Started eating better and exercising, have GAINED? Wtf

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Agree. I think you are in a mindset that fruit and carbs, like rice, are "healthy foods."

A diet with good fats and protein, and minimal produce and carbs, will help you lose weight. You'll also stay full much longer, so you'll end up eating less often. Avocado, salmon, eggs. Fat and protect are your friends here.

This is OP - thanks for giving me something to consider. I thought you can’t overdo plants, especially vegetables, and especially green vegetables, which make up the bulk of my diet. I will increase protein and fats.

That lady gave you horrible advice. You need to see a nutritionist. A plant based diet is the healthiest does you can have. Instead I’d listing to someone who seems to get their information from TikTok, please read the research in plant based Mediterranean diets.

She gave her accurate advice for some people. Some people look at a carb and gain weight.

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Anonymous wrote:The smoothie is a bad idea because the food that’s in it was never intended to be eaten in pulverized form. If you want to eat the fruit and vegetables that comprise the smoothly, eat them. Don’t run them through a blender to alter their form. If you do that, you probably won’t even be able to eat all of it in one sitting anyways

Yeah this nonsense has been debunked. Blending your food does not damage the fiber, the nutrition, or the nutrients.

Blending is not juicing..

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This is advice from a thin person -- limit carbs (including sugary fruits) and eat more fish, eggs, meat, nuts, full-fat dairy (yogurt, cottage cheese). You'll find your portion size really dropping because you'll feel very full. The foods you are eating are not filling, so you are eating too much.

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(smoothies are fine, but I would add a nut butter, like peanut butter to it, add spinach and take out some fruit, switch to full-fat yogurt, and make it smaller but denser. See what happens).

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Anonymous wrote:^agree. This thread is lunacy. You are two and a half months out and still nursing, even if only part time.

Eat the damned smoothie. Three pounds doesn't mean anything at this point.

Keep doing what you are doing.

Sugar bomb. Shaking my head at the complete nonsense.

You can't eat a smoothie, it's liquid. My kid who is trying to GAIN weight is having almost the same thing as she is, so it's hardly lunacy. Drinking your meal is stupid if weight loss is your goal. She should at least stop liquifying it and eat it instead--bet she'd eat less of it than she drinks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The smoothie is a bad idea because the food that’s in it was never intended to be eaten in pulverized form. If you want to eat the fruit and vegetables that comprise the smoothly, eat them. Don’t run them through a blender to alter their form. If you do that, you probably won’t even be able to eat all of it in one sitting anyways

Yeah this nonsense has been debunked. Blending your food does not damage the fiber, the nutrition, or the nutrients.

Blending is not juicing..

Blending does not damage the food, but it definitely does not make you feel anywhere near as full as eating it will, nor for as long.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree. I think you are in a mindset that fruit and carbs, like rice, are "healthy foods."

A diet with good fats and protein, and minimal produce and carbs, will help you lose weight. You'll also stay full much longer, so you'll end up eating less often. Avocado, salmon, eggs. Fat and protect are your friends here.

This is OP - thanks for giving me something to consider. I thought you can’t overdo plants, especially vegetables, and especially green vegetables, which make up the bulk of my diet. I will increase protein and fats.

That lady gave you horrible advice. You need to see a nutritionist. A plant based diet is the healthiest does you can have. Instead I’d listing to someone who seems to get their information from TikTok, please read the research in plant based Mediterranean diets.

She gave her accurate advice for some people. Some people look at a carb and gain weight.

I think OP is sincerely asking for advice! she is gaining weight, and doesn't want to be. and it appears that she is eating too many carbs/fruits and not enough fat/protein, and that's why that's happening. I don't think people should deter her from hearing this!

Talking to a nutritionist is always a good idea! While breastfeeding, i ate a TON of fatty fishes. The carbs are not helping her, and not particularly helping her milk supply.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree. I think you are in a mindset that fruit and carbs, like rice, are "healthy foods."

A diet with good fats and protein, and minimal produce and carbs, will help you lose weight. You'll also stay full much longer, so you'll end up eating less often. Avocado, salmon, eggs. Fat and protect are your friends here.

This is OP - thanks for giving me something to consider. I thought you can’t overdo plants, especially vegetables, and especially green vegetables, which make up the bulk of my diet. I will increase protein and fats.

