Working out and Eating Better...Still getting Fatter.

ObessedSkinnny
ObessedSkinnny Posts: 5
in Food and Nutrition
I eat fairly healthy. Yogurt in the AM, the rest of my meals contain some type of protein and vegetables.
I do not drink soda, eat fast food, ect.
I work out almost daily.
But I keep gaining weight.
No, it is NOT muscle. I am still getting fatter.
I will randomly gain two pounds over night and it STAYS THERE.
I am too embarrassed to go to any of my doctors.
I am only willing to wear sweatpants now.
None of my clothes fit.
What is wrong with me?

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  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    eating healthy has nothing to do with it.

    are you accurately logging your calories?
  • k_stew_
    k_stew_ Posts: 38
    I can't see your diary so it's hard to say but the most likely reason is that you are eating too much. You may be eating healthfully but your portions are probably too large. If you truly don't think this is the case you need to see your doctor to have your thyroid checked as well as possible insulin resistance. But those issues are relatively rare- most likely you simply need to eat a little less.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    How long have you been at this OP? It can take some time. Also, unless you are weighing and measuring everything, your calorie counts will not be very accurate.

    Eating 'clean' does not mean you can eat as much as you want.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    You are eating too much.
  • jennegan1
    jennegan1 Posts: 677 Member
    http://www.acaloriecounter.com/blog/why-am-i-not-losing-weight/
  • ldrosophila
    ldrosophila Posts: 7,512 Member
    what do you drink?
  • kagevf
    kagevf Posts: 509 Member
    I can't see your diary so it's hard to say but the most likely reason is that you are eating too much. You may be eating healthfully but your portions are probably too large. If you truly don't think this is the case you need to see your doctor to have your thyroid checked as well as possible insulin resistance. But those issues are relatively rare- most likely you simply need to eat a little less.

    I was gonna say, have your thyroid check. but k_stew already mentioned it. (wink)
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/872212-you-re-probably-eating-more-than-you-think
  • Ang108
    Ang108 Posts: 1,706 Member
    I eat fairly healthy. Yogurt in the AM, the rest of my meals contain some type of protein and vegetables.
    I do not drink soda, eat fast food, ect.
    I work out almost daily.
    But I keep gaining weight.
    No, it is NOT muscle. I am still getting fatter.
    I will randomly gain two pounds over night and it STAYS THERE.
    I am too embarrassed to go to any of my doctors.
    I am only willing to wear sweatpants now.
    None of my clothes fit.
    What is wrong with me?

    You say you want your " dancer body " back. You are 19 now and I assume what you call a dancer body was the body of an 18, 17 or 16 years old ; the body of a not-yet fully developed female. Maybe the body you have now is the body of a maturing young woman, which is not the same as the body of a young teenager......
    As long as you don't open your food diary and share your stats, there is nothing to go by and no one knws if you are really having problem by gaining weight, or if you feel you have a problem, because you no longer have the body of a teenager.
    I just wish people's first response would not so often lead to thyroid trouble. Only 3% of the US population are overweight due to endocrine problems and the % is even smaller in people under 30.....
    Please open your food log and share your stats, so people can seriously comment and not just send of wild guesses.
  • ObessedSkinnny
    ObessedSkinnny Posts: 5
    Water mostly. Sometimes green tea
    Maybe once in a blue moon, juice.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    I eat fairly healthy. Yogurt in the AM, the rest of my meals contain some type of protein and vegetables.
    I do not drink soda, eat fast food, ect.
    I work out almost daily.
    But I keep gaining weight.
    No, it is NOT muscle. I am still getting fatter.
    I will randomly gain two pounds over night and it STAYS THERE.
    I am too embarrassed to go to any of my doctors.
    I am only willing to wear sweatpants now.
    None of my clothes fit.
    What is wrong with me?

    You say you want your " dancer body " back. You are 19 now and I assume what you call a dancer body was the body of an 18, 17 or 16 years old ; the body of a not-yet fully developed female. Maybe the body you have now is the body of a maturing young woman, which is not the same as the body of a young teenager......

