Consuming too few calories and gaining weight, what now?

Candicutie wrote: »

Ok let me just clear the air a little. I haven't been eating take away meals daily but i have been on the road a few times and needed to pick up a meal quickly. I do belive in CICO. On the days i did have fast food i ate less so as not to go over my calories. A meal like that simply meant for me that i had fewer calories left to consume, nothing more.

There is nothing wrong with eating those in the first place, so don't let that use get to you about that. Do you plan on NEVER eating these things once you reach your goals? I doubt it, that's not sustainable. Eat now the way you plan to eat for life, the only difference is in how much you are eating right now.

But as for your issue, it is likely a natural fluctuation, but you will still greatly benefit from cleaning up your logging. As I said, you don't have to weigh your food but you do need to start making your own recipes (there is a recipe builder), measure everything you are using and make sure that the entries you choose only reflect measured quantities, and eat consistently to your goal (don't be logging 800 calories) If you want to leave 100 calories as a buffer on days you eat out, that's fine. I don't really bother. Eat back at least half of your exercise calories.

iamaprincessx wrote: »

I know. It is not in 'moderation' though.
Have you looked at her logs or are we all seeing different things.
The point i'm trying to make is that other members of a 'health and fitness' website shouldn't encourage her to continue these habits.


They think its not uncommon... and that is why they are overweight.
I'm gone.

One can be healthy and fit eating "bad" food every day. If that is all one eats then yeah, there's gonna be some nutritional issues. But you wanna eat a burger every day on top of your varied diet? That's fine. Gets you some protein, fat, and carbs along with some micros from the cheese and veggies on that burger.

iamaprincessx wrote: »

PrizePopple wrote: »

iamaprincessx wrote: »

I feel i'm the only sane one here actually. I would rather double my calorie intake with healthy balanced nutritious foods than under-eat on takeaways daily.
But if its what you think is best then whatever im done haha

You do realize that eating double your calories of "healthy balanced nutritious foods" will still cause you to gain weight, right? I've totally fit a burger and fries into my day, my macros weren't looking so hot, but calories were still spot on.

In fact yes. Call me crazy but I would rather feed my body the nutrients it needs to stay alive than starve myself on food with absolutely zero nutritional value whilst losing weight and become ill.

Weird.. I've been eating "junk" food for 8 months now, sometimes every day, and I've yet to die or become ill or starve myself. I actually eat quite a lot of food, and my portions of lower nutrient foods are pretty reasonable when taking into account my total caloric needs.

Burgers, fries, chocolate, subway, these things all still provide nutrients that my body requires to survive while also providing it the calories it needs to survive.

As someone already saids above, your thinking is terribly black and white and is of no help to the OP or to yourself, unless you plan on pretty much never enjoying yourself on a night out with friends and resign yourself to being that person who brings their own "healthy" food or opts for the dry salad everywhere

iamaprincessx wrote: »

I know. It is not in 'moderation' though.
Have you looked at her logs or are we all seeing different things.
The point i'm trying to make is that other members of a 'health and fitness' website shouldn't encourage her to continue these habits.


They think its not uncommon... and that is why they are overweight.
I'm gone.

Oh, and people are overweight because of CICO, not because they eat out. There are users here who have talked about how they gained weight eating in the very same way you are advocating, and some were also on medications.

Candicutie wrote: »

Thanks for all your help girls, i do appreciate you all taking the time to speak to me. I'm gonna clean up my loggings and try to make my target more often. My scale is as good as bought. I'm not really dieting i've no intention of changing the way i eat now. I've really just made a lifestyle change and i've yet to perfect it. I guess you could say i'm a work in progress.

No need for you to be perfect at this all the time, but it's important to know when you are failing to meet your goals and to figure out why that is happening. So working on logging more accurately and at some point weighing your food will be fantastic steps; even without weighing your food, you'll find that simply making and using your own recipes and using entries that correspond to how you actually measured the portion will help you see more consistent results.

Candicutie wrote: »

Thanks for all your help girls, i do appreciate you all taking the time to speak to me. I'm gonna clean up my loggings and try to make my target more often. My scale is as good as bought. I'm not really dieting i've no intention of changing the way i eat now. I've really just made a lifestyle change and i've yet to perfect it. I guess you could say i'm a work in progress.

No need for you to be perfect at this all the time, but it's important to know when you are failing to meet your goals and to figure out why that is happening. So working on logging more accurately and at some point weighing your food will be fantastic steps; even without weighing your food, you'll find that simply making and using your own recipes and using entries that correspond to how you actually measured the portion will help you see more consistent results.