help!!! why am i gaining weight?
832326
You must have lost alot of water weight. First, do not take drugs like xenical they can cause hypertension, stroke, and congestive heart failure. Second, you need to just exercise and eat wisely and you can lose weight.
890331
You are attractive and will always be. That's not the real problem.\n\nYou're not horribly overweight yet, but at this rate, you will be soon. \nAddicted to food that makes you gain that much weight is something you need to talk to your doctor about. If it's not emotional, it could be medical.
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Don't forget that muscle weighs more than fat, so you may be gaining muscle tone, in which case, looking at the scale is not going to help you gauge your progress.\n\nOr, if you aren't gaining any muscle, you may have a thyroid problem.  Sometimes, a person's thyroid can not produce the hormones necessary to aid in weight loss.\n\nAlso, before you see a doctor, how long have you been working out?  Some people have unrealistic expectations for how quickly they will lose weight.  It can take two weeks or more to see a difference at all, even if your friends did the same thing and lost weight more quickly than that.  Everyone has a different body with a different metabolism.\n\nWell, take all that into consideration, and if ya don't like it and you're doing everything right, see a doc.\n\nGood luck!
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Sorry about that.... I know how you feel. I know someone who started gaining alot of weight due to a health problem and being on certain medications, a lot of people don't understand that. I was told that eating very small portions throught out the day rather than the 3 suggested meals might help boost your metabolism but make sure it's healthy eating and no junk food. Try some Cardios, walking, light jogs....etc whenever you can. Hope this helps...
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Ask your doctor to give you a referral to a Dietician.  They will give you a specialized diet plan to help you gain weight the proper way. Make sure you eat 3 good meals a day and 3 good snacks in between.  Junk food will put weight on you but not the kind you need!
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It is a fact that most of your body structure is based from your Genes. I'm 36 and have a hard time managing my weight. But this should not keep you from trying. Try changing your exercise program by doing different exercises or stepping up past your current level. Working more muscles burns more fat. I get good results from doing this and it really helps me. Don't confuse your weight gain with building muscle. It adds weight too. Try doing body measurements with a measuring tape or calipers available at most sporting good stores. This will help you see your results and track your true progression. And if this helps I do recall China saying in her book how she was overweight when she was younger, now look at her. Been in Playboy, TV etc. etc. But the one thing she didn't do was give up.
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To increase your weight you can eat lots of healthy snacks throughout the day and also workout 2x -3x per week doing strength training. I would recommend high protein and high calories healthy snacks such as chicken minus skin, lean beef and turkey minus skin. Fit in some different kinds of nuts and peanut butter throughout the day with whole-wheat breads as well. \nYou can read healthy alternatives at www.caloriesperhour.com and they have a section on the forums where they talk about gaining weight =).\nI would also recommend talking to a doctor about your weight decrease as it might be something physical. \n\nGood luck to you!
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I am going to offer a different aspect to this. I am wondering if you gained a pound and wodnering why it happened? I may be wrong, but here goes. Your weight can fluctuate naturally due to things like water weight, and 1 pound in a day could be just that. Or if your scale is one that rounds, it may be not a full pound, but it rounded up to one.
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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. C
856391
You might not necessarily gain weight, but your body certainly becomes more "womanly" and "curvy" - you lose the little girl look.  I'm not sure why this happens.
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You don't HAVE to gain, but it's common to put on about 10 pounds.  It's not because you quit that you gain, it's usually because you feel the need to have something in your mouth!  Try having a lot of low-cal snacks around, like carrot sticks and celery.  You'll be fine.  Congratulations for quitting!
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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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When you first start to exercise your body will hold water.  Water will increase your weight.  To alleviate this try to watch your salt intake.  Just decrease your salt but you need some salt for your body to perform certain functions.  Just decrease your salt intake.  Another thing is you are putting on muscle this will also increase your weight.  Don't go by how much you weigh, as much as how you look and feel.  If you can't fit into you clothes than perhaps you should reaccess your diet and exercise routine.  If you still fit in your clothes than your added weight might just be attributed to you putting on extra muscle.  I hope this helps.  Take care and good luck.
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If you eat more calories than you burn each day, you will gain weight. It doesn't matter whether the calories come from junk food or salad. Either you are eating too much or not exercising enough.
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It's a normal mechanism in your body. In cold, your body needs more calories to burn to generate heat and keep you warm, so the brain told you to eat more. What you need is to watch what and how much you eat. And yes you will gain weight if you eat more than your body use. Maybe you haven't fell that now, but you will.
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just try eating more healthy stuff.DO NOT just eat crisps and chocolate and sweets as an easy way to gain weight, as these will make you overweight and give you diseases such as diabetes. just eat more breads and pastas, but remember to keep eating your vegetables and keep exercising. ♥b♥
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He will check to see if your weight problem is medically related? (i.e. thyroid or something else) a medicine you are taking? menopause (if that is your age? In other words, he/she will first determine that your weight gain is not caused by a medical problem. \n\nOnce they determine it is not; then they will discuss diffrent options with you (and it will depend on your insurance/personal needs/willpower - in other words it is TERRIBLY important that you be super honest with the doctor - prepare for that appointment by taking with you start an honest/down to earth log of your daily intake (don't count calories,etc...just write it down).  The log should include, at a minimum, date/time of day, what you eat/drink (how much) - snacks - candy - gum - smoke- exercise if you don't, then go ahead and write it down!  Doctor cannot discuss options with you on how to solve this problem if he doesn't understand your lifestyle.  \n\nOptions could be anything from: prescribing meds to help you reduce weight and watch you closely - especially if you are so overweight that it could lead to heart disease or diabetes.....if the overweight is not bad, then he would refer you to a Dietician and/or nutritionist and recommend increased activity --- starting you off slow and easy -- maybe even low impact, like pool aerobics, walking, etc.\n\nYou are wise to want to go to the doctor to help you.  Weight gain is not just because of lifestyle...so need to know it isn't something else.