I gain weight by eating healthy????????????
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I know for me when I have a "cheat" meal, I see it two days later on the scale, not the next day.1
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Persephonestar9 wrote: »You will not be healthy eating only one meal a day.
If you eat 3 meals a day and healthy snacks in between you can still lose weight.
Lots of vegetables,lean meats and fish, and "good" fats found in nuts,avacado and olive oils.
Limit carbs especially sugar and try not to eat processed foods.
Also drinking 2ltrs of water each day will help with weight loss.
Also try to remember that "low fat" foods usually have a heap of sugar and other additives making them worse than the full fat varieties.
Hope this helps.
Another no.
You don't have to eat 3 meals a day or snacks, unless you want to. Meal frequency/timing does not matter for weight loss, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals is the only thing that matters for weight loss.
Yes, some people like eating these foods, but one does not need to eat them in order to lose weight. What foods one eats does not matter for weight loss, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals is the only thing that matters for weight loss.
Drinking a certain amount of water every day will not help you lose weight, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals is the only thing that matters for weight loss.
Your carb intake doesn't matter for weight loss, or what your macros ratios are, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals is the only thing that matters for weight loss.
Low fat foods, sugar and additives don't matter, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals is the only thing that matters for weight loss.6 -
What you posted doesn't look healthy to me at all. My body would seriously rebel if I ate like that.
For years I struggled with finding a way to eat where I felt good and my intake allowed me to lose the weight that I needed to. It takes time. It takes planning. It takes consistency.
MFP isn't a magic pill. It is a tool that only works over time and if you are honest with yourself.5 -
Persephonestar9 wrote: »It actually does matter what those calories are made up of. But I guess being healthy doesn't count, just weight loss?? Where are you getting your facts from? Obviously nothing to do with nutrition.
I go by my own experience, and that's shown me that by eating all sorts of 'processed' foods, fast food, diet soda, low fat foods, sugary foods, foods with additives etc-while being at the correct calorie deficit for my weight loss goals-I not only lost around 50lbs, but I also IMPROVED all my health makers and blood work panels, including normalizing a high/pre-diabetic glucose number.
I'm now several years into maintenance, (one of the very few who are actually maintaining their losses for any length of time), and I continue eating all the foods I like, with a continued focus on my calorie intake. I eat veggies and whole grains every day, and I eat sugary foods and chips every day as well. My bmi is just under 21, and my health markers and blood work continue to come back great (I get them done twice a year, due to my history with prediabetes). My last panel put my total cholesterol at 143, glucose number in the 90s, my waist circumference at a 25 (measured by a nurse), etc etc. I'm in excellent health and eat all sorts of foods.
Thems my facts
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Have you thought about picking an "eating plan" and working with that for about 3 months to see if that helps? It really doesn't matter which one as long as long as it's balanced in terms of protein, carbs, fats. I like the paleo recipes a lot and tend to use them as meal ideas, because, dieting is boring.
From my Navy days: "Plan the dive; dive the plan." If you have a plan and daily goals, that really helps.
I *try* to limit my total calories to 1400; my carbs to 53 g; my fats to 62 g; my sugar to 15 g and I try to get at least 21g fiber and 158 g protein. I am not always successful - so far I am averaging 2 out of 3 compliant days for my calories. But - I have found that by limiting my carbs and sugar that I am not starving (and "hangry") and I am not going into ketosis either.
(You can set up which nutrients to track and the amounts under the HOME tab / Goals.)
I have a protein shake in the morning (right now I am using coconut milk, whey protein, ground chia seed, modified citrus pectin and moringa herb), which I make the night before; (224 calories) (Sometimes I use flax or basil seed).
I make up a blended meal of veggies on Sundays for lunches (5 carrots, 5 to 10 celery stalks depending on how big they are, 1 sweet onion, 5 cloves of garlic, 1 to 2 bunches of curly parsley, up to 3 lemons juiced, 2 TBSP good olive oil, sea salt, pepper). I add different spices each week - like smoked paprika, chili seasoning, so that I don't get bored. (48 calories)
You can also add tomatoes, avocado, cucumbers, beets, etc to mix it up.) (You make up the recipe as you go and weigh each thing for the grams, then divide by 5 for your daily amount).
I also saute a huge amount of different kinds of mushrooms (with olive oil and garlic and salt and pepper) and then add lemon juice and eat some of them for lunch to kind of give me some texture and bulk. (92 calories).
