Subway salad - put on weight.

[Lemonbubbles]

I've been trying to lose a bit of weight recently for my holiday, nothing major, just cutting out treats and trying to be sensible.

Yesterday, with last minute running round with one thing and another - shopping, kids, car, pets vaccinations, pils and DH - I grabbed a salad from subway and that's all I ate.

I've put on a pound this morning! Aibu to think this just isn't fair?

the low-carb fans often insist that there are a huge number of health benefits to low-carb that are separate from its supposed ability to make calories not matter.

Low carb is the way we are naturally supposed to be as humans. It's what is prescribed to people on diabetes and after obesity surgery. We need to accept that our bodies have evolved in a way that made them dependent on meat (since this was accessible year round when fruit and veg were out of season and hard to get). We keep falling for the sugar lobbying lies and getting sicker as a whole. Stop starving yourself. If you really tried being 0 carb with just water you would lose weight, your skin would clear and you would be healthier. When people say they cant lose weight on low carb, they are actually still eating far too many carbs.

@kateandme you're spouting absolute rubbish. Rubbish invented to keep people fat.

You can get spinach and beetroot at your subway? Jealous (misses point of thread)

@RavenLG I know, I was pleasantly surprised! They seem to be rolling out new items. I didn't try the sun-dried tomatoes or crispy onions though.

Weighing every day is fine so long as you track it. Download an app, input your weight every day and it will give you a trend graph
It's actually better than once a week as you might weigh on a heavy/light day

The mantra at SW was always ‘Eat more’.

Of course it is - they are a business.

A lb can be a poop, more water in your body, etc. Please do not obsess over it, it’s unhealthy. I have anorexia and weight fluctuates within a small range naturally - you really can’t say it’s the salad because it’s not.

`^Weighing every day is fine so long as you track it. Download an app, input your weight every day and it will give you a trend graph
It's actually better than once a week as you might weigh on a heavy/light day^

^^ This. Anyone who spouts crap like 'weigh yourself once a week and no more' has absolutely no idea how to measure anything with any degree of accuracy. Scientifically, if you weigh once a week, you are measuring your weight within about half a stone, no closer.

There are a myriad of reasons why body weight varies that have nothing at all to do with how much fat you have, which is what you are actually interested in. It is also vital to remember that it is virtually impossible to gain a pound of fat in a day, you'd have to consume 5000+ calories in order to do that.

FWIW weighing yourself every day is counter-productive. If you must weight yourself, weekly is adequate; monthly probably better. As long as you're using something like MFP, and staying in the green every day (so always in deficit, even if only slightly) and eating what you want as long as you're within your daily limit you'll be ok longer-term.

Exercise is good too, but nothing OTT - I did C25K, watched what I ate with MFP and lost 4 stone in a year 4 years ago (I was approaching the big 5-0, so I wanted to be fit by then!). I actually measured my loss in Next belts - I was wearing the large size when I started. At the end of 12 months I was in a size XS. And I still am, at 2 years the 'wrong' side of 50! No longer need MFP, just kind of 'eat right' without thinking about it, and I'm still running 5K 3 or 4 times a week.

Weighing every day is just another pressure you don't need to give yourself tbh Weight loss is a journey you can't always work out the logic of (bodies are sometimes fickle - metabolism even more so - and that's without any curved balls like hormonal fluctuations!) so better not to worry too much about the nitty-gritty on a daily basis, and focus on the bigger picture on a weekly or monthly basis.

@kateandme I'm having real trouble eating at the minute because of a jaw problem. I have lost 16lbs in 4/5 weeks (luckily I have the weight to lose). I'm not intentionally starving myself, but this is how it is at the minute.

Not much of a starvation mode so far ...

HopelessLayout

Not eating is not a way to lose weight, it teaches the body that food may not be coming any time soon so it slows the burn of fats.

Oh lord, sorry but NO NO NO. I thought this old myth had died a death.

Me too.

OP it's not your last meal it's your last 500 that count. If you've lost overall dont stress. Do 15 mins of working out per day and only eat when hungry (and sensible non junk foods) and it'll drop off.

I think a few people are confused about a subway sandwich. It's not prepackaged with hidden stuff, you choose what you want in it yourself and OP has already said what she had, so no unexpected calorific dressings.

I also think OP was being a little tongue in cheek about the irony of having had a steady weight loss and then putting on a lb on the very day she only eats a salad.

I, of course, meant subway SALAD. I just have subway sandwiches on the brain. Mmmm, steak and cheese, toasted with salad and southwest sauce. (And that's why I'm not losing weight)

Dh is diabetic. He has just finished a managing diabetes course. HE Was not advised to avoid carbs.

Too much sugar is bad, but carbs in general are healthy. ANd bloody hard to avoid unless you just eat meat all the time.

Some people find it easier to reduce calories by going low carb, but it’s nothing to be proud about.

I’m more 😮at people have 2lb poos. Wtf?

I’m vegetarian and have naturally lost weight as a result, I still eat a lot of food but I don’t really gain as quickly now.

Yesterday I had an absolutely massive ‘cheat day’ and probably consumed up to 3000 calories but didn’t put any weight on!

OP it's not your last meal it's your last 500 that count. If you've lost overall dont stress. Do 15 mins of working out per day and only eat when hungry (and sensible non junk foods) and it'll drop off.

Not true for millions of people, especially older people.

MIdgebabe

If he's type 2, a low carb diet could actually reverse it. I hope someone has let you know this.

www.diabetes.co.uk/diet/low-carb-diabetes-diet.html

www.verywellhealth.com/a-low-carb-diet-shown-to-reverse-type-2-diabetes-1087565

LaVieilleHarpie is there any need to be so unkind.no thought not.

I've recently lost a 20lbs through a combination of anxiety and not eating. 1100 calories is a good day for me at the moment and when I am eating I'm not eating foods that are particularly virtuous so when I realised I'd lost that amount of weight in such a short space of time it fed into my anxiety and made me think something was wrong with me. I spoke to my GP who is very nice and very understanding of anxiety. She said that the best way to lose weight is to avoid faddy diets and any diet that tells you to completely cut out any of the main food groups, instead you should reduce your calorie intake to a level appropriate for your height/weight that will give you a loss of 1-2lb per week and incorporate some sort of sustainable movement into your daily routine (although that doesn't address the emotional issues many people have in relation to food). As for my weight loss, she pointed out that 1100 calories worth of junk is still only 1100 calories and that it's not good to keep this up as it can have an effect on mental health as well as physical. She suggested I make some healthier choices and look at ways to increase my calorie intake.

@Itstheprinciple I'm glad someone gets where I'm coming from! I chose it like I would have done at home and it is typical that the day I ate the least overall the number on the scales started going back up!