1200 calories plus exercise and I have Gained Help Please!

also looking at your diary.
Get you macros in line.

Protein around 135 gr
fat around 58 gr
carbs around 150

Oh dear. You are netting less than 1,000 calories every day. Not good.

Ye i seem to have a real awful issue with food I guess :-(.

Thank you everyone else for the help ????????????

Good luck, wish you the best....

But I would srs recommend getting macros where they should be, and also upping your calories a bit.

stats plz

12 stone 5
27
5'4
Active daily I work out at least 450 calories a day.

I looked at your diary.

Not every food entry in the MFP database is correct. You have to do some research to ensure correct entries. Therefore, you could be underestimating calories, even if you do weight and log food. Check this link out: www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide

Also, you log cleaning as exercise. Stop doing this because that is part of your activity level. It also looks to me like you are overestimating those calorie burns. Where are you getting them from? MFP, internet, and gym machine OVERESTIMATE those calories burned. Cut them to 3/4 or even half, and you should be fine.

Unless you have some medical condition, you are not gaining weight on 1200 calories. If you truly feel you are eating this low amount and gaining weight, it's time to go to the doctor.

My favorite saying these days is that nobody gets to be a special snowflake when it comes to weight loss.

stats plz

12 stone 5
27
5'4
Active daily I work out at least 450 calories a day.

Based on stats
Your TDEE is ~2100
About 1700 would be TDEE - 20%

So if all tracking and weighing and measuring is right, as you say.....
You should be fine...
The 2 lbs is most likely water weight or TOM.....

ANd I would also throw in at this point that 1200 daily is too low....
I wouldn't go less than 1500...but do as you wish.

I was waiting for someone to throw some science into this. I used to eat at a 1200 deficit, didn't lose anything, went based off my TDEE and started losing quicker, Now I just calculate as I lose weight to make sure my cals are still accurate.

OP your not eating enough... try and increase your cals you will see a big change.
And as for the 7000 calorie cheat day wtf? your body needs to be at a deficit of 3500 cals a week for a 1lb loss (I may be slightly off on that math early morning and lack of coffee) so when you have a 7000 cheat day you wipe out all you worked for... try having a cheat meal instead of an entire day.

cut your carbs down to 100 and make sure your calories are accurate and drink plenty of water.

This is why I weigh myself twice a day, and every night I weigh about 2 pounds more than I did in the morning, due to water, food, whatever. And the next morning it is gone and back to the lower number.

My guess is water weight.

I have a cheat day every Friday usually, but it's never over 7000 calories.i have opened my diary if that's any help :-)

You have a cheat DAY every Fri? Never over 7000 cals? Well your cheat day could be derailing your efforts. 7000 cals? Wow. If you feel the need to eat that much, it is possible you are not eating enough during the week.

OP was making that point that she is no where near 7000 calories on her cheat day.....to put on 2 lbs...
She just chose poor wording when making that statement, so it looked like she was actually eating near 7000 calories, when in fact her cheat day was around 1700 - 1800

Your sodium looks a bit high. I may be projecting, because I retain a lot water w/my sodium intake, so just my two cents. Also, TOM can do a bit. I also recall when I was actively losing more, I'd be up a few lbs, then back down randomly,

Best of luck.

There seems to be a lot of prepared foods in the diary, but often very little sodium recorded. For example, the Coronet Salad Creme is recorded as having 0 sodium, but according to their website there is 700mg per 100g/ml! Make sure you are tracking accurately, and keep an eye on the sodium as it will make you retain water.

5 pound loss in 2 weeks is great. Scale being up 2 pounds in one day is nothing to worry about. Body weight fluctuates, and sometimes it will tick up. But downward over time is what you want. And over time, you're down.

Well... a few tips for you that are working for me...


When looking for food on MFP chose the ones that have more confirmations... and always adjust your calorie burn LOWER, because they are over estimated in here (usually!) I run every day for 30 to 40 minutes, at 3.8 to 4 mph and I only count it as a 100 cal burn... I loose about 2 pounds per week... Cheating day doesn't work for me because that day you are not looking at the real excess in sodium or fat, I know we concentrate in Calories but a bag of spicy cheetos will make you retain water like CRAZY! hahahahah, Try to add little yummies into your diet, every day, I have a little chocolate or a cookie, and fits right into my calorie "budget" that way you don't binge! besides, check you cycle.

I have SEVERE PMS and the week before my period I retain about 2 pounds that will flush out the week after =/ ...good luck and take it easy sweety, weight yourself every day if you most but log only once every week, that way, even if you bounce up and down you will see the tendency of loosing !

stats plz

12 stone 5
27
5'4
Active daily I work out at least 450 calories a day.

I looked at your diary.

Not every food entry in the MFP database is correct. You have to do some research to ensure correct entries. Therefore, you could be underestimating calories, even if you do weight and log food. Check this link out: www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1234699-logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide

Also, you log cleaning as exercise. Stop doing this because that is part of your activity level. It also looks to me like you are overestimating those calorie burns. Where are you getting them from? MFP, internet, and gym machine OVERESTIMATE those calories burned. Cut them to 3/4 or even half, and you should be fine.

Unless you have some medical condition, you are not gaining weight on 1200 calories. If you truly feel you are eating this low amount and gaining weight, it's time to go to the doctor.

My favorite saying these days is that nobody gets to be a special snowflake when it comes to weight loss.

Thank you for.looking could you tell me how I'm measuring them incorrectly? I put cleaning an walking as I can't find gym on there and I wear a stepper and fitness calculator daily to clock the calories I burn I don't use mfp fitness calculator for my work outs.

I don't say you are measuring incorrectly, but that perhaps you are unknowingly choosing incorrect entries. For example, there are often several entries with different calorie amounts for 20 grams of the same food. I've run across this so often that I (1) read packages and often enter the food by grams into the database and (2) do my own research for the USDA nutrition information.

It's easy to choose incorrect entries. The link I provided gives information on choosing correct entries.

I understand about the fitness calculator (app on iphone?), but even those can be overestimated.

The point is that your numbers have to be messed up somewhere, otherwise you would be losing weight. I've been there too.

I had same problem believe it or not i started eating 1600 calories, worked out no more than 5 days a week. Not only that i did strength training with cardio and stopped eating 3 hours before bed. Please try eating 1800 calories and watch and see after 2 weeks. Ate more and lost weight.:bigsmile:

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