Yo-yo dieter facing sudden weight gain!

How much weight have you gained?

What are you eating? What are your macros?

You could be eating way to many carbs and fats.

Try switching to an 'Intermittent Fasting' diet.

And ditch the lets spend hours on a treadmill attitude. Try some HIIT workouts. High Intensity Interval Training.

You said you can run for 45 minutes, so you'll have no problem doing a HIIT workout.

sscarmack wrote: »

What are you eating? What are your macros?

You could be eating way to many carbs and fats.

Try switching to an 'Intermittent Fasting' diet.

None of this is the issue.

How much weight have you gained in the last 2 weeks? How often do you weigh? 2 weeks isn't really long enough to worry too much, it's perfectly normal to stay the same or gain a small amount for a week or two, especially if you're weighing weekly rather than daily.

But it's also worth asking how accurate your calorie counting is. Do you weigh everything, or use cups/estimate portions? If you don't weigh your food it's a good idea to start doing so, as it can be easy to go over your goal otherwise. Also, do you eat back your exercise calories? If you do, how do you calculate them? Gym machines and the MFP database are notorious for overestimating exercise calories, so if you're using them and eating all your calories back, you could be eating back more than you're burning. Many people eat back 50-80% of their exercise calories to make up for this.

Ultimately I'd say to just keep going for now since it's only been 2 weeks, but tightening up your logging can never hurt!

I'm a bit larger than you, but I've had a three-week period during which my weight went up even though I was absolutely in a deficit. I doubt that's the outer limit.

dbush55 wrote: »

I do everything I can to measure and estimate my portions. I lack, however, a kitchen measure to actually weigh my food. I am working on obtaining one. I don't eat ANY of my calories back. I set my calorie goal based on a "sedentary" lifestyle, workout, and take my workout as an extra. I weigh myself every morning. I am glad to know that periods like this are relatively normal! I will continue to do what I am doing and update this post later. What would be an amount of time gaining weight when one should be alarmed?

My stats are pretty similar. 6'3", I'm at about 264 lbs right now. I've been losing 2 lbs a week pretty steady at ~1800 calories a day. I use a scale to weigh all solids that I eat (aside from eating out). I don't usually eat back all of my exercise calories, and I usually knock some off the machine's estimate before logging (350->300).


Daily weight for me can easily fluctuate by 5 or more pounds, depending on what I eat. Lots of carbs, sodium, or alcohol make me retain quite a bit of water weight. For me, it usually drops off after a day or two, but everyone is different.

Try to get a scale (mine was about $12 at Target), and start measuring that way. I find using a scale makes the process so much easier. I lost a lot of weight before with out ever touching a scale (more than 100 lbs). It's very doable, but it's less precise, and easier to accidentally eat at maintenance.

999tigger wrote: »

You gain weight because you are eating at a surplus. Simplez. Its not sime imexplained mystery its because you are eating your way to a weight gain.

In the long term, yes. In the short term, not necessarily.

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

are you weighing your food on a scale?

youre likely eating more than you think you are

It's quite unlikely that he's mistakenly eating enough above 2070 to be gaining fat at 290 pounds.

jeepinshawn wrote: »

DeguelloTex wrote: »

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

are you weighing your food on a scale?

youre likely eating more than you think you are

It's quite unlikely that he's mistakenly eating enough above 2070 to be gaining fat at 290 pounds.

Why? It is actually pretty easy.

Because a 6'3", 290 pound male, even sedentary, has a TDEE north of 3300 calories. He'd have to be suddenly, in the last couple of weeks, eating about 50% more than he was before, without realizing it. That's quite unlikely. That's why.