Well,  I am trying to watch how I eat (which is actualy pretty stupid considering I only weigh 88 lbs. but I can't talk myself out of it).  Each time before I eat something I check the calories and then I add them all up.  But then I don't know how much I will burn off that day so I can't figure out if I'm going to loose or gain weight.
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use calorie counter at www.caloriesperhour.com  It will depend on your sex, age, height, weight, BMI, amount of muscle you have. excersice and diet.
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Some of us have that problem of gaining weight, and others have trouble loosing. It certianly has little to do with how much you eat, though a doc friend has told me the amount of times I eat and what times I eat. Finaly I have gained weight, my wife too.
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If u exercise and eat more healthy u will realize how much weight that shouldnt be on u.Itt doesnt mean yer fat or anything,It just means u can be at healthier body weight.I love food too ,i have a difficult time putting it down.I used to be able to eat watever i want and weigh like 120lbs,but now its starting to catch up to mee,and its goin to do the same to you.Youll gradually start putting on weight,and then realize yer gettin fat.And yer goin to be so mad at yer self and regret all the eating u did.I regret it too thats y im starting to diet and exercise .On a diet u can still eat alot u just need to eat larger portions of healthier food,not junk food.But it still doesnt mean u can overeat either with healthy food.U can just eat more healthier foood beacuse it has less calories so u neeed to eat more to get the calories u need.And since yer eating more food it will fill u up more unlike unhealthy food u can only eat small portions of.Un healthy food taste good but it will not be worth it in the end.It makes u tired and unalert.THink about and do wat is best for yer body.
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Are you looking to lose weight? If so, I would highly advise against it. If you are that little and still wanting to lose weight, it sounds like you may have an eating disorder. Now at your current weight and activity level, I would say you could easily consume 2500 calories a day. You should consume at least 2000 to be healthy since you are not looking to lose weight (hopefully) and are very active. To lose much more weight and you put your health and life at risk.
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I had to have my own "wake up" call before I started doing my stuff on a daily/weekly basis.  For me, it was seeing my boyfriend's mother (former model) look better than me on a vacation in California.  I turned on FitTv, and started exercising with Gilad. But what I'm trying to say is, you need to have that moment of clarity where you realize that you're not going to lose weight by wishing it away.  You have to exercise consistently for results.  I feel SO much better about my life and I've gone from 162 to 142 and still going.  I'm no longer hating my life, jealous or insecure, and I feel like I have so much more energy.  It's easier to say no to bad foods when you're seeing results.  \n\nI keep a daily journal on my-calorie-counter.com to track what I've eaten and what activities I've done.  The fact that I have to see everything added up keeps me good.  Here is mine for an example:  http://www.my-calorie-counter.com/Profile.asp?UserId=cosmosmariner\n\nGood luck!  I promise that eating better ... common sense ... will help!
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It sounds like you've burned much more than you ate! Remember that everyday you have a "basal metabolic rate" which is the number of calories your body automatically burns just to keep you alive, which will fall somewhere between 1200 - 3000 calories per day depending on your gender, your size, and your activity level. \n\nIt sounds like you're on the right track for weight loss. Good luck!\n\n:-)
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You don't mention your height or current weight, but my guess is you may not be eating enough for your body.  You could be going into starvation mode where your body will hold on to every single calorie, every single ounce.  I would suggest you shake it up a bit.  Try eating a bit more one day, exercising less another or skipping the exercise altogether for a day.  Change the types of foods you eat.  See if that helps you.  You could also talk to your doctor who'd be able to let you know more specifically why you're not losing.
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I say enjoy it while it lasts, but either weight gain or weight loss is truly all math.  If you intake more calories than you expend, you will gain weight.  If you expend more calories than you intake, you will lose weight.  If the two are relatively equal (since the chance of them being perfectly equal is very remote), you will maintain your weight.\n\nThe problem is that caloric expenditure is nearly impossible, if not impossible, to define.  Caloric intake, however, is not.\n\nTherefore, the best thing to do is the exact same thing that heavier people who are trying to lose weight should be doing:  write everything you eat, including the caloric value, down.\n\nWeight changes are more about what you do over time than immediately, so my suggestion is that if you eat about 3,000 calories per day for a week and don't gain any weight, try 3,500 each day the next week and so on.\n\nAs for what to eat, I would still suggest relatively low fat (with fat calories being 10%-20% of total caloric intake), staying away from sugar, and eating whole foods (whole wheat, etc), lean proteins, vegetables, and fruits.  Remember to drink at least 64 ounces of water per day!
