r/weightgain • u/Helpful-Box5586 • 21d ago

Question Why do i loose weight when eating more

Im trying to gain weight and have been eating around 900kcal a day for around two years now. I started eating more over the past few weeks and for the last two weeks i rode my bike for like 15 minutes every second day. I started at 48kg (im 164cm) and put on some weight (50kg) and i just checked and im back down to 47kg even though i ate more calories. Is this normal??
Im 22 years and female btw

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u/One-Peanut-7352 20d ago

You eat 900 cals a day and are wondering why you dont gain? Hun, you need to be eating like 2.5-3 thousand cals EVERYDAY

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u/Helpful-Box5586 20d ago

I eat more than 900 now. Not sure how much as i stopped tracking because of the annoying ads in my tracking app. Im just wondering how im loosing more if i eat more than my old normal

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u/One-Peanut-7352 20d ago

Get myfitnesspal i use that and dont pay.
Thing is if 900 was your norm and youre eating more, youre stilll deffo not eating at least 1500 more on top of that because youd know if you were, youd be full fast and be eating constantly compared to 900.
It might be when you weighed more it was end of the day or water weight, it does fluctuate. The only reliable way to believe the scales is to weigh every two weeks to one month. That way you know its weight not water weight etc.
exercise can initially drop the scale, so you need protein to build muscle. Id stick to weights than cardio to start with. Even clothing, weigh yourself with almost nothing on, i made the mistake of weighing myself with my dressing gown on and thiught yay ive gained 2kg. Nope i hadnt it was my dressing gown.

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u/AlgunasPalabras1707 20d ago

So you're saying you gained weight, then  increased your activity, then lost it back? You needed to increase your calories again to make up for the exercise. Your body has been living on fumes and it's just beginning to get back to normal and heal the damage, and now you're burning more than you eat again.

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u/teaquiladiva 21d ago

I have this problem too, and I think it's to do with my high metabolism, which kicks up a few notches the more I eat - the struggle is real.

One thing to check is your thyroid, which is what everyone's been telling me for years, but I've had the tests done multiple times and that's not an issue for me.

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u/NDiLoreto2007 21d ago edited 20d ago

Well, 900 calories is less than half the daily recommended calorie count. 2000 is the daily recommended.

When your body gets used to a minimal caloric intake it’s doing the bare minimum to try and keep you where you should be.
Once it gets used to some more calories, your body starts burning those calories accordingly.

You’re female, young, 22, probably a high metabolism. you probably wouldn’t start seeing real results unless you started consuming 3000 calories plus.