Gaining Weight on 1,000 Calories
ramosjocelyn
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Hi! I am a 19 year old girl, 5 foot 1, and 95 pounds. I have currently been trying to get to 90 pounds as I am trying out for my college's dance team again this year and I need to be 90 pounds to be considered for a solo. I have been exercising regularly, burning an average of 1,750 calories and eating 1,000 calories, thus giving me a net of -750. I have still been slowly gaining weight and I am really wondering why.
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I wonder how you're figuring the amount of cals you're eating...are you using a food scale to weigh your portions so you know you're logging correctly? I'm 5'1 and can't imagine being 90 lbs, but if that's what you're shooting for you'll need to be really tight on your food logging1
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You could be gaining weight by building muscle. What kind of exercising are you doing?0
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I wonder about these athletic institutions that are dictating policies encouraging extreme thinness like this. No wonder young women end up with eating disorders!31
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How can a college have a weight requirement to get on a dance team that is so incredibly wrong!11
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INTERMITTENT FASTING
Two days out of the week till dinner time. This helps regulate blood sugar and jump starts metabolism. remember to lower carbs to 30% of your intake. And cardio cardio cardio!!!-5 -
i tend to gain when i don't eat enough, and at 19 years old and a dancer i'm pretty sure your body requires more than 1,000 cals. I think you might see better results by upping your intake to 1,200 cals a day. It certainly cant hurt to try0
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nobody gains by not eating enough11
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ramosjocelyn wrote: »Hi! I am a 19 year old girl, 5 foot 1, and 95 pounds. I have currently been trying to get to 90 pounds as I am trying out for my college's dance team again this year and I need to be 90 pounds to be considered for a solo. I have been exercising regularly, burning an average of 1,750 calories and eating 1,000 calories, thus giving me a net of -750. I have still been slowly gaining weight and I am really wondering why.
Why wouldn't 95lb qualify you at 5'1"? I was ballerina thin at the same BMI.
Worry about your technique, your weight is fine. Tell them you weigh 90lb, if they actually weigh you just say you are retaining water, whatever. You won't make a solo by starving yourself, you won't be able to dance as well. They are gonna pick the girls who can dance, right?
I would not want my daughters participating in a group that said you had to be radically underweight to participate, and made that the qualifying factor for a solo. No good can come of that. You do have to look a certain way, sure, it's entertainment. But the most important consideration should be your dancing.28 -
How do you know you need to be 90 lbs to be considered for a solo? If it's written down somewhere, that's a Title IX claim waiting to happen. If it's something that other girls in the team told you, understand that this so-called "requirement" may come from their own insecurities rather than actual fact.
In either case, please reconsider whether getting to dance a solo is worth damaging your health by becoming even more painfully thin. You're already underweight according to the BMI chart. If you decide it's worth it, do at least consider seeing a doctor before attempting to lose more weight.11 -
Do they actually weigh you? My college had a dance team with a weight requirement as well, but it was more, "you have to LOOK like you weigh 120 pounds." And I feel like at 95 pounds you could get away for being 90 pounds.2
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How do you know you need to be 90 lbs to be considered for a solo? If it's written down somewhere, that's a Title IX claim waiting to happen. If it's something that other girls in the team told you, understand that this so-called "requirement" may come from their own insecurities rather than actual fact.
In either case, please reconsider whether getting to dance a solo is worth damaging your health by becoming even more painfully thin. You're already underweight according to the BMI chart. If you decide it's worth it, do at least consider seeing a doctor before attempting to lose more weight.
I am actually not underweight just close to it.0 -
ramosjocelyn wrote: »I am actually not underweight just close to it.
No, your BMI is 17.9 and that is underweight. Normal weight begins at 18.5
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As Gamliela says it is unlikely for you to be gaining weight if you are eating at such a huge deficit. I would think that you are either eating more than you think or your exercise calorie count is not as high as you think. Or a combination of both. Are you weighing and logging everything, If you are then open your diary so people can take a look and maybe advise you a bit more. Also let us know your exercise routine and I am sure that somebody will be able to help you there as well.
Please make sure you are eating enough and getting the right nutrition your body requires.
I also agree with others that in this day and age it is hard to believe that they dictate a precise size for you to qualify for a solo. If you are a good dancer then I can't see how 5 pounds here or there is going to even show let alone make any difference to your ability. Ridiculous in my opinion.
I wish you all the best with your dancing and hope you get to do that solo.
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Be sure you are eating healthy. weight wise muscle weighs as much as fat the difference is that fat takes up more room.0
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How do you know you need to be 90 lbs to be considered for a solo? If it's written down somewhere, that's a Title IX claim waiting to happen. If it's something that other girls in the team told you, understand that this so-called "requirement" may come from their own insecurities rather than actual fact.
