Is it more important to hit a calorific value or stop before then if you're full?

burntmeadows
burntmeadows Posts: 18
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I'm overweight due to a diet with too few calories, but all junk food content. If I am eating healthily, should I stop when I am full at 1000-1200 calories or push in another snack like pb and banana on rivitas for those extra calories??

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  • DirrtyH
    DirrtyH Posts: 664 Member
    burntmeadows wrote: »
    I'm overweight due to a diet with too few calories, but all junk food content.

    This should be fun! If not redundant.
  • burntmeadows
    burntmeadows Posts: 18
    edited March 2015
    trixieloo wrote: »
    This should be fun! If not redundant.

    Sorry?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    OK over your week you should try to eat your calorie goal = MFP plus half exercise calories

    (You did not get overweight by eating too few calories, but by eating too many)
  • burntmeadows
    burntmeadows Posts: 18
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    OK over your week you should try to eat your calorie goal = MFP plus half exercise calories

    (You did not get overweight by eating too few calories, but by eating too many)

    Well I know this is not true because most days everything I ate would be 6 bags of crisps (98-102kcal each) and a can of coke or iron bru. Occasionally I would also see my sister who brought a large share bag of malteasers which we shared. I can tell you this because I would wake up between 11am and 2 each day, watch cartoons online until 9pm-11.30 and then walk to tesco, buy a can of coke and a multipack of crunchy claws, then devour it.
  • burntmeadows
    burntmeadows Posts: 18
    I should mention I was on a drug called Mirtazapine which made me feel sick all day and all causes weight gain.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited March 2015
    Then you are either a medical marvel and should donate your body to science or you are seriously underestimating your calorie consumption of junk food and drink
  • burntmeadows
    burntmeadows Posts: 18
    I'm very surprised by people who do not know about preservation/starvation mode. In fact, by anyone who believes that negative calories can prevent you from gaining weight.

    Your metabolism slumps, your body converts all that it can into fat and begins eating at your muscle so as to keep the body alive. In fact I have been bed ridden for months due to this and only within 2 weeks started eating more foods though in small doses losing 6lb from when I decided I wanted to beat my depression. I could lift more than my own body weight less than 6 months ago, and people I havent seen since then are shocked to see me wobble. But none of this means anything?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    burntmeadows wrote: »
    I'm very surprised by people who do not know about preservation/starvation mode. In fact, by anyone who believes that negative calories can prevent you from gaining weight.

    Your metabolism slumps, your body converts all that it can into fat and begins eating at your muscle so as to keep the body alive. In fact I have been bed ridden for months due to this and only within 2 weeks started eating more foods though in small doses losing 6lb from when I decided I wanted to beat my depression. I could lift more than my own body weight less than 6 months ago, and people I havent seen since then are shocked to see me wobble. But none of this means anything?

    Nope not true ...starvation mode does not happen like that ...see threads ad nauseum explaining the science

    Your medicine would cause weight gain

    You have started to eat healthier and weigh and log foods ...it's a good step...I hope you are still under your doctors guidance re depression though
  • burntmeadows
    burntmeadows Posts: 18
    http://www.metaboliceffect.com/starvation-mode/
    You can pretty much just look up "Weight gain on starvation mode" and you'll get plenty of results. I wont pretend I have a degree or anything, but it seems pretty black and white :/

    The body eats at muscle tissues for energy whilst storing any fats it could get like the 600 sat-fat loaded calories of crisps I ate before bed every day. Add the medicine and it just makes the ordeal even worse surely?
  • futuremanda
    futuremanda Posts: 816 Member
    If you're full at 1000-1200 occasionally and want to stop, it's probably fine. (And the odd day that you might go 100 or 200 over, and it balances.)

    If it is happening regularly though, I'd look for ways to up your calories a little at each snack or meal, so that you're not eating a bunch of calories when you're not hungry, but so that you're getting adequate calories overall.
  • burntmeadows
    burntmeadows Posts: 18
    Thanks, that was the answer I was looking for. I wasn't sure if eating less some days would just ruin the whole diet :D
  • scottacular
    scottacular Posts: 597 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    burntmeadows wrote: »
    I'm very surprised by people who do not know about preservation/starvation mode. In fact, by anyone who believes that negative calories can prevent you from gaining weight.

    Your metabolism slumps, your body converts all that it can into fat and begins eating at your muscle so as to keep the body alive. In fact I have been bed ridden for months due to this and only within 2 weeks started eating more foods though in small doses losing 6lb from when I decided I wanted to beat my depression. I could lift more than my own body weight less than 6 months ago, and people I havent seen since then are shocked to see me wobble. But none of this means anything?

    Nope not true ...starvation mode does not happen like that ...see threads ad nauseum explaining the science

    Your medicine would cause weight gain

    You have started to eat healthier and weigh and log foods ...it's a good step...I hope you are still under your doctors guidance re depression though

    Stop, clearly she knows what she's talking about. Don't argue with internet experts.
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    How did the junk food at a deficit make you gain weight?
  • burntmeadows
    burntmeadows Posts: 18
    I literally said I wasn't an expert. I'm really sorry that my medical marvel *kitten* was all lies. I guess it's fine that I feel cornered enough to be deleting myfitnesspal because obviously I am not overweight at all. As you all said. It's not possible. I'm really sorry that everyone thinks I'm stupid, but I know for a fact that every day I have eaten 6 bags of crisps. I am not sure if I'm just weirdly addicted or if it's to do with my mental state but it's all I ever eat. Oh, and I think on christmas day I had a little serving of christmas dinner, but I'm not lying or trying to start fights. This is really what I have eaten and I don't see myself as anything but a fat loser for doing it, but I did gain weight and I feel as though my weight gain is not legitimate to you people so I will try to figure this out without my fitness pal.

    I really am sorry if I made everyone so pissed off just by saying something true.
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