Why am I gaining weight?

unknownxcelebrity
unknownxcelebrity Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
*Warning, long drawn out back story*

I've been overweight my whole life, from the day I was born a 10 pound baby, to when I started school as a 100 pound kindergartener, to now. Currently, I'm 18 years old, 5'8" and weigh 234 pounds. I really want to loose weight mostly because I have arthritis in all of my joints and the extra weight is super painful. I also have family history of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, etc.

About 6 mos ago, I decided to really make a change and cut out all junk food and started meticulously measuring everything and calculating my calorie intake. After two weeks of no weighing, I got on the scale, thinking I was doing great and saw that in two weeks, I had gained 8 pounds!

So I stuck with that for another month and in total gained 15 pounds eating a healthy diet and excersising daily. I was already obese, and seeing the numbers go up scared the life out of me and I gave up my lifestyle and starting eating the junk food I was used to and lost 10 of the 15 pounds.

About a week ago I decided to try again, maybe I was measuring wrong, maybe I wasn't calculating the calories correctly, or something. Well, once again I cut out the junk, and brought in the fresh and healthy. This time I bought a new food scale, this one is digital so I could easily read the weights, and began rounding my calories up (a 340 calorie meal would be written down as 400) and started walking again, one of the few excersises my doctor approves of. Well, low and behold, I've been steadily gaining a pound a day since I started and I'm so fustrated.

I actually started bawling in my nutritionalist's office yesterday when I got on the scale. She told me to stick with it and that I was most likely overeating and snacking without writing it down, but I'm not! I'm eating around 1300 calories a day, drinking lots of water and walking a good 3 miles a day. I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Any ideas from anyone? At this point I'm open to anything.

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  • Tinmari
    Tinmari Posts: 15 Member
    You aren't eating enough. The only thing the junk food got you was the extra calories. Eat extra calories, but leave out the junk food.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    *Warning, long drawn out back story*

    I've been overweight my whole life, from the day I was born a 10 pound baby, to when I started school as a 100 pound kindergartener, to now. Currently, I'm 18 years old, 5'8" and weigh 234 pounds. I really want to loose weight mostly because I have arthritis in all of my joints and the extra weight is super painful. I also have family history of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, etc.

    About 6 mos ago, I decided to really make a change and cut out all junk food and started meticulously measuring everything and calculating my calorie intake. After two weeks of no weighing, I got on the scale, thinking I was doing great and saw that in two weeks, I had gained 8 pounds!

    So I stuck with that for another month and in total gained 15 pounds eating a healthy diet and excersising daily. I was already obese, and seeing the numbers go up scared the life out of me and I gave up my lifestyle and starting eating the junk food I was used to and lost 10 of the 15 pounds.

    About a week ago I decided to try again, maybe I was measuring wrong, maybe I wasn't calculating the calories correctly, or something. Well, once again I cut out the junk, and brought in the fresh and healthy. This time I bought a new food scale, this one is digital so I could easily read the weights, and began rounding my calories up (a 340 calorie meal would be written down as 400) and started walking again, one of the few excersises my doctor approves of. Well, low and behold, I've been steadily gaining a pound a day since I started and I'm so fustrated.

    I actually started bawling in my nutritionalist's office yesterday when I got on the scale. She told me to stick with it and that I was most likely overeating and snacking without writing it down, but I'm not! I'm eating around 1300 calories a day, drinking lots of water and walking a good 3 miles a day. I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

    Any ideas from anyone? At this point I'm open to anything.

    Your approach sounds good although 1300 calories sounds very low to me for a person your size, honestly it takes a long time to be able to see weight loss through the random fluctuations in weight that everyone experiences.

    You don't weigh one weight, you weight many different weights across the period of a day or a week. Quite possible you stepped on the scale when you happened to be retaining a lot of water. It is pretty much impossible that you put on 8 pounds of fat in 2 weeks.

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