Keep Gaining????

do you do any cardio?..do you eat late then go to bed on a full stomach...do you eat one large meal then skip the rest?:flowerforyou:

It may be time to give your body a shake. Have a higher calories day (or a few). I dont mean throwing your diet to the wind, just get some more lean proteins and veggies in and see if your metabolism takes on the challenge. I am about your weight and age and found upping my calories was the best thing I could have done.

do you do any cardio?..do you eat late then go to bed on a full stomach...do you eat one large meal then skip the rest?:flowerforyou:

Eating and going to bed on a full stomach does nothing... no difference. I do it all the time. I eat at 6am, go to bed at 6:30am... I eat in bed. It doesn't make any difference.

Since February 2nd I have GAINED 8 lbs as of today. WHY?? I have eaten relatively healthy and under in my calories every day. This is 10 days. I am really not getting this not losing any weight thing right now. Very discouraged. I see other people who eat less calories and are losing weight. I see others who eat way more calories and are losing weight. I just want my weight to at least go back down to what it was 10 days ago! I can see staying the same, but GAINING! That is difficult to accept. Honestly I feel like eating nothing at all for a few days but I know that is not good for me... It is not water weight, it is not TOM, it is not muscles holding onto water. I just don't get it.

Maybe it's time that you up your calories?

I'll bet if you up your calories and make sure you hit your macros....you'll see the scale move.

Try adding strength training into your routine as well,change up your exercise routine.

have you had Blood work done lately? Because what you are saying does not make sens.
You might be retaining water but 8 pounds is alot!!!
First.....is your scale old? Does it need a new batterie?
Second, do you accuratly log your calorie intake?
I am really at a lost with your experience and i have been here for 15 months.

have you had Blood work done lately? Because what you are saying does not make sens.
You might be retaining water but 8 pounds is alot!!!
First.....is your scale old? Does it need a new batterie?
Second, do you accuratly log your calorie intake?
I am really at a lost with your experience and i have been here for 15 months.

I agree with Yanicka on this,I should of read your post more carefully,my bad!

Did you decrease your calories after you lost the weight. Sometimes you will gain when you do cardio but keep doing it.. Get your heart rate up and you will burn calories and the pounds will shed. Just try to do more cardio and increase it every week or 2! Don't get discouraged because it's a thing that does happen... You just got to keep your mind set and keep going no matter how discouraged! GOOD LUCK

how strange, i lost 6lb the first week then put 2lb on 2 days in a row...although i did start to eat more rubbish. so discouraged at this i had 3 days where i totally went over my cal intake, but soon realised i was gonna get no where like that either, (plus put on all the weight i'd lost D'Oh!) i didn't log in my weight gain but decided to weigh myself once a month now & measure myself once a week instead. oh and brought 'biggest loser' food book to give me idea's on what to eat. i have been eating all my cal intake and started exercising.
would welcome any advice too

You're not eating enough.

From looking at your diary it seems you are almost always a few hundred below 1200 for the day, that's not healthy.

When you don't give your body enough food it is going to store fat like crazy because it's thinking you're stranded out in the desert with no food in sight

Also, what is your weight loss per week set at? You don't have much to lose so it should only be set at 1lb loss per week at the most. If you have it set at 2lbs a week then you're definitely not eating enough.

You're not eating any where close to enough calories. All you are doing is succeeding in slowing you metabolism even more. Never eat under 1200 calories and if you exercise eat those calories back. That is how you stoke you metabolism and get you body burning calories so that you can lose fat. Good luck.

Aggrreeeeee^^^^

You're not eating even close to what you should.

As per MFP -

What are Net Calories?

We set your nutritional target in Net Calories which we define as:

Calories Consumed (Food) - Calories Burned (Exercise) = Net Calories

What that means is that if you exercise, you will be able to eat more for that day. For example, if your Net Calorie goal is 2000 calories, one way to meet that goal is to eat 2,500 calories of food, but then burn 500 calories through exercise.

