Is not eating enough making me fat?

Correction...
http://bodynutrition.org/starvation-mode/

AnvilHead wrote: »

studiog608 wrote: »

Starvation mode
wwe.bodynutrition.org/starvation-mode/

MKEgal...Read it. Then read it again.

Still and again....no.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0004377

Well-designed study using indirect calorimetry and double-labeled water to measure EE. Caloric intake was controlled about as closely as possible without putting test subjects in a metabolic ward for the duration of the study. Metabolic adaptation for CR subjects was 6% larger than what could be accounted for by the loss in metabolic size. Six percent.

Does downregulation occur? Yes. Does it stop weight loss and make you "hold onto fat storage"? Absolutely not. That's ridiculous woo and has been proven over and over again to be false.

Interestingly enough, the link wasn't too bad in terms of information, but it can be easily misconstrued to the knowledgeable observer. It equals starvation mode with adaptive thermogenesis and how over time, the body will down regulate metabolism to compensate for prolong periods of calorie suppression. In turn, you TDEE would reduce so if you don't adjust intake based on a lower TDEE, you would plateau.

To combat it, it recommend higher protein intakes, resistance training, and diet breaks. What is doesn't say, is what the studiog is suggesting.

Did you not have any milk with your Weetabix? To get the best results from MFP, you need to log everything you eat.

those few screenshots do not provide enough information.

So you gained an unwanted 22 lbs which on someone who is 5'1 can be a lot. However, if you were previously eating enough to gain the weight then being on a legit 1,200 calories/day wouldn't feel very much like too much food. So I would suggest that you aren't logging properly and that you might still be eating more than you think.

As others have probably suggested - make sure you are very, very accurately logging as you might be eating more than you think. Also, you have a smaller room for error than I do - as I'm 5'10 and weigh just over 250lbs so I naturally need more than you each day to keep going. I still need to lose about 70lbs but I also eat just under double what you do every day at 2,250 calories.

Traveler120 wrote: »

If you're overweight, eating when you're not hungry makes NO sense whatsoever. Cramming more food in just to reach a number dictated by mfp and overriding your own body's natural signals, is just absurd. Listen to your body!

Kay, but no.

I eat 6 x a day and I'm hardly every hungry but I just eat. By the time you physically feel hunger pains it's too late. I subscribe to the theory that by consistently eating small amounts of food you are asking your body to always be digesting which burns calories.

I also feel better when I eat 6 x a day and I'm not hungry than when I wait until I'm hungry, have a huge meal because my brain is telling me to eat all the things and then I feel like crap because I'm so full. People who are overweight actually benefit more from eating small amounts, multiple times a day even if they aren't hungry because it trains them to not eat huge meals when they're starving. Being hungry sets your brain into a mode to eat everything in sight, even though you logically know it's way too much food. I consume less now by eating more frequently than I ever did waiting until I actually felt hungry. I don't think your advice is healthy.