In either case, please reconsider whether getting to dance a solo is worth damaging your health by becoming even more painfully thin. You're already underweight according to the BMI chart. If you decide it's worth it, do at least consider seeing a doctor before attempting to lose more weight.
THIS. THIS. THIS.2 -
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Don't forget the drinks! Not saying you do but in my early twenties I was very active and athletic and ate very little in order to control my weight (a career requirement). I also drank Milo and iced coffee and juice. At the time I had no real idea about calories, only about not eating much. Saying that I ate so little it was probably the liquids that kept me going.
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Of course the only response the OP has posted is a defensive "I'm not underweight" post, rather than answering any of the questions that have been asked. *facepalm*8
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Someone needs to post the flowchart.... this is simply not possible, barring medical conditions....1
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Personally, if you were my daughter, I'd want to sit down and have a talk with you. My daughter is only a few years older than you and has struggled with her weight/body image issues for years, as did I....Our talk would go something like this: "Babydoll.......I love you and I want you to hear me. 95 pounds is far too light, and I'm getting really worried about you. I understand you want to be on that dance team, but is it really worth the risk of your present health AND your future health? I think you need to reconsider your priorities, what they are asking of you is not fair, and not healthy. I know in the end you are going to do what you want to do, because it is your body after all, but I really don't want to lose you, or for you to become unhealthy. This is important. " Then I'd make lots of veggie food, and try to fill her wee stomach without being pushy...lol...but that's just me, and my way! Be careful, take care of yourself, and remember there are a lot of years ahead of you that you'll need your healthy body for. Much Love.. xo7
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I don't put much stock in BMI, but I did look up 5' 1" on a height/weight photo chart. That's really slender. I wouldn't suggest trying to lose more.
Out of curiosity, how are you losing 1,750 calories a day? What exercise routine? That's pretty difficult for someone your size. For example, that's about an hour of running up stairs for me. For you, it would be about 3 times that. That's a lot. I wouldn't claim you can't do it, but it stands out as something that makes me wonder.0 -
I don't put much stock in BMI, but I did look up 5' 1" on a height/weight photo chart. That's really slender. I wouldn't suggest trying to lose more.
Out of curiosity, how are you losing 1,750 calories a day? What exercise routine? That's pretty difficult for someone your size. For example, that's about an hour of running up stairs for me. For you, it would be about 3 times that. That's a lot. I wouldn't claim you can't do it, but it stands out as something that makes me wonder.
Below 100 pounds didn't even show up on the cart I looked at, which should tell OP something.2 -
Can you get that rule in writing? I would not be dieting at all, I would be prepping for challenging the rule. It's ridiculous.3
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OP if you are gaining you are eating more then a 1,000 calories. As far as the dance weight rule change schools asap, that's ridiculous and OP you don't need to lose weight, stop now before you have eating issues.2
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ramosjocelyn wrote: »Hi! I am a 19 year old girl, 5 foot 1, and 95 pounds. I have currently been trying to get to 90 pounds as I am trying out for my college's dance team again this year and I need to be 90 pounds to be considered for a solo. I have been exercising regularly, burning an average of 1,750 calories and eating 1,000 calories, thus giving me a net of -750. I have still been slowly gaining weight and I am really wondering why.
Per your info you have a BMR of 1265 calories a day. That is calories to keep you breathing in and out lying in bed all day.
Then you exercise too; getting an exercise burn of 485 calories.
There is no way I can think of to gain weight on negative net energy.
So you are eating more than 1,000 calories, burning less than 1,750, or, especially if this is a little blip on the scale, you are retaining water.
Also most of the people here would tell you that at an already low weight you shouldn't run more than a 250 calorie a day deficit, which gives you about a half pound a week loss. So you could eat another 500 calories a day, exercise less, or some combination of the two.
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My 19 year old daughter is 4'10" and 100 lbs and she is TINY. If anyone or any institution told her to get down to 90 lbs she'd tell them to take a hike.9
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ramosjocelyn wrote: »How do you know you need to be 90 lbs to be considered for a solo? If it's written down somewhere, that's a Title IX claim waiting to happen. If it's something that other girls in the team told you, understand that this so-called "requirement" may come from their own insecurities rather than actual fact.
In either case, please reconsider whether getting to dance a solo is worth damaging your health by becoming even more painfully thin. You're already underweight according to the BMI chart. If you decide it's worth it, do at least consider seeing a doctor before attempting to lose more weight.
I am actually not underweight just close to it.
Nope you are already underweight and your goal is to be even further underweight. 98 lbs is the lowest Normal Weight for your height on a BMI chart.
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