Plateaued and am now gaining weight

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  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
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    But don't eat back your exercise. If your daily goal is 1230. Then thats all you should eat. No matter how much your exercising. Burn more than you eat. If you eat it all back it kind of defeats the purpose.

    No, and yours changes too, you just don't log exercise very often. Today for example you have over 1500 available for the day.

    Not eating exercise and staying a 1200 is a recipe for disaster in most cases. Very few people should be eating 1200 to start with and if you're doing any amount of exercise you're going to feel like crap. Your way is not the intended way to use MFP.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
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    I know the site gives you more food allowance when you exercise. But the actual daily total should be the same. Like, mine is always 1200. If you look at her diary, the value changes.

    Depends on what you are looking at.

    Website view - Food Diary - Your Daily Goal - it goes up by amount of logged exercise. Amount to eat that day.

    Website view - Home or Profile page - shows the end of the math as NET figure, which will end up equaling your normal goal if you eat "Calories Remaining" it puts in bold big letters.

    I never understand how this confuses people.
    All these other choices and numbers there is never a question about, blindly accepted.
    But now that number is clearly shown and said to EAT IT - and people think they know better all of a sudden, though they don't understand it and ask.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
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    But don't eat back your exercise. If your daily goal is 1230. Then thats all you should eat. No matter how much your exercising. Burn more than you eat. If you eat it all back it kind of defeats the purpose.

    Don't talk about how to use a tool you don't understand how to use.

    Go ahead and hurt yourself, but don't hurt others with misuse.

    You do realize of course that you burn more in a day than just what you exercise away, right?
  • Siansonea
    Siansonea Posts: 917 Member
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    But don't eat back your exercise. If your daily goal is 1230. Then thats all you should eat. No matter how much your exercising. Burn more than you eat. If you eat it all back it kind of defeats the purpose.

    But then your body will go into Starvation Mode™ and hide your car keys, and change all your internet passwords. :tongue:
  • Adw7677
    Adw7677 Posts: 201 Member
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    If you are overestimating everything by double - and I mean actually logging twice as much as you are really eating - then you haven't been eating enough. You would have lost weight initially and now you'd be in starvation mode. Your weight is in the healthy range for a 5' female. Be careful, you don't want to kill your metabolism. It takes a lot to get it going again.
  • vrybluangel
    vrybluangel Posts: 4 Member
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    You put your body in starvation mode. You need more calories for the amount of exercise you are doing
  • Siansonea
    Siansonea Posts: 917 Member
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    You put your body in starvation mode. You need more calories for the amount of exercise you are doing

    Please explain how an overweight person can be in the same metabolic state as a person who is severely underweight and literally starving. :huh:
  • bajoyba
    bajoyba Posts: 1,153 Member
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    But don't eat back your exercise. If your daily goal is 1230. Then thats all you should eat. No matter how much your exercising. Burn more than you eat. If you eat it all back it kind of defeats the purpose.

    MFP is designed for you to eat your exercise calories. It doesn't defeat the purpose, because the calorie goal you're assigned already includes the deficit you need to lose the amount of weight you specify as your goal. Not eating your exercise calories back creates a larger deficit than necessary. If you log your food and exercise accurately, eating your exercise calories back as intended works out just fine.

    To the OP, I agree with others who have suggested you weigh/measure your food for awhile. It's easier to make adjustments when you're confident about your intake. Accurately and precisely logging your food may sort itself out. :smile:
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
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    Lilly,

    I haven't looked at the other responses yet, but if you are gaining weight then you are eating more than you think you are. If you eat more calories than you burn, then you gain weight. If you burn more calories than you eat, then you lose weight.

    I looked at your diary and it looks like you are not logging a lot. I think you are overestimating your calories too. Where do you get your numbers from for food and exercise calories?

    Stop eyeballing your food because, guess what, our eyeballs are pretty flawed at times. :smile: Weigh all solid foods and measure liquids and accurately log everything that goes into your mouth. That is really the only way to stay accountable.

    Remember-a surplus in calories equals weight gain and a deficit in calories equals weight loss.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
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    But don't eat back your exercise. If your daily goal is 1230. Then thats all you should eat. No matter how much your exercising. Burn more than you eat. If you eat it all back it kind of defeats the purpose.

    You are mistaken.

    When you set your goals up in MFP, your calorie deficit is already built in, therefore you should always eat back a portion of your exercise calories in order to properly fuel your body. If you don't eat back your exercise calories, you net is lower than the daily goal of 1,230 calories. You want to net the alloted calories whether or not you exercise.

    However, weight loss is all about calorie deficit not exercise. Exercise may aid in weight loss and provide other great benefits, but it's not necessary at all to weight loss.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
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    You put your body in starvation mode. You need more calories for the amount of exercise you are doing

    Please explain how an overweight person can be in the same metabolic state as a person who is severely underweight and literally starving. :huh:

    I would also like the same answer.

    Here's a great read: http://fattyfightsback.blogspot.com/2009/03/mtyhbusters-starvation-mode.html
    And this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/761810-the-starvation-mode-myth-again
  • Will_Thrust_For_Candy
    Will_Thrust_For_Candy Posts: 6,109 Member
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    If you are overestimating everything by double - and I mean actually logging twice as much as you are really eating - then you haven't been eating enough. You would have lost weight initially and now you'd be in starvation mode. Your weight is in the healthy range for a 5' female. Be careful, you don't want to kill your metabolism. It takes a lot to get it going again.

    :noway: Not this at all.
  • mimieon
    mimieon Posts: 182 Member
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    It is no use to debate about whether you were probably over or underestimating when you were eyeballing. Start ACTUALLY weighing your food, limit eating out, stick to the plan and see what happens. If you start losing again, you know you were overestimating. If nothing changes or you still gain weight, come back with accurate information (a well-documented food/exercise diary, based on weighing your food) and then people can help you evaluate further.
  • ladyraven68
    ladyraven68 Posts: 2,003 Member
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    But don't eat back your exercise. If your daily goal is 1230. Then thats all you should eat. No matter how much your exercising. Burn more than you eat. If you eat it all back it kind of defeats the purpose.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/818082-exercise-calories-again-wtf
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
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    Yep, weigh your food (don't even use cups and spoons.. use a scale). Then eat your exercise calories back (just make sure they are accurate, otherwise eat 50% back or something).
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
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    Please explain how an overweight person can be in the same metabolic state as a person who is severely underweight and literally starving. :huh:

    I would also like the same answer.

    Here's a great read: http://fattyfightsback.blogspot.com/2009/03/mtyhbusters-starvation-mode.html
    And this: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/761810-the-starvation-mode-myth-again

    More of an explanation of what is generally meant by starvation mode, ie adaptive thermogenesis, not starving, as many in the world are doing.
    Plus the studies as to what you can do to yourself that you may have wished you had not done and how long that negative effect may last - more studies brought out in the thread too as to possible long term consequences.

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1077746-starvation-mode-adaptive-thermogenesis-and-weight-loss?

    One of those situations of how you can effect your ease of maintenance in the future by your choices now.

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