Consistently gaining when I'm trying to lose
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americanzombiedesigns wrote: »Guys. Stop telling me I'm eating to much.
You asked what the issue was, and people told you. The simple fact is-you are not in a calorie deficit if you are not losing weight, therefore you are eating to much.0 -
americanzombiedesigns wrote: »Guys. Stop telling me I'm eating to much.
You asked what the issue was, and people told you. The simple fact is-you are not in a calorie deficit if you are not losing weight, therefore you are eating to much.
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americanzombiedesigns wrote: »Guys. Stop telling me I'm eating to much.
You asked what the issue was, and people told you. The simple fact is-you are not in a calorie deficit if you are not losing weight, therefore you are eating to much.
I eat 1200 calories a day. That's the minimum you can eat without going into starvation mode.
Based on another lovey person who is posting, I might have a medical condition that is causing this. I plan to go to a doctor soon to find out0 -
By the way, starvation mode is a myth.
Can you make your diary public?0 -
TheBeachgod wrote: »He is on a crusade to get people on IF.
Must be a recent epiphany......................0 -
Until you weigh your food, you don't know how many calories you're eating. Whilst it's not an exact science, it's helpful to cut out as many variables as possible. So whilst you think you're eating 1200 cals based on your current methods, you may in fact be eating more - that's what people are trying to tell you.0
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americanzombiedesigns wrote: »americanzombiedesigns wrote: »Guys. Stop telling me I'm eating to much.
You asked what the issue was, and people told you. The simple fact is-you are not in a calorie deficit if you are not losing weight, therefore you are eating to much.
I eat 1200 calories a day. That's the minimum you can eat without going into starvation mode.
Based on another lovey person who is posting, I might have a medical condition that is causing this. I plan to go to a doctor soon to find out
You are probably eating more than you think. People are not saying drop you calories below 1200, they are saying you aren't actually eating 1200 like you seem to believe.0 -
americanzombiedesigns wrote: »americanzombiedesigns wrote: »Guys. Stop telling me I'm eating to much.
You asked what the issue was, and people told you. The simple fact is-you are not in a calorie deficit if you are not losing weight, therefore you are eating to much.
I eat 1200 calories a day. That's the minimum you can eat without going into starvation mode.
Based on another lovey person who is posting, I might have a medical condition that is causing this. I plan to go to a doctor soon to find out
If you have hypothyroidism it would lower your metabolism so you would be overeating for your metabolism but with meds you can get your thyroid level back to normal.0 -
I really think you should visit your doctor asap.0
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But if you're gaining weight then the evidence suggests you must be eating more than that, whether through inaccurate logging or something else I don't know.americanzombiedesigns wrote: »americanzombiedesigns wrote: »Guys. Stop telling me I'm eating to much.
You asked what the issue was, and people told you. The simple fact is-you are not in a calorie deficit if you are not losing weight, therefore you are eating to much.
I eat 1200 calories a day. That's the minimum you can eat without going into starvation mode.
Based on another lovey person who is posting, I might have a medical condition that is causing this. I plan to go to a doctor soon to find out
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OK guys. I'm gonna set up a doctor appointment to figure things out. I don't need any more comments on here please.0
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Are you weighing your food on a scale?0
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You'd rather believe you have an illness rather than accept you may not be logging properly?0
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You'd rather believe you have an illness rather than accept you may not be logging properly?
I'm open to the possibility considering my family has a rich history of several different types of illness. So I'm exploring all possibilities.
When it comes to logging incorrectly. If I am logging foods in wrong, I don't know what im doing wrong. And all the people just says "you eat to much" does nothing to help.0 -
There are mistakes that people commonly make that cause them to not lose weight that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings0
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If could help us if you make your diary public so we can see your entries0
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Help people to help you by making your diary public.0
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americanzombiedesigns wrote: »Guys. Stop telling me I'm eating to much.
I'm being extremely careful that I'm not eating too much and that I'm eating enough.
This is why I reached out to the community to try and find out why with all my obsessive weighing, calorie counting, and exercise that I'm still gaining weight.
I don't want to be told that eating only 3 very small healthy meals a day is eating too much.
Some, not all, of you are making me regret reaching out and asking for help
I'm sorry you feel this way, but it all boils down to calories in and calories out. If you are gaining you are consuming more calories than you are burning. It's just science not emotion, no one is trying to be mean.0 -
So I honestly didn't know there was a website to this app where I could customize everything. Again. I'm new to this app and calorie counting.
But again. I'm done talking here. I'm gonna go and do some self thought and re evaluate things.0 -
americanzombiedesigns wrote: »So I honestly didn't know there was a website to this app where I could customize everything. Again. I'm new to this app and calorie counting.
But again. I'm done talking here. I'm gonna go and do some self thought and re evaluate things.
I think you've answered your own question. You're new to calorie counting. Even if you are doing it perfectly now, you gained the weight during a time when you weren't. Give it some time, stay tight with your diary, and see what happens. If you are diligently measuring and logging and still gaining, then I suggest either sharing your diary or seeing a doctor.0 -
I can't help you but I sympathize.
