Does anyone else have the same eating-weight patterns as me?
I’m 22 female 1.70m
The more I eat, the less I weigh: eg eating around 3 full meals followed by 3 full desserts on a normal dinner, plus lunch and breakfast etc. (average weight 50kg)
The less I eat, the more I weigh: eg eating only one meal for the whole day. (average weight 55kg)
(I know 50 and 55 aren’t too big of a difference, but I’m curious as to why my weight goes up when food intake is lower and vice versa).
It definitely has nothing to do with the amount of exercise I do (never exercised b4), nor the amount of sleeping I have, or anything else related to my lifestyle - it remains unchanged. It is not a simple coincidence either, as throughout all these years, it has been this way.
So, does anyone know what else it could be related to? cos I would like to do something about my weight, and I always thought food intake and exercising are the only ways to change one’s weight (but exercise is out of the question for me).
Oh, and if I just asked a stupid question, then just ignore me - thanx.
I would guess that the weight difference is water weight. When you don’t eat anything, your body thinks you are in a time of famine, or you are starving yourself, so it will retain water and other nutrients as much as it can. When you are eating large quantities of food in a day, your body doesn’t need to retain anything because new supplies of nutrients are constantly being added. This could account for the weight difference. Don’t fool yourself–the only true way to lose weight is a healthy diet and exercise.
If you are the type of person that can get by one one meal a day or three as the mood or opportunity strikes you it’s likely you have little desire to eat other than satisfying hunger so consider yourself blessed. Weight gain is largely a function of energy expenditure relative to metabolism and intake volume.
I’d have to to guess that:
1: Your “one big meal” scenario involves lots of small accessory snacking you aren’t counting in terms of true calories and that’s where the gain is coming from or
2: The “one big meal is” coming late in the evening and you body doesn’t have time to efficiently digest it before bedtime.
3: You’re just a stealthy freak of nature, a genetic carnival sideshow walking and taking among all the “normals” with no one noticing.
Llardball: Thanx. I guess u’re rite. Now that you mention it, I remember people have told me once that it has to do with a slowing down metabolism (like what you said). I would really like to take the suggestion of a healthy diet and exercise, but I’m way to lazy and hopeless, and love eating too much.
omni-not: Heheh, maybe the weight gain doesn’t seem too much but it does look like a huge difference in the mirror.
Mjollnir: You’re rite about the snout bit, but I also have eyes, on either side of the snout. (^(oo)^) see?
astro: You’re rite on points 1 and 2, so i guess it explains it a more, thanx! As to point 3…hmm…i hope not, heh-heh. But i’ve got that sentence stuck in my mind now.
So this calorie in, exercise out thing really works?
I ask because I decided a few months back (in February) to do something about my out-of-shapeness and not necessarily my weight. Gone were my 2 pizza, McDonalds, Mac and cheese with a side of ribs lunches. They were replaced by grilled chicken salad, Japanese subo and grilled salmon with white rice (all delicious, by the way).
Two days a week I walk home from work. I don’t know how long this walk is, but the shortest part is the walk across the Brooklyn bridge.
I have not lost one ounce in these past 4 months. I’m feeling much better, though and that was my main focus. So explain why I haven’t lost any weight?
Chances are, you’re seeing your hydration levels going up and down. If I weight myself right when I wake up in the morning (post-bathroom trip) I know the following things will affect my weight:
When I ate. If I ate dinner late (8 pm) as opposed to early (5 pm) I weigh more in the morning.
What I ate. If I eat salty food, I retain more water. Thus, I weigh more.
How hydrated/dehydrated I am. If I exercised the day before, I tend to weigh a little less. I think the difference is that I lost some water weight do to sweat while exercising.
How much water I drank the day before. If you keep yourself properly hydrated, your body doesn’t retain water. Thus, you weigh less.
That’s how my body works. Keep track of what and when you eat for a few days, and weigh yourself at the same time every day. It’s not too hard to figure out what triggers weight gain/loss if you do this for a few weeks.
Yes, the same time, but I would advise not every day. I’m trying (successfully) to lose weight, and to track my progress I weigh myself every Monday morning, naked, after I pee and before breakfast.
Weight fluctuates day to day based on the variables you cite, so I would go stark raving mad if I weighed myself every day. Once a week is long enough for the real losses, as opposed to the daily fluctuations, to appear.