Upping cals to LOSE

is it possible? we all have heard the wonder story of Revolution...I just wanted to start this thread for some of us undergoing this little experiment to talk. Also, if anyone has done this and it has NOT worked, do tell! 

sorry i am kind of obsessed with this subject right now

I'm up a couple pounds too... =\

Hopefully it's just water retention or something!  I'll see in the next couple days I guess.

so im increasing my calories bc i want to gain and need to-recovering, but im not weighing myself bc im thinking that after the initial increase their is a big gain?  so maybe thats what youre experiencing?

 

I honestly don't know what's going on.

all I want to do is reset my metabolism, if I have to gain weight to do so, fine.

as long as I will be able to lose a few pounds in the future.. I can't keep gaining forever on 'not enough food', that's not fair :(

Hi guys, I've been following your thread for a few days now because I'm in the same boat & was looking for reassurance. I have an underactive thyroid but its stable at the minute, and I plateaued at 165lbs for 2-3wks, then I went up 2lbs in a week- doing NOTHING different. When I looked at my food log I was averaging 900-1000cals so after must hmm'ing & ha'ing I upped my cals to 1100 a day (recovering bulimic too so this was a big step...) and introduced exercise to my daily routine- after a week of this I've GAINED 4lbs!! I am not happy. Please reassure me that this will start to come off again? I KNOW in my head that I cannot permanently gain weight eating less than 1500cals a day on average, but when will it start coming off...before I slip back into bad old habits...?

I gained a couple pounds the first week, but it's slowly but surely coming down. Take heart, irishmum!

Original Post by ladyfirelyght:

I gained a couple pounds the first week, but it's slowly but surely coming down. Take heart, irishmum!

 Seriously? I'm down a lb this morning but I'd say thats some of the water weight. I had a bad-ish day yesterday (857cals? :$) but ate really well, if that makes sense? I seem to get a lot of food for my cals?!

When did you notice the loss starting again? I don't mind the gain really if it means I lose more in the long run? I'm going to 100% try to hit my target cals this week, and stay positive....it's not easy....Thanks for responding to my post Ladyfirelyght! Positive stories help keep me motivated!

This isn't quite as positive as the other posts but I'm getting discouraged now =(

When I first did this, I gained about 5 lbs and then it dropped down that 5, plus another 5 or so.  Since then I've been trying to consistently eat the higher number (I'm usually within 100-150 of it, if I don't hit it) and I've jumped up 7 lbs.  So I'm 2 lbs higher than when I started increasing in the first place.

Bah =(  It's happening so fast I don't even know what to think.

i think people usually have to eat more for about 3-4 weeks for it to start going back down...

that's what my nutritionist told me anyway.

maybe ppl aren't giving it enough time?

irishmum: The weight started going down again 4 days into my low-cal week. I haven't weighed in a few days but I will tomorrow to see how things go.

ladyfirelyght

i don't get it... this thread is about UPPING CALS to lose. what you just said is completely not right for this

Original Post by carmenxox:

ladyfirelyght

i don't get it... this thread is about UPPING CALS to lose. what you just said is completely not right for this

 ?? Why- she upped her cals to break the plateau, gained a few lbs and is now losing again? Whats wrong with that??

Anyway, from monday I'm down 3lbs in total. I'm gaining confidence that this might be working...but I'll reserve judgement for a week or so....

I have a question for you guys -- is anyone else like this?

All day I get nervous about eating too much, so I try to eat really low cal during the day.  I guess I kinda tell myself, "ah one low day won't be bad...all the other days I've increased."

BUT, then at night I think, "I REALLY want this to work and I REALLY want some results..." so I cram a ton of cals at night. 

I know people say it doesn't matter when you eat, how much you eat all day matters.  Ok, so even if that is true (which I believe it is because I've always eaten the bulk of my cals at night), I don't have a good time to weigh myself anymore to see what's happening.  In the morning my stomach is full from the night before.  During the day, I have food in my stomach from breakfast and every meal after.

Any suggestions?

delfelpfan, I always eat a majority of my cals at night as well too, and I do weigh myself in the morning. I do sometimes notice a difference especially if I am up a few pounds from not using the bathroom or something. I am still full from the night before normally too though. I guess the best thing is to create a range for yourself of about 5 pounds as a maintanence level and then weigh yourself as soon as you jump out of bed and use the restroom.