I have 160 grams of plain full fat yogurt that I add some home made marinated cucumbers (salt / pepper, olive oil and lemon) and dill to for my protein for lunch (209 calories).
Dinner is usually a out take of a paleo recipe that I make low carb for the remaining calories. This is usually where the variances to my calories come in and even though I am over 1400 calories sometimes, I am usually under 1500.
Good luck!
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Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »i weigh sometimes in the day and night.. i love watching it go up and down lol..
I need a life lol
Bodies are weird. For a long time I'd be a pound less from evening to morning, like clockwork for the most part. This year it's a two pound drop overnight. Weird body is weird. But agreed, it is fun to watch. I have suddenly realised, despite me weighing daily but apparently I'm not overly observant, that second week after break week of my pill, my weight stalls. I'm interested to see at which point it drops. It also drops between Saturday-Monday of pill break week.
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And you know, these people who come in here diet shaming (and by I mean food people eat) need to pipe the eff down.
There are a lot of people, myself included, who have health conditions that impact on ability to prepare home cooked nutritious meals. I turn to ready meals (ermagherd processed, did you know that, at least in the UK, it's the carefully managed temperature during manufacture that preserves the food, not nasty chemicalz), frozen food, fresh veggies in a bag i can throw in the microwave (those would be considered processed by dictionary definitions), take aways, anything that requires zero thought process and isn't it at risk of me burning my flat down.
So take your BUT NUTRITION argument elsewhere. It doesn't stack up. Look at the labels on your evil processed foods and you will see plenty of good stuff. All food has nutritional value, how we choose to get those nutrients in is entirely personal and lifestyle oriented.
Thank you and goodnight (or more accurately good afternoon).16 -
annabellechipps wrote: »I understand that weight is fluid. I do not understand my weight. I skip breakfast and lunch almost everyday, which helps with the weight loss. Two days ago i ate only grilled vegetables at dinner time and nothing else. I weighed 128.7. Yesterday i didn't eat breakfast or lunch but i did eat a bunch of cookies, Doritos, peanut butter, three pieces of pizza, and some cake. For some reason, i only weighed 128.2. Today, i ate a large ceaser salad for lunch and a tiny bit of chinese food for dinner and some wheat thins. For some reason i ended up weighing 129.4????
Don't skip meals. Eat balanced, nutritious ones. It is not just eating at a calorie deficit, it's also eating nutritiously and regularly. You not only need to consider calories, but also carbs. I always recommend someone see a registered dietitian specializing in weight loss. Certainly, it does cost something but it is an excellent investment in your health.0 -
annabellechipps wrote: »I understand that weight is fluid. I do not understand my weight. I skip breakfast and lunch almost everyday, which helps with the weight loss. Two days ago i ate only grilled vegetables at dinner time and nothing else. I weighed 128.7. Yesterday i didn't eat breakfast or lunch but i did eat a bunch of cookies, Doritos, peanut butter, three pieces of pizza, and some cake. For some reason, i only weighed 128.2. Today, i ate a large ceaser salad for lunch and a tiny bit of chinese food for dinner and some wheat thins. For some reason i ended up weighing 129.4????
Don't skip meals. Eat balanced, nutritious ones. It is not just eating at a calorie deficit, it's also eating nutritiously and regularly. You not only need to consider calories, but also carbs. I always recommend someone see a registered dietitian specializing in weight loss. Certainly, it does cost something but it is an excellent investment in your health.
Again for the cheap seats at the back. Calorie deficit for weight loss. Food choice for nutrition. Not a thing wrong with carbs unless IR.12 -
annabellechipps wrote: »I understand that weight is fluid. I do not understand my weight. I skip breakfast and lunch almost everyday, which helps with the weight loss. Two days ago i ate only grilled vegetables at dinner time and nothing else. I weighed 128.7. Yesterday i didn't eat breakfast or lunch but i did eat a bunch of cookies, Doritos, peanut butter, three pieces of pizza, and some cake. For some reason, i only weighed 128.2. Today, i ate a large ceaser salad for lunch and a tiny bit of chinese food for dinner and some wheat thins. For some reason i ended up weighing 129.4????
Don't skip meals. Eat balanced, nutritious ones. It is not just eating at a calorie deficit, it's also eating nutritiously and regularly. You not only need to consider calories, but also carbs. I always recommend someone see a registered dietitian specializing in weight loss. Certainly, it does cost something but it is an excellent investment in your health.
