Taking action around sudden weight gain?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's what worked for me (early 50's):

IF (7 hour eating window)
Low carb/no alcohol
Lots of strength training, less cardio
Increased protein & water/tea/seltzers
Little to no snacking
Exercise daily
Occasional treats

Track your foods for a week--you'd be amazed at how it all adds up! The older you get, the harder it is to outrun the fork.

^ agree with all of this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I gained weight suddenly in my early 30s and was diagnosed with PCOS. It's worth getting various tests done to rule out medical conditions.

Yes, get tested for thyroid and maybe other hormones if possible. 37 is kind of young to have sudden weight issues and you don’t seem to eat that much. Portion size is the most important though, so use an app to track your food intake and see what it says.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’ve been wondering if it’s my cardio and too much fat.

Morning: two cups of coffee (maybe three) w whole milk. Interval sprints/walking for three miles or 30min on the peloton.

12pm: salad w roasted veggies, homemade ceasar dressing, shredded cheese, maybe a hard boiled egg or tofu

6pm dinner: whatever the family is eating. Homemade fajitas(carbs, yes), grilled sausage and zucchini for example. Tonight we ordered sushi and I had sashimi, uni, and half a cali roll.

Literally that’s it. Of course is there are exceptions. 4th of July I had two slices of ice cream cake. I’m human. I guess I just have eaten like this for years and I have been 154 pounds and 5’7, a size 6. And now I woke up one day and I can’t naturally even our under 160 and sit around 164.

I see what I eat and I’m like, of course I can cut down the carbs to legitimately zero. And I will if I have to. It’s just such a reasonable way to eat IMO and it’s still not “enough”.

Interested in others’ opinions

Nope, this might be a good day but there's no way you're eating like this consistently and gaining. No.

Get honest with yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Skinny girls don’t eat salad.

This one does. My salad has dark leafy greens, peppers, cucumber, celery, etc with a tbs of dressing. It takes time to eat and it fills me up. Paired with lean protein, a salad is the skinny girl's best tool in staying slim.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Skinny girls don’t eat salad.

This one does. My salad has dark leafy greens, peppers, cucumber, celery, etc with a tbs of dressing. It takes time to eat and it fills me up. Paired with lean protein, a salad is the skinny girl's best tool in staying slim.

Right?? Salad is a super healthy meal. I am thin and I’ve been enjoying salad for lunch for years. I do a nice bed of greens straight from my garden, a protein (usually chicken) and then mix up the other ingredients. Sometimes I’ll do avocado, a little salsa, beans and corn with tessemae ranch, or I’ll do goat cheese and dried cranberry with a vinaigrette. Yum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here's what worked for me (early 50's):

IF (7 hour eating window)
Low carb/no alcohol
Lots of strength training, less cardio
Increased protein & water/tea/seltzers
Little to no snacking
Exercise daily
Occasional treats

Track your foods for a week--you'd be amazed at how it all adds up! The older you get, the harder it is to outrun the fork.

NP here who is 46, 5'7 and 130 lbs. The PP is right. I drink black coffee in the morning and between 12 and 6 pm I have only whole foods - meat, fish, tons of veggies, olive oil, plain full fat greek yogurt, nuts, and fruits. Barre, solidcore, lift weights and run.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’ve been wondering if it’s my cardio and too much fat.

Morning: two cups of coffee (maybe three) w whole milk. Interval sprints/walking for three miles or 30min on the peloton.

12pm: salad w roasted veggies, homemade ceasar dressing, shredded cheese, maybe a hard boiled egg or tofu

6pm dinner: whatever the family is eating. Homemade fajitas(carbs, yes), grilled sausage and zucchini for example. Tonight we ordered sushi and I had sashimi, uni, and half a cali roll.

Literally that’s it. Of course is there are exceptions. 4th of July I had two slices of ice cream cake. I’m human. I guess I just have eaten like this for years and I have been 154 pounds and 5’7, a size 6. And now I woke up one day and I can’t naturally even our under 160 and sit around 164.

I see what I eat and I’m like, of course I can cut down the carbs to legitimately zero. And I will if I have to. It’s just such a reasonable way to eat IMO and it’s still not “enough”.

Interested in others’ opinions

I just saw this (already replied about peanut butter and importance of breakfast).
Whole milk is 149 calories per cup so you're having nearly 500 calories in your coffee. 0% fat milk is 90 calories by contrast.
You are putting cheese in your food and SAUSAGE which are two of the most unhealthy, high in saturated fat foods out there.
Sushi is full of sugar.
I think you might need to start again. Your daily calorie intake is huge.

Lol. Are you an idiot? OP is clearly not drinking 500 calories in her coffee. Why would you assume that coffee with milk = 3+ cups of whole milk a day. This is like a club for anorexics in here.

No I'm not an idiot. Are you an idiot? Have you seen a large cup of coffee and how much milk goes into it? Have you measured a "cup" of milk lately. Chances are she is in fact consuming 500 calories from her morning milk alone. That's huge. That's a whole meal. And she is left feeling hungry and thinking she's cutting back, which is simply, incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’ve been wondering if it’s my cardio and too much fat.

