Getting Fat

Wow, this is crazy, because the exact same thing happened to my wife.

She has always been really thin, and with me being a runner, she thought about training for a marathon.

Anyway, I got her running, and trained her through a marathon. She ran fast, qualified for Boston.

Problem is that she just gained about 10 pounds over the course of events and she is blaming it on me.

Her diet is pretty good, so I am not sure why the running is causing her to gain weight.

She is still currently running like 40-50 miles a week, and has yet to drop the 10 pounds.

Any ideas?

Now she wants to start taking diet pills.

"Could she have some sort of deficiency or imbalance that would cause this?"

Yes, dating you...freak!

1000 calories IS starving herself, you idiot.

Not when she was only eating 300. You work with what you have.

Could be water weight gain. Make sure she's drinking enough water and isn't dehydrated.

Depending on her weight if exercising. She really shouldn't go below 1600 cal at the very lowest. Female bodies want to have enough for normal female body activities like producing babies and such. The body is amazing at avoiding getting too low. They won't ignore that so someone can look hot in jeans. If you eat too little, metabolism drops down to adjust to the low food intake. Tell her eat more so she has more energy to work out and live a life that doesn't revolve around starving

To the girlfriends/wives/women in general out there -Muscle is more dense than fat! What this means for the everyday person is to pay less attention to total weight and more attention to things like body fat percentage and even easier than that is how are clothes fitting. When you workout you gain muscle. Even with added weight your clothes will fit the same or be even looser when you are toned and fit vs. when you're not. For you guys keep telling those ladies in your life how great they look and how sexy those toned bodies they have now look. To the original poster - only taking in 1000 calories, starving herself to lose weight sounds to me like an eating disorder. If you realy care about her you'll help her get over that - you can't make her get help though, just be there for her and get her to do whatever you can.

I value my life. I don't think telling her to eat more would be a good idea

could be a testosterone hike

There really is a simple answer. Protein shots! Yes, protein shots. About a table spoon at a time. Given at your discretion. Not many calories. May not help her much, but you will feel a lot better. Plus while you are giving her the shot she will not be able to complain.

Got any pictures? I need to see pictures of her.

1000 calories a day is f***ed up; I doubt anyone is going to maintain a normal weight on that one way or another.

Yes pictures. We need pictures to accurately assess the problem.

She could be eating food that simply doesn't agree with her system. Read Eat Right 4 Your Type and it'll help her figure out which foods to avoid that will make her gain weight.

HTH

Notorious1 wrote:

Not when she was only eating 300. You work with what you have.

Well there's your problem right there. If she spent too long eating only 300 calories a day (seriously??), then her metabolsim will've almost come to a standstill. So, even now at 1000 calories a day (plus some exercise) is going to cause her to gain some weight.

300 calories a day is ridiculous (even 1000 is too, I'd say), so if she seriously wants to be 'healthy' she'll just have to weather this storm until her metabolism gets back to normal

Also, not that it makes much differnece, but you've referred to her as both your girlfriend and your wife. Which is it?

She needs to see a dietician and a shrink.

If she is really truely only eating 1000 calories and gaining weight, she probably has some sort of issue with her thyroid. The crap about metabolisms slowing down is true- to a point- but she should not be gaining weight on the sort of diet you say she has.

Also, if you value your girlfriend's health, you have got to recognize that those sorts of habits go beyond unhealthy. It isn't good for her, and it isn't good for you either (is she a bitch a lot of the time?? Could be 'cause she's hungry!) You should not be "helping" her with her diet. Get her to a professional!!

I just had to answer this, being a woman runner who gained weight over the years. It's terribly frustrating to run/jog/workout for hours and see your weight going up. Eating a pretty good diet just doesn't work for some women and it doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with you - just bodies changing and basically not a great metabolism.

So when I got up to 20 pounds more than I wanted to weigh, I did Weight Watchers online and started to realize what it took to eat well and take the weight back off.

Counting calories doesn't matter. A 1000 calorie diet can be have too much fat and too little fiber so the weight can keep mounting.

A 1000 calorie diet with lots of veggies (no fat - lots of fiber), lots of fruit (SAME - no fat - lots of fiber), lean protein, and easy on the carbs can maintain weight.

Throw in some running and other exercise and voila, the weight comes off.

That's the secret of Weight Watchers and counting points.

Some women need to do this for a lifetime. My 20 pounds has been off for 6 months or more - but I plan on eating like this forever.

Eat more - YES, but eat more fruits and veggies. I wish that they had taught me this in school so that I didn't have to struggle with this for years.

Thanks to everyone