Lose weight by eating more?

btw i am a special snow flake i think
When i eat more calories i GAIN weight.

But well that is me, strange bird it seems

SergeantSausage wrote: »

Bukawww wrote: »

Can I just piggy back this discussion: I have been meticulous with weighing my food by grams. I have been under 1000 cal on some days (I know), I have been burning up to 4000 calories/day. By my calculations, I should have lost 4lbs this week but only lost 1. That is frustrating. Albeit this is only for one week...the previous week I lost 5lbs.

I am hoping that extra 3lb will catch up at some point? Maybe a chick issue regarding hormone fluctuating, etc?

Yer funny.

I'm running 50 to 60 miles a week these days. At least two half marathons (13.1 miles), a 10-miler, a 15k (9.3 miles) and various short recovery runs each and every week AND doing P90X every day ... and I don't come even remotely close to a 4k-a-day burn.

I'm laughing over here ....

Are you 225lbs too? Did you see that that number includes my BMR? Keep laughing, dude. Its real, no matter how hilarious you think you are lol.

TheOwlhouseDesigns wrote: »

Bukawww wrote: »

MrM27 wrote: »

Also, 2200 in exercise, OP must be working out for like 3 hours a day.

Yes, sometimes more...mostly walking at 3.2-4.0 on my treadmill while I watch Netflix series, etc lol.

I walk at that speed for an hour and hit around the 450 at the most...and i am sure that is right i got a full test done not long ago. ( heartrate monitor and VO2 test etc)

you look a lot smaller than me...I am 5'5" and 225lbs. I burn about 600-700 calories for one intense hour of fast walk alternating with running, which includes a pretty gnarly 1 mile hill. I suppose all the calculators could be wrong lol. I've lost 30lbs since Christmas. Thats a little less than .5 lb a day in 63 days. So my average burn must be slightly on target to achieve a 1750/day deficit....I did mention several times that I only burn 4000 TOTAL about twice a week. I'm also not that upset with the one pound loss this week. I realize hormones and water retention most likely play a factor.

LAWoman72 wrote: »

christinev297 wrote: »

You're burning 4000 calories?? How?

That's what I was thinking!!!

I mean is this using the new "carry a refrigerator tied to your back uphill against a strong wind while battling zombies" method? :disagree:

I possibly burned similar numbers about a year ago when I worked at a moving company, ten thousand pounds of other people's stuff loaded then unloaded from a truck often up and down three flights of stairs on one or both ends of the move while moving at a jogging pace to ensure a solid tip at the end. I can say if you are burning those kinds of calories in a day the equivalent of a Big Mac with fries ain't going to cut it, you will likely find your self laid out in short order. I would eat two or three bowls of cereal in the morning snack on candy all day n long usually hit the Chinese buffet for 3 loaded plates plus dessert for lunch a couple gas station hotdogs between jobs and typically fast food or something massive for diner. Probably 4-5 thousand cals a day and I was still losing weight and packing on muscle.

Over training the same exercise will give you false numbers for weight loss. Your body gets very efficient a lot quicker than you think. Make sure you mix things up. I would suggest more weight training and core work. That will boost your run time dramatically.

Bukawww wrote: »

TheOwlhouseDesigns wrote: »

Bukawww wrote: »

MrM27 wrote: »

Also, 2200 in exercise, OP must be working out for like 3 hours a day.

Yes, sometimes more...mostly walking at 3.2-4.0 on my treadmill while I watch Netflix series, etc lol.

I walk at that speed for an hour and hit around the 450 at the most...and i am sure that is right i got a full test done not long ago. ( heartrate monitor and VO2 test etc)

you look a lot smaller than me...I am 5'5" and 225lbs. I burn about 600-700 calories for one intense hour of fast walk alternating with running, which includes a pretty gnarly 1 mile hill. I suppose all the calculators could be wrong lol. I've lost 30lbs since Christmas. Thats a little less than .5 lb a day in 63 days. So my average burn must be slightly on target to achieve a 1750/day deficit....I did mention several times that I only burn 4000 TOTAL about twice a week. I'm also not that upset with the one pound loss this week. I realize hormones and water retention most likely play a factor.

i am 5.5 and was 260 pound
i walk and run and lost 70 pounds since 1st of October.
So that is in 130 days

So not smaller at all

Bukawww wrote: »

I have been under 1000 cal on some days (I know), I have been burning up to 4000 calories/day.

That's unsustainable. If you're doing that for more than a couple of days in a row without losing a crap load of weight, then you're either eating more than you think or burning a bunch less than you think.

My experience says: eating more will only help you lose weight if you haven't been eating enough in the first place.

Here is my experience with my ED.
I was eating around 1000 calories a day, yet I was overweight, I was checking myself constantly in the mirror, trying to run and fainting etc.

My doctor and my nutritionist both agree that my body was in "starvation mode" so whatever I ate was saved, and my metabolism was low. This is why exercising never worked for me, I didn't have enough fuel to burn for the day, let alone to exercise. So when I did exercise, I burned too much fuel and my body shut down.

Fast forward to now, I'm eating more and I'm losing weight because my body is realizing: "Hey, you have fuel to burn now." I have more energy, and my body is not saving all of the food I eat as fat.

That being said, I had an eating disorder.

Typically this is NOT true, in fact it's usually the opposite. If you want to eat more, consider eating more foods that are lower in calories, so you get the "volume" effect. Or exercise a bit more! That way you can afford to eat more My favourite part of exercising now.