Don't be too hard on yourself, and give yourself time.
I've been using this app for less than six months, and I realized that although the numbers help, they can only be an estimation.
Experiment with your body, and take the time to find what works best with you.0 -
americanzombiedesigns wrote: »ShrinkingScientist wrote: »Are you eating your exercise calories back? How do you measure your food (i.e. scale, measuring cups, eyeballing it)?
I'm using measuring cups and a scale. I am also eating some, but not all my calories back.americanzombiedesigns wrote: »americanzombiedesigns wrote: »americanzombiedesigns wrote: »ShrinkingScientist wrote: »Are you eating your exercise calories back? How do you measure your food (i.e. scale, measuring cups, eyeballing it)?
I'm using measuring cups and a scale. I am also eating my exercise calorie back. That's the correct thing to do right?
How many calories are you eating? Not netting.
I try to eat 1200 to 1300 calories a day. And if I'm correct that is the minimum amount of calories a female body needs to function correctly.
You said you do 1-3 hours of cardio per day and eat back exercise calories. How can you have a base goal of 1200 and eat back exercise calories and still only eat 1200-1300 calories? That doesn't add up.
I'm sorry. Miss communicating. Let me clarify. This is really the first time I've ever done calorie counting so I'm doing this based on what the app says.
It says I should have 1200 calories a day. So I try and eat that. I then exercise which burns calories. I've read from different sources (if I'm wrong please correct me) that I need to eat back the calories I burned because if I don't then my body's calorie intake is below 1200 which can be bad for the body as 1200 is the lowest you should go. I normally don't eat back most of the calories I burned during workout, but I do eat back some.
If that information I've read is wrong then I will simply stop eating back my exercise calories.
Running your age, gender, height, and current weight - here is what Calorie Net Calculator says you need to lose a pound a week, lose 2 pounds a week, maintain, gain a pound a week, gain 2 pounds a week. I left exercise out of the equation as you can always add some of the exercise calories into your diet while still maintaining a deficit.
Something was working before when you lost the weight down to 138 pounds. And something has reversed since then to have you gain the weight back up to 153.
Reality usually boils down to underestimating the amount of calories eaten and overestimating the amount of calories burned through exercise. Use the App for bar codes, use appropriate and honest portions for measurement and if you can't find something in the search engine at MFP or on the internet - create your own portion amount and calories to enter into your diary.
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smotheredincheese wrote: »
But if you're gaining weight then the evidence suggests you must be eating more than that, whether through inaccurate logging or something else I don't know.americanzombiedesigns wrote: »americanzombiedesigns wrote: »Guys. Stop telling me I'm eating to much.
You asked what the issue was, and people told you. The simple fact is-you are not in a calorie deficit if you are not losing weight, therefore you are eating to much.
I eat 1200 calories a day. That's the minimum you can eat without going into starvation mode.
Based on another lovey person who is posting, I might have a medical condition that is causing this. I plan to go to a doctor soon to find out
I'm a petite female with hypothyroidism. Before I was diagnosed I was gaining weight rather rapidly on an 1100-1200 calorie a day diet. So it is very, very possible to gain weight on 1200 calories (or even less) per day. Once medication kicked in I began losing at a very satisfactory rate on the exact same calorie intake.
OP -- People post what they know, or at least what they think they know. Most people want to help but simply have no idea what they don't know.
There are medical conditions (hypothyroidism and PCOS being the two main ones) that can affect your metabolism such that you can fail to lose weight or even gain on a very limited calorie diet. Strictly speaking, is it true that even with those conditions if you're gaining weight then you're eating more than your body needs to maintain? Well . . . yes. It is technically true. But that's an incredibly simplistic and shortsighted way of looking at it. As posted above, before I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism I was gaining on 1200 calories (or less) per day. So technically even on that low intake I was indeed eating more than my body needed and had I cut my intake down to 800 or 900 calories a day (or lower if necessary) there's little doubt that I would have eventually found a low enough calorie intake that I would have been able to lose, or at least maintain, my weight. Would such a low intake have been realistically do-able, or healthy? No. Not at all.
So my advice is to go get yourself checked out by a doctor as soon as possible.0 -
americanzombiedesigns wrote: »
I would just like to note something for anyone who reads this or does similar.
I'm 5'3.5" and 112.5 pounds. Getting down to this weight took being spot on with my calorie intake and due to that I would weigh everything, including prepackaged items. Many protein bars weigh more than the package says. Quest bars should be 60 grams each and I'd get bars that were anywhere from 58 grams to 71 grams, usually on the higher end. This added 30 to 50 calories just from that alone. Yesterday's Kind bar I ate added 30 more calories due to the extra weight. Combine that with the fact that most nutrition labels are rounded by FDA guidelines and one protein bar could be an extra 50 to 75 calories just like that. That is a lot of extra calories for someone of my height and weight. Imagine that several times per day without weighing and you're looking at an extra 200 to 300 calories easily even when you're trying to be as precise as possible with your logging.
