of the week. It works. By day 3 in the week, you should have lost water retention and some weight. Try it and see if that confuses your metabolism and allows you to have some stress relief 0
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Contrary to the suggestions that you're not eating enough, I'm questioning the calories in the foods in your diary.
They may be correct, I'm not familiar with a lot of the brands but...
The low fat mayonnaise. How much is a serving? Although the Hellmans website says how many calories per serving (which matches what you have) it doesn't tell me how much a serving is (useless info in that case imho) and if the jar itself does say, how much are you actually putting on?
Same goes for the chicken deli slices. I'm more used to seeing 30cals per oz so 3 slices for just 25 grams total seems too good to be true to me...
The same goes for a lot of the other foods...
This^
There is a lot of foods listed in the database here that aren't anywhere near correct, So if you're adding them to your food log without actually checking to make sure they are right you'll be off your calorie count which could explain the weight gain.0 -
Several of us linked to pages about TDEE and BMR in our posts about them.Newbie here.... Please educate me. What do TDEE and BRM mean?0 -
Actually. In place of a road map would say no, some folks aren't different. And would say: know how many calories you need to eat. In most cases, it's more than 1200.Her diary is open and she is def not starving herself. So let's not say to eat more just because she said she is at 1200 cals. Most days she is eating more than 1200, and it doesn't look like she is netting under 1200 either...... The answer is not always hey you need to eat more!! Check out Road maps or whatever. Some people are actually just different.
Not sure what it can be, maybe your metabolism needs time to change? How long have you noticed weight gain? Are you doing Strength training? This could be temporary.0 -
I didn't see any mention of what timeframe or how much weight you've gained... how much are we talking? If you are only up a couple of pounds and it's the first time you've weighed in a week it could simply be water retention and normal scale fluctuations.
How long have you been gaining, and how much?0 -
Actually. In place of a road map would say no, some folks aren't different. And would say: know how many calories you need to eat. In most cases, it's more than 1200.Her diary is open and she is def not starving herself. So let's not say to eat more just because she said she is at 1200 cals. Most days she is eating more than 1200, and it doesn't look like she is netting under 1200 either...... The answer is not always hey you need to eat more!! Check out Road maps or whatever. Some people are actually just different.
Not sure what it can be, maybe your metabolism needs time to change? How long have you noticed weight gain? Are you doing Strength training? This could be temporary.
Without wanting to sound rude, you are 47 Sabine the OP is 19? so you may have different calorie/macro quotas?
`We` can not all work/function in the same way. So the other reply was true, folks are different.0 -
To be clear: I merely corrected the statement saying "go to the road map, we're all different". The road map would say we are the same in that: we need to find out how many calories we burn. Which is why I suggested she approach her stall by finding out how much she burns. Given that she's said she has grossly under eaten in the past, I thought she'd like to know how to actually fuel her body. And yes, she and I *do* have different needs. My BMR and TDEE are likely quite a bit lower than hers. And yet, my BMR is more than 1200.
Actually. In place of a road map would say no, some folks aren't different. And would say: know how many calories you need to eat. In most cases, it's more than 1200.Her diary is open and she is def not starving herself. So let's not say to eat more just because she said she is at 1200 cals. Most days she is eating more than 1200, and it doesn't look like she is netting under 1200 either...... The answer is not always hey you need to eat more!! Check out Road maps or whatever. Some people are actually just different.
Not sure what it can be, maybe your metabolism needs time to change? How long have you noticed weight gain? Are you doing Strength training? This could be temporary.
Without wanting to sound rude, you are 47 Sabine the OP is 19? so you may have different calorie/macro quotas?
`We` can not all work/function in the same way. So the other reply was true, folks are different.
I find the whole thing quite fascinating, actually. Everything I've read says: eat above BMR. Everything I've read ON HERE, including in the app itself, says never let your NET go below 1200. Yet the app only complains if your gross (rather than NET) goes below 1200....0 -
I agree with Smiley, I've been on 5:2 diet since beginning of year, and does not take exercise calories lost into consideration. There is a group on mfp and we are losing weight. I consume around 500 cals on fast days and as near as I can to between 1200 and 1500 on feast. Hopefully will have lost a stone by end of week. Well I'll have to now I've said it!0
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hey, thanks for the response, this is what i struggle with my boyfriend thinks that as my stomach isnt toned there must be weight to lose but i wasn't sure if it was more of a body fat percentage issue!! if i was to focus on lowering body fat percentage would that be more of a training regime than a diet restriction? thanks again for the help 0
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Thanks for all of the responses guys... I don't know about eating more. I'm a bit fearful of it but I suppose it's worth a shot. My biggest fear is that the only way I can actually lose weight is going back to the 700-800 calorie thing since that's what worked for me before.
I forgot to mention, I actually do eat back my exercise calories. So I actually will have around 1300-1400 in a day, for those of you who said I didn't.
Whether you exercise or not, netting under 1200 calories will not help you reach your goal. I'm doing Insanity and it requires that I eat at least 2000 calories a day. Listen to your body.0
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