Counting calories, yes. Counting carbs, not necessary barring a medical condition.7 -
annabellechipps wrote: »I understand that weight is fluid. I do not understand my weight. I skip breakfast and lunch almost everyday, which helps with the weight loss. Two days ago i ate only grilled vegetables at dinner time and nothing else. I weighed 128.7. Yesterday i didn't eat breakfast or lunch but i did eat a bunch of cookies, Doritos, peanut butter, three pieces of pizza, and some cake. For some reason, i only weighed 128.2. Today, i ate a large ceaser salad for lunch and a tiny bit of chinese food for dinner and some wheat thins. For some reason i ended up weighing 129.4????
It is less than 1 lb difference in 3 days. Weight fluctuation is normal. If you are going to weigh every day get used to seeing the number go up and down. Be patient and stick to your plan.
You don't mention calories at all. You ate some very calorie dense foods. Are you tracking your calorie intake? Using a food scale?
Your diet doesn't seem super healthy in that you do not seem to be getting a balance of nutrients each day. It looks like just random food you grabbed. That doesn't matter for weight loss (because calories are important for that) but for health you might want to pay more attention to meeting your nutritional needs.
A lot of foods you ate in the past few days are higher sodium which lead to water retention. That make the number on the scale go up by a pound or more.
You might also have more food waste (poop) in your system still if you ate more.
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Persephonestar9 wrote: »Guess it doesn't matter if you're healthy or not then?
Yeah, less calories are important but skinny does not equal healthy and I'm obviously in the wrong chat if it's just weight loss and no consideration for people's health. So, guess I'm done.
No one is saying that health and nutrition are unimportant. People are trying to understand this posters mindset, habit and choices. She seems to be fluctuating between an all or nothing mentality, which isn't healthy either.
A calorie deficit is required for weight loss. Period.
Nutrition and overall health is important. There are lots of foods that provide those things. It's not necessary to eat 100% "clean" in order to achieve this.
Extreme approaches (nothing but chicken and vegetables or nothing but pizza and Doritos) are not healthy, realistic, or sustainable. Alternating between them and then freaking out about normal weight fluctuations is concerning.
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crzycatlady1 wrote: »When you skip meals your body stores anything it can as fat incase its being starved again.
Google, why I'm not losing weight when I eat less. There's hundreds of articles
No. Plenty of us here do IF and only eat 1-2 times a day. Meal timing/frequency doesn't matter for weight loss, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals does.
Don't most people doing IF eat two meals a day? I would have thought it would be difficult to pack all the nutrients you need for good health into a single meal. Do-able, but requiring a fair amount of planning. So, I would tend to say that 1 meal per day would not be a good idea for somebody like the OP who doesn't seem to be planning her food all that much. She may be setting herself up for cravings and binges by eating so rarely without paying attention to fat and protein content of her food.0 -
VintageFeline wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »i weigh sometimes in the day and night.. i love watching it go up and down lol..
I need a life lol
Bodies are weird. For a long time I'd be a pound less from evening to morning, like clockwork for the most part. This year it's a two pound drop overnight. Weird body is weird. But agreed, it is fun to watch. I have suddenly realised, despite me weighing daily but apparently I'm not overly observant, that second week after break week of my pill, my weight stalls. I'm interested to see at which point it drops. It also drops between Saturday-Monday of pill break week.
I find it totally fascinating.
Not so weird: It's really wired into the mechanism.
Where does your fat go when you lose it? Defecation/urination? Some, but not mostly.
Where, then? You exhale it. You burn the darn stuff up and it goes away like smoke out a chimney. (http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257 - watch the cute little video if you don't like research writings.)
While you're asleep, you have no food/water input, and plenty of exhalation. So, when you're in a calorie deficit, the majority of your fat loss leaves via exhalation. Moreover, your exhalation also includes moisture (humidity), and that has weight - more output without offsetting input for several hours. In addition, you sweat - maybe not lots, maybe not perceptibly, but you do. More water leaving with no offset.
No surprise that you weigh less in the morning than at night! 2 -
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Tacklewasher wrote: »
Also not so weird. Digestive system transit time varies by individual, but research suggests it easily exceeds 30 hours (sometimes significantly). Nutrients/calories have to be processed and converted into fat (or muscle, or whatever). Nutrients are extracted along the digestive route. It takes time.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/digestive-system/expert-answers/faq-20058340
Weight loss really is just a fun science-fair project for grown-ups. Now, back to our regularly-scheduled thread - apologies, OP. 4 -
OP you have neither gained weight (in any meaningful sense) or eaten healthy.2
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annabellechipps wrote: »I understand that weight is fluid. I do not understand my weight. I skip breakfast and lunch almost everyday, which helps with the weight loss. Two days ago i ate only grilled vegetables at dinner time and nothing else. I weighed 128.7. Yesterday i didn't eat breakfast or lunch but i did eat a bunch of cookies, Doritos, peanut butter, three pieces of pizza, and some cake. For some reason, i only weighed 128.2. Today, i ate a large ceaser salad for lunch and a tiny bit of chinese food for dinner and some wheat thins. For some reason i ended up weighing 129.4????