    ^Good catch!
  • LVCeltGirl
    LVCeltGirl Posts: 473
    Sounds like a lot of issues to include potential of a physical (need to see the doctor) issue. It could also be that you're not drinking enough water (not just fluid, there are other drinks than soda out there). Water is important to keep your body regulated and not enough water (okay here most say fluid but I'm a firm water not fluid believer) will cause your body to retain it and cause a quick overnight gain of a pound or two very randomly.

    It could also be overeating without realizing it. Only way to accurately log is to weigh and measure everything and then log everything. For me, despite the whole calories in vs calories out thing, I also need to eat my minimum calories. I can't get away from that, I eat too few (think anything over 50 less than my MFP calorie goal) and I gain or stay the same. I exercise and don't eat back a little of the calories (again, this can be small like 50 calories although if I do my "beast" mode workouts I eat back at least 200 of the 500 to 600 burned), then I gain or stay the same. It's not the same for everyone but that's for me and I know there are others that it is the same for.

    So weigh/measure and log everything, try eating at or just over your daily calorie goal. Log the amount of water you drink daily. Log in the workouts you do and eat a little bit more on those days (like drink a glass of lowfat milk or something after the workout if that's the way to get some calories back into your body). Experiment with some of the suggestions given and give it time. It won't happen overnight so you can try something for 1 day and not get results so figure it doesn't work.
  • jennegan1
    jennegan1 Posts: 677 Member
    OP....you say that your weigh about 147 in your profile....Whats your height? You just might be coming to your actual weight for your height. Meaning your still young your still growing and going to gain weight. So if your like me 5"3 you really shouldnt weigh more then 148 lbs so if your gaining weight its more then likely you are still growing and gaining weight to support your body frame
  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
    If youre gaining weight you're eating more than your burning.

    Eat less. Stop assuming because it's 'healthy' it can't make you fat. Stop assuming that because you workout you can't gain weight. Take control, start logging accurately, and stop leaving it up to chance/assumptions.

    Short version: stop eating so much
  • patrickwx
    patrickwx Posts: 6
    Weigh yourself consistently at the same time every day. I suggest morning, just after waking up, before eating or drinking. Otherwise theres way too much fluctuation in weight, whether that be water/food weight. As others have said, your setting yourself up to fail if you don't actually record and weigh everything you eat, regardless of how "healthy" it is.
  • QuietBloom
    QuietBloom Posts: 5,413 Member
    Sounds like a lot of issues to include potential of a physical (need to see the doctor) issue. It could also be that you're not drinking enough water (not just fluid, there are other drinks than soda out there). Water is important to keep your body regulated and not enough water (okay here most say fluid but I'm a firm water not fluid believer) will cause your body to retain it and cause a quick overnight gain of a pound or two very randomly.

    It could also be overeating without realizing it. Only way to accurately log is to weigh and measure everything and then log everything. For me, despite the whole calories in vs calories out thing, I also need to eat my minimum calories. I can't get away from that, I eat too few (think anything over 50 less than my MFP calorie goal) and I gain or stay the same. I exercise and don't eat back a little of the calories (again, this can be small like 50 calories although if I do my "beast" mode workouts I eat back at least 200 of the 500 to 600 burned), then I gain or stay the same. It's not the same for everyone but that's for me and I know there are others that it is the same for.

    So weigh/measure and log everything, try eating at or just over your daily calorie goal. Log the amount of water you drink daily. Log in the workouts you do and eat a little bit more on those days (like drink a glass of lowfat milk or something after the workout if that's the way to get some calories back into your body). Experiment with some of the suggestions given and give it time. It won't happen overnight so you can try something for 1 day and not get results so figure it doesn't work.

    Something is off in your numbers. It's impossible to gain weight in a deficit.
  • kagevf
    kagevf Posts: 509 Member
    I eat fairly healthy. Yogurt in the AM, the rest of my meals contain some type of protein and vegetables.
    I do not drink soda, eat fast food, ect.
    I work out almost daily.
    But I keep gaining weight.
    No, it is NOT muscle. I am still getting fatter.
    I will randomly gain two pounds over night and it STAYS THERE.
    I am too embarrassed to go to any of my doctors.
    I am only willing to wear sweatpants now.
    None of my clothes fit.
    What is wrong with me?