Think of your Net Calories like a daily budget of calories to spend. You spend them by eating, and you earn more calories to eat by exercising.

I get what people are talking about re: starvation- but that should not make you GAIN, not like you have anyway.

If you are completely honest about what you are eating and your scale is correct- you need to see a doctor- asap. I would get a number of blood tests- including those for thyroid and pregnancy.

Good luck! Hoping its just a crummy scale!

it DOES make you gain.

Time and time again i see threads like this posted almost everyday. Someone comes on here and eats 900 calories a day for weeks and then they're so angry that the scale is going up.

People think if they eat less then the weight will fall off quicker and that is simply not how the body works. When the body isn't getting enough calories it holds onto as much fat as possible for as long as it can.

Yes obviously over time if you continue to starve yourself you will lose weight like crazy and in a very unhealthy manner and more than likely the person will destroy their metabolism.

I get what people are talking about re: starvation- but that should not make you GAIN, not like you have anyway.

If you are completely honest about what you are eating and your scale is correct- you need to see a doctor- asap. I would get a number of blood tests- including those for thyroid and pregnancy.

Good luck! Hoping its just a crummy scale!

it DOES make you gain.

Time and time again i see threads like this posted almost everyday. Someone comes on here and eats 900 calories a day for weeks and then they're so angry that the scale is going up.

People think if they eat less then the weight will fall off quicker and that is simply not how the body works. When the body isn't getting enough calories it holds onto as much fat as possible for as long as it can.

Yes obviously over time if you continue to starve yourself you will lose weight like crazy and in a very unhealthy manner and more than likely the person will destroy their metabolism.

But it doesn't. That makes absolutely no sense at all. If you severely under eat your metabolism slows and you become more efficient at using the calories available, but you don't gain weight. Especially not if you have a fair amount to lose. It just isn't possible.

How does that not make sense?

Our bodies are pretty good at fighting famine considering supermarkets haven't been around all that long.

When the body isn't getting enough food it stores every little bit you give it so that you can stay alive longer.

Like i said if you continue to starve your body then yes it has no option but to let you slowly die, but that takes quite a long while so in the mean time it's going to do it's best to keep you alive by storing everything you eat and considering the scale is tricky business anyways, it's going to show a gain

I ran into this already myself. For me what I found out was you have to eat around your 1200 calories no matter what! It doesn't have to be right at 1200 but close. When you are eating less your body freaks out and will start hoarding weight. "starvation mode"! This is easy to fix you start eating your 1200 calories a day. When I put myself in starvation mode the scale still didn't move. So I had a cheat day. I ate some cheeseburgers one week and then two more later that week. Still following my 1200 calories. Then I ate as healthy as I could around it. Guess what happened? I started losing weight again.

Our bodies get used to what we are doing to it. So to keep it doing what we want, we have to change things up a little bit. I found this out on my own. Some people say to eat less to kick your body into losing if it gains or stays at the same rate for awhile. This is not true! If your eating under the calories your supposed too.

Eat 1200 a day, and have a cheat day. I promise you, the scale will start moving down. I could not figure it out either. Eat food high in fiber, protein, it wheat eat grains and so forth. Eat what is healthy for your body. Veggies some fruits! Turkey, chicken you get the idea.

I have found a wonderful bread brand name is Arnold grains and more double protein bread. This stuff is awesome! It's a good source of fiber. Has 19g of whole grain per slice and 13g protein per 2 slice. Calories 110

Anyway changing what I was eating and adding this bread. I have more energy and the scale has went down. I also made my workouts longer. For me I know why I put on weight and my weight was playing a yo-yo game. I wasn't eating enough! I was on WW too and eating what I thought were healthy snack. I was so wrong!

My advice make a few adjustments, like I did and you will start seeing results again! So get yourself out of starvation mode! Your body is hoarding everything you eat. I didn't think it was possible until it happened to me! If you need help email me:) You will be okay hun...