Edit: OP closed their account. Provided they don't have a medical issue, which is unlikely, I guess they wanted coddling rather than reality.0 -
americanzombiedesigns wrote: »
I would just like to note something for anyone who reads this or does similar.
I'm 5'3.5" and 112.5 pounds. Getting down to this weight took being spot on with my calorie intake and due to that I would weigh everything, including prepackaged items. Many protein bars weigh more than the package says. Quest bars should be 60 grams each and I'd get bars that were anywhere from 58 grams to 71 grams, usually on the higher end. This added 30 to 50 calories just from that alone. Yesterday's Kind bar I ate added 30 more calories due to the extra weight. Combine that with the fact that most nutrition labels are rounded by FDA guidelines and one protein bar could be an extra 50 to 75 calories just like that. That is a lot of extra calories for someone of my height and weight. Imagine that several times per day without weighing and you're looking at an extra 200 to 300 calories easily even when you're trying to be as precise as possible with your logging.
Edit: OP closed their account. Provided they don't have a medical issue, which is unlikely, I guess they wanted coddling rather than reality.
holy smokes!
never weighed the quest bars
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americanzombiedesigns wrote: »You'd rather believe you have an illness rather than accept you may not be logging properly?
I'm open to the possibility considering my family has a rich history of several different types of illness. So I'm exploring all possibilities.
When it comes to logging incorrectly. If I am logging foods in wrong, I don't know what im doing wrong. And all the people just says "you eat to much" does nothing to help.
Weighing is great, but people often use incorrect entries, or if they are eating a lot of processed food, labels can be 30% off, plus it's fairly common for those things to be heavier than what the package says on top of that... so they can be eating 40% extra calories without realizing it.
Ugh did she deactivate her account?0 -
So it isn't any help to this chick since she closed her account but I would guess she might fall into the whole lean people trying to get leaner. I find now that I am within a few pounds of my goal, I don't see the weight loss very often. Still doing the right things but most weeks I see a spike in weight or no loss. Then about once a month I will hit a new low weight. There is just too much fluctuation when you get close to see it regularly. If the goal calories for one pound of weight loss a week is at 1209 you have NO wiggle room.0
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Edit: OP closed their account. Provided they don't have a medical issue, which is unlikely, I guess they wanted coddling rather than reality.
That's my guess.
I don't know the collected data, but several threads like this per day get posted. Not only on this message board, but others at MFP. Obviously the sticky is not working. Usually, it doesn't end with the OP getting upset at all of those who have actually been in their shoes before, learned from the tough love and are just trying to help with a result is that they run away, delete their account or ignore all the help.
However, every now and then the thread ends in this manner we just witnessed.0 -
OP may be gone but thanks for posting this calculator.SingingSingleTracker wrote: »americanzombiedesigns wrote: »ShrinkingScientist wrote: »Are you eating your exercise calories back? How do you measure your food (i.e. scale, measuring cups, eyeballing it)?
I'm using measuring cups and a scale. I am also eating some, but not all my calories back.americanzombiedesigns wrote: »americanzombiedesigns wrote: »americanzombiedesigns wrote: »ShrinkingScientist wrote: »Are you eating your exercise calories back? How do you measure your food (i.e. scale, measuring cups, eyeballing it)?
I'm using measuring cups and a scale. I am also eating my exercise calorie back. That's the correct thing to do right?
How many calories are you eating? Not netting.
I try to eat 1200 to 1300 calories a day. And if I'm correct that is the minimum amount of calories a female body needs to function correctly.
You said you do 1-3 hours of cardio per day and eat back exercise calories. How can you have a base goal of 1200 and eat back exercise calories and still only eat 1200-1300 calories? That doesn't add up.
I'm sorry. Miss communicating. Let me clarify. This is really the first time I've ever done calorie counting so I'm doing this based on what the app says.
It says I should have 1200 calories a day. So I try and eat that. I then exercise which burns calories. I've read from different sources (if I'm wrong please correct me) that I need to eat back the calories I burned because if I don't then my body's calorie intake is below 1200 which can be bad for the body as 1200 is the lowest you should go. I normally don't eat back most of the calories I burned during workout, but I do eat back some.
If that information I've read is wrong then I will simply stop eating back my exercise calories.
Running your age, gender, height, and current weight - here is what Calorie Net Calculator says you need to lose a pound a week, lose 2 pounds a week, maintain, gain a pound a week, gain 2 pounds a week. I left exercise out of the equation as you can always add some of the exercise calories into your diet while still maintaining a deficit.
Something was working before when you lost the weight down to 138 pounds. And something has reversed since then to have you gain the weight back up to 153.
Reality usually boils down to underestimating the amount of calories eaten and overestimating the amount of calories burned through exercise. Use the App for bar codes, use appropriate and honest portions for measurement and if you can't find something in the search engine at MFP or on the internet - create your own portion amount and calories to enter into your diary.
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