Running more, eating less, gaining weight.. Calories per day

I wish I had your problem. I can't seem to gain weight.

You may be hypothyroid- would suggest you get some blood work done to check your thyroid hormone levels.

I have the same issue. Running less I can hover at 150-152, but when my mileage is at 90-100, I'm at 156ish... I eat very healthy, as in- all whole grain products, fruits and vegetables (without butter or anything), lean meats and nuts. If I crave something sweet, I have a small piece (25-50 calories) of 75% dark chocolate. I consume between 2000-3000 calories a day with plenty of water... I know running 14 a day on average, I burn around 3500 or more... Yet I don't drop weight.

Maybe we don't eat enough?

Well, it's physically impossible to gain weight unless you are consuming more calories than you burn.

There a few options:

1. Despite running more, you are burning fewer calories than you were a year ago. Your metabolism may have slowed down, maybe your day-to-day routine is not as active for whatever reason, something like that.

2. You are consuming more calories than you think you are.

what is going on wrote:

I have been feeling more tired than usual in that 9-10 hours of sleep is easily doable

Never have I eaten this little for the amount of running I'm doing. I also will add that I don't feel like I'm starving myself at all and often awake feeling like I actually ate too much the night before.

You're eating too much at night!

Focus on your food intake being before and during your greatest activity.

Make sure you ingest plenty of water, before, during and after your meals.

What are you eating??? All calories are NOT the same.

High water content foods are much better.

Low water content foods are unnecessary and put on excess weight.

The earlier in the day you eat, the better you will sleep.

You sound like an idiot who knows nothing about nutrition but thinks he's an expert because he's read a bunch of articles in Runner's World and Men's Health.

30 grams of protein as soon as you wake up. Eat most of your carbs immediately after exercise, or AT NIGHT.

Have a "cheat" day where you eat every two-three hours all carbs and no protein.

I don't know when runners and people who think they eat healthy are going to get the memo that fat isn't bad for you and isn't the cause of weight gain - it is sugar - particularly fructose. The war on fat came from a very flawed study - it was the increased sugar (specifically fructose) not the fat.

I weigh 155 and run 80mpw at 6'4" and eat 3500 calories a day. But I eat very, very little fructose-containing sugar. I'll go days at a time without a single gram of sucrose (50$ fructose) or HFCS (a hair over 50% fructose). I splurge on a soda a few times a week and maybe a gelato once a week and other than that don't even buy yogurt with sugar in it. Sweeten my tea, coffee, and yogurt with liquid stevia.

Eat only 100% glucose sugars such as brown rice syrup or barley syrup and only occasionaly have things like honey, sugar, and other fructose-containing sugars and this includes the unnaturally bred for high fructose content fruits of the modern agricultural era.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Lusting has it right. I eat the same way and have LOST weight on this diet, not gained. In fact I was below 400 pounds last week for the first time in decades.

You probably don't need to sweat the sugar that much at 6'4" and 155 . . . freakin' skeletor over here

Damnit I hate when people always have to bring up "you may be eating more than you think"

I'm not an idiot. I count every calorie I consume, every piece of fruit, bread and even measure out my cups of milk. I even add 200-300 calories to my day that I may have forgotten about throughout making up for the occasional handful of grapes or pretzels. I know for a fact I'm not over 3000

Me too buddy wrote:

Damnit I hate when people always have to bring up "you may be eating more than you think"

I'm not an idiot. I count every calorie I consume, every piece of fruit, bread and even measure out my cups of milk. I even add 200-300 calories to my day that I may have forgotten about throughout making up for the occasional handful of grapes or pretzels. I know for a fact I'm not over 3000

Or so you think. Almost everyone underestimates their calorie intake. By a lot. Almost everyone underestimates their portion sizes. By a lot. How do you know that banana you ate had 100 calories and not 110? How do you know the package labal got the calorie count right? You don't. Unless you burn all your food in a bunsen burner to measure its heating properties, you DON'T know how many calories you're really eating. Any attempt to measure it is at best a wild ass guess.