That lady gave you horrible advice. You need to see a nutritionist. A plant based diet is the healthiest does you can have. Instead I’d listing to someone who seems to get their information from TikTok, please read the research in plant based Mediterranean diets.

She gave her accurate advice for some people. Some people look at a carb and gain weight.

Because carbs are energy. Don’t expend energy it gets stored. Low carb is for low movement people. It had been proven time and time again that a diet low in vegetables and fruit is the most unhealthy diet out there.

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Tropical fruits like banana, mango and coconut are very high in sugar and very energy dense. Batch cook hard boiled eggs on the weekend.

If you are weaning to go all in on weight loss it actually helps burn calories and reverse the insulin resistance that increases during pregnancy.

Focus on protein, high fiber green veg, low sugar fruits like berries and be patient.

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Anonymous wrote:^agree. This thread is lunacy. You are two and a half months out and still nursing, even if only part time.

Eat the damned smoothie. Three pounds doesn't mean anything at this point.

Keep doing what you are doing.

Sugar bomb. Shaking my head at the complete nonsense.

You can't eat a smoothie, it's liquid. My kid who is trying to GAIN weight is having almost the same thing as she is, so it's hardly lunacy. Drinking your meal is stupid if weight loss is your goal. She should at least stop liquifying it and eat it instead--bet she'd eat less of it than she drinks.

Her smoothie as described is no more than 300-400 calories. She is basically eating yogurt with a small fruit salad and a side of spinach. If that is what your kid is eating to gain weight, then YOU are doing something wrong.

She didn't complain that she isn't full and while it isn't the absolute best option, it is NOT "stupid."
And everyone here with their crazy a*s advice forgetting she is only 2 months postpartum---wow. If it means she can work/care for her baby and have an easy handheld portable meal, then it is FINE>


We have gone down the rabbit hole when we start comparing fruit to refined sugars and demonize all carbs that a breastfeeding mother would need. Hell, ANY mother of a young infant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree. I think you are in a mindset that fruit and carbs, like rice, are "healthy foods."

A diet with good fats and protein, and minimal produce and carbs, will help you lose weight. You'll also stay full much longer, so you'll end up eating less often. Avocado, salmon, eggs. Fat and protect are your friends here.

This is OP - thanks for giving me something to consider. I thought you can’t overdo plants, especially vegetables, and especially green vegetables, which make up the bulk of my diet. I will increase protein and fats.

That lady gave you horrible advice. You need to see a nutritionist. A plant based diet is the healthiest does you can have. Instead I’d listing to someone who seems to get their information from TikTok, please read the research in plant based Mediterranean diets.

She gave her accurate advice for some people. Some people look at a carb and gain weight.

fruits and vegetables contain carbohydrates. You can look it up and find out the exact number of grams online, but it's worth being realistic about if you want to lose weight. i have friends who are strictly keto (they have to really limit their carbs in order to stay in a ketogenic state (burning fat instead of glucose for energy), and they dont eat any fruit/grains and get their allotment of carbs from veggies, which they also have to limit. not that i'm recommending a keto diet, but just to say -- you cannot eat unlimited fruits and veggies and lose weight.

Because carbs are energy. Don’t expend energy it gets stored. Low carb is for low movement people. It had been proven time and time again that a diet low in vegetables and fruit is the most unhealthy diet out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^agree. This thread is lunacy. You are two and a half months out and still nursing, even if only part time.

Eat the damned smoothie. Three pounds doesn't mean anything at this point.

Keep doing what you are doing.

Sugar bomb. Shaking my head at the complete nonsense.

You can't eat a smoothie, it's liquid. My kid who is trying to GAIN weight is having almost the same thing as she is, so it's hardly lunacy. Drinking your meal is stupid if weight loss is your goal. She should at least stop liquifying it and eat it instead--bet she'd eat less of it than she drinks.

Her smoothie as described is no more than 300-400 calories. She is basically eating yogurt with a small fruit salad and a side of spinach. If that is what your kid is eating to gain weight, then YOU are doing something wrong.