    You say you want your " dancer body " back. You are 19 now and I assume what you call a dancer body was the body of an 18, 17 or 16 years old ; the body of a not-yet fully developed female. Maybe the body you have now is the body of a maturing young woman, which is not the same as the body of a young teenager......

    ^Good catch!

    how tall are you? lets check your BMI
    19 yrs old at 127 aint that bad unless your 4ft tall
  • ObessedSkinnny
    ObessedSkinnny Posts: 5
    I may be eating more than I think.

    I drink easily about 1L of water a day.
    Trust me, I am done growing and I am not very tall at all.
    But literally, this is an over night thing. I weight 2lbs heavier over night and it doesn't go away.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    I may be eating more than I think.

    I drink easily about 1L of water a day.
    Trust me, I am done growing and I am not very tall at all.
    But literally, this is an over night thing. I weight 2lbs heavier over night and it doesn't go away.

    How can you know you're done growing if you're only 19? I spent my 20s and most of my 30s thinking I was 5'3", because that was my height all through high school, and I never measured my height or saw a doctor for a physical during that time, and when I finally went in for a full physical, I found out I was 5'4". And I've known other women who grew a couple of inches taller in college.
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,097 Member
    I may be eating more than I think.

    I drink easily about 1L of water a day.
    Trust me, I am done growing and I am not very tall at all.
    But literally, this is an over night thing. I weight 2lbs heavier over night and it doesn't go away.

    Any chance you're sleep-eating?
  • Tcosby3
    Tcosby3 Posts: 1
    Is there any chance you are pregnant? I would go to the Dr., you need to make sure it is not something more serious going on!
  • tatiianag13
    tatiianag13 Posts: 76 Member
    WIthout solid facts, its hard to help you. But given your age and weight, it sounds like part of the problem is that you have stopped being a skinny teenager and are a larger woman, and that makes you unhappy. But it may also be that the skills you remember on how to keep the weight off at 16 may not be the same ones that suit you now.

    I think before you listen to the people who blithely tell you to "eat less," you need to carefully assess your diet, exercise, and what's a healthy goal and what's a *healthy time frame.* One of the facts we don't' know is how long you've been trying to lose weight. Women's weight *does* fluctuate overnight. And its not fat. Its just life. Are you just being inpatient? Or has it been several weeks? I've woken up and been 3 lbs heavier. And it doesn't' always leave as easily as it arrived either. Its frustrating, but normal. Which is why I don't personally advise daily weighing for women.

    If you are at a college with a campus health center, I bet you can be referred to a nutritionist or dietician pretty easily. I think talking to a real person about your concerns would be more helpful than this forum. And if you are really gaining weight in a pattern that is abnormal, then there may be something else going that has nothing to do with your diet. A nutritionist can help you figure that out.
  • eldamiano
    eldamiano Posts: 2,667 Member
    You are in denial about what you eat or are not recording properly.

    Either that or you were grossly overeating before and despite eating less now, you are still eating too much.

    There is no magic fairy with a spell that prevents overweight people from losing weight. It is down to you I am afraid...
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    I may be eating more than I think.

    I drink easily about 1L of water a day.
    Trust me, I am done growing and I am not very tall at all.
    But literally, this is an over night thing. I weight 2lbs heavier over night and it doesn't go away.

    why not just put the actual numbers???? people are trying to help...
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    I may be eating more than I think.

    I drink easily about 1L of water a day.
    Trust me, I am done growing and I am not very tall at all.
    But literally, this is an over night thing. I weight 2lbs heavier over night and it doesn't go away.

    why not just put the actual numbers???? people are trying to help...

    Yes. I propose a stickied rule to have an open diary if you want to know why you're not losing weight.
  • jennegan1
    jennegan1 Posts: 677 Member
    Im telling you. You are still growing.....Most people dont stop growing until they are in their late 20s
  • sjp_511
    sjp_511 Posts: 476 Member
    Don't be too embarassed to see a doctor. It is a really wierd insecurity to have - doctors have seen it all so you are not going to surprise them.

    If you are pretty sure you are eating within your caloric intake, go to a doctor. They should order a full metabolic panel and see if there are any hormorne issues contributing to it.

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