gaining the weight back ?

tinywithaBIGheart
tinywithaBIGheart Posts: 148 Member
edited October 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Before i start , i know im going to get slammed for this but i eat around 900-1,000 calories aday and never feel hungry . I heard tho if you have a pretty low calorie intake the chances of gaining the weight back when you get off your diet is pretty high. is this true ?

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  • missikay1970
    missikay1970 Posts: 588 Member
    i don't know if that's true or not, i guess it would depend on your eating habits once you've lost the weight. if you eat 1000 calories now, lose weight and then start eating 2000 calories per day, then yes, i would assume you would gain.
  • sweetNsassy2584
    sweetNsassy2584 Posts: 515 Member
    Do you plan on eating 900-1000 calories for the rest of your life? Yes, when you start eating more calories you will gain weight. Most people that up there calories to be healthier or overcome a plateau will gain a little back.
  • LindsayT2012
    LindsayT2012 Posts: 60 Member
    I eat between 700 and 1000 a day so you are not alone!!!
  • innerfashionista
    innerfashionista Posts: 451 Member
    You're more likely to gain it back because you could potentially be throwing yourself into starvation mode, where you body will hold onto everything. It's also possible you could be damaging your body by eating so little. I do encourage you to really look at what you're eating and make sure you're losing weight in a way that's sustainable for you.
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    Before i start , i know im going to get slammed for this but i eat around 900-1,000 calories aday and never feel hungry . I heard tho if you have a pretty low calorie intake the chances of gaining the weight back when you get off your diet is pretty high. is this true ?

    If you are on a "diet" that you don't intend to continue, then it is highly likely that you'll gain some or all of the weight back. It's only common sense to think if you go back to the lifestyle that put the weight on in the first place, it will put it on again.

    But if you really are not hungry eating 900-1000 calories, why would you eat more than that? What sense does it make to eat when you are not hungry?
  • innerfashionista
    innerfashionista Posts: 451 Member
    Do you plan on eating 900-1000 calories for the rest of your life? Yes, when you start eating more calories you will gain weight. Most people that up there calories to be healthier or overcome a plateau will gain a little back.

    BUT your body figures out you're no longer starving it and you start losing weight again.
  • ItsCasey
    ItsCasey Posts: 4,021 Member
    To avoid gaining the weight back, you'd either need to continue eating 900-1000 calories per day or exercise more to make up for whatever additional calories you're eating. Just be smart. If you know you can't live on 1000 calories per day forever, then don't even set yourself up for failure by trying to lose weight that way.
  • MissLuana
    MissLuana Posts: 356 Member
    It depends on how many calories you begin to eat after losing your weight. I'm currently doing the 1200/day to lose the weight but once I reach my goal, my calorie intake jumps to a little over 1700 to maintain my goal weight. So, providing you don't go crazy, you should still be okay. If you want to check, change your profile settings to your goal weight and choose maintain. MFP will give you the amount of daily calories you should eat to maintain that weight.
  • sweetNsassy2584
    sweetNsassy2584 Posts: 515 Member
    Do you plan on eating 900-1000 calories for the rest of your life? Yes, when you start eating more calories you will gain weight. Most people that up there calories to be healthier or overcome a plateau will gain a little back.

    BUT your body figures out you're no longer starving it and you start losing weight again.

    Yes, you're exactly right. :)
  • kristilovescake
    kristilovescake Posts: 669 Member
    Most likely yes.

    Your body gets "used to" eating less than 1000 calories and your metabolism adjusts to make your body work as best as possible on 1000 calories. Once your body is used to 1000 calories and you start giving it 2000 calories, it's going to say "hey, I don't need these extra 1000 calories to function, I'll just store them for later" and it gets stored as fat for later.

    A better option is to add more exercise to build up muscle and then eat those calories back so you get more nutrients AND you build muscle that will help you be healthier and keep the weight off long-term. It's probably a slower process, but it's way healthier and easier to maintain.
  • psychmz3
    psychmz3 Posts: 55 Member
    After your diet, eat at or under maintenance. Most gain would be water weight anyway. People make the mistake of eating like they were before when they were fat. That's how you gain it back.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    I have heard so often of this "starvation mode" but I don't have personal experience about it. From my understanding it depends on how many calories your body requires to reach a certain goal. Does 1000 calories/day make your weight stay the same or make you actually lose weight? If it's the first, when you are off to eat more, apparently it probably would make you gain weight. if it's the second, I guess adding a few hundreds calories back probably just keeps your weight the same, "maintenance mode"???
    However, I'm not sure about this. I could get slammed, too. LOL
  • tinywithaBIGheart
    tinywithaBIGheart Posts: 148 Member
    Before i start , i know im going to get slammed for this but i eat around 900-1,000 calories aday and never feel hungry . I heard tho if you have a pretty low calorie intake the chances of gaining the weight back when you get off your diet is pretty high. is this true ?

    also on weekends ill eat about 1200 - 1500 calories so i dont go into "starvation mode" even tho im not hungry . If i do that on weekends is there less of a chance of gaining it back ?
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,512 Spam Moderator
    Before i start , i know im going to get slammed for this but i eat around 900-1,000 calories aday and never feel hungry . I heard tho if you have a pretty low calorie intake the chances of gaining the weight back when you get off your diet is pretty high. is this true ?
    Well yeah especially if you increase from what you're eating now. You're body is smarter than you are. You can condition yourself NOT to be hungry, but that doesn't mean your body doesn't need the calories and nutrients it needs to perform efficiently.
  • albayin
    albayin Posts: 2,524 Member
    Before i start , i know im going to get slammed for this but i eat around 900-1,000 calories aday and never feel hungry . I heard tho if you have a pretty low calorie intake the chances of gaining the weight back when you get off your diet is pretty high. is this true ?

    also on weekends ill eat about 1200 - 1500 calories so i dont go into "starvation mode" even tho im not hungry . If i do that on weekends is there less of a chance of gaining it back ?
    I doubt that would be the case however, you might see the scale up and down a bit because of the extra food and water retention. Again, this is all guess work from me. :)
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,461 MFP Moderator
    The bigger question is, why do you only eat 1000 calories a day? The thing is, if you slowly increase your caloric needs and exercise, you won't gain. If you do, it's water retention in your muscles. The biggest issue you deal with is eating at 1000 calories a day, will deteriate your muscle which slows down your metabolism. If you actually did a body fat caliper test, I could almost guarentee you being high in BF even though you are at a good weight. This means, a larger portion of your body is fat, and since muscle controls your metabolism (or has a large affect on it), it will be slower. Either way, you should still be able to use a formula (like the Katch McArdle) to figure out caloric needs.
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