Rapid weight gain all in one week

[Deleted User]

I don't know who myfitnesspal are, or where they're getting their information, but that link I gave you is the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, who provide all the dietary advice for the UK government. Fruit doesn't count as free sugar unless it is juiced, and there's no limit advised for intrinsic sugars.

The recommended limit for free sugar is now 5% of total calories, so that would be 31g for a man and 25g for a woman, not 45g. (Until recently the recommendation was 10%, so the limits then would have been 62g & 50g respectively.)

bigfreddiel

Andrew, just eat less, don't eat low fat foods, they all contain extra sugar.

Don't buy crisps, fizzy drinks, ditch these slimming drinks.

Eat three normal sized meals a day, use smaller plates, ditch all low fat spreads and use butter.

I'm 6ft and weigh 75kg - it's not hard, JDI or DY cheers fj

Gloomendoom

75kg? What's that in non-Euro-bollox money?

Jamiesmum

Ok, haven't read all the replies so forgive me if I'm repeating anyone/anything.

For dieting alone, it doesn't matter where the calories come from it's simple calories in and calories out.

Your breakfast sounds huge in calories, so I'm assuming this is filling you up quite well! But it's way too many calories. For your weight I'd be assuming you need to aim for 1800 ish, calories a day. So we shall call that 400 breakfast, 500 lunch, 600 dinner, 300 snacks. Less if you're unactive, and more if you're working out.

So we could call that 2x slices of bread, 2 scrambled eggs and 2 slices of bacon for breakfast.
Typically a sandwich, banana, apple and yogurt for lunch.
Salmon/chicken salad with small jacket potato for tea. (no dressing)
Snacks to be a handful of nuts, baby tomatoes, cheese stick + some berries, spread over the day.

Bare in mind that is leaving no room for any type of drinks bar water, that is literally from squash & coffee to alcohol.

If you're eating more than this, weight loss will be slow (not a terrible thing) but it'll take a while to show.

Picture a roll of tissue, the bigger it is, the longer it takes to show that it is losing itself, the smaller the roll is - the quicker it shows. Hence losing 50lb on a big person could show the same results as someone small losing 10lb.

The unfortunate thing is, as you've had so many high calorie meals and take outs means you are probably not in the correct mind set to lose weight, and so you won't. You admit yourself you yo-yo. If you really want to do it, you will. If you don't want too you'll continue eating high calorie meals unnecessarily until you reach the point when you truly want to change your lifestyle.

bigfreddiel

Gloomendoom wrote: »

75kg? What's that in non-Euro-bollox money?

For goodness sake, unbelievable!

[Deleted User]

75kg is 11stone 11 lbs apparently

OP have you tried the 5:2 diet? It worked for me 3 years ago and I've only put a few lbs back on. There's a Fred on here somewhere. Good luck.

Andrew_Ryan_89

TheDapster wrote: »

75kg is 11stone 11 lbs apparently

OP have you tried the 5:2 diet? It worked for me 3 years ago and I've only put a few lbs back on. There's a Fred on here somewhere. Good luck.

I know if it quite well but to be honest, not a big fan. Not a big fan of "diets" in general as I'm a big lover of food and they won't be sustainable. Right now I am watching what I'm eating for a couple of month to lose weight for this wedding. After then I'll maintain the same day to day diet but will start going back out to eat once every couple weeks or so.

Right now I am so looking forward to my girlfriend taking me out to a burger bar after the wedding.

A bit of an update, I think most of that weight lost before was water weight and most of it gained was probably the same is a similar anomaly. I am now at a steady <127kg. Hoping to loose an extra 3kg within the next 3 weeks.

bigfreddiel

Andrew, what exercise do you do, for example walking for twenty mins/day is good. You do not need a gym, and reading back a few posts, your breakfasts are far too big. Alone slice of toast, and a small bowl of cereal is enough. Check the cereal isn't laden with sugar, most are, shredded wheat is good as is all bran.

Also use small plates. Don't snack, eat fruit, cut down on salt and sugar, in fact remove them from your diet altogether.

Cheers fj

Andrew_Ryan_89

bigfreddiel wrote: »

Andrew, what exercise do you do, for example walking for twenty mins/day is good. You do not need a gym, and reading back a few posts, your breakfasts are far too big. Alone slice of toast, and a small bowl of cereal is enough. Check the cereal isn't laden with sugar, most are, shredded wheat is good as is all bran.

Also use small plates. Don't snack, eat fruit, cut down on salt and sugar, in fact remove them from your diet altogether.

Cheers fj

Thanks for the feedback. It's weird, quite a few people here have suggested my breakfast is too much and I am struggling to think what could possibly be healthier! The smoothie contains no more than a cereal portion of muesli, a handful of cashew nuts, almond nut and blueberries. The rest is (hard to tell the actual quantity as they are frozen cubes) spinach and sometime peanut butter for taste. It's working now and worked before where I lost 11kg in 6 weeks.

In regards to exercise, I can comfortable say I got to the gym at least 4 days a week. Most of the time is spent doing weights. In total about 100 reps of arm exercises and about 40 with the legs. I also will power walk on the treadmill with a steep incline for about 10 minutes (I find all cardio so boring if I do it for any longer, I fear I might pack the whole thing in). I have mixed it up a little and having 2 eggs and 2 slices of toast for this week and most of next.

I have also started planking for at least 30 seconds a day and trying to build up to 90 seconds by day 30.

bigfreddiel

Looks like you don't believe you're eating too much, or unhealthy. From what you say I can tell your diet isn't good. You don't actually know because you say it's hard to tell as they are frozen cubes.

Cut out all this smoothie rubbish, cut out all low fat foods, cut out sugar.

Reduce your portion size by using small plates. If you want something sweet eat an apple or an orange. Don't drink natural orange juice or any other type of juice, altho' promoted as healthy they aren't.

Look at some pictures of kids in the 1950's, I was one of the. And we were all skinny, so check out a 1950's recipe book and change your diet to that. Forget about all these fad like 5:2, fruit diets, hi carb diets, hi protein diets, slimming drinks and bars. They don't work.

Good luck again fj