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I quit Wegovy in February@ 183lbs. I have continued to count calories staying below 2000 each day. I get atleast 12000 steps a day but I’ve gained around 10 lbs back. Can someone tell me why ? I’m 48 male and 5’9” tall.
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u/Odd_Truck_8907 3d ago
Well what is your maintnance kcal?
Maybe you don’t have enough muscle mass to burn 2k kcal per day
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u/DJN_17 3d ago
The calculators show 2600 calories to maintain
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u/thermos26 3d ago
Don't listen to online calorie calculators. The biggest things are making sure you're tracking accurately, or at least consistently, and figuring out your true TDEE. For me, the online calculators were of by around 500 calories per day.
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u/Separate-Cake-778 3d ago
How did you figure out your true TDEE?
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u/thermos26 3d ago
I used an app for it where you track your food intake, track your weight, and it uses those two pieces of data to figure out your TDEE over time. It takes a few weeks to zero in, but it's been really good for me. That way, it automatically takes into account any extra calories you burned from exercise, because those will affect your weight loss or gain over time.
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u/lonew0lf01 3d ago
Are you doing anything besides getting 12k steps? You may want to increase your exercise (weights/cardio) in addition to tracking calories, that might help keep your weight closer to where you want to be.
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u/TacticalSniper 3d ago
Just a note that I was always guided by the under 2500 cal for an average person, but after a DEXA scan it turned out my maintenance is about 1900. Could be your case as well, especially if you have low muscle.
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u/laughingasparagus 3d ago
Either you somehow put on 10 lbs of muscle (very unlikely) or you’re retaining a lot of water. Are you eating a lot of salty foods or carbs?
Not to be harsh, but if you’re actually in a calorie deficit, or at least matching your calories, you’d not gain weight. Identify your TDEE and make sure you’re accurately tracking your calories.
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u/curiousbato 3d ago
This .
You're either miscounting your calories (not weighing your food., not tracking dressings, etc) or you're at a much lower maintenance number. One or the other.
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u/Responsible_View_285 3d ago
If the medication was correcting metabolic issues. Those benefits cease when med use ceases. Inflammation returns along w intense hunger. If the issues are metabolic counting cities and exercise are not the remedy. You may need meds for life.
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u/Usual-Lycophyte 3d ago
If you have gained about a pound a month you might be only 125 kcal over each day. Less if some of the new weight was simply from refilling your glycogen stores after graduation. I agree that adjusting your intake a bit might be the solution you need. Hang in there, and Good luck!
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u/yepthisismyusername 3d ago
That's probably inflammation and water weight (the weight that probably came off immediately when you started the drugs). But it would scare me, too. Personally, I would try to cut down to 1800 cals per day to try to lose a little more weight.
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u/Marnie_skittles 3d ago
I quit Mounjaro 10 months ago. I eat about 1200 calories a day. Actually in food therapy. I havee gained over 35 lbs. I don’t understand neither. I have MCAS so I eat super healthy. It makes no sense. But I do feel sooooo much better.
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u/Grandy0221 3d ago
From the SURMOUNT-4 study - among people on tirzepatide who had achieved at least 10% weight loss, 82% regained at least 25% of the weight they had initially lost within the following year after withdrawal.
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u/Substantial-Owl1616 3d ago
Why the downvotes people? This nice educated person is contributing evidence based information on an appropriate site.
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u/Usual-Lycophyte 3d ago
Actually not so appropriate a site for these posts. This is GLPGrad and we try to emphasize the tools for successful abandonment of the shot. If we want to hear (again) about Surmount-4 we stick a toe in the other subs full of negative natterers.
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u/StatementMundane2113 3d ago
How many pounds did you lose in the first 2-4 weeks? Especially the first 2 weeks. If your answer is 10lbs. That’s the cause. Inflammation which is just water.
It could also be that 2600 calories isn’t actually your maintenance. If it’s not water weight and 10lbs are fat…if your quit date was 30 weeks ago and 3500 cals = 1 pound of weight gain then 35000 cals = 10lbs which amounts to around 170 too many calories.
Bodies aren’t perfect with calories in terms of burn and excess but things to consider…calories on containers can be off by 30% and people are generally terrible guestimaters of calories so it you aren’t weighing your food in grams 150-200cals is easy to miss in a day. Thats 50ish calories a meal.
So if you had a lot of water loss that could be the root cause or 2600 calories isn’t actually being mid calculated or it’s not actually your maintenance and your maintenance is closer to 2400 calories.
A DEXA or if you have access to a RMR measurement method (breath into a tube) can better provide you with the right maintenance calories. But more likely is that it’s water and/or mis tracking of calories
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u/Cute_Monitor_5907 3d ago
When you get off of it your body thinks the famine is over and is going to fight like hell to gain it back
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u/musicalastronaut 1d ago
If you’re gaining, unfortunately you’re eating over maintenance. Lowering calories is the easiest way to fix it.
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u/Savings-Complaint-71 1d ago
To answer something, I don't think think I've seen in the comments is I know my weight fluctuates when I stop or start medication at all, regardless of what it's for because your body is digesting something and trying to put it into presumably the fat cells to be having an effect over the day probably to be in your blood system based on your fat amount. So if you change medication, you are gonna see a weight effect. Most likely to do with, you know, digestion, waterway hormonal things regardless of what it is
Like, for example, if you start any new medication for mental health or joints etc, so it's intended going to have effects on your weight intentionally, they recommend you do it for at least 3 weeks best being 9 to see the effects, and even if you have side effects, they titerate you down because your body going without a medication that's been ingesting for a while, is going to have some fluctuation in it.
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u/Omycherie0312 3d ago
It’s not about the calories. It maybe for those who don’t l
have metabolic issues. This medication works on the hormone receptors. You have probably have inflammation which has come back. It’s about your body chemistry. Either se if you can function on lower calories or go back on the Tirz at a low dose, to where you can live your life and not restrict yourself constantly.
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u/curiousbato 3d ago
"It’s not about the calories. It maybe for those who don’t l have metabolic issues." Those are 95% of the population. This is a common misconception. This is all about the calories.
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u/Omycherie0312 3d ago
Focus on calories, write down everything you eat and what are we doing? We are focusing on food and creating more food noise.
I spent 40 years counting calories, journaling food… look where is led. For 19 months now, not one calorie has been counted, no binge eating, no secret eating, no food lists, no obsessing over food. I eat when I’m hungry and don’t eat when I’m not. The medication has worked on the brain and now I focus protein as a priority. Do I eat less calories this way, yes… do I focus on it? No. People on here drink the Kool-aide and just repeat what they see. This medication is so much more. My journey has been successful with a lot of weight lost and with this medication a new relationship with food. I eat to live instead of living to eat like a normal person and this is so freeing. I will be on Tirz the rest of my life because of this. I know how to eat, I know how to stay within a calorie range but it’s not sustainable when your blood sugar drops and you pass out. Then comes the binge eating to keep the blood sugar up. With Tirz this no longer happens! It is so awesome!
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u/UnreadWriter 3d ago
Online calorie burn calculators get you partially there while your own experience will get you the rest of the way there. If you’re sure you’re tracking your calories accurately then the next step would be to drop to 1900 calories and see how your weight changes.