Not exact matches
One possible reason for weight gain could be that your baby is getting fewer
calories from you as he / she
starts eating more solids.
2) Focus on increasing your
calories:
Start by
eating more in each meal, or increase the number of meals throughout the day, whichever possible.
As your cells become
more sensitized to insulin, the blood sugar regulating hormone, the body
starts processing food
more efficiently, thus having a lesser risk of storing fat even when
eating more calories during the non-fasting periods.
Conversely, if you
eat in a
calorie surplus: leptin levels increase, T3 returns back to baseline, hunger decreases — energy levels increase, you
start moving
more and expending
more energy — , testosterone increases, and cortisol drops.
Take 30 days and give it a shot — cut out the grains and dairy,
start eating more vegetables and fruits,
eat more humanely raised and non-grain fed meat, cut out the liquid
calories and sugar, and see how you feel after the month is up.
In a very general way, the body's metabolic rate
starts to drop after a long time when you're burning
more calories than you
eat.
You're
eating way
more than what you normally would if you work doing all that marathon training and that adds up pretty quickly and you'd be surprised even if you think that you're
eating the same or fewer
calories than before you
started training for marathon that you actually are not.
You will probably be
eating many
more calories than what you are used to, so if you
start counting, you'll freak out and get scared, then you'll
start restricting the good foods you need and Paleo won't work.
Worse, the weight eventually plateaus and then as you decide that it's not worth it, you
start to
eat more, say 1400
calories thinking that it's still not as much as you used to
eat.
I guess I would suggest
starting off with that many
calories to give your Metabolism a kick in the ass so that you can
eat more and still lose
more weight.
Once I
started gaining weight by
eating a
more balanced and
calorie - rich diet, my body improved inside and out.
I dropped the next 20 lbs and
started seeing abs even though I hardly directly train abs and hardly ever do cardio... my metabolism
started revving — I can
eat nearly 2000
calories a day now,
more if I am not trying to lean out... love love love it!
The problem comes when people
start to
eat more often, getting in too many total
calories in a day.
These people generally get used to their new diet and
start eating more of the low - carb high - fat foods — and thus total
calories.
Then I took some of the above points, which were in some previous articles, and
started calorie and carbohydrate cycling... and
eating more.
As Thea suggested, I may need
more calorie dense foods than my husband might, since he really LIKES
eating and
started out obese, whereas I (mostly)
eat in order to not be hungry, and have always been petite.
You won't be able to lose weight at the same speed
eating the same amount of
calories you
started off with to lose your first 30 + pounds unless you cut your
calories even
more, do this workout and / or use these tips to increase your metabolism
For example, Say you're moderately active and you burn 2,000
calories a day, but instead of going the traditional way of putting muscle mass (of 200 - 300 surplus) you
start eating 1000
more calories each day, and you also burning extra
calories through training so you mathematically
start consuming 3000
calories a day.
Resources such as Jeff Novick's DVD,
Calorie Density: How to
Eat More..., and Doug Lisle's presentation available on YouTube, How to Lose Weight without losing your mind, are excellent places to
start.
I don't recommend counting
calories precisely — but it can be important for a lot of people
starting out with
eating more to keep at least ballpark figures in mind in order to make sure you
eat enough.
By inserting what are called «refeeds,» where you
eat more calories than you need to maintain your body weight, your body doesn't feel like it's
starting to death — at least not as much.
This happens because people often
start eating less
calorie dense /
more filling foods (vegetables for example) despite the drop in
calorie intake overall.
All things being equal though, if you were to
eat maintenance
calories and not change your diet and you added muscle you would eventually lose weight, as the extra muscle will
start burning
more calories.
At your size I'd have you
eating more than 2000
calories to
start, but the fact you're gaining weight would make me hesitate.
To build muscle with minimal fat gains,
start by
eating no
more than 5 - 10 %
more calories than your maintenance level.
Result: I was hungry and
started eating more - my
calorie intake spiked.
For Stewart, here's how she
started: Every other day she would
eat no
more than 500
calories and on the days in between, called her «feast» days, she consumed about 2,200
calories.
Since adding fish oil and vitamin d3, I can feel myself
starting to lean out despite
eating higher carbs, some white bread and
more calories overall.
Sarah Zinn recently posted... Why I Stopped Counting
Calories and
Started Eating More