Does this make sense to anybody? I think my body is weird!

When I was in football I lost about 15 pounds and thought, "Hey this is great, I should try and lose some more."

Football had ended and I started my diet. I was consuming about 1500 a day and lost about another 6 pounds the first week(obv its water weight). The next two weeks I consumed about 1500 calories each day and the scale said I gained 5 pounds!

I got pissed and basically ate whatever I wanted the next week(probably around 2500-2800 a day)! I weighed myself this morning and it said I lost 7 pounds!

Ya, I don't understand it. When I diet I don't lose and when I eat whatever I want im losing now? Hmm.....hope it keeps coming off!

I'm 6'2 250 if that matters! If anybody could give me an explanation that would be great! (I haven't been doing any cardio just lifting 3-5 times a week like a normally do).

for your size and level of activity - 1500 calories is really low... but that's not what you're asking

Without knowing exactly what you ate - it's tough to give an answer

Weight fluctuates - sometimes it's water retention- -when you were at lower calories, you might have had more processed foods, which have higher l evels of sodium and could have led to water retention - at the higher calories, it might have been more whole foods, fresh foods andnatural stuff that your body is better equipped to deal with and can use...

7lbs in one week is abig drop, that woudl tell me it'sa lot of water weight that is lost...

Soo how many calories would you say I should be consuming to lose weight? I know there are websites etc but what do you think?

there are all sorts of formulas, most of which can be found on this site... and honestly every body is different - but I know what works for me is staying around 12 calories per pound... I also inadvertently spent some time figuring out my maintenance calories -which is a very helpful number to have -once you know what it takes to maintain your current weight, the it's really as simple as dropping those calories to lose weight... (I really sounded like I knew what I was talking about there didn't I

Maintenance for me is about 14 calories per pound - the average person is about 15 calories - but a very active person (like one who's got regular football practice and might even be subjected to 2 and 3 a day practices) that might go higher... but since those practices are done you'd adjust accordingly.

so - long answer to your question -I'd start with about 13 calories per pound and adjust up or down accordingly so you're losing about 1 percent of your body weight a week.

Just be careful as to what those calories consist of. Obviously 100 calories of high sugar carbs will affect you differently than say 100 calories of low fat protein. did you say you were eating 1500 calories per day and didn't lose weight, and that you weigh about 250? Holy smoke brother, no wonder. Base level maintenance at 250 lbs, you should be eating 3000-3500 calories per day. At 1500 you won't lose weight because you are completely starving your body and it will hang onto fat. You will have to eat more to lose. That is why when you eat at 2500 you are noticing a difference. In your shoes, I wouldn't run any more than 1000 calorie per day deficit, maybe only 500. Additionally, you need to eat throughout the day, maybe 6 times, 500 calories at a time. This is important to keep your metabolism humming especially since you aren't playing football right now. just my 2 cents.

Wrong. See the many posts / stickies all over this forum about that.

It's all about Calories in vs Calories out. As a person who is 6'2 and 314 (today's weight), and who exercises regularly, and plays lots of sports, I'm going to tell you that your weight is going to fluctuate a ton at your size, especially if you are going through 2 hour football practices with pads. Weighing yourself at the same time of the day (early morning before going to the bathroom, and before eating) will help cut down on that fluctuation. I know that I personally have measured an 11 pound loss during a two hour wrestling practice.

My $.02 is don't go with what you weighed at the end of football. Step on an accurate scale now (and use the same scale) that you've either zero'd or have seen someone else zero, and then weigh yourself. Get back on your diet (maybe not down to 1500 cal, but a diet), get in some exercise, and try that for a week or two.

It is a scientific fact that all calories are not created equal. We should avoid all packaged meals, junk food, soda, cold drinks, commercially available fruit juices, sports drinks, candy bars, alcohol and tobacco smoke totally.

We should eat all fruits and veggies, fresh juices of the same, edible seeds, all nuts, legumes, raw honey, molasses, shellfish, wild fish, fish oil capsules or emulsion, range fed brown eggs. These foods are our natural foods and to be even healthier for us they must be organically grown and freshly cultivated.

You can consume brown rice, whole grain bread and cereals in moderate quantity. You absolutely must drink a gallon of water every day for greater fat burning effect.

If you keep on exercising and eating naturally like this, you will see results inevitably and quickly.

You can go for a cheat day in dieting and eat your favorite fat rich foods once in 15 days or a month. This often helps in greater fat burning.

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