Calories in Calories out question

PaulStat

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I'm currently monitoring my calories in and out, now during the week last week I had a net total on each day of 2000 and under. Over the weekend I didn't monitor my calories and probably went over by anywhere between 500-1000 calories of my target on both days.

Now despite probably still being under my maintenance net calories for a week somehow this morning when I checked I've put on 0.1kg from what I was last week. How the hell is this possible? I seriously doubt it's muscle :p
 
PaulStat said:
I've put on 0.1kg
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I'd suggest you stop weighing yourself more frequently than maybe once every two weeks, and also a 0.1kg difference on the scales means what exactly? Slightly more water in your body than your last weighing could do that :confused:

Don't panic, chances are if you bother to watch what you eat you will lose weight (if that's what you're doing), but it sounds like you are expecting it over night?
 
Makunouchi said:
I'd suggest you stop weighing yourself more frequently than maybe once every two weeks, and also a 0.1kg difference on the scales means what exactly? Slightly more water in your body than your last weighing could do that :confused:

Don't panic, chances are if you bother to watch what you eat you will lose weight (if that's what you're doing), but it sounds like you are expecting it over night?
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No I'm not expecting it overnight, I am expecting however to have lost at least some weight over the period of a week, especially seeing as 5 days out of 7 I was in calorie deficit.
 
Going over by 2000kcals at the weekend is going to put a fair dent in your calorie defficit for the week, give it another week and see how you go. If your still not loosing make sure your not taking in extra cals through drinks or random snacks be truthful people have a habit of being able to forget the random little snacks they have through the day.
 
I see what you're saying but I thought it was supposed to be something like 2500 net cals per day for the average adult male to maintain their weight. So 2500*7=17500 per week

Say I did the following

Monday: 2000
Tuesday: 1600
Wednesday: 1400
Thursday: 1600
Friday: 1300
Saturday: 3500 <---- estimating on the high side
Sunday: 3500 <---- estimating on the high side

Net for week = 14900

So that would still be a deficit of 2600 cals for the whole week, so should result in some weight loss! Shame I didn't weigh myself on the Friday to see how much the weekend affected it!

Guess I could be retaining water, but even so to put ON weight is just taking the pee :p

Oh and I use a diet diary thing that keeps note of calories in calories out. Must be more strict with myself I guess
 
Are you doing any training to complement the new diet? and how much water do you get a day?
 
if the reason your going over is beer at the weekend, stop drinking for a week or two, and you will see a nice little change.
 
500cals over or under per day for a week roughly equates to 1lb - after a week. So going over by 500cals for 1 or 2 days is hardly going to do anything.

3500cals over teh weekend? that's a lot of food, a lot of people overestimate calories. Unless you were drinking a lot of beer/alcohol.
 
blitz2163 said:
Are you doing any training to complement the new diet? and how much water do you get a day?
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Yup, went to the gym 4 times last week I think it was, each time burning 1000 or more calories (I do take account of this at the end of the day, hence the net calories).

I probably didn't have as water over the weekend as I should have done, although during the week I do drink plenty.
 
Do you know you actually require 2500 calories a day? That's a guideline figure so I'd suggest working out your BMR
 
Freefaller said:
500cals over or under per day for a week roughly equates to 1lb - after a week. So going over by 500cals for 1 or 2 days is hardly going to do anything.

3500cals over teh weekend? that's a lot of food, a lot of people overestimate calories. Unless you were drinking a lot of beer/alcohol.
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3500 is probably quite a lot for Sunday, I'd say def over 2500 though.

And yes I did have Beer both days :p, bad I know

The Craig said:
Do you know you actually require 2500 calories a day? That's a guideline figure so I'd suggest working out your BMR
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Ummm no, just going by the guideline, I'm 5'10" and currently 95.2kg
 
PaulStat said:
Ummm no, just going by the guideline, I'm 5'10" and currently 95.2kg
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Actually if you're going to the gym as well (I thought you where sedentry) It should be around or over that amount. Make sure you're counting calories correctly (weigh food), and not drinking your calories (drink only water).
 
The Craig said:
Actually if you're going to the gym as well (I thought you where sedentry) It should be around or over that amount. Make sure you're counting calories correctly (weigh food), and not drinking your calories (drink only water).
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I think evening meals are probably the hardest for this seeing as I do tend to make everything there's not much pre-packaged stuff, so it can be quite hard to estimate.
 
I just think that there's too much margin for error to draw too many conclusions after 1 week.

Just remember that your 'calories in' is an estimate, your 'calories out' is an estimate, and your 'balance' figure (2500/day) is for an 'average' male.

I'd stick with it for a bit longer. If after a few weeks you still find that you're gaining weight, then I'd suggest that either your under-estimating 'calories in', or over-estimating 'calories out'. Either that our you're not an 'average' male and you don't need 2500 calories per day to maintain a steady weight.
 
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