Morning: two cups of coffee (maybe three) w whole milk. Interval sprints/walking for three miles or 30min on the peloton.

12pm: salad w roasted veggies, homemade ceasar dressing, shredded cheese, maybe a hard boiled egg or tofu

6pm dinner: whatever the family is eating. Homemade fajitas(carbs, yes), grilled sausage and zucchini for example. Tonight we ordered sushi and I had sashimi, uni, and half a cali roll.

Literally that’s it. Of course is there are exceptions. 4th of July I had two slices of ice cream cake. I’m human. I guess I just have eaten like this for years and I have been 154 pounds and 5’7, a size 6. And now I woke up one day and I can’t naturally even our under 160 and sit around 164.

I see what I eat and I’m like, of course I can cut down the carbs to legitimately zero. And I will if I have to. It’s just such a reasonable way to eat IMO and it’s still not “enough”.

Interested in others’ opinions

I just saw this (already replied about peanut butter and importance of breakfast).
Whole milk is 149 calories per cup so you're having nearly 500 calories in your coffee. 0% fat milk is 90 calories by contrast.
You are putting cheese in your food and SAUSAGE which are two of the most unhealthy, high in saturated fat foods out there.
Sushi is full of sugar.
I think you might need to start again. Your daily calorie intake is huge.

Lol. Are you an idiot? OP is clearly not drinking 500 calories in her coffee. Why would you assume that coffee with milk = 3+ cups of whole milk a day. This is like a club for anorexics in here.

No I'm not an idiot. Are you an idiot? Have you seen a large cup of coffee and how much milk goes into it? Have you measured a "cup" of milk lately. Chances are she is in fact consuming 500 calories from her morning milk alone. That's huge. That's a whole meal. And she is left feeling hungry and thinking she's cutting back, which is simply, incorrect.

A cup is 8 oz. My coffee mugs hold about… 8 oz. If the OP is really having “a cup of coffee with whole milk,” and not a latte or cafe au lait or some other coffee-flavored milk creation, she’s filling up her mug with coffee and adding 1-2 T of milk at the most. Over the course of the morning, maybe she’s consuming a total of a cup of milk.

[Anonymous]

I think you should track what you eat for a week or two — like everything. Weigh it out etc and see how many calories you are really eating. I could easily consume a ton of calories eating a “fajita” dinner with the family.

OP I am going to be 37 in August and going through this as well. Even after three kids I was easily maintaining 135 and now my routine weight seems to be closer to 145 (I’m a bit shorter than you at 5’5. I just can’t eat as much as I used to. Im doing the whole 30 for July to refresh which will get the 10 pounds off — but I need to reevaluate my eating habits after.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’ve been wondering if it’s my cardio and too much fat.

Morning: two cups of coffee (maybe three) w whole milk. Interval sprints/walking for three miles or 30min on the peloton.

12pm: salad w roasted veggies, homemade ceasar dressing, shredded cheese, maybe a hard boiled egg or tofu

6pm dinner: whatever the family is eating. Homemade fajitas(carbs, yes), grilled sausage and zucchini for example. Tonight we ordered sushi and I had sashimi, uni, and half a cali roll.

Literally that’s it. Of course is there are exceptions. 4th of July I had two slices of ice cream cake. I’m human. I guess I just have eaten like this for years and I have been 154 pounds and 5’7, a size 6. And now I woke up one day and I can’t naturally even our under 160 and sit around 164.

I see what I eat and I’m like, of course I can cut down the carbs to legitimately zero. And I will if I have to. It’s just such a reasonable way to eat IMO and it’s still not “enough”.

Interested in others’ opinions

I just saw this (already replied about peanut butter and importance of breakfast).
Whole milk is 149 calories per cup so you're having nearly 500 calories in your coffee. 0% fat milk is 90 calories by contrast.
You are putting cheese in your food and SAUSAGE which are two of the most unhealthy, high in saturated fat foods out there.
Sushi is full of sugar.
I think you might need to start again. Your daily calorie intake is huge.

Lol. Are you an idiot? OP is clearly not drinking 500 calories in her coffee. Why would you assume that coffee with milk = 3+ cups of whole milk a day. This is like a club for anorexics in here.

No I'm not an idiot. Are you an idiot? Have you seen a large cup of coffee and how much milk goes into it? Have you measured a "cup" of milk lately. Chances are she is in fact consuming 500 calories from her morning milk alone. That's huge. That's a whole meal. And she is left feeling hungry and thinking she's cutting back, which is simply, incorrect.

A cup is 8 oz. My coffee mugs hold about… 8 oz. If the OP is really having “a cup of coffee with whole milk,” and not a latte or cafe au lait or some other coffee-flavored milk creation, she’s filling up her mug with coffee and adding 1-2 T of milk at the most. Over the course of the morning, maybe she’s consuming a total of a cup of milk.

I'd be more interested in hearing what OP's cup contains than yours. Yours is irrelevant.

