I went on a diet and I'm gaining weight! Why?!?

Question

2 months ago I quit drinking pop, and junk foods. I started eating more fruits vegtables and even some organic foods.
I started taking flax seeds and fish oils, I have noticed a difference in my energy and my blood pressure even went down. But I'v been gaining weight! WHY? (And no I'm not preggers :P )

Answer 1

One of the reason can be your callorie intake is greater than calorie expendature. Even with a healthy diet you have to watch how much you eat compare to how much you exercise.

We all live in a very stressful world. So here are couple of other reason why it's so hard to lose weight, especially around your waist.

During the stress responce, many chemical reactions occur in the body preparing it to what is know is the "fight or flight effect".

During prehistoric days as the cave dwellers, we had the opportunity to burn our stress when an animal attacked, as it was a means of survival. We were able to run away or fight the threat immediatelly.

In today society we do not have to fight a bear or a tiger, so we don't have much an outlet readily at hand to burn off the stress or pent up negative emotions.

Therefore, we carry it with us creating emotional and physical problems.
Exercise can help by providing an outlet for negative emotions such as worry, irritabillity, depression, hostility, anger, frustration and enxiety. You can dessipate these feelings by simply taking it out on the tennis court, by running, or punching a bag.

Regular exercise provides the opportunity to manage the "fight or flight responce" and helps the body to return to a homeostasis or balanced state more quickly.

Btw, same thing happens when you drink caffeinated drinks. Caffeine releases a high level of epinephrine (adrenaline) and to a lesser extend norepinephrine to your blood streem.
These hormones facilitate immediate physical reactons associated with a preparation for a violent muscular action.

And most of the time what are we doing with a cup of coffee in the morning or a coke? We are in our cars driving to work or in our comfortable chairs in the office working with a paperwork... LOL

Here are basic recommendations that you can start with.

Food as Fuel:

Going without breakfast because you planning a big dinner is as silly as filling up your car's gas tank after you finish the trip. Eat all of the foods that are good for you; whole grains, vegetables, fruites and lean proteins that you enjoy. Eat 6 small meals a day. Eating smaller meals more often will help to speed up your metabolism. Missing meals slow your metabolism. Also chew your food at least 30-40 times every time you take a bite. This will slow down your meal time and it easier to digest your food.

Hunger can stress the body and trigger the release of cotisol, a hormone that encourages the storage of fat in the abdomen. To keep hunger under control, split your meals and snacks into 5 or 6 minimeals.

Water - Drink TONS of water!

If you add 2-3 liters of water to you diet you will feel better - PROMISE. You will have to use the restroom often, BUT you will loose weight, inches, feel less bloated, and retain less water IF you add water to your diet. Men who are overweight should add up to galon of water a day. Sip throgh out the day for best result.

Your Body Needs Daily Exercise.

The only way to be fit is to exercise on the regular basis: daily if possible. Some benefits of daily exercise are: you don't get sick as often, you have more energy and you sleep better.

Exercise doesn't have to be structured.
If it is something you enjoy doing, you'll look forward to it. Walking or riding a bike with your children to school is fun. Even though it may only be a couple of miles, it is something.
If you aren't looking forward to your next workout, do something else. Walking is probably one of the best fat burning exercises you can do - just walk more!

Have Realistic Expectations

You dont get out of shape over night so do not expect to loose weight over night neither. You can loose 10-12 pounds a month just by exercising more - without dieting! I promise you will feel better, get more fit and reach a higher level of satisfaction by starting slowly and expecting moderate weight and measurement losses.
Think within longer time frames, and a pound or two on a scale won't seam so important.

Cross-Training

Every few weeks plan a change in your routine. Note only will your mind be more challenged, your body will have to adapt and the body will benefit from the new stimuli. The body is an amazing adaptable machine. It will begin to burn less fat as an energy source for the same activity if you don't change your programe regularly.

Get 7 to 8 hours of shut-eye a night

Chronic sleep deprivation can raise cortisol levels. It can also drive down levels of the appetite-control hormone leptin, making you feel hungry.

Laugh more

Here's a tactic anyone can stick with! In a study conducted at Loma Linda University, men and women who watched a humorous video had 30% less cortisol in their blood not only while watching the tape but also up to 24 hours later.

And at last, I do use natural fat burning pills before bodybuilding shows and many of my clients who would like to lose weight use it as well. These pills are not chemical formulas so it just will help to speed up your metabolism. Here is the link: http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.a...

Consider to detox your body once in a while. I use http://www.drnatura.com/?ovchn=ggl&ovcpn...
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I hope this will help. Email me if you have any questions

Answer 2

Sometimes the number on your scale is not accurate to what is going on inside your body. Muscle weighs more than fat so go by the way your clothes feel. If you have made all of these changes, thats great! But you did not mention anything about exercise. Make sure to do something everyday. Dont misunderstand, i dont mean that you have to hit the gym for 2 hours every night. Little things like parking your car further from the store or taking a 15 minute walk after dinner can really help. Still do 3 days of good exercise but little things on your days off.

Answer 3

Fish oil will make you gain weight I think but not sure but I know that when you first start working out, you will gain a little because your body is starting to become muscle. Your working your muscles out but keep it up! That's just the bodies way of adjusting to a new life style. Drink plenty of cold water and don't get frustrated. Don;t weigh yourself either for at least two months and keep doing what your doing. Come back and then you will see soon enough!

Answer 4

It could be because you've increased your carb intake. Carbohydrates readily turn to fat if you don't exercise enough. Most fruits and veges are fine, but steer clear of potatoes, bananas and avocados, as all are high in calories or are high GI foods.

Also, have you noticeably increased the sheer amount of food you eat? That could be the reason.

Answer 5

Cut down on the calories and exercise more. You are consuming more than you are burning, so you are gaining weight. Also increase your water intake.

Answer 6

what about excersice? you can diet all you want but in order for your body to lose fat, it has to burn fat. which means you have to excersice.

If you are on a diet and not exercising then there is no point in going on a diet.

Answer 7

if you are losing fat and gaining muscle, muscle weighs more than fat.
possibly you are eating more of the good stuff than you require...watch portions maybe?
keep going and exercising and watch the carbs...
good luck

Answer 8

Separate your carbs from your proteins and exercise... more than you want to exercise. You will see a difference.

Answer 9

are you doing alot of exercise you might be toning up and getting muscle weight

Answer 10

Its not about diet. its about building 3 to 5 lbs of aerobic bacteria.. see rawgetarian.com

Stay RAW!!!!!