Hi all!
For some context, I'm a 19-year-old sophomore in college. I have never been muscular at all and I used to be very overweight. Peak weight was like 210 lbs at 5'11" in my senior year of high school. I went from 6'/200 to 6'/163 in my freshman fall by fasting every other day (and eating <1500 calories on the on day) and spending a lot of time walking, jogging, playing aerobic sports, etc. 163 was a wall for me -- I started to eat more my freshman spring and finished that at around 178. I started to eat less again my sophomore fall, and now at the beginning of my sophomore winter, but my weight pretty much stagnated. This didn't really bother me -- I felt healthy and I wasn't aware of just how little I was actually eating.
Eleven days ago (in the morning) I was 6'1"/172 lbs. I decided to start lifting weights seriously after dabbling in it for a while after someone I met through a mutual friend very generously offered to be my personal trainer. He advised I bulk and cut and figured 3000 would be a good caloric surplus to start out with, but I have a personal and family history of relatively slow metabolism, and I want to cut some weight back too (still flabby), so I started aggressively calorie counting to 2000 figuring it was neither a surplus nor a deficit.
My lifestyle for the last two weeks has been:
--5x a week, 90 minutes of weightlifting, usually with 15 mins of medium intensity exercise bike at the beginning and sometimes 10 min cooldown after
--2x a week, 2 hours of table tennis (pretty aerobic and gets tiring haha)
--17.5k average steps a day and 9mi walking distance a day (Apple Health)
--Around 1800-2200 calories a day, very aggressively and accurately counted and including beverages. Basically as few calories as I can while still eating 120-150g of protein a day. Only a few bites of high-carb foods before and after workout/exercise. Much more than I'm used to eating, sometimes I can barely stomach it.
...this morning I was 176. I gained four pounds in two weeks. I ran the math and it seems almost a little impossible. If a pound is 3500 calories, then 4 is 14000 calories. If I'm burning 1000 active calories a day through exercise, that is 14000 calories in two weeks... do I have no resting metabolism??? Someone please tell me what the hell is wrong with me.
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