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Why am I gaining??

samig202
samig202 Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I'm trying to lose wait, and over the past few months I lost 30+ pounds. I have 15 more to go, but I've noticed that lately I've been gaining since going back to school.
Each day I eat 700-800 hundred calories. I get 8-9 hours of sleep on a given night. I walk a mile to school, attend daily gym class, and walk to my classes.
How can I be gaining?? Please help give reasons of why this is happening or what I can do to help it. Thanks :)

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  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    How are you measuring your calories? There's no way you're eating 700-800 calories if you're gaining weight (not that you should even be eating that little). And what are your stats?
  • hippychick1980
    hippychick1980 Posts: 7 Member
    Even though you say your gaining, do your clothes feel tighter or are you just using scales?
  • TreyTnt9
    TreyTnt9 Posts: 104 Member
    lose wait? :o
  • tiptoethruthetulips
    tiptoethruthetulips Posts: 3,373 Member
    edited October 2016
    Only 700-800 calories? Nowhere near enough calories to gain weight, so you are likely eating more than you think.

    The fact that you intend to eat that little is very telling.

    Bare minimum (with some exceptions usually medically supervised) an adult female should eat per day is about 1200cals and for males 1500cals per day, higher calories required for younger, taller and heavier people.

    How old are you, how tall are you and what do you currently weigh?
  • courtneyfabulous
    courtneyfabulous Posts: 1,863 Member
    How tall are you? How old are you? Even a child needs more than 1000 calories a day.
  • Wetcoaster
    Wetcoaster Posts: 1,788 Member
    First post. I cant take it serious .
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