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Lost 4 lbs then gained 3 lbs since starting jogging, etc. What?

The Day Dreamer

The Day Dreamer

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So I averted to home cooked food(no rice and less sugar) and some fruits with excercise for over 50 days now.

Have been jogging since last 30 days.

What am I doing wrong?
 
How much running are you doing?
Fruit has a lot of sugar.

Either you are eating too many calories or you gained some muscle from working out your legs.
 
Unless you kept all other variables the same, it's impossible to tell.

Plus, depending how much you weigh, 3lb is a relatively small amount of weight to gain.
 
Are you weighing yourself every single day and forming weekly averages? If you just weighed yourself on t=0 then t=30 and were +3 pounds, that's pretty meaningless. You could have had to taken a dump, been holding extra water, etc.

It's literally impossible to eat at a caloric deficit for 30 days and have an average weight gain over that period of time.
 
An untrained individual has low glycogen stores. When you start training, the body increases the glycogen in the muscles that are getting worked. No doubt weight gain was due to the glycogen storage increase.
 
z1ggy said:
Are you weighing yourself every single day and forming weekly averages? If you just weighed yourself on t=0 then t=30 and were +3 pounds, that's pretty meaningless. You could have had to taken a dump, been holding extra water, etc.

It's literally impossible to eat at a caloric deficit for 30 days and have an average weight gain over that period of time.
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The weight different between morning after taking a dump and after lunch is 4.3 pounds.
 
The Day Dreamer said:
The weight different between morning after taking a dump and after lunch is 4.3 pounds.
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Well there ya go then.

Again, track ALL food for the 30 days so you know for 100% that you ate at a deficit the whole time. Weigh in daily, and form weekly averages. Weekly average for week 1 should be greater than week 4. Simple as that.

You can't find root cause if the data behind the process isn't accurate.
 
If you run any decent distance, you can see a difference in water weight due to inflammation in the muscle. You can also see your weight increase due to body composition changes as your leg muscles get larger and your fat stores decrease. If you get a body composition scale (they are a junk-science), they can give you an idea of your muscle weight/water weight/fat percentage.... Take a reading per day and write down the numbers.... Over time you should see them change as your fitness level changes. That's not to suggest those numbers are highly accurate, but they can be a guide to show you progress.
 
1km is not a lot of distance though. Calories burned is probably going to be 50-75 at the most.

Try to bump your distance up, slowly if you're very out of shape (which I sort of assume based on the current distance). Have a goal to run 2km/day a month from now, for example.

One thing that helps me when I'm dieting is to consider how much work it takes to burn off the calories. Look at a couple handfuls of potato chips as "damn, that's 2 or 3 hours of brisk running" and suddenly it doesn't look as appealing.
 
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