Hey howdy all, this may tap into some potential eating disorder issues so warning that here, as friends have told me my issues are tip-toeing into that field. I also mention what I'm told is starving myself.
Background on me with weightloss, in case it helps you guys figure out where I am atm and how to fix this. Skip if you don't want to deal with my life story. :
So when most people gain the college 20, I gained the college 50. Had a parent who gave me whatever I asked for supper and I was in a lot of bad social environments and I was eating my loneliness. I was 17, 6 foot 1, and weighed 220lbs(should also mention, male.) There was never a time before that where I felt like I wasn't super obese despite being a stick a lot of the time.
Fast forward to a few years later, I'm almost 280 pounds and cry every time I go jean shopping. A lot of comically bad life things happen and I start to unintentionally eat less. This is also largely attributed to a keto diet I was on for about a year at time. I'm able to drop down to 230ish and then some bad relationships push me into eating way less than my caloric needs, I suddenly gain weight (20 pounds) and start to have some uncozy medical issues that I'm told alongside the weight gain is a result of starving myself by my few friends who have dealt with starvation. This was when I was taught my body actually had a maintainable minimum calorie intake and I should eat it instead of just continually eating less to lose weight. No health class has ever taught me this and I am flabbergasted.
Every internet calculator tells me I should be eating 3000 Calories daily which sounds downright insane but fine. I go about 2000-2500 for several months and weirdly enough don't gain weight but instead steadily lose a few pounds.
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Q: Can stress cause a massive weight gain if I'm undergoing crunch and how can I get back on track losing weight? And how am I gaining weight when I'm eating near my Calorie Needs??
After about 1-2 years of eating way below my recommended caloric intake I started to eat around 2000-2500ish calories. I'm male, 23, 6'1 and 258ish pounds.
I was steadily dropping from the mid 250s to the high 240s then noticed a very sudden (over the course of a week) change in my body: my gut was too big to suck in and I have very noticible love handles that were not there before. I should so state I've just exited what felt like one of the worst 1-2 months of college in my life and a lot of nights had me either not sleeping to work on another exam or presentation. General anxiety keeps me up too. Can this cause weight gain that severe??
Every internet calculator recommends eating 500-1000 more calories to maintain my weight but I'm gaining it where I am now so how on earth could that work??
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