Need advice: I can't get my body back

cmenge11 wrote: »

Hi all! So I have run into a bit of a problem. I gained around 40 pounds in the course of a year and a half. I'll admit that I was not healthy during that period it was my senior year of college so I did a lot of drinking and eating out at restaurants and I rarely drank water. It's been 5 months and I'm 5'5" 186 pounds (up from 135 average) and female.

A little background about me is that I was always a fat kid and I was fat until 10th grade. Then I lost about 50 pounds relatively quickly and kept it off until my senior year of college. I would say that my behavior (diet and excercise) hasn't changed much since my skinny days but for some reason I gained a ton of weight very quickly. I went to a friend who was an herbalife coach and he measure my resting metabolic rate and said it was comparable to that of a 55 year old woman (I'm 22). Since then it's been about 5 months and I'm consuming 1250 calories a day and working out alternating between strength training and cardio 6 days a week and I've only gained weight. What do I do? I feel hopeless and it's hard to stay motivated with no results.

You have not been eating 1250 calories. Unless you have been in your bed, fed with a tube and not moving at all. Not possible, regardless of whether you have some mysterious medical condition or not. Open your diary.

rabbitjb wrote: »

If your herbalife coach got you to fast for 12 hours then put you under a hood at rest to measure your RMR then maybe a/he has some idea what your metabolic rate at rest is ...otherwise ignore

You would know

It would have looked like this




You put on weight because you ate the same, drank more high calorie alcohol and moved less. End of

Eat less, move more to lose

Do not buy herbalife

I'm quoting primarily to snag this image - excellent!

It's all too easy to blame this on metabolism, but even those with a metabolic disorder can overcome and manage their weight. There are several elite athletes who have thyroid disorders and are performing stronger than ever.

The rule of CICO applies to everyone.

I'm not sure if you should jump right to having a problem physically. I really think it is your calories you are either over eating or eating too little. Basically with calories. Say your BMR is 1800 calories - that's when you are doing nothing, it will go up if you live an active lifestyle and adding in activity is known as you TDEE. You can use either of these. I use my BMR so I get more of a deficit. You only want to go down a little bit. for example eat 1700 calories. That's a deficit and automatically you will start losing weight. add in exercise (but dont eat back the calories) and that just adds to the deficit. Then when you hit a plateau you drop your calories more or increase your exercise (or both if you want to go hard core). But the thing is if you start at 1200 and you BMR is 1800 yes you will lose weight but once you hit that plateau, where are you going to go? to 1000 calories... you will be miserable, you will lose muscle mass and you will end up not losing that much weight and you could end up going down the road to an eating disorder. I know this from experience as this is what happened to me. I ended up (luckily) going back to eat regularly and gained 4 times the weight I lost back!!!!!!! I have now joined MFP and want to be healthy so my calories are at 1800 as my BMR is 2000 roughly. I work out 5 days per week, mostly weights and only 20-15 minutes cardio (hell no cardio!!) and its been four days (so can't really say 5 days just yet) but I already had to do my brand new bra up tighter this morning - after it had been in the dryer!! (they shrink a little in the dryer)

Please note this is just my experience and suggestions. I am by NO means a pro at this, as you can see I have had my own struggles.

I think it is about the composition of what you're eating.

You'd be fuller eating good fats and they would not be adverse to your health. This would prevent feeling full.

You'd be fuller drinking some whey protein with water.

You'd feel better if you lowered your carbs and sugar. Despite what MFP recommends, I would set yourself some goals as to the composition of what you're going to eat and find out what jumpstarts your metabolism. Try something for three weeks like 100 grams of carbs, 80 grams of protein, 50 grams of fat and low sugar. Try to just have sugar come from fruit. Then, instead of always eating 1200 calories you would feel better and start eating what your body wants.

This is a good clothes outfit for when you can't get your body back.

rwhyte12 wrote: »

I think it is about the composition of what you're eating.

You'd be fuller eating good fats and they would not be adverse to your health. This would prevent feeling full.

You'd be fuller drinking some whey protein with water.

You'd feel better if you lowered your carbs and sugar. Despite what MFP recommends, I would set yourself some goals as to the composition of what you're going to eat and find out what jumpstarts your metabolism. Try something for three weeks like 100 grams of carbs, 80 grams of protein, 50 grams of fat and low sugar. Try to just have sugar come from fruit. Then, instead of always eating 1200 calories you would feel better and start eating what your body wants.

This is just noise. Her calories in aren't less than her calories out. End of story.

I have the same problem! And I feel terrible about it. Would you like to be weight loss buddies? I mean, really, keeping each other on track?