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don't bother with Calorie counting, it just doesn't work, you'll lose weight but it is hard if not impossible to stick to.\n\njust eat the same as you are at the moment but absolutely no snacking between meals  it wont be instant but it will work and it will be a whole lot easier than counting every calorie that you put in your mouth
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How To Gain Weight \n\n\n\nThis one seems like a no-brainer, eh? How do you gain weight? You eat. You cannot gain weight without eating... in the exact opposite of losing weight, actually, you cannot gain weight without consuming more calories than you burn off. \n\nThe bigger question, in our weight-loss worshipping world, is why would you want to gain weight? Fact is that sometimes we become too thin, dangerously so, to the point where we begin to suffer all these negative side effects and eventually death. Sometimes gaining weight is a pretty attractive option by comparison. Being at a healthy weight helps every system of our body function better, allows us to heal from damage, and gives us reserves as protection against stress or illness as well. \n\nThe tougher part of weight-gain is how to do it in a healthy manner. Just as rapid weight-loss can be dangerous, so can rapid weight gain. Many EDs who go through rapid recovery end up with too high a bodyfat percentage, too much fat stored around their internal organs, compromised health, and high cholesterol. This is in part because traditional anorexic "recovery" diets are aimed at bulking up the patient as quickly as possible by fat-loading everything they eat with no thought for the health quality of the food being given. \n\nIt's safer to aim for a gain of one or two pounds a week so as to not put undue stress on your recovering system and to know that you're rebuilding bone, muscle, and nutrient stores instead of just frantically storing fat. It's more important to restore your body's protein, elemental, vitamin, water, fat and sugar balances than to simply send the numbers on the scale up. Once you do this, given sufficient raw materials your body will rebuild itself more strongly. \n\n\n \nIn The Beginning\n\nIf you're deciding to gain weight, odds are it's because you're underweight. If you're underweight, barring a purely illness-related weight-loss problem which should really be addressed by a doctor instead, you have probably not been eating enough. If you haven't been eating enough for a while, your digestive system will need to be retrained. Same goes for extended or extensive purging... it screws with your entire system, and there will need to be plenty of time devoted to patience and healing. \n\nExtended periods of time with insufficient solid food intake causes your entire digestive system to slow down and lose efficiency. Amounts of digestive chemicals in production may drop, and the tiny fingerlike cilia that absorb foods in your small intestine may become paralyzed or die off. The peristaltic muscles that move food through your system may weaken or atrophy. Large meals or a lot of food at once may confuse your stomach and intestines to the point where they cramp up and have trouble remembering what to do at all. All this will need to be repaired slowly, given time to reaccustom itself to the concept of processing and utilizing food again. \n\nStart with liquids. Rehydration is extremely important, since without food our overall water content drops significantly, and the digestive process requires a great deal of water. In the first few days of refeeding you may notice a sudden gain of several pounds... this is most likely, if you're doing everything right, your water balance trying to straighten itself out. You may feel bloated for a while as this happens and it's extremely important that you allow it to take care of itself and do not try to correct it with diuretics; limiting caffeine, which acts as a diuretic, may be a good idea here. Potassium can also act as a mild diuretic but do not try to limit that, as it's an important electrolyte and part of rehydration is bringing your electrolytes back up to a good strong level. You may benefit more from drinking water and juice between meals, instead of with meals, as liquids during meals can make your stomach feel fuller and may slow digestion a bit.
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You are not eating enough calories.  Using the numbers you provided in your question, I calculated your BMR & RMR and this is what I got:\n\nThe results of your calculations are:  BMR 2,262   RMR 2,071 \nFor an explanation of BMR and RMR and important notes on the accuracy of these calculations, please see our FAQ entitled, What do BMR and RMR stand for? While BMR is much more widely used than RMR, our FAQ explains why RMR is likely to be more appropriate for your needs. \nAs BMR and RMR only represent resting energy expenditure or calories burned during a day of rest, an adjustment must be made to reflect activity level. This can be done by multiplying your BMR and RMR by an activity factor: \nFactor     Category         BMR       RMR   \n1.2         Bed Rest       2,714     2,485 \n1.3         Sedentary      2,941     2,692 \n1.4         Active         3,167     2,899 \n1.5         Very Active    3,393     3,107 \n \nAs you can see, you aren't even eating enough calories to support bed rest.  Your body is in starvation mode and holding onto every calorie that you eat.\n\nGradually increase your calorie intake.  Eat smaller meals more frequently.  And, yes, add weight training.  \n\nSee the links in the source for some more info about BMR and RMR.
