Frustrated -- gaining weight on 1200 calories + exercise

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  • RElizabethM
    RElizabethM Posts: 11
    Revisiting this, sorry to bring it up again.

    I started aiming for 1500 calories a day, not eating exercise calories back. I'm still working out with a trainer twice a week, plus running or hiking two days a week. My appetite is going nuts so I end up eating more like 1700 calories a day, I think my maintenance is supposed to be 1850-ish per day. I am still gaining weight, I'm up five pounds from my starting weight, it is NOT WATER. Or, not all water. You can't add five pounds of water to someone my size without it showing, but I am not any bigger. My clothes fit about the same, maybe a tiny bit looser. I'm much stronger and I can see and feel muscle that I didn't have before, so at least some has to be muscle, but it still makes no sense that I'm eating less, working out more, and gaining weight. I am beyond frustrated, what should I do?
  • RElizabethM
    RElizabethM Posts: 11
    Calculate your calories right...

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/975707-fat-loss-tactics-guide

    That's what I used to set my calories at 1500! I recalculated based on my new weight and now it says my maintenance caloric intake should be 2086, so that means I should be eating 1669 calories a day, which is pretty close to what I have been doing.

    Also thanks for coming to my defense about the "muscle weighs more than fat" thing, I haven't yet come up with a polite way to say "duh" to those comments.

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