Some advice please?

Natztastic
Natztastic Posts: 30 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
23 days of dieting so far. Resisted weighing myself so I would see a better loss on the scales. Been to the gym 13 times. Sticking to 1350 calories a day. Trying to eat as much fruit etc that I can. In over 3 weeks I have GAINED 0.2LBS

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  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    Are you weighing your food?

    Have you changed exercise routine?

  • TylerWilsonAKAtailor
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor Posts: 16 Member
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan
  • RuNaRoUnDaFiEld
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld Posts: 5,864 Member
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    All food raises blood sugar. And you don't need to cut carbs to lose weight.
  • bendyourkneekatie
    bendyourkneekatie Posts: 696 Member
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    I don't know what you're talking about, fish is awesome. Though I don't think I could handle it post workout.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited February 2016
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    She has been eating lot of fruit, but not fish. Meal timing is not essential for weight loss.

    OP, how do you know that you've been eating 1350 calories per day? Weight fluctuates normally with a couple of pounds from day to day - 0.2 pounds in nothing.
  • Natztastic
    Natztastic Posts: 30 Member
    RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »
    Are you weighing your food?

    Have you changed exercise routine?

    Yes weighing food, when I have been working a lot I have had to resort to prepackaged foods which have calories on them too.

    I'm always doing different things at the gym, always cardio though no weights
  • Natztastic
    Natztastic Posts: 30 Member
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    When I say I have been eating fruit, j usually have a banana for breakfast and then maybe a banana before or after working out, sometimes an apple with my evening meal.

    I think fasting sounds like a good idea, are you talking on of these 4:2 diet things?
  • Natztastic
    Natztastic Posts: 30 Member
    bendyourkneekatie wrote: »
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    I don't know what you're talking about, fish is awesome. Though I don't think I could handle it post workout.

    Haha especially not carp
  • leahcollett1
    leahcollett1 Posts: 807 Member
    fasting wont make you lose more.. being at a calorie deficit will make you lose. im the same i dont lose and i train with les mill combat 4 times a week. ive put it down t logging inaccuracies and ladies totm for me. i was up 6lbs yesterday hun. im trying not to freak.

    how many calories are you eating whats your stats?
  • Natztastic
    Natztastic Posts: 30 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    She has been eating lot of fruit, but not fish. Meal timing is not essential for weight loss.

    OP, how do you know that you've been eating 1350 calories per day? Weight fluctuates normally with a couple of pounds from day to day - 0.2 pounds in nothing.

    I have been logging my food everyday.
  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    edited February 2016
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    For someone that has a thread of eating only 500-800 cals a day, and clearly misinformed on nutrition, I'm not sure it is in the community's best interests for you to give advice. OP, please do not listen to this individual. His information is based on myths. No food is bad unless you have a medical condition for it.

    In regard to gaining weight, as others have said, it can be water weight with a new routine. Take measurements and photos. They are more telling than a scale, especially when you're positive that your intake is accurate.
  • size102b
    size102b Posts: 1,370 Member
    edited February 2016
    DIET noooo drop that word mentality otherwise your be yoyoing weight
    You need to change your lifestyle
    Weigh measure all food and drink
    Don't eat exercise calories until goal as they arent accurate unless you've a hrm
    Scan food on here or work it out yourself the calories on most things in here are way out
  • StealthHealth
    StealthHealth Posts: 2,417 Member
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    This is an example of why the old functionality of being able to see all posts that a user had made was useful. By using that functionality one could easily see that Tyler is not in a great position to be making dietary advice.

  • size102b
    size102b Posts: 1,370 Member
    Don't fast tbh it's rubbish
  • Natztastic
    Natztastic Posts: 30 Member
    Call me Naive but as I have been cutting calories from at least 2000 a day to 1350 - over 23 days is a calorie deficit of 14000 odd, which should roughly equate to 4lbs loss, and my exercise, let's say 13 times at 250 is about 3250 cals which is another lb, I was actually expecting to see a 6lb loss before the maths.
  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    size102b wrote: »
    Don't fast tbh it's rubbish

    This isn't true either. Some people have great success intermittent fasting. It's all about creating a deficit, not when or how often the food has been eaten. So someone could has 1500 calories in one sitting and fast the rest of the time and still be fine, as long as they're in a deficit and meeting calorie goals.

  • Natztastic
    Natztastic Posts: 30 Member
    vespiquenn wrote: »
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    For someone that has a thread of eating only 500-800 cals a day, and clearly misinformed on nutrition, I'm not sure it is in the community's best interests for you to give advice. OP, please do not listen to this individual. His information is based on myths. No food is bad unless you have a medical condition for it.

    In regard to gaining weight, as others have said, it can be water weight with a new routine. Take measurements and photos. They are more telling than a scale, especially when you're positive that your intake is accurate.

    Thank you for this. I know I am getting fitter because my times etc are improving at the gym and I feel slightly more toned. Maybe I will take some measurements as I have never done that in the past. Just annoying to not see the number.
  • Natztastic
    Natztastic Posts: 30 Member
    size102b wrote: »
    DIET noooo drop that word mentality otherwise your be yoyoing weight
    You need to change your lifestyle
    Weigh measure all food and drink
    Don't eat exercise calories until goal as they arent accurate unless you've a hrm
    Scan food on here or work it out yourself the calories on most things in here are way out

    I have changed my lifestyle, I know it's not a quick fix but to everyone else it's still a diet, lol.

