Started new diet, still gaining weight

[Anonymous]

Don't cut calories too much. Your body thinks it's starving and holds on to everything.

[Anonymous]

Calories and macros aside, your meals look like it's either a breakfast or a snack, less than corn on the cob. You need more greens and alternative source of low sodium protein, in addition to the yogurt. TBH, it looks like what a college student would eat on a diet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In addition to the above, consider getting your thyroid checked.

Almost nobody's thyroid is ever actually messed up when they're gaining weight. They're eating too much for their activity level. Simple as that.

[Anonymous]

Op my guess is your serving sizes are way bigger than you assume. 8 oz of salmon is not 300 calories. 4 oz of salmon is about 220. You do the math. You eat a lot of starchy carbs- your apple, if it was anything bigger than one of those tiny apples intended for kids, was likely much more than 80 calories. Like, maybe up to 200. Your corn on the cob, if it was a big cob, could also have been more than 150.

You eat no green vegetables and very little protein. You are probably eating more than you think, even if it's "healthy." That's why you can't lose weight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. So fruit and corn are bad? No yogurt?

Today I had a small bowl of oatmeal (160 calories), a leftover sausage link (140 calories) and piece of corn (150 calories), and I was planning to grill some salmon for dinner.

Supposedly an 8 oz piece is around 300 calories. Is that too much for a diet?

I also had an apple already (80 calories) and I was hoping to have a bowl of fruit and a yogurt later for "dessert".

I guess I am still eating too many calories?

You aren’t eating the right macros. It’s not about calories. Plus 120 is fine, you do not need to lose.

Everyone says dieting is "calories in, calories out."

No it is true for everyone without a medical condition. If you eat more than you burn through activity, you will gain. If you eat what you burn, you'll maintain. If you eat less than you burn, you will lose. The reality is most people overestimate how much they move and underestimate how much they eat.
What people don't understand or want to acknowledge is this is only true sometimes, and it varies from person to person.

[Anonymous]

Given your height and weight, I am going to guess that your body is not going to give up lbs. You are essentially starving yourself and your body is in a starvation and storing mode. I am around 120 and 5'4" and 48, trying to lose 5 lbs for a while, goes down comes back up. Basically I started eating more, fruit too, ton of fruit and low carb, and I lost 5 lbs. Depending on your age( did I miss that?) you might need to accept the new you, which is great slim weight. The only thing you will accomplish with this is to gain weight and abuse your body and mind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Given your height and weight, I am going to guess that your body is not going to give up lbs. You are essentially starving yourself and your body is in a starvation and storing mode. I am around 120 and 5'4" and 48, trying to lose 5 lbs for a while, goes down comes back up. Basically I started eating more, fruit too, ton of fruit and low carb, and I lost 5 lbs. Depending on your age( did I miss that?) you might need to accept the new you, which is great slim weight. The only thing you will accomplish with this is to gain weight and abuse your body and mind.

Fruits are all carbs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Given your height and weight, I am going to guess that your body is not going to give up lbs. You are essentially starving yourself and your body is in a starvation and storing mode. I am around 120 and 5'4" and 48, trying to lose 5 lbs for a while, goes down comes back up. Basically I started eating more, fruit too, ton of fruit and low carb, and I lost 5 lbs. Depending on your age( did I miss that?) you might need to accept the new you, which is great slim weight. The only thing you will accomplish with this is to gain weight and abuse your body and mind.

Fruits are all carbs.

Meant refined carbs. Fruit is good for you, and will not make you gain weight. Don't eat a whole banana tree though!

[Anonymous]

OP, don't listen to don't eat your apple! What utter nonsense. Your body is not wanting to lose weight bcs it doesn't have weight to lose. Unless you are very young you should give up some dreams of waif look.

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Anonymous wrote:How tall are you?

5’6 and change

People keep saying not to focus on the # but I can’t help it. This is the heaviest I’ve weighed in years.

Seek therapy.

+1

You’re trolling everyone or you’re genuine. In which case you have an eating disorder.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Cut out all of that fruit! Too much sugar for a diet.

No fruit or corn.

And the Belvita crackers!

OP you are nuts if you think you will lose weight eating this stuff.

You are nuts if you think a low calorie diet that happens to contain fruit and crackers is never going to work. Good God. I do not know where you people get your nutrition and diet exercise what is seriously disordered

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't cut calories too much. Your body thinks it's starving and holds on to everything.

No, no it doesn't.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't cut calories too much. Your body thinks it's starving and holds on to everything.

No, no it doesn't.

Not OP, nor above pp, but I think it does. I was doing IF and eating nothing, and losing nothing. So, I gave up on that crap. Started eating ton of fish and greens, like a ton, and fruit. So, not keto, bcs major part of my diet are veggies and some meat, I am finally losing weight. I ate half a pine apple plus all my greens and fish and even plums and cheese and I am losing weight. Took me 3 years of trying to lose 5 lbs starving myself(nothing), lost 5lbs in 2 weeks eating veggies and fish and fruit and even cheese. I am talking for the last week scale is always 5lbs down. Like a whole bowl of broccoli and cauliflower and a whole large salmon steak. The other day I was hungry and ate 5 eggs in addition to my regular veggies and fish diet. And bananas, I eat bananas, and pears and cheese, and I started at 120lbs, shorter than OP though. Because I have a big event coming and I am a vain biatch, and almost 50. But, I also exercise, nothing much, but I do. I finally said eh... I'll give this one last try and did this and it works so far. And it is working even having desert once a week. But, sugar on daily basis? no sugar for me till I lose 3 more lbs. Apart from that one desert. I have nothing with sugar in it, not even teriyaki chicken, nor salad dressing with sugar added. Heck, I eat carrots and sweet potatoes. I call this my veggies and fruit with little meat diet.

[Anonymous]

5'6" and 120 lbs, you probably already look too thin, get a grip on yourself!

Your "diet" is weird, plus one Banquet sausage link is like 60 calories, try them instead.

More salad, some fruit, a little protein, minimal carbs, but yikes, you really don't need to lose weight, slap whoever told you you did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5'6" and 120 lbs, you probably already look too thin, get a grip on yourself!

Your "diet" is weird, plus one Banquet sausage link is like 60 calories, try them instead.

More salad, some fruit, a little protein, minimal carbs, but yikes, you really don't need to lose weight, slap whoever told you you did.

I think OP probably looks skinny fat and the best cure for that is to workout and show those muscles.