Gaining weight why ??
lisajames925
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Been sticking to calories and macros. Exercising but not losing weight just gaining 
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First of all, do open up your diary for a few days so people can see if there's something wrong and comment on it. It's somewhere in the settings.2
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More info is needed. How long have you been sticking to your calories? What is your weight and height? When did u start exercising? Etc2
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How much weight have you gained and over how long of a period?
How long have you been counting calories?3 -
lisajames925 wrote: »Been sticking to calories and macros. Exercising but not losing weight just gaining
Could it be that you're gaining muscle?23 -
stevenchandler4117 wrote: »lisajames925 wrote: »Been sticking to calories and macros. Exercising but not losing weight just gaining
Could it be that you're gaining muscle?
Very doubtful6 -
1. If it's been less than 3 weeks or so, don't sweat it! Normal fluctuations happen and unfortunately sometimes we stall for a week or two even when we're doing everything right. Give your body some time to catch up with the changes you're making.
2. If you aren't already, be sure that you're logging everything. Sometimes people forget about things like veggies, drinks, cooking oils, and condiments. For some people these can add up to enough to halt your weight loss progress.
3. Consider buying a food scale if you don't already have one. They're about $10-$20 dollars in the US and easily found at places like Amazon, Target, and Walmart. Measuring cups and spoons are great, but they do come with some degree of inaccuracy. A food scale will be more accurate, and for some people it makes a big difference.
4. Logging accurately also means choosing accurate entries in the database. There are a lot of user-entered entries that are off. Double-check that you're using good entries and/or using the recipe builder instead of someone else's homemade entries.
5. Recalculate your goals if you haven't lately. As you lose weight your body requires fewer calories to run. Be sure you update your goals every ten pounds or so.
6. If you're eating back your exercise calories and you're relying on gym machine readouts or MFP's estimates, it might be best to eat back just 50-75% of those. Certain activities tend to be overestimated. If you're using an HRM or activity tracker, it might be a good idea to look into their accuracy and be sure that yours is calibrated properly.
7. If you're taking any cheat days that go over your calorie limits, it might be best to cut them out for a few weeks and see what happens. Some people go way over their calorie needs without realizing it when they don't track.
8. If you weigh yourself frequently, consider using a program like trendweight to even out the fluctuations. You could be losing weight but just don't see it because of the daily ups and downs.
9. Some people just burn fewer calories than the calculators predict. If you continue to have problems after 4-6 weeks, then it might be worth a trip to the doctor or a registered dietitian who can give you more specific advice.11 -
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stevenchandler4117 wrote: »lisajames925 wrote: »Been sticking to calories and macros. Exercising but not losing weight just gaining
Could it be that you're gaining muscle?
lol no.10 -
Thank you. Started doing it again for two weeks now. I weigh 10st 6 and am 5ft 5. (Size 12). I stick to 1200 calories a day. Do 80 mins walking mon- Friday, while pushing two 3 year olds in a buggy. Also do 2 body combat classes a week and ab blast every week. But do you tube exercise videos in between if I get time5
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There's your answer - two weeks is not enough time...keep going and have patience.4
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lisajames925 wrote: »Thank you. Started doing it again for two weeks now. I weigh 10st 6 and am 5ft 5. (Size 12). I stick to 1200 calories a day. Do 80 mins walking mon- Friday, while pushing two 3 year olds in a buggy. Also do 2 body combat classes a week and ab blast every week. But do you tube exercise videos in between if I get time
How are you counting your calories? Are you weighing everything?3 -
Thanks. Just looked I m sticking to 50 carbs 30 protein and 20 fat2
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lisajames925 wrote: »Thanks. Just looked I m sticking to 50 carbs 30 protein and 20 fat
Not sure that this was ever asked.
