1200 calorie diet

ATOKelley
ATOKelley Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
How is it that in 2 weeks, I've gained weight?!?!

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Either because weight loss isn't linear or because you aren't logging accurately
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    edited November 2015
    Are you eye-balling portions, measuring them or weighing them? You may be eating more than you think.

    Are you eating back exercise calories? Calorie burns are "generous." Many people start by eating back 50% and increase that IF their weight loss is too fast.

    Have you started an exercise regimen? Is it your time of month? Have you eaten higher sodium in recent days? 2 pounds could very well be a normal fluctuation due to water weight.

    2 weeks is not enough time.........
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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    Are you using a food scale?
  • sweetpea03b
    sweetpea03b Posts: 1,123 Member
    As everyone else said, get a scale. It will open your eyes to all the calories you were missing. However, I will mention that I never lost weight on a 1200cal diet and was always starving. I upped my calories and started losing. Good luck to you! :)
  • Asher_Ethan
    Asher_Ethan Posts: 2,430 Member
    Opening your diary and giving us your stats will really help us answer this.
  • soapsandropes
    soapsandropes Posts: 269 Member
    A few things:
    1. You aren't really eating 1200 calories, get a food scale
    2. You started exercising and your muscles might be retaining water, be patient
    3. You changed your diet significantly (salts, fats, sugars) and are retaining water, be patient

    Be patient, you didn't gain weight overnight and you aren't going to lose it overnight either.
  • Avalonis
    Avalonis Posts: 1,540 Member
    soapsandropes wrote: »
    A few things:
    1. You aren't really eating 1200 calories, get a food scale
    2. You started exercising and your muscles might be retaining water, be patient
    3. You changed your diet significantly (salts, fats, sugars) and are retaining water, be patient

    Be patient, you didn't gain weight overnight and you aren't going to lose it overnight either.

    All this.
  • ohmscheeks
    ohmscheeks Posts: 840 Member
    No one knows

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