I wouldn't worry about a few pounds though, but I would plan on setting a specific time each day or week, prob before eating to measure your weight. I always do it first thing!

Just a suggestion!

Oi so BIG MISTAKES!  I saved up my cals til night again (mistake #1) and then when I was stuffing my face to make up for it, I went way over my calorie amount (mistake #2)!  I didn't even work out today (mistake #3) ='(

I feel so yucky....I guess I'll just hit the water heavy and check the scale in the morning

I try to leave an hour to a couple of hours (depending how late it is) before I go to sleep to let my food digest. I seem to eat more at night too, at the moment, but it's a habit I'm getting out of (:

I ate 2000 yesterday (though I did have to do a bit of exercise, but that was walking to my therapist and back - I still made sure I ate least ATE 2000) and out of curiousity weighed myself to see if I'd gained any craaaaazy water weight - and had gone DOWN on the scale. Not by any decent amount (it's probably a fluctuation of water) but - Agh! I don't want that! I'm being threatened with daypatient! >:| I'm going to check my progress for real next Wednesday and will tell you all how it goes. Either way I will be okay with it - weight > hospital.

Don't give up, you're all doing really well! (:

So about the whole upping cals to lose issue....who has this worked for? I really need a push in the panties....

I posted before saying I was up lbs again, but they've come back off!  First thing in the morning, after going to the bathroom, I was at about 113.5 which is the lowest I've EVER been.  Shocking thing -- yesterday I overshot my calories but a couple hundred.  I'm not really trying to lose much more, just trying not to gain too much now!

Positivelinny -- It is definitely worth a try!  It has worked for me (so far!)  It took me from a...probably about 8+ month plateau at 118 (which was ok with me and I was increasing cals to maintain, but I was secretly always hoping to get to 115!) down to 113.  It may have just been water fluctuations and the whole bathroom thing, but still.  You should at least try it for a week or 2 and see what happens!

REVOLUTION was the one who originally tried this i think.

what i have heard, is that it takes ~2 weeks for a real gain to show, so when you see fluctuations from 1 day to the next, its water, sodium, maybe you ate more/less the previous day.  but ive heard from a lot of ppl tht it takes some time, not over night, for changes in weight.

also, if youre only eating a small amount of calories and are a healthy person, you should be able to live on id say an average 2000 cals, id say it begins to decrease in your mid 40s.

now im recovering from an ed, i want to eat more and gain and yes am scared to do so, but i still logically firmly beleive that we should be able to maintain on 2000ish being moderately active until you begin to approach middle age.

i am so incredibly afraid to try this. i've been thinking about upping my calories on and off, but with the approaching school year any chance of weight gain makes me ridiculously afraid.

i've been exercising 3 times a week or so and eating 1200-1300 calories, but after months of doing this my weight has barely changed. i feel that upping my calories might be nessisary. a nutritionist i went to reccommended i could up my calories to about 1550, but that would be to maintain. i am just very unsure.

the next few days i will try this and see where it leads me in the next few weeks. i am hoping, hoping, hoping.

Original Post by irishmum:

Original Post by carmenxox:

ladyfirelyght

i don't get it... this thread is about UPPING CALS to lose. what you just said is completely not right for this

 ?? Why- she upped her cals to break the plateau, gained a few lbs and is now losing again? Whats wrong with that??

Anyway, from monday I'm down 3lbs in total. I'm gaining confidence that this might be working...but I'll reserve judgement for a week or so....

 okay u guess i missed something then? her post said she was on a 'low calorie' diet...

anyways, it's been a month for me on more calories, and at first I went from about 107 to 105 then i was at 109 then 108 like a week ago and now im back to 107/106... weird. I should be getting my period soon too, so that may be influencing this...

I don't know what is going on with the weight fluctuations, but it doesn't seem like i have actually put on anyweight doing this... and now the more i excercise or work i am eating more calories too, so yes i think i HAVE had a few 2000cal days :) woo go me.

I would like to drop a few pounds (102lbs just sounds nice in my mind), but i'm in no real hurry to do so. It looks like my metabolism is starting to cooperate which is what i have been hoping for! Heck, I am pretty much maintaining on more calories then I have eaten in 3 years! and I cannot believe how much more "pretty/gorgeous/beautiful" comments I am getting.. I guess that "glow" is starting to show more!

seriously, it is worth a shot.

and honestly it is going to happen sooner or later right?, no one can possibly live on 1200cal forever..