So frustrating........

JAXIJONES
JAXIJONES Posts: 5 Member
edited 3:25PM in Introduce Yourself
I used my fitness plan to help me slim down for my wedding and in June I was 9stone 2lb (57.8) which was a comfortable size 10.

Over the summer holidays I didn't go to the gym....... And in September I weighed 9stone 7lb (60.3). Started going back to the gym and two weeks after I weighed........... 9stone 12lb (62.6).

Since then - 3 months - I've hovered around 9stone 11lb and this morning weighed in at 9stone 12lb (62.4).

I weighed in kg, so I can see the slightest movement, that helps.

Although I've used MFP for about two years I've never been on these boards until now. We go on honeymoon in two weeks and none of my bottoms fit. I'm annoyed after slimming down I am now back at 9stone 12lb but also annoyed I've tried for three months for nothing.

My calories have been around the 1000 so I may have been in starvation........ But for three months? This week I've stuck to all my calories including gym ones and put on......

I vary gym, do cardiovascular and weights and also had 1-2-1s at gym, had bloods taken also and back clear.

I want to scream at times. I'm 5'2" so it does show, even though it's not a 'huge' amount.

Hoping these boards will help me stay focused and frustration free.......

I'm going to go and read some of your stories now to inspire me......hopefully

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  • Ed98043
    Ed98043 Posts: 1,333 Member
    Best of luck. Be sure to measure and weigh your food and maybe experiment with eating back only a portion of your exercise calories - it's extremely unlikely that you gained 10 lbs eating (or netting) 1,000 calories a day. Your calculations are off somewhere, either underestimating your calories eaten or overestimating your calories burned, or some combination of both.
  • OMGeeeHorses
    OMGeeeHorses Posts: 732 Member
    you need to eat more!! 1,000 is not feeding your body at all!! You need to let MFP calculate for you and eat back 1/2 or all of your workout calories to net 1200 or above (whatever MFP tells you).

    YOU ARE IN STARVATION MODE, so whatever you eat your body is storing as fat quickly as it needs food! So eat more and you will start to lose weight..

    Its going to take a little for your body to fix itself, you messed yourself up by eating 1,000 calories or really less due to the working out your doing!! so its messed your body up badly.
  • JAXIJONES
    JAXIJONES Posts: 5 Member
    Thanks for your reply. My gain of 5lb over summer was purely stopping the gym and a bit too much eating and drinking the good stuff from June to September so I totally understand that :-).

    It's the gain from 9stone 7lb to 9stone 12lb in 3 months that is doing my head in.

    I am ultra strict in recording stuff, even down to someone giving me a weathers original and recording that :-). But it could be my gym calories. I use the machines function at telling me how much I burn, so that could be well off. Also I have no way of knowing my weight training so I just monitor my cardiovascular.

    Since sept I have never eaten my gym calories and am 99% always under my 1200 (not even including my gym calories). I'm just not hungry. Hubby says to eat a chocolate bar to take my calories up but that seems daft to me.

    So this week we experimented with eating all my calories back and I'm back up to 9stone 12lb........
  • karkaskompetisie
    karkaskompetisie Posts: 39
    you need to eat more!! 1,000 is not feeding your body at all!! You need to let MFP calculate for you and eat back 1/2 or all of your workout calories to net 1200 or above (whatever MFP tells you).

    YOU ARE IN STARVATION MODE, so whatever you eat your body is storing as fat quickly as it needs food! So eat more and you will start to lose weight..

    Its going to take a little for your body to fix itself, you messed yourself up by eating 1,000 calories or really less due to the working out your doing!! so its messed your body up badly.

    I have had anorexia and I can tell you starvation mode doesn't exist. Yes, your metablism slows down, yes your body breaks down your muscles first and will try replace them with fat but if she was eating 1000 calories a day she would have lost some fat as well.
  • JAXIJONES
    JAXIJONES Posts: 5 Member
    Omgeeeeehorses (what a cool name). I know you're right, been reading these boards these last few days and think I realized that now. I've increased this week...... And put on...... But I guess that's my body thing Omg food!!!!!!!
  • littlelexical
    littlelexical Posts: 146 Member
    A handful of nuts is a great way to increase your calories and full of good fats & other nutrients your body will love.

    Avocado is a fabulous 'spread' which you can use in conjunction with butter too, if you already use it - to increase your calories, and give your body more of the good stuff.

    add some peanut butter/cheese/cream cheese to your snacks.

    even just a glass of milk, or whole fruit juice - if you are not feeling 'hungry' could help.

    Have you also been checked with your gp for other issues?
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    don't be upset at the results you're not getting from the hard work you're not doing.
  • JAXIJONES
    JAXIJONES Posts: 5 Member
    don't be upset at the results you're not getting from the hard work you're not doing.

    I think it is hard work though, maybe that's my problem (I think it is and it isn't). I'm doinf 45mins every morning in the gym and burning (what the machine says) 300 calories. I think this is hard but maybe it isn't? I don't really know what to base it on.

    I also find it hard to monitor my food too - do you think after 3 months I should find it easier? But I'm really quite strict about it.

    I would love to eat chocolate and all the old food I used too but I have totally cut out all the bad stuff. Is this not 'hard' enough? I think that's been my problem, I thought being strict with calories and the gym was hard but I'm probably completely wrong and others are think I'm not even doing anything....... That's why these boards are good for me, they will hopefully motivate me to do more in the gym and be more careful with calories - I hope anyway.

    I do agree with your comment though, I do have to be harder, but 45mins of gym leaves me wacked and everyone to says to eat more not less (which seems crazy) but I will try to be harder this next week and fingers crossed :-)
  • JAXIJONES
    JAXIJONES Posts: 5 Member
    A handful of nuts is a great way to increase your calories and full of good fats & other nutrients your body will love.

    Avocado is a fabulous 'spread' which you can use in conjunction with butter too, if you already use it - to increase your calories, and give your body more of the good stuff.

    add some peanut butter/cheese/cream cheese to your snacks.

    even just a glass of milk, or whole fruit juice - if you are not feeling 'hungry' could help.

    Have you also been checked with your gp for other issues?

    These are excellent thank you so much for taking the time to list them.
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