Are you weighing your food on a food scale?2 -
Yes I weigh everything and scan the bar codes on products1
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lisajames925 wrote: »Yes I weigh everything and scan the bar codes on products
You need to look into weighing the products you're scanning. The labels are allowed to be off by as much as 10% ( I believe. Could very well be more). Weigh all pre-packaged and solid foods, use measuring cups for all liquids, check back after three weeks.2 -
Thanks. I was doing slimming world but felt like I wanted to eat more because I could0
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Today diary of food :
Breakfast - porridge and semi milk with chopped banana
Lunch - whole meal wrap with ham salad as filling and reduced fat homous, mango
Tea- chicken breast, mashed swede and carrot, sweet corn
Snack - Apple
Exercise - 60 mins body combat 30 mins ab blast 80 mins walking1 -
lisajames925 wrote: »Today diary of food :
Breakfast - porridge (how much porridge?) and semi milk (did you use a measuring cup for your milk?) with chopped banana (you weigh your banana?)
Lunch - whole meal wrap with ham salad as filling (was this scanned? How can you be sure you only ate one serving and not more? If not scanned, was this a recipe you created in the recipe builder?)and reduced fat homous, mango
Tea- chicken breast (did you weigh it? Raw or cooked? Did you pan fry it? If yes, did you log the oil?), mashed swede and carrot, sweet corn (same. Did you weigh?)
Snack - Apple (apples are not created equal. Did you weigh your apple??)
Exercise - 60 mins body combat 30 mins ab blast 80 mins walking
See notes above in bold.11 -
lisajames925 wrote: »Today diary of food :
Breakfast - porridge and semi milk with chopped banana
Lunch - whole meal wrap with ham salad as filling and reduced fat homous, mango
Tea- chicken breast, mashed swede and carrot, sweet corn
Snack - Apple
Exercise - 60 mins body combat 30 mins ab blast 80 mins walking
ok this says what you had but not how much of it you ate. how much was the porridge? how much milk? banana? and food labels can be off by up to 20% and even the entries in mfp you scan can be wrong. no matter how much exercise you do if you are not in a deficit you will not lose weight. if you are gaining its because you are either eating more food than you are burning, retaining water from the exercise, retaining waste or a combo of everything.4 -
Yes all was weighed. Chicken cooked in oven with no fat added. 30g porridge weighed, milk measured in jug. Apple was kids sized and weighed . Scanned the wrap and checked calories on packet to1
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LivingtheLeanDream wrote: »There's your answer - two weeks is not enough time...keep going and have patience.
^This. Body weight fluctuates from day to day and we often hold onto a little extra water weight when we start a new exercise routine or ramp up an old one, start new eating habits, etc. This can hide fat loss that's still happening in the background. Give your body a little bit to catch up to the changes you're making before you make a lot of changes.2 -
If you're gaining weight that means you're not eating at a deficit based on what you said. If in the two weeks you're gaining weight what I'm saying is correct. Log better, and eat the calorie amount suggested by MFP.3
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Lesscookies1 wrote: »If you're gaining weight that means you're not eating at a deficit based on what you said. If in the two weeks you're gaining weight what I'm saying is correct. Log better, and eat the calorie amount suggested by MFP.
two weeks is not enough time to gauge if its true weight gain. it can depend on where she is in her cycle,if she ate a lot of sodium and water retention from that as well as exercising more. it can depend on a lot of things. she does need to be more accurate and give it a month or two and then see whether she is gaining or losing.2 -
My personal trainer don’t me not to eat the calories I earn from doing exercise ?5
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lisajames925 wrote: »My personal trainer don’t me not to eat the calories I earn from doing exercise ?
Does your personal trainer know how MFP works?1 -
Yes she uses it herself0
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So should I be eating what I burn off to ?2
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Maybe eat half of it as calorie burn from exercise is a massive guess. Evaluate in a few weeks: loosing weight too fast then eat more. Not losing weight: your measuring is probably off or your workout calories far too high.1
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lisajames925 wrote: »Yes she uses it herself
she obviously still does not know how MFP works then...7 -
That’s what her personal trainer tells her from the gym. I measure the calories from exercise on fit bit0
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