What you do one day has very little bearing on what happens the next and body weight fluctuates naturally.2 -
Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »Sorry i know this isnt the actual reason why we brush our teeth in the morning but the only comment that came to mind after reading that is "I am going to need a mintier toothpaste from breathing out all that fat" LOL
CO2: Odorless.
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VintageFeline wrote: »Look_Its_Kriss wrote: »i weigh sometimes in the day and night.. i love watching it go up and down lol..
I need a life lol
Bodies are weird. For a long time I'd be a pound less from evening to morning, like clockwork for the most part. This year it's a two pound drop overnight. Weird body is weird. But agreed, it is fun to watch. I have suddenly realised, despite me weighing daily but apparently I'm not overly observant, that second week after break week of my pill, my weight stalls. I'm interested to see at which point it drops. It also drops between Saturday-Monday of pill break week.
I find it totally fascinating.
Not so weird: It's really wired into the mechanism.
Where does your fat go when you lose it? Defecation/urination? Some, but not mostly.
Where, then? You exhale it. You burn the darn stuff up and it goes away like smoke out a chimney. (http://www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g7257 - watch the cute little video if you don't like research writings.)
While you're asleep, you have no food/water input, and plenty of exhalation. So, when you're in a calorie deficit, the majority of your fat loss leaves via exhalation. Moreover, your exhalation also includes moisture (humidity), and that has weight - more output without offsetting input for several hours. In addition, you sweat - maybe not lots, maybe not perceptibly, but you do. More water leaving with no offset.
No surprise that you weigh less in the morning than at night!
Oh no that's not the weirdness. The switch from consistently 1lb overnight to now 2lbs overnight is the weirdness. I understand the mechanisms 2 -
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SusanMFindlay wrote: »crzycatlady1 wrote: »When you skip meals your body stores anything it can as fat incase its being starved again.
Google, why I'm not losing weight when I eat less. There's hundreds of articles
No. Plenty of us here do IF and only eat 1-2 times a day. Meal timing/frequency doesn't matter for weight loss, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals does.
Don't most people doing IF eat two meals a day? I would have thought it would be difficult to pack all the nutrients you need for good health into a single meal. Do-able, but requiring a fair amount of planning. So, I would tend to say that 1 meal per day would not be a good idea for somebody like the OP who doesn't seem to be planning her food all that much. She may be setting herself up for cravings and binges by eating so rarely without paying attention to fat and protein content of her food.
IF doesnt mean just one or two meals for everyone. it depends. I do IF and for me I usually dont eat after a certain time at night say 8pm and I dont eat again until say noon which gives me a 16:8 IF which means I fast for 16 hrs and eat in an 8 hr period of time. in that time I get in 3 meals and 2-3 snacks most days.some may only have 2 meals in that time frame,some do IF but its not the 16:8,they may do a 5:2 which means 5 days a week they eat low calories and the other 2 they eat at maintenance.0 -
CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »SusanMFindlay wrote: »crzycatlady1 wrote: »When you skip meals your body stores anything it can as fat incase its being starved again.
Google, why I'm not losing weight when I eat less. There's hundreds of articles
No. Plenty of us here do IF and only eat 1-2 times a day. Meal timing/frequency doesn't matter for weight loss, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals does.
Don't most people doing IF eat two meals a day? I would have thought it would be difficult to pack all the nutrients you need for good health into a single meal. Do-able, but requiring a fair amount of planning. So, I would tend to say that 1 meal per day would not be a good idea for somebody like the OP who doesn't seem to be planning her food all that much. She may be setting herself up for cravings and binges by eating so rarely without paying attention to fat and protein content of her food.
IF doesnt mean just one or two meals for everyone. it depends. I do IF and for me I usually dont eat after a certain time at night say 8pm and I dont eat again until say noon which gives me a 16:8 IF which means I fast for 16 hrs and eat in an 8 hr period of time. in that time I get in 3 meals and 2-3 snacks most days.some may only have 2 meals in that time frame,some do IF but its not the 16:8,they may do a 5:2 which means 5 days a week they eat low calories and the other 2 they eat at maintenance.
