I gain at 1500 calories but lose at 1300-1400

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  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    Why does 100-200 calories make such a difference. At 1300 calories I lose 3 lbs a week. At 1500 I gain 3 lbs a week. Is my metabolism really that slow?

    Depleting the muscles of glycogen (carb fuel) and so dehydrating - 1g glycogen is stored with 3g water. When you eat at the higher level you are refuelling and rehydrating. Or sodium.

    Eating a high sodium diet is not an excuse to live on rubbish, eat home cooked wholefoods and add salt or MSG yourself or eat more healthy foods that are naturally higher in salt such as oily fish and other seafood. Be sure you are consuming enough of the other minerals that help with water balance. Poor nutrition/ various deficiencies can cause or contribute to hypotension including some of the B vitamins IIRC. You don't consistently consume B12 rich animal products and your diet look low in a raft of other nutrients, really your doctor should refer you to a registered dietician instead of 'prescribing' salt.

    Please stop hiding behind your children because you as parents are in charge of their health: what they eat during childhood and the teenage years affects their health for life including their chances of obesity. Set a good example and encourage or force them to eat a balanced nutritious diet depending whether you prefer 'carrot or stick' discipline.
  • dad106
    dad106 Posts: 4,868 Member
    The only thing that I would add to the comments here is just that in looking at your diary over the last several days, not only are your calories all over the place but the quality of your food choices is not what you want for a healthy diet. I also did not see any exercise noted. Pizza, mozzarella sticks, meatloaf, Texas Toast, cheesecake are all calorie-dense and from a nutrition standpoint, completely inefficient in giving your body what it needs to thrive.

    My suggestion: Fill your calorie goal with more efficient nutrition and exercise.

    Are you serious? Calorie-dense, sure, that's true, but there is nothing inherently wrong with any of those food choices. Each of those items can be enjoyed within the context of a well-balanced diet.
    Dead serious. Its easy.
    High sodium foods daily=water retention=weight gain.(Plus its not heart healthy or effective to eat high fat, high sodium foods daily)
    FYI "anything" can be eaten in moderation, not on a daily basis. In a perfect world I'd eat pizza and bacon everyday!

    I ate bacon and eggs everyday for breakfast while losing weight.. and I am perfectly healthy.

    OP:
    Like everyone else said, stick to weighing once a week.

    It's most likely water you are seeing
  • blanhe2
    blanhe2 Posts: 88
    To gain 1.5 lbs it means you had to eat 5000 cals OVER maintenance cals... and you didn't do this. it is just a normal weight fluctuation. Perhaps the food was a bit more salty than the previous days and you are having a bit of water retention, where are you in your monthly cycle?.
  • mazdauk
    mazdauk Posts: 1,380 Member
    Eat the same as your family but have only small amounts of potato/pasta and larger amounts of good veg (i.e. steamed/microwaved rather than roasted or in a yummy cheesey sauce....mmmmmmmmm...cheese...). I always weigh my cereal, for example, as its so easy to build up over time.
  • jerzypeach
    jerzypeach Posts: 176 Member
    Stay at the higher calories and make your deficit through moving more. This will bump up your metabolism more than continually cutting your calories. Besides.....being able to eat more is much more satisfying. Hope things go your way really soon!
  • deniseearheart
    deniseearheart Posts: 919 Member
    As hard as it is try weighing in once a month... I just moved from Arizona to Washington and my scale ended up in storage. I weighed myself at a friends and was surprised more by the number weighing myself in a month and a half then weekly/daily
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    As hard as it is try weighing in once a month... I just moved from Arizona to Washington and my scale ended up in storage. I weighed myself at a friends and was surprised more by the number weighing myself in a month and a half then weekly/daily

    I was weighing weekly and it was driving me insane to see the fluctuations. Now I weight monthly (and measure) and it is SO much better for me.
  • rosieg1979
    rosieg1979 Posts: 99 Member
    If, like me, you love data and have to weigh in daily, how about plugging your weights into https://trendweight.com/help It plots your weights and smooths out the fluctuations so you get a truer picture of what is happening.
  • Amyirene74
    Amyirene74 Posts: 63 Member
    To gain 1.5 lbs it means you had to eat 5000 cals OVER maintenance cals... and you didn't do this. it is just a normal weight fluctuation. Perhaps the food was a bit more salty than the previous days and you are having a bit of water retention, where are you in your monthly cycle?.

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