[Anonymous]

^^plus you're really aggressive.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like you could do some small substitutions to see if that has an effect: unsweetened almond milk in coffee instead of whole milk, avocado and a dressing of balsamic vinegar (truly only the vinegar) and salt and pepper for salad instead of caesar dressing and cheese, and unfortunately you may not be able to eat your family's dinner. Those sound like yummy meals but very heavy calorically.

I'm in the same boat as you, late thirties, gained a little weight, it's time for a real schedule of workouts and cutting out the little indulgences that have crept in at least until the holidays .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’ve been wondering if it’s my cardio and too much fat.

Morning: two cups of coffee (maybe three) w whole milk. Interval sprints/walking for three miles or 30min on the peloton.

12pm: salad w roasted veggies, homemade ceasar dressing, shredded cheese, maybe a hard boiled egg or tofu

6pm dinner: whatever the family is eating. Homemade fajitas(carbs, yes), grilled sausage and zucchini for example. Tonight we ordered sushi and I had sashimi, uni, and half a cali roll.

Literally that’s it. Of course is there are exceptions. 4th of July I had two slices of ice cream cake. I’m human. I guess I just have eaten like this for years and I have been 154 pounds and 5’7, a size 6. And now I woke up one day and I can’t naturally even our under 160 and sit around 164.

I see what I eat and I’m like, of course I can cut down the carbs to legitimately zero. And I will if I have to. It’s just such a reasonable way to eat IMO and it’s still not “enough”.

Interested in others’ opinions

Nope, this might be a good day but there's no way you're eating like this consistently and gaining. No.

Get honest with yourself.

You can’t say that because you have no idea about her portion sizes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’ve been wondering if it’s my cardio and too much fat.

Morning: two cups of coffee (maybe three) w whole milk. Interval sprints/walking for three miles or 30min on the peloton.

12pm: salad w roasted veggies, homemade ceasar dressing, shredded cheese, maybe a hard boiled egg or tofu

6pm dinner: whatever the family is eating. Homemade fajitas(carbs, yes), grilled sausage and zucchini for example. Tonight we ordered sushi and I had sashimi, uni, and half a cali roll.

Literally that’s it. Of course is there are exceptions. 4th of July I had two slices of ice cream cake. I’m human. I guess I just have eaten like this for years and I have been 154 pounds and 5’7, a size 6. And now I woke up one day and I can’t naturally even our under 160 and sit around 164.

I see what I eat and I’m like, of course I can cut down the carbs to legitimately zero. And I will if I have to. It’s just such a reasonable way to eat IMO and it’s still not “enough”.

Interested in others’ opinions

I just saw this (already replied about peanut butter and importance of breakfast).
Whole milk is 149 calories per cup so you're having nearly 500 calories in your coffee. 0% fat milk is 90 calories by contrast.
You are putting cheese in your food and SAUSAGE which are two of the most unhealthy, high in saturated fat foods out there.
Sushi is full of sugar.
I think you might need to start again. Your daily calorie intake is huge.

Lol. Are you an idiot? OP is clearly not drinking 500 calories in her coffee. Why would you assume that coffee with milk = 3+ cups of whole milk a day. This is like a club for anorexics in here.

Fat people say eating healthy is aneroxic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. I’ve been wondering if it’s my cardio and too much fat.

Morning: two cups of coffee (maybe three) w whole milk. Interval sprints/walking for three miles or 30min on the peloton.

12pm: salad w roasted veggies, homemade ceasar dressing, shredded cheese, maybe a hard boiled egg or tofu

6pm dinner: whatever the family is eating. Homemade fajitas(carbs, yes), grilled sausage and zucchini for example. Tonight we ordered sushi and I had sashimi, uni, and half a cali roll.

Literally that’s it. Of course is there are exceptions. 4th of July I had two slices of ice cream cake. I’m human. I guess I just have eaten like this for years and I have been 154 pounds and 5’7, a size 6. And now I woke up one day and I can’t naturally even our under 160 and sit around 164.

I see what I eat and I’m like, of course I can cut down the carbs to legitimately zero. And I will if I have to. It’s just such a reasonable way to eat IMO and it’s still not “enough”.

Interested in others’ opinions

I just saw this (already replied about peanut butter and importance of breakfast).
Whole milk is 149 calories per cup so you're having nearly 500 calories in your coffee. 0% fat milk is 90 calories by contrast.
You are putting cheese in your food and SAUSAGE which are two of the most unhealthy, high in saturated fat foods out there.
Sushi is full of sugar.
I think you might need to start again. Your daily calorie intake is huge.

Lol. Are you an idiot? OP is clearly not drinking 500 calories in her coffee. Why would you assume that coffee with milk = 3+ cups of whole milk a day. This is like a club for anorexics in here.

Fat people say eating healthy is aneroxic

Thanks for saying that, the aggressive post was in response to mine. I wonder if it is a knee jerk reaction to hearing the truth. If you want to stay fat, keep eating, is what I have learned, if you want to slim down, look at what you're eating and change / reduce it.