She didn't complain that she isn't full and while it isn't the absolute best option, it is NOT "stupid."
And everyone here with their crazy a*s advice forgetting she is only 2 months postpartum---wow. If it means she can work/care for her baby and have an easy handheld portable meal, then it is FINE>


We have gone down the rabbit hole when we start comparing fruit to refined sugars and demonize all carbs that a breastfeeding mother would need. Hell, ANY mother of a young infant.

but a breastfeeding mother doesn't actually *need* carbs. a breastfeeding mother (and the baby) does need a LOT of protein and fat and dairy. that's what the milk is going to be made of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree. I think you are in a mindset that fruit and carbs, like rice, are "healthy foods."

A diet with good fats and protein, and minimal produce and carbs, will help you lose weight. You'll also stay full much longer, so you'll end up eating less often. Avocado, salmon, eggs. Fat and protect are your friends here.

This is OP - thanks for giving me something to consider. I thought you can’t overdo plants, especially vegetables, and especially green vegetables, which make up the bulk of my diet. I will increase protein and fats.

That lady gave you horrible advice. You need to see a nutritionist. A plant based diet is the healthiest does you can have. Instead I’d listing to someone who seems to get their information from TikTok, please read the research in plant based Mediterranean diets.

She gave her accurate advice for some people. Some people look at a carb and gain weight.

Because carbs are energy. Don’t expend energy it gets stored. Low carb is for low movement people. It had been proven time and time again that a diet low in vegetables and fruit is the most unhealthy diet out there.

Furthermore, the healthiest and longest-lived cultures have diets that are largely plant-based and relatively low in protein. I try to eat the way my Mediterranean relatives do - mostly plants, olive-oil is the primary fat, eat a bit of cheese or yogurt, meat 1-2 times a week. The occasional sweet and wine is good, too. No one is afraid of bread or pasta in my family and we are all healthy-to-low weights. We don't snack, we eat 2 light meals and one LARGE meal a day. Eat like a hunter and you will die like a hunter (young). Eat like my yiayia and you might have a fighting chance of being as old as she is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m ten weeks postpartum and breastfeeding, slowly weaning. I eat sensibly all of the time, but over the last three weeks have stepped it up to do the following:

-drink 3-4 liters of water a day
-make smoothie with frozen spinach, bananas, some fruit (frozen berries kr frozen mango), low-fat yogurt, shredded coconut and water - that is breakfast every day
-make salad with lots of veggies and lean protein - that is lunch every day
-walk between 3-5 miles every day
-do yoga a few times a week
-stopped adding cream or sugar to my morning coffee

I am doing what I thought you are supposed to do to lose weight at a reasonable rate, but I have actually gained a few pounds. WTAF?? This is extremely frustrating.

If you are eating too much even of a good thing you will gain weight. Write down what you eat and count the calories

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^agree. This thread is lunacy. You are two and a half months out and still nursing, even if only part time.

Eat the damned smoothie. Three pounds doesn't mean anything at this point.

Keep doing what you are doing.

Sugar bomb. Shaking my head at the complete nonsense.

You can't eat a smoothie, it's liquid. My kid who is trying to GAIN weight is having almost the same thing as she is, so it's hardly lunacy. Drinking your meal is stupid if weight loss is your goal. She should at least stop liquifying it and eat it instead--bet she'd eat less of it than she drinks.

Her smoothie as described is no more than 300-400 calories. She is basically eating yogurt with a small fruit salad and a side of spinach. If that is what your kid is eating to gain weight, then YOU are doing something wrong.

She didn't complain that she isn't full and while it isn't the absolute best option, it is NOT "stupid."
And everyone here with their crazy a*s advice forgetting she is only 2 months postpartum---wow. If it means she can work/care for her baby and have an easy handheld portable meal, then it is FINE>


We have gone down the rabbit hole when we start comparing fruit to refined sugars and demonize all carbs that a breastfeeding mother would need. Hell, ANY mother of a young infant.

but a breastfeeding mother doesn't actually *need* carbs. a breastfeeding mother (and the baby) does need a LOT of protein and fat and dairy. that's what the milk is going to be made of.

This... is not true. Human milk is: 3.8% fat; 1% protein; 7% lactose (the remainder being mostly water). If you break that down to just macros it is: 32% fat, 8.5% protein, 59.5% carbs.