This was what I thought most people did for IF (2-3 meals; maybe a snack). I asked because I was genuinely surprised/curious to read that 1 meal/day would be a common thing.0 -
Carbs and calories are NOT the enemy!! And please don't skip meals. By doing so you are slowing down your metabolism. I used to eat 1300 calories a day, was yoyo-ing in weight the whole time because it was not a sustainable diet. My body was in and out of starvation mode all the time and held onto everything. Now I eat around or maybe a little less than 2000. I honestly don't really care about my calories too much, I'm more concerned with macros and eating when I'm hungry, stopping when I'm full. I've increased my carbs (I mean whole unprocessed foods, not refined sugar) and calories and am not gaining weight by doing so, just the opposite. Focus on whole, plant based meals! Your weight is going to fluctuate naturally, don't base it off day by day meals. I have never been happier or more satiated since I started eating bananas, oats, rice, beans, potatoes, etc. Oh and drink lots of water. 0
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I can identify with the "bunch of cookies, Doritos, peanut butter, 3 pieces of pizza and cake" kind of day. But I'm hopeful that kind of day is just part of our past and not part of our future. I'm not sure how fast the body makes fat out of extra calories, but I think it might take more than a day. I've heard that carbs make you retain a bit of extra water, too, so it would make sense that you might gain a bit of weight (not fat) after a higher carb day.
It's important to discover what kind of diet makes you feel good. After years of trying to get away with high carb dieting that made me hungry and miserable, I finally tried high protein and lower carb. I'm astounded by how good I feel. It's such a relief to not have carb cravings pestering me all day.
The kind of diet that works for you depends on your own body's reaction to a particular balance of macros. But just looking at that day you described...it seems like you were somehow driven to eat things you know weren't the best. That doesn't sound like mere foolishness to me, it sounds like a physiological reaction to the sugar in that bunch of cookies. I know that's going to start a firestorm on here...
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CynthiasChoice wrote: »The kind of diet that works for you depends on your own body's reaction to a particular balance of macros. But just looking at that day you described...it seems like you were somehow driven to eat things you know weren't the best. That doesn't sound like mere foolishness to me, it sounds like a physiological reaction to the sugar in that bunch of cookies. I know that's going to start a firestorm on here...
It's not that controversial to say that sugar can make you hungrier or inclined to nibble and crave, and that reducing it a bit can make it easier to stick to your goals. I say that regularly and have yet to start a firestorm with it.
What starts firestorms is dogmatic statements to the effect that "sugar is bad", "sugar is addictive", "sugar is poison" or "you need to cut out all sugar". Those are nonsense and will justifiably annoy people.5 -
SusanMFindlay wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »SusanMFindlay wrote: »crzycatlady1 wrote: »When you skip meals your body stores anything it can as fat incase its being starved again.
Google, why I'm not losing weight when I eat less. There's hundreds of articles
No. Plenty of us here do IF and only eat 1-2 times a day. Meal timing/frequency doesn't matter for weight loss, being at the correct calorie deficit for your weight goals does.
Don't most people doing IF eat two meals a day? I would have thought it would be difficult to pack all the nutrients you need for good health into a single meal. Do-able, but requiring a fair amount of planning. So, I would tend to say that 1 meal per day would not be a good idea for somebody like the OP who doesn't seem to be planning her food all that much. She may be setting herself up for cravings and binges by eating so rarely without paying attention to fat and protein content of her food.
IF doesnt mean just one or two meals for everyone. it depends. I do IF and for me I usually dont eat after a certain time at night say 8pm and I dont eat again until say noon which gives me a 16:8 IF which means I fast for 16 hrs and eat in an 8 hr period of time. in that time I get in 3 meals and 2-3 snacks most days.some may only have 2 meals in that time frame,some do IF but its not the 16:8,they may do a 5:2 which means 5 days a week they eat low calories and the other 2 they eat at maintenance.
This was what I thought most people did for IF (2-3 meals; maybe a snack). I asked because I was genuinely surprised/curious to read that 1 meal/day would be a common thing.
OMAD is a thing. Not as common as IF where 2-3 meals is more the norm. I actually ended up only having one meal yesterday but it was probably a bit lacking nutrients, I just didn't realise I'd be full the rest of the day! (Giant bowl of homemade dhal and chapatis)0
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