    I don't eat back my exercise calories anyway.
  • vespiquenn
    vespiquenn Posts: 1,455 Member
    Natztastic wrote: »
    vespiquenn wrote: »
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    For someone that has a thread of eating only 500-800 cals a day, and clearly misinformed on nutrition, I'm not sure it is in the community's best interests for you to give advice. OP, please do not listen to this individual. His information is based on myths. No food is bad unless you have a medical condition for it.

    In regard to gaining weight, as others have said, it can be water weight with a new routine. Take measurements and photos. They are more telling than a scale, especially when you're positive that your intake is accurate.

    Thank you for this. I know I am getting fitter because my times etc are improving at the gym and I feel slightly more toned. Maybe I will take some measurements as I have never done that in the past. Just annoying to not see the number.

    The scale is only one form of measurement among many. For example, I am currently recompositioning. I have been sitting at the same weight since November, but have seem major changes in how my body looks from the weight lifting. Just being patient. Remember the weight didn't come on in a few weeks; it's not going to come off that quickly either.

  • bendyourkneekatie
    bendyourkneekatie Posts: 696 Member
    Y'know, there's the usual advice, tighten logging, weigh every last thing even prepackaged, double check entry selection, be wary of too many exercise calories, etc., but I'd also say, just a suggestion, that it may be worth weighing yourself more often. Obviously I don't know you and I could be wrong and weighing more often could make you miserable, but personally I've found weighing daily has really helped me understand my body and how my weight fluctuates. It can fluctuate by 5 or so pounds on one day. I'm ovulating right now (tmi sorry) so it's sitting pretty high at the top of my range. But because I weigh everyday, I see the downward trend and have a better idea of what I'm doing is working. If I only weighed myself every three weeks, I might hit the first at a low-water-weight moment, and then lose a lb or two of fat, but maybe gain a couple lbs of water weight on my next weigh in day, and seem to have lost nothing. But if I'd weighed more frequently I'd already be observing the downward trend and would know it was a fluctuation.

    Sorry if that wall of text didn't make sense.
  • allenpriest
    allenpriest Posts: 1,102 Member
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    Uh no.

    Eating as much fruit as you can is probably part of the issue.

    You can't exercise enough to overcome eating too much. You don't list your stats to know what are realistic targets for you. But you are eating more than you realize.

    Log everything.
    Weigh everything.


    There is a good flowchart to walk through on this. I'm sure it will appear.
  • allenpriest
    allenpriest Posts: 1,102 Member
    You say you are logging but you really need to think about how you are logging. Are you recording everything? Are you weighing accurately?

    You can have fluctuations related to water retention, hormone changes, TOM.

    Did you weigh on the same scale in the same place at the same time dressed the same way?

    If the scale is on carpet or other floor with some give it won't give a consistent measurement.
  • Natztastic
    Natztastic Posts: 30 Member
    vespiquenn wrote: »
    Natztastic wrote: »
    vespiquenn wrote: »
    TylerWilsonAKAtailor wrote: »
    You need to start counting your macros, and fruits and carps are your worst enemy, carps raise your blood sugar by getting that insulin spicked up, I suggest you eat your carps after workout, and of course try getting yourself in intermittent fasting plan

    For someone that has a thread of eating only 500-800 cals a day, and clearly misinformed on nutrition, I'm not sure it is in the community's best interests for you to give advice. OP, please do not listen to this individual. His information is based on myths. No food is bad unless you have a medical condition for it.

    In regard to gaining weight, as others have said, it can be water weight with a new routine. Take measurements and photos. They are more telling than a scale, especially when you're positive that your intake is accurate.

    Thank you for this. I know I am getting fitter because my times etc are improving at the gym and I feel slightly more toned. Maybe I will take some measurements as I have never done that in the past. Just annoying to not see the number.

    The scale is only one form of measurement among many. For example, I am currently recompositioning. I have been sitting at the same weight since November, but have seem major changes in how my body looks from the weight lifting. Just being patient. Remember the weight didn't come on in a few weeks; it's not going to come off that quickly either.

    Thanks for the advice. Maybe I am just impatient. Before when I've just eaten healthily and not gone to the gym I have lost weight consistently especially in the first couple weeks when you tend to drop the most weight.
    bendyourkneekatie wrote: »
    Y'know, there's the usual advice, tighten logging, weigh every last thing even prepackaged, double check entry selection, be wary of too many exercise calories, etc., but I'd also say, just a suggestion, that it may be worth weighing yourself more often. Obviously I don't know you and I could be wrong and weighing more often could make you miserable, but personally I've found weighing daily has really helped me understand my body and how my weight fluctuates. It can fluctuate by 5 or so pounds on one day. I'm ovulating right now (tmi sorry) so it's sitting pretty high at the top of my range. But because I weigh everyday, I see the downward trend and have a better idea of what I'm doing is working. If I only weighed myself every three weeks, I might hit the first at a low-water-weight moment, and then lose a lb or two of fat, but maybe gain a couple lbs of water weight on my next weigh in day, and seem to have lost nothing. But if I'd weighed more frequently I'd already be observing the downward trend and would know it was a fluctuation.

    Sorry if that wall of text didn't make sense.

    Thanks for taking the time. I stopped weighing myself frequently because if I haven't done so well it really demotivates me, so expecting a longer time to show a bigger number for encouragement. I know us girls go through some gnarly stuff every month. Maybe I'll try it x

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