Gained weight when dieting

jamesPercy1985
jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
Av been dieting for few weeks yet I have put on weight , how's this Evan possible, I exercise most days and burn about 2000 cal according to my app and eat about 1500 - 1700 cal a day .
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  • tomofnj
    tomofnj Posts: 88 Member
    Short and sweet? Get rid of the 'about' and remove the mystery :) Good luck
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    2000 calories just from exercise? Or in total per day?

    Are you weighing all your foods?

  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
    Well I use endomando app for fitness , eat between 1500-1700 cal , I do boxing , weight training and jog , Scan and weigh my food
  • annavalente
    annavalente Posts: 119 Member
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    Av been dieting for few weeks yet I have put on weight , how's this Evan possible, I exercise most days and burn about 2000 cal according to my app and eat about 1500 - 1700 cal a day .

    What are you doing to make you burn so many calories?!...do you weigh all your food with a food scale??
  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
    I restarted using this app to make sure I keep track of what I eat ,

  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    gaining weight in a dieting. You are eating too much.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    Well I use endomando app for fitness , eat between 1500-1700 cal , I do boxing , weight training and jog , Scan and weigh my food

    If you are accurately weighing your food then I suspect that the problem is with your estimated calorie burn. When you say that you burn 2000 calories per day, are those exercise calories? I'm not sure what the endomondo thing looks at. But if that is exercise calories, it is very likely an overstatement and if you are eating all (or a large portion) of those calories then you are eating too many calories.
  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
    edited June 2015
    Well I do 12 3min rounds with punchbag with 1min active rest using different kettle bell moves . Then I do a weight circuit for 45min
  • annavalente
    annavalente Posts: 119 Member
    That would definitely not burn 2000 calories im afraid...do you eat back any of those calories?
  • 3bambi3
    3bambi3 Posts: 1,650 Member
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    Well I do 12 3min rounds with punchbag with 1min active rest using different kettle bell moves . Then I do a weight circuit for 45min

    This will not burn 2000 calories. Is the 2000 calories total for the day, or just from exercise?

    Can you open your diary?
  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
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  • stuartm2015
    stuartm2015 Posts: 17 Member
    Most vigorous exercise burns around 600 calories an hour.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    Lifting weights for the calorie burn. Interesting.

    2 hours of exercising that you do would not burn 2000 calories.
  • annavalente
    annavalente Posts: 119 Member
    I burn around 300 calories an hour ...this app over estimates calories burned - most people on here would recommend halving them
  • 3bambi3
    3bambi3 Posts: 1,650 Member
    Those burns are crazy high. There's no way you are burning that many calories doing those exercises. An hour of boxing burns 1625 calories?!! No way.

  • thesupremeforce
    thesupremeforce Posts: 1,206 Member
    Are you eating 1500-1700 calories total, or are you trying to "net" that many? If it's the former, it shouldn't matter how much you're overestimating exercise. If it's the latter, there's your problem.

    How many pounds have you put on in a "few weeks?" You're going to need to provide details.
  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
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  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
    I fought the purpose of this type of app was to take your age , height, weight and work out what you should burn when working out
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Wow those exercise burns are ridiculous :open_mouth:

    Most people advise to halve the MFP database calories

    But those app burns ...even half would be too much
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    86 mins of that kind of exercise I'd estimate 6-700 calories

    Start there

    Judge how much weight you lose over 6-8 weeks then adjust
  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
    MFP?
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    I fought the purpose of this type of app was to take your age , height, weight and work out what you should burn when working out

    Your burns are inaccurate. You are eating too many calories back for exercise if you are eating exercise calories.
  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
    Eating between 1500-1700 cal in total
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    MFP?

    MyFitnessPal.

    Yep, your calorie burns are estimating way high.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    Eating between 1500-1700 cal in total

    So you don't use a food scale?
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    Eating between 1500-1700 cal in total

    If you think that's how much you are eating in gross calories and you are a 250lb male and not losing weight then I assume you have a food logging issue as well

    Set your diary to public for specific advice
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    MFP?

    My fitness pal...this app...the exercise database overestimates ...
  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    MFP?

    My fitness pal...this app...the exercise database overestimates ...

    Lol that's my lack of thinking there :D
  • jamesPercy1985
    jamesPercy1985 Posts: 32 Member
    Well av just started logging my food on this from yesterday, I do use a scale, and if it's from a packet I scan the bar code useing this app
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    jamesPercy1985 wrote: »
    Well av just started logging my food on this from yesterday, I do use a scale, and if it's from a packet I scan the bar code useing this app

    Well keep logging for 8 weeks and reassess

    But watch those calorie burns ...they're whack

    Good luck
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