Weight loss help

klloomis249
klloomis249 Posts: 5 Member
edited November 30 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi guys I need some advice. Currently I weigh 186 pounds but before I weighed 208 pounds. I've been eating 800-900 calories because I want to lose weight fast but when I eat 1000-1200 I gain weight. Please help I would like some advice as to what is going on!

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    edited March 2016
    1) Weigh your food before you log it. You are eating more than you think.
    2) Don't try to eat less than 1200 calories per day. Your body uses more than that just to keep you alive, and eating less than that will result in hunger, cravings, and hopefully caving, or hunger, craving, loss of lean body mass and health.
  • MegSchuy16
    MegSchuy16 Posts: 189 Member
    edited March 2016
    See a doctor or nutritionist because you should never eat under 1200... You should be eating that amount just to survive; anything under that and you'll suffer for it in the long run. You should be eating 1200 calories a day and exercising at least 60min. a day.
  • LaLa482
    LaLa482 Posts: 82 Member
    kommodevaran wrote: »
    1) Weigh your food before you log it. You are eating more than you think.
    2) Don't try to eat less than 1200 calories per day. Your body uses more than that just to keep you alive, and eating less than that will result in hunger, cravings, and hopefully caving, or hunger, craving, loss of lean body mass and health.

    Absolutely number 1. Do you log everything?
  • klloomis249
    klloomis249 Posts: 5 Member
    Yes I have logged everything. But thank you starting tomorrow I'll be eating 1000-1200 calories !
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Are you logging your food accurately? This may include using a food scale to weigh all foods/measuring cups for liquids, verifying the entries you choose are accurate, building your own recipes rather than using generic or homemade entries out of the database, and being mindful of calories burned through exercise. As others have said, you need to be eating at least 1200 calories, but you also need to make sure you aren't eating more than you think.
  • stephinator92
    stephinator92 Posts: 162 Member
    You should be eating more. Take your body weight, multiply by 10. That's the number of calories you can eat to maintain. Subtract 500 calories. That number will give you the result for weight loss of about a pound a week, according to what I've read
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    klloomis249 wrote: »
    Hi guys I need some advice. Currently I weigh 186 pounds but before I weighed 208 pounds. I've been eating 800-900 calories because I want to lose weight fast but when I eat 1000-1200 I gain weight. Please help I would like some advice as to what is going on!

    When you increase your calories, are you giving your body some time to adjust to the added water and such in your system? At least a couple of weeks? Sometimes people freak out about the natural fluctuations on the scale like that.

    I'll agree with others that you should probably check in with a doctor if you're confident in your numbers.
  • Rocknut53
    Rocknut53 Posts: 1,794 Member
    LeonesiaAmador wrote: »
    klloomis249 wrote: »
    Hi guys I need some advice. Currently I weigh 186 pounds but before I weighed 208 pounds. I've been eating 800-900 calories because I want to lose weight fast but when I eat 1000-1200 I gain weight. Please help I would like some advice as to what is going on!


    You may not be eating the right foods to lose the weight you want, for example if you should be on a low carb diet and your eating nothing but carbs on the 1000-1200 calories than you will gain versus lose. I would love to help you out! I'm actually starting a 7 day meal replacement Challenge on April 1st! Shoot me a message and id be happy to send you over the info if that doesn't work for you I wouldn't mind helping you out with a proper clean eating guide! :)

    No. It's all about the calorie deficit, not what type of food you are eating.
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  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    LeonesiaAmador wrote: »
    klloomis249 wrote: »
    Hi guys I need some advice. Currently I weigh 186 pounds but before I weighed 208 pounds. I've been eating 800-900 calories because I want to lose weight fast but when I eat 1000-1200 I gain weight. Please help I would like some advice as to what is going on!


    You may not be eating the right foods to lose the weight you want, for example if you should be on a low carb diet and your eating nothing but carbs on the 1000-1200 calories than you will gain versus lose. I would love to help you out! I'm actually starting a 7 day meal replacement Challenge on April 1st! Shoot me a message and id be happy to send you over the info if that doesn't work for you I wouldn't mind helping you out with a proper clean eating guide! :)

    I eat on the lower carb spectrum, and this is blatantly untrue. You will not gain weight eating 1200 calories on a non low carb diet..
  • jandsstevenson887
    jandsstevenson887 Posts: 296 Member
    stephinator92 wrote: »
    You should be eating more. Take your body weight, multiply by 10. That's the number of calories you can eat to maintain. Subtract 500 calories. That number will give you the result for weight loss of about a pound a week, according to what I've read

    Using this calculator I would need to eat less than 1000 calories a day. I'm losing a lb/week eating 1400 calories a day.
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    LeonesiaAmador wrote: »
    klloomis249 wrote: »
    Hi guys I need some advice. Currently I weigh 186 pounds but before I weighed 208 pounds. I've been eating 800-900 calories because I want to lose weight fast but when I eat 1000-1200 I gain weight. Please help I would like some advice as to what is going on!


    You may not be eating the right foods to lose the weight you want, for example if you should be on a low carb diet and your eating nothing but carbs on the 1000-1200 calories than you will gain versus lose. I would love to help you out! I'm actually starting a 7 day meal replacement Challenge on April 1st! Shoot me a message and id be happy to send you over the info if that doesn't work for you I wouldn't mind helping you out with a proper clean eating guide! :)

    No. You will not gain weight eating carbs if you are in a calorie deficit.
  • size102b
    size102b Posts: 1,370 Member
    Don't eat that low
    Don't lose weight too fast your Maintenance calorie have to be low
    Tbh your setting yourself up for years yoyoing
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