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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Wait a minute...you work out every day? What sort of workouts are we talking about here?
As far as the starvation mode is concerned, she's probably right. That weight gain was probably moving you towards an equilibrium and might have even been mainly water weight anyway. Gaining 15 lbs. of fat would be a difficult matter in 3 weeks. Water, on the other hand, is easily gained when your body is depleted of carbohydrates (glycogen and blood glucose).
Most men shouldn't drop their calories much below 2,000 over the long term, unless they're tiny or a senior.
I don't mean to preach to you but it sounds like you're exercising too much (i.e. overtraining) and your appetite could be stress related as a result. I mean, I'm an 11:00 first-lunch eater myself, but what you described must have more than one cause.
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I don't really workout hard. I go at work during my break, usually 15 minutes per day of free weights and resistance machines. I don't break a sweat.
Regardless of what I eat or how I workout I stay hungry all the time though. When I was 285 pounds I was starving 24/7 and now at 215 I am starving all the time. It's no different, I stay hungry every hour of every day unless I gorge during meals. I've tried splitting the calories to 6 meals a day and that doesn't help either because the 6 small meals never get me remotely full to begin with.
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Originally Posted by Runningwater
I've been keeping my calorie intake at I'd say between 1300 and 2000 calories a day. So I'm pretty proud of myself there. On the hunger, I get hungry but surprisingly not as much as I thought I would be. I have been getting fuller on less food (eating only 1 serving instead of going back for 2nd's). It could be because I don't workout as much as Lasereth so he probably blows through what he had just eaten. It also could be attributed that I've been hot as crap at my new job and it's hard for me to eat when I'm sweating my ass off.
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Keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't give up when after 2 weeks you haven't lost weight.