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Weight Gain post diet! HELP!

amyh0579
amyh0579 Posts: 5 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey All,

I have recently finished losing my goal weight of 42 lbs. I was so proud of myself and also happy to slowly start increasing my caloric intake. On my diet I was eating about 1500 cal/day. After I had reached my goal I started increasing my daily caloric intake about 50-100 calories/per day and maintaining it for about a week. Once I had started increasing my calories to 1700 cals/day I started noticing weight gain. I figured it was just my body adjusting so I continued to slowly increase my calories. I am now eating 1750/calories a day and noticing a SIGNIFICANT trend in weight gain. I have gained 2lbs in 2 weeks. I'm 5'4'', I weigh 136 lbs now and workout 6 days a weight with p90x. According to every single site out there I am still not eating the amount of calories I should to maintain my weight. Do anybody have any insight on this at all?????

THANKS!!!

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  • jrichter3
    jrichter3 Posts: 1
    Check what your calories are in. You may be getting to many easily digested carbs. Read page 115 of february 2011 readers digest.
  • MzBug
    MzBug Posts: 2,173 Member
    Have you figured out your BMR yet? Have you changed MFP to maintain? Are you still measuring and logging everything? Personally I would back down about 300 for a couple weeks and see what happens and adjust accordingly after that. Maybe just a week at a time isn't enough time for your body to adjust, try staying at the same level for 3-4 weeks and letting it level out.

    Good Luck!
  • amyh0579
    amyh0579 Posts: 5 Member
    Thanks guys. I am still measuring and weighing everything and being super strict. That's why I am finding it so frustrating. I have adjusted my profile. I think I am going to cut down 200 calories or so a day and take it a bit slower. Thanks for the support!
  • gospel_57
    gospel_57 Posts: 2
    Me too, I am not intaking the amount of calories I should be taking. I am 5'4 too and size 5/6 at the waist, use to be more than that but I don't look like my weight I look smaller so, I realized I look big cuz I was pulling too much weights. Just eat close to what you 1200 even though u feel like you are gona gain if you eat over. I think it's best to eat that amount or close to that amount but any lesser than that.
  • gospel_57
    gospel_57 Posts: 2
    Me too, I am not intaking the amount of calories I should be taking. I am 5'4 too and size 5/6 at the waist, use to be more than that but I don't look like my weight I look smaller so, I realized I look big cuz I was pulling too much weights. Just eat close to what you 1200 even though u feel like you are gona gain if you eat over. I think it's best to eat that amount or close to that amount but any lesser than that.
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