Can anyone please tell me how on Earth this could be?

[Diditopknot]

I’m on the Cambridge diet, just one bar a day.
Iost 2lbs week one..brilliant!
Week 2 weigh day is today , but I did a sneaky weigh in yesterday as my clothes are feeling a bit looser and I have stuck to it, great, another 3lbs gone. That was last night. Ate nothing, had a bath went to bed…
Tonight I weighed myself.
6lbs ON.

Today I have eaten x1 weetabix with almond milk at breakfast, 5.30 this morning.
12.30 I had x1 Cambridge bar. Just got in from work so hopped on the scales… 6lbs ON. ON.
How the fuck can I have eaten so little and witching 24 hours put on 6lbs???

I think I’ve got IBS as I’ve been to the loo twice today.
Had 2 cups of black decaf coffee and 1 litre of water.

I’m perimeno, cannot move any weight even though I stick to less than 800 calories a day,

Gutted, absolutely gutted.

@Frederica852 that’s a lot of water. I’m going to try it to see if it helps.

This is in combination with massively reducing sugar / carbs which is what sets off our blood sugar rollercoaster that drives a lot of our hunger / cravings.

Is the plan to only eat 1 of these bars a day forever? What will happen when you eat food again? It doesn't sound sustainable.

Listen to "the obesity code" it will change the way you look at food.

I always weigh myself first thing, my weight is drastically different in the afternoon/evening. You should weigh yourself at the same time each day.

Surely, if you've put on 6 pounds overnight, you may well lose it tonight?! Why not chill out a little and weigh yourself again in a few days.

Really what you need to do is just eat a healthy, lowish calorie diet over a long term and lose a pound a week, slowly, slowly. That way you'll stick to it and the weight will stay off.

@Marcipex

I don’t understand the eating too little thing.

People in interment camps with hardly any food did not all stay the same weight. They became very thin.

Yes, they were chronically starved. That is something you cannot replicate willingly when you have free access to food. Starvation has been shown to lead to overeating and obsessing with food when you are no longer being starved. So, yes, you can indeed starve yourself for as long as you can stand it, but you are statistically very unlikely to maintain the weight you have reached once you stop starving yourself.

If I go above 1000 cals a day, I gain between 2-4lbs a week

Speak to your doctor. You need to eat 1000 calories a day more than your total energy expenditure to gain 2lb of anything but water.

And eat real food instead of expensive processed crap.

Yeah, 1 bar at lunch every day with about 1 litre of fluid.
Typical food each day…
1 weetabix with milled linseed (about 1/2 tspoon) soya milk for breakfast.
100g wholewheat pasta, tomato based sauce with loads of veg (broccoli, red onion, sweet corn, peppers for tea. I’ve started to Chuck in a handful of fresh spinach too. (I’m giving blood in 2 weeks so like to up my green leafy veg leading up to it)

A multivitamin too each day.

Sorry, re the op, you probably haven't lost or gained that much in such a short space of time. You lose a tonne of water when you really crash diet. A lot of water is found in muscle, which you lose quickly if you seriously restrict calories. This is why you lose a lot of weight in a short space of time. But, muscle wastage is already happening when you are menopausal. It is one of the reasons our metabolisms slow down, because our muscle mass to body weight ratio is lower.

Honestly, you won't succeed longterm by just cutting calories more and more.

I'd take it slightly easier and maybe try a differed approach, but you do you etc

I try to eat all wholewheat, breads, pastas and stick to 100g for portion control.
Only 2 slices of bread only or avoid if possible.

God I would be so hangry if I ate so little. I have lost 18lb since November on WW and I eat loads. I am 59 and so I know it's not easy but I don't understand what eating bars and shakes does to help your body understand what proper nutrition is and allow it to function as it should.

I agree. Surely you are not going to eat like this for the rest of your life OP? I am 62 and find it no harder to lose weight now than I ever did, without going to such extremes. I think the statement in one of your posts "I’ve been on diets all my adult life" interesting. Why do you think this one is going to be any different?

I feel your pain. Absolutely starving myself to lose 5lbs in a month. Then all back on in one weekend.

And on a litre of water, 2 cups of coffee, a snack bar and a weetabix, you haven't even consumed 6lb in weight of food and drink.

@BanjoString

Have a 15 hour break between at least one meal (Including sleeping). I’m just about my lightest weight ever at 49.

Do you calorie count ? I usually eat between 1-6 ish. And low calorie but never lose. Also peri / meno

Simple problem is you're not weighing yourself at consistent times vs eating so you don't have a reliable dataset to compare.

That was last night. Ate nothing, had a bath went to bed…
Tonight I weighed myself.
6lbs ON.
You will have eaten and drunk 6lbs worth in a day quite easily...

Today I have eaten x1 weetabix with almond milk at breakfast, 5.30 this morning. = 1lb easily
12.30 I had x1 Cambridge bar. Just got in from work so hopped on the scales… 6lbs ON. ON.

Had 2 cups of black decaf coffee and 1 litre of water. = 2.5kg easily
=6lbs, that's from just what you've said here - another glass of water, other liquid, different clothes whatever will impact.

You need to stop obsessing about minute changes and at least if you're going to weigh daily weigh consistently which means after waking up and after going to the loo. Not at other times.

You don't mention exercise. How much exercise are you doing, OP? If you're extremely sedentary you won't be burning much off.

I know!!!
My tummy is bloated, I’ve got horrible ovulation pains, javelin arse, and horrendous explosive bowels today…
All hormone driven probably.

Pffftt..

@WeeFae

Is the plan to only eat 1 of these bars a day forever? What will happen when you eat food again? It doesn't sound sustainable.

It's food as well.

@FailureToLurk

Your going to enter starvation/storage mode.

You are best off sticking to about 600 -800 calories of carbs, procecessed food and protein. And then just eating loads and loads of broccoli, cucumber, grapes, salad vegetables. Cabbage, melon and all other basically water based/low calorie fruit and veg.

You have to feed your body not starve it to loose weight, but you must feed it healthy things.

Dear God there is no such thing as “starvation mode!”

Why does this shite continue to be peddled?

OP the answer is to never, ever, weigh yourself in the evening. Only ever first thing in the morning.

I agree with you about the perimeno weight loss challenge. Impossible to lose any weight. Same boat.

I would give it up now. It's not working.

Honestly - agree with some other pp, you must only weigh yourself first thing in the morning before your eat anything for the day. That is the only way you can actually get an accurate weight to compare week by week. Weighing in the evening will never be accurate and will only put you off - as you are experiencing.

Try to do 15,000 steps a day… I’m office based so get up often and March around.

Do you do anything to build muscle? Like strength training, weights, yoga, whatever?