after i lose a few pounds, i gain it right back! why??

Question

i see that i've lost a few pounds, so think i can "afford" to eat a little junk, cake, danish... and then i'm back to my original weight again! how to stop this? why do i feel like losing a few pounds means i can eat more?? I am TWENTY POUNDS overweight and i never come close to losing it, i just keep losing the same 3-5 pounds and gaining it back again =(

Answer 1

switch your junk of choice.. many good replacements.. also, eat in moderation.

Answer 2

Mostly to do with the way you're trying to lose weight, I'd guess.

Are you doing any exercise to help you lose weight, or just eating less? I'd guess from what's happening it's the latter. The best (and fastest) way to lose weight safely is to eat a little less, eat more healthy foods, and exercise.

I'd also examine WHY you want to lose weight. It won't work if you're doing it just to please someone else, whether it be a friend, partner or society. YOU have to make the choice to lose weight.

Answer 3

perishedmemories,

Well, really it's because you lose weight for the wrong reason. You lose weight to lose weight.

Actually, that's not quite a "duh" answer. If you lost weight for a different reason, you'd act differently once you lost weight. But since you set out to lose weight, once you lose weight you feel as if you've achieved your goal, and as we tend to do when we reach our goal (whatever it is) you relax and go back to doing what it was that made you need to reach that goal to begin with.

What you need to do is not to lose weight, but to change your eating habits, and to change them for health's sake.

Since we know that excess weight cuts years off our lives, you need to change the way you think about food and about how much and what you need to eat in order to eat only what you need to, not what and as much as you want to.

If we all ate what we wanted, we'd all be overweight. Our bodies were not meant to live in an environment of constant feasting. But since we do not experience famines in the developed west, we just eat too much.

You have to cut back on what you eat and increase what you do. Eat less and move more.

How much do you weigh now? How much would you like to weigh? Take that latter number in pounds, multiply it by ten, and that's how many calories you should eat in a day. Let's say it's "120 pounds," ok?

Get a copy of "The 1200 Calorie Cookbook" and follow it for three months. By that time you'll be used to that amount of food and it'll be easy for you to weigh what you'd like.

Then take up walking for now. Walk for 45 minutes a day. Do that for a month, then get really good running shoes and start running.

Go to the Runner's World website and look up their training plans for beginners, and start following that.

And remember, this is going to be for the rest of your life. So take it slow and easy, and increase slowly and easily.

But if you do this, you'll feel so much better and you'll be healthier, too.

Good luck.

Answer 4

U know Y. Sounds like U R not committed to keeping the weight off. If U R trying to lose weight for someone else it won't work. U have to want it for U.

Answer 5

that is not body fat that has been lost, all it is the waste in your body, its 3-5 pound and try this, see how much you are before you go to the toilet(#2) and after and look at the differents, and see how much you are before you eat dinner and after you eat dinner and see how much you are thats all, if you have lost body fat, then its not only 1 kilo, thats only the water and food in your body not body fat, and eat more vegies and cut down of junkfood and cake, there is nothing good about them, all it is that they taste really good, they give u diabetes and you the common things with suger and fat.

Answer 6

one of the reason might be you just exercise and then eat junk food after then you will be putting back the calories you burn. That is why you weight is back again

Answer 7

easy, dont eat what you think you can 'afford' until you lose a few tens pounds