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definetly talke to your doctor.. there are several different kinds but u do not want any other adverse affects from anything else u already take... i have lost 50 lbs since june from counting calories.. i had tried the carb diets and everything else.. but the basic calorie count is what is working.. my doctor told me how many i could have a day... and it is great i do not deprive myself of anything... i just make better choices.. but if i want a candy bar or a cookie i have it.. i just know i have 2 count those calories and i decide if i really want it that bad that day... sometimes i do sometimes i dont... good luck
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i feel that losing 2-3 lbs. each week is a healthy range. if you are overweight, it is easier the first week when you do it, you will lose more weight that week than any other week. \na plan that worked for me was: \n\nfind your daily caloric intake(how many calories you should consume depending on your height and weight) \n\nrecord everything you eat and how many calories it has in it\n\nif you excersize, record how many calories you burned\n\nat the end of the day, subtract the calories that you ate from your daily caloric intake, and add how many you burned to the difference. for ex: if my daily caloric intake was 1800, and i ate 1500, so i burned 300. then say i burned 250 from excersizing. i would add that to the 300, which gives me 550. \n\nthat will tell you how many calories your body burned that day.\n\nyou should be aiming for burning 500 calories each day.\n\nalso drink a lot of water.\n\nyou might not lose as much as you want, but if you stick to it, it will keep working.\n\nhope this helps!
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OMG! !! That is what you ate today? PIZZA AND NOODLES??? I would gain weight SO SUPER FAST if I ate like that!!! I used to weight alot but I lost 54 lbs by changing my diet!  In two and a half pizza's, there are probably OVER 3000 calories...okay...im going to take a breath...let's see...there are 270 calories in ONE SLICE and their are 8 slices in a pizza...you had two and a half, that is 8+8+4=20 slices...that is 20slicesx270cal= *heart attack* OMG it's 5400 calories okay okay...maybe you mean 2 and a half slices..hopefully you do that is only 675 calories...but if you really did eat two and a half FULL pizzas and they were ONLY cheese mediums, then that is 5400 calories.......and guess what...there are 3500 calories in a pound.  Read my article on calorie conservation here http://www.healthandstrength.net/qofweek.htm and you can check out my before and after pic here http://www.healthandstrength.net\nIf you ran on the treadmill for 45 minutes and burned 500 calories...it would take you 10 WHOLE days JUST to burn off that pizza...imagine if you didnt eat all that pizza and burned 5400 calories! That is about a pound and a half.\nPLEASE EAT MORE VEGGIES!!! Did you know that going more than 3.5 hours without eating anything puts your body into starvation mode and everything is stored as fat?! Thats why they say to eat 5-6 small meals a day all consisiting of healthy veggies and lean proteins.  I would get sick for a week if I ate what you did!  (I can't imagine ever eating 20 slices!!! you should have entered a contest)
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You're leaving something out.  You're not being honest with yourself.  The bottom line is that if you burn more calories than you eat, you will lose weight.  If you're not losing weight, you're eating too much and not getting enough exercise.
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you wanna lose weight? exercise a little more (expend calories) than you are taking in (eating). It really makes no difference what you eat...calories are calories. I could eat d*o*g*s*h*i*t* and gain weight if I ate enough of it. Also- keep in mind if you "starve" yourself...your body will go into sort of a "survival" mode and start burning far fewer calories. I swim, bike, run, lift weights, and box. I eat whatever I want...but in an amount that is not more than what i burn off. Give it a try. Increase the amount of exercise you do...keep your eating the same. See what happens. (I'll just tell ya what happens: you'll lose weight. Its impossible not to)\nGood luck.
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Y'know... when i hear people doing these walks i say "go for it".  It's MUCH BETTER than staying in to be sucked dry in front of your tv, so if it's either that or nothing, go with the walk.  It's still HEALTHY for you :)  However, if you do want to lose weight, gotta watch what you eat.  View food not as "for fun eating", but see it as energy that you either use or store and try to use most of that energy... eh, it works for me hehe :p One thing to not forget NEVER STOP EATING.... got that? dont do the whole "less eating" thing, it's bad and will cause your body to store a bit more energy since you're not getting enough to sustain your body.  You will also want to eat more *since you're burning a lot more when you DO exercise* so when you get the 'munchies' and you're working out, it's perfectly normal -JUST KEEP IT HEALTHY :)