Venting - One Week, 8400 calorie deficit, 6 pounds gained.

The only time I've seen that kind of weight gain was when something was whacked. In my own case, I'd gone 2 days without my thyroid meds and gained 8 lbs....once I got back on my meds and otherwise carried on as normal, 6 of them dropped off within days.

Considering that you've basically put yourself in a daily deficit in the range of what some people eat, your body probably thought something catastrophic was happening and reacted accordingly. It could have thrown your endocrine system for a loop. If you haven't already done so, you might want to figure out what your TDEE and BMR are and take a look at what you're deficit put you at relative to those numbers. If you were below your BMR, you might want to try upping things so that you're at least eating that much.

Is it possible you are over estimating your calorie burn with exercise?

I only looked at a couple of days, but your burn states 900 + per day and yesterday was around 1400 calories burned through exercise??

Ugh! That sucks! You poor guy! Sometimes our bodies stall. Still, that's quite a deficit. Are you eating a lot of carbs, by any chance? You could try reducing them to below 100 g per day and see if that helps. If you do eat out a lot, that can be really hard to accurately estimate, unless you're eating at chain restaurants that publish nutritional content. But don't give up--I'm rooting for you. Next week you'll surely drop weight.

Its a good thing. You are scale obsessed. You are gainig muscle which in result will allow you to eat more. Losing numbers on the scale is NOT always fat. Therefore after a while of eating right and activity we gain muscle. Especially men. Have your body fat checked much more of an indication that a scale.

Its a good thing. You are scale obsessed. You are gainig muscle which in result will allow you to eat more. Losing numbers on the scale is NOT always fat. Therefore after a while of eating right and activity we gain muscle. Especially men. Have your body fat checked much more of an indication that a scale.

:huh: you do not gain muscle while eating at a deficit

I doubt that your gain has to do with fat, but at the same time your diet is horrible and although you are staying within your calorie range, you are eating mostly junk food. I know they say a calorie is a calorie, but at the same time if you are not getting the proper nutrients your body may be holding onto everything it gets because it is not getting a replacement of vital nutrients. I am not really one to talk because I save calories at the end of my day for some junk food, but when you are going to fast food restaurants everyday and sometimes 2 in a day, you are not feeding your body what it needs to thrive.

I manually update my calories burned on MFP - I decrease the number to 25 percent if what it says, So if I run 10.5 miles and it says I burned 1000 calories -- I under report it to 250 calories. I also do NOT eat back the exercise calories

Just a few things to note and I apologize if any of these are repeats. There are two major culprits that will affect your scale (weight) results.

1- Not drinking enough water
2- To much sodium in your diet. I have this problem sometimes when I'm really going hard on the protein.

Both will cause you to retain water.

Water in - water out. Drink bottle after bottle throughout the day to help flush your system. If your body sees water going in there won't be a need for the body to hold on to it's stores and you will urinate more.

Whenever I talk to people who work out and do not lose weight and are eating healthy or within their calories this is usually the reason they don't see the weight loss on the scale. As many have said..you didn't gain the weight in fat.

Stick with it. This is a long term thing. You will have bumps in the road. Keep on driving :-)

Joe

Is it possible you are over estimating your calorie burn with exercise?

I only looked at a couple of days, but your burn states 900 + per day and yesterday was around 1400 calories burned through exercise??

I am very suspect of the calculations that MFP comes up with. If I run 6 miles in one hour, MFP says I burn 993 calories. If I run 9 miles in 90 minutes it says around 1400.

Go out and grab a HRM. Wear it every time you work out. It will give a MUCH more accurate number for what you are burning.

Also, put down the donuts. Try some yogurt or cereal instead. And fruit, more fruit.

Just a few things to note and I apologize if any of these are repeats. There are two major culprits that will affect your scale (weight) results.

1- Not drinking enough water
2- To much sodium in your diet. I have this problem sometimes when I'm really going hard on the protein.

Both will cause you to retain water.

Water in - water out. Drink bottle after bottle throughout the day to help flush your system. If your body sees water going in there won't be a need for the body to hold on to it's stores and you will urinate more.

Whenever I talk to people who work out and do not lose weight and are eating healthy or within their calories this is usually the reason they don't see the weight loss on the scale. As many have said..you didn't gain the weight in fat.

Stick with it. This is a long term thing. You will have bumps in the road. Keep on driving :-)

Joe

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Is it possible you are over estimating your calorie burn with exercise?

I only looked at a couple of days, but your burn states 900 + per day and yesterday was around 1400 calories burned through exercise??

I am very suspect of the calculations that MFP comes up with. If I run 6 miles in one hour, MFP says I burn 993 calories. If I run 9 miles in 90 minutes it says around 1400.

I find the calorie counts on MFP to be way over estimated for many activities. I realized this when I invested in a HRM which often estimated about half the amount of MFP.