Gained weight on serious calorie deficit

[Anonymous]

I'm post-menopause and 10 lbs snuck up on me over the past 6 years or so. I am not into the overweight category but very unhappy about the flab around my middle and widening thighs. And I know if I don't nip it in the bud now, it will just keep creeping. I am healthy otherwise. I run every day and do lifting--though not very heavy--2-3 times a week. For the last 7 days I worked very hard to have a calorie deficit of close to 500 per day. Admittedly, I only achieved that 2 days, but over the course of the week, I was in a 2800 deficit. Just got on the scale and I gained a pound. I realize it's too soon to know if this is going to work, but I have cut out over 25% of the overall calories I eat — that should cause the scale to move down, not up. I am so disappointed. How do I keep this up? I truly believed the old calories out over calories in would work, but maybe it's true that old wisdom just isn't correct anymore.

[Anonymous]

Calories in, calories out is bunk. Two meals a day, 8 hrs apart. No food or snacking at all. Keep carbs down and healthy fats and fiber up. You won’t feel hungry if you eat a good breakfast. I’m eating avocado toast with an omelette and some blackberries now plus tea. I won’t be hungry at all until late afternoon. I’ve easily lost 6 pounds this way in the last few weeks.

[Anonymous]

A single week isn't going to be enough to see results, you'd be looking at a couple pounds and variations in water intake and bowel status could easily conceal that.

You have to be patient and make sustainable changes.

[Anonymous]

If you stay in a calorie deficit you will lose weight.

But:
1) you may be inaccurately counting either your calories consumed or calories expended.
2) water levels vary a lot and that may impact the short term results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you stay in a calorie deficit you will lose weight.

But:
1) you may be inaccurately counting either your calories consumed or calories expended.
2) water levels vary a lot and that may impact the short term results.

+1Weight yourself every day so you can see how it fluctuates due to water levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calories in, calories out is bunk. Two meals a day, 8 hrs apart. No food or snacking at all. Keep carbs down and healthy fats and fiber up. You won’t feel hungry if you eat a good breakfast. I’m eating avocado toast with an omelette and some blackberries now plus tea. I won’t be hungry at all until late afternoon. I’ve easily lost 6 pounds this way in the last few weeks.

Which bread do you use for your avocado toast?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Calories in, calories out is bunk. Two meals a day, 8 hrs apart. No food or snacking at all. Keep carbs down and healthy fats and fiber up. You won’t feel hungry if you eat a good breakfast. I’m eating avocado toast with an omelette and some blackberries now plus tea. I won’t be hungry at all until late afternoon. I’ve easily lost 6 pounds this way in the last few weeks.

The laws of thermodynamics are laws, not suggestions. You are not a plant that can create energy from sunlight.
Its hard to measure calories in and calories out. That's the problem. And yes, your two meals a day is a way to restrict calories.
Like a PP said, there are other things that will affect weight fluctuations day to day, water being the main one.

[Anonymous]

It's natural, there is nothing you can do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calories in, calories out is bunk. Two meals a day, 8 hrs apart. No food or snacking at all. Keep carbs down and healthy fats and fiber up. You won’t feel hungry if you eat a good breakfast. I’m eating avocado toast with an omelette and some blackberries now plus tea. I won’t be hungry at all until late afternoon. I’ve easily lost 6 pounds this way in the last few weeks.

Which bread do you use for your avocado toast?

Ezequiel bread is 15 grams of carbs per slice. It’s in the freezer section.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calories in, calories out is bunk. Two meals a day, 8 hrs apart. No food or snacking at all. Keep carbs down and healthy fats and fiber up. You won’t feel hungry if you eat a good breakfast. I’m eating avocado toast with an omelette and some blackberries now plus tea. I won’t be hungry at all until late afternoon. I’ve easily lost 6 pounds this way in the last few weeks.

Which bread do you use for your avocado toast?

She's clearly not in menopause. She eats more for breakfast than I can for breakfast and lunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calories in, calories out is bunk. Two meals a day, 8 hrs apart. No food or snacking at all. Keep carbs down and healthy fats and fiber up. You won’t feel hungry if you eat a good breakfast. I’m eating avocado toast with an omelette and some blackberries now plus tea. I won’t be hungry at all until late afternoon. I’ve easily lost 6 pounds this way in the last few weeks.

Which bread do you use for your avocado toast?

Ezequiel bread is 15 grams of carbs per slice. It’s in the freezer section.

Did you mean protein?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calories in, calories out is bunk. Two meals a day, 8 hrs apart. No food or snacking at all. Keep carbs down and healthy fats and fiber up. You won’t feel hungry if you eat a good breakfast. I’m eating avocado toast with an omelette and some blackberries now plus tea. I won’t be hungry at all until late afternoon. I’ve easily lost 6 pounds this way in the last few weeks.

Which bread do you use for your avocado toast?

She's clearly not in menopause. She eats more for breakfast than I can for breakfast and lunch.

She’s clearly not anorexic like you are either.

[Anonymous]

I’m 50 yrs old and yes, I’m in menopause. The bread has 15 grams of carbs per slice. Google it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Calories in, calories out is bunk. Two meals a day, 8 hrs apart. No food or snacking at all. Keep carbs down and healthy fats and fiber up. You won’t feel hungry if you eat a good breakfast. I’m eating avocado toast with an omelette and some blackberries now plus tea. I won’t be hungry at all until late afternoon. I’ve easily lost 6 pounds this way in the last few weeks.

Which bread do you use for your avocado toast?

She's clearly not in menopause. She eats more for breakfast than I can for breakfast and lunch.

You live a sad life if you can’t eat that much.

[Anonymous]

Water, salt. Weigh daily to see how you fluctuate.
Just keep at it.