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luckyxjen
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I don't understand how I can burn so many calories a day and be GAINING weight. This is usually where I start falling off of the wagon and getting discouraged. I just don't know what to do anymore.
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Hi Honey,
Any chance you can open up your diary? Will be easier for people to give advice if they can see whats going on.0 -
Chances are you aren't eating enough. But all anyone can do is guess until you open up your diary.0
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By chance is it fat turning to muscle? Muscle weighs more.0
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My diary should be open.0
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It's open now, sorry about that guys.0
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MFP has already created a calorie deficit for you. You need to meet that goal, NOT stay under it. You have to think of your body as a machine, when it is fueled properly it will run more efficiently and burn the fat. Educate yourself about BMR and TDEE. Don't eat under your BMR and don't exceed your TDEE and you should do just fine.0
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By chance is it fat turning to muscle? Muscle weighs more.
No chance. It is very difficult to gain muscle for women, especially on a calorie deficit.0 -
i found this thread useful, take a look as it's all about eating all your calories
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/6556-the-answers-to-the-questions?page=1
hope you get back on track0 -
how much weight are you gaining and over how many days?0
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something is off with your diet.
are you sure you're burning as many calories as you think you are? if you're burning more than you think and turning around and eating those calories back then that will make a difference .
also you're not tracking it, but i looked at a few days of your diary and your odium must be through the roof with all those lunch meat, hamburger helper, pepperoni pizza. sodium makes you retain water. you might want to think about tracking that as well.0 -
By chance is it fat turning to muscle? Muscle weighs more.
No chance. It is very difficult to gain muscle for women, especially on a calorie deficit.
No chance? Yes, Chance. It's happens all the time. Especially if you're weight lifting. Your muscles tone up, you add muscle and lose fat. The fat you lose, weighs less than the muscle you gained. It's not really turning into muscle, you're just trading it out. You will really notice it if you were athletic growing up. Muscle memory, it doesn't just tone when you start working out again, it builds. Usually its just a constant loss if you've never really built up any muscle to begin with.0 -
By chance is it fat turning to muscle? Muscle weighs more.
No chance. It is very difficult to gain muscle for women, especially on a calorie deficit.
No chance? Yes, Chance. It's happens all the time. Especially if you're weight lifting. Your muscles tone up, you add muscle and lose fat. The fat you lose, weighs less than the muscle you gained. It's not really turning into muscle, you're just trading it out. You will really notice it if you were athletic growing up. Muscle memory, it doesn't just tone when you start working out again, it builds. Usually its just a constant loss if you've never really built up any muscle to begin with.
Usually muscle isn't gained on a deficit, It's really REALLY hard to do so. It doesn't sound at all like this would be the OP's issue0 -
By chance is it fat turning to muscle? Muscle weighs more.
No chance. It is very difficult to gain muscle for women, especially on a calorie deficit.
No chance? Yes, Chance. It's happens all the time. Especially if you're weight lifting. Your muscles tone up, you add muscle and lose fat. The fat you lose, weighs less than the muscle you gained. It's not really turning into muscle, you're just trading it out. You will really notice it if you were athletic growing up. Muscle memory, it doesn't just tone when you start working out again, it builds. Usually its just a constant loss if you've never really built up any muscle to begin with.
Love it when newbies tell us how it is done.0 -
By chance is it fat turning to muscle? Muscle weighs more.
No chance. It is very difficult to gain muscle for women, especially on a calorie deficit.
No chance? Yes, Chance. It's happens all the time. Especially if you're weight lifting. Your muscles tone up, you add muscle and lose fat. The fat you lose, weighs less than the muscle you gained. It's not really turning into muscle, you're just trading it out. You will really notice it if you were athletic growing up. Muscle memory, it doesn't just tone when you start working out again, it builds. Usually its just a constant loss if you've never really built up any muscle to begin with.
the OP isnt weightlifting or doing much in terms of resistance training, so i think it's safe to assume she isn't building oodles of muscles.besides the fact she isnt the right way to do that, she's also not working out in a way to signal her body that it needs more muscle, much less stronger ones0 -
By chance is it fat turning to muscle? Muscle weighs more.
No chance. It is very difficult to gain muscle for women, especially on a calorie deficit.
More fundamentally, fat does not become muscle. Fat cells may shrink and muscle may develop, but one does not become the other.0 -
I don't understand how I can burn so many calories a day and be GAINING weight.
You're probably overestimating the calories burned from your activities and underestimating the calories you consume.0 -
Checked out your diary.
No veggies? And even though your carbs are under your quota, you could still reduce them and bring up your protein numbers. That might help0 -
By chance is it fat turning to muscle? Muscle weighs more.
No chance. It is very difficult to gain muscle for women, especially on a calorie deficit.
No chance? Yes, Chance. It's happens all the time. Especially if you're weight lifting. Your muscles tone up, you add muscle and lose fat. The fat you lose, weighs less than the muscle you gained. It's not really turning into muscle, you're just trading it out. You will really notice it if you were athletic growing up. Muscle memory, it doesn't just tone when you start working out again, it builds. Usually its just a constant loss if you've never really built up any muscle to begin with.
You are wrong. Sorry.0 -
Check out the thread by the Registered Dietician. He says, as I've said for months, that the energy expenditure estimates on this site are overstated and the BMR calculation is an estimate and a guide.0
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Personally, I think the calories burns you're entering look much higher than realistic. In the beginning, I used MFP's numbers. They were too high. Then I got a heart rate monitor, and found that it also over-estimated. Finally, I got a BodyMedia fit and was surprised at how low the calorie burns came in for some very vigorous types of exercise.0
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