Dispointed... - Weight Loss Message Board

chevyman · 05-04-2006, 01:54 PM

My weigh in mornings are on Thursday's...
This week I been being good counting all my calories ..log them all down and even allowed for a couple hundred calories incase I miss count, based on 1700 calorie count daily..>thats my diet
and I been doing extra exercise walking longer faster on my treadmill, looking the other way on the bad foods ect,,ect,,my clothes seems to be fitting better,feeling better
I just knew I had lost at least a couple lbs.
nope I gain a couple lbs?? grrrr this is so upsetting to me.
what am I doing wrong?

bluejbirdie · 05-04-2006, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by chevyman

My weigh in mornings are on Thursday's...
This week I been being good counting all my calories ..log them all down and even allowed for a couple hundred calories incase I miss count, based on 1700 calorie count daily..>thats my diet
and I been doing extra exercise walking longer faster on my treadmill, looking the other way on the bad foods ect,,ect,,my clothes seems to be fitting better,feeling better
I just knew I had lost at least a couple lbs.
nope I gain a couple lbs?? grrrr this is so upsetting to me.
what am I doing wrong?

Cmon Chevy! you should know by now that Water weight fluctuates daily and just because the scale may show more it doesnt mean that you didnt lose!

OutToLunch · 05-04-2006, 03:31 PM

If your clothes are fitting better and looking better despite gaining weight, you should be happy. Try not to worry too much about the number on the scale. All of my female friends worry about their weight and the thing I always tell them is "No one but you has to know what your weight is. It's not like someone's going to whip out a scale and make you get on." Let's face it. Most people want to lose weight to change how they look. So if you look like you're 150 but you're really 170, does it matter?

Lenin · 05-05-2006, 06:22 AM

chevy,

When a man begins to exercise harder, he almost always shows a weight gain due to a quick muscle gain (alas the effect doesn't last too long and mucle gain gets harder and harder to get

)
During the lucky window of opportunity, the scale doesn't paint the picture of increasing muscle and decreasing fat...often resulting in no total change or worse, an increase in weight.

Take it as an item of faith, at a 1700 calorie diet and good exercise levels ANY man is losing fat. It's just thermodynamics.

Moonsoft · 05-05-2006, 11:12 AM

It might sound weird but maybe you might need to add even more calories, depending on your height, weight and age. I have been eating 2000 calories a day and it works great, I used to think I was eating 1500 but it was 3000 calories, so logging in every little detail of eat food is very important, avoid going out to dinner because you can't weight what's in there, and buy foods that show their nutricional facts, then you are ready for a diet. oh, and don't forget the scale, a good one, preferably a digital one.
If you can, get a software such as Fitness Assistant to log on every food, you will get a great idea of what you have been eating such as how many calories comes from fat, carbs and proteins.