I rode in on a donkey wrote:

Or so you think. Almost everyone underestimates their calorie intake. By a lot. Almost everyone underestimates their portion sizes. By a lot. How do you know that banana you ate had 100 calories and not 110? How do you know the package labal got the calorie count right? You don't. Unless you burn all your food in a bunsen burner to measure its heating properties, you DON'T know how many calories you're really eating. Any attempt to measure it is at best a wild ass guess.

Even if you measure everything perfectly, you will not know your caloric intake. Food varies a lot in its caloric content and so all the tables you see on bulk food and the labels you read are all wrong.

I dont. Like I said, I purposely add another couple hundred calories to my daily caloric intake to make up for them. If anything, I overestimate... When I eat at home, I measure everything... When I eat out I look up everything on the restaurants website... They may be off by 10-20 calories... But that's why I add the extra ones I call ghost calories

Me too buddy wrote:

I count every calorie I consume, every piece of fruit, bread and even measure out my cups of milk. I even add 200-300 calories to my day that I may have forgotten about throughout making up for the occasional handful of grapes or pretzels. I know for a fact I'm not over 3000

Bread is very hard to digest. Wheat and milk are the #1 and #2 biggest causes of food allergies.

Me too buddy wrote:

I dont. Like I said, I purposely add another couple hundred calories to my daily caloric intake to make up for them. If anything, I overestimate... When I eat at home, I measure everything... When I eat out I look up everything on the restaurants website... They may be off by 10-20 calories... But that's why I add the extra ones I call ghost calories

Chances are you are still WAY off. Those internet listings for restaurants are a joke. The portion sizes are so tiny that no one would only eat that small of an amount. Even if you add a couple of hundred to your estimated total, I'd bet you're still WAY, WAY, WAY short.

Look, if you're gaining weight, it's because you're eating more calories than you're using. That's it. There is no other possible reason. It is physically impossible to gain weight if you have a TRUE calorie deficit.

Are you being serious? I can't tell. If I eat a protein bar and it says it contains 280 calories, it's likely that it containes roughly 280 calories rather than 50 or 800 or something as you seem to think. And what part of "I even measure out my foods" don't you understand? Anyone with half a brain should be able to estimate their caloric intake pretty closely if they're looking at everything they eat and are measuring out servings, and just FYI, it doesn't matter if that banana was 100 calories or 110 calories. A 10% margin of error is not going to explain why someone supposedly eating 500-1000 calories less than they should is gaining weight. Dumb@ss.

And yep, fat is definitely not the enemy. It's highly unlikely anyone goes days without ingesting a single gram of fructose. If you eat any plant material at all you're likely ingesting some. Low levels of fructose are unlikely to be a problem anyway as fructose is in fruit and we've been eating that for millions of years (though of course it was less sweet than the stuff we buy now). Regardless, eating some sugar again is not going to explain why someone is gaining weight when they should be losing 1-2lbs/week based on general accepted knowledge on exercise and BMR. Reducing sugar will definitely help one lose weight, but eating some sugar isn't going to completely counter-act a 500 calorie/day reduction in food intake.

You come across as someone who's extremely ignorant. Try telling that to someone with severe hypothyroidism.

If I go eat at The Olive Garden and I look up their nutritional info ON THEIR WEBSITE, the meal I eat is not "way way off"... And that's what I do with everything. If I go to a small mom and pop place and order mash potatoes... I know how much a serving is and I can estimate reasonably well

Me too buddy wrote:

If I go eat at The Olive Garden and I look up their nutritional info ON THEIR WEBSITE, the meal I eat is not "way way off"... And that's what I do with everything. If I go to a small mom and pop place and order mash potatoes... I know how much a serving is and I can estimate reasonably well

Keep on lying to yourself...no wonder you can't lose weight.