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Originally Posted by MSD
At 5'10" and 240, I forget how old you are so I guessed between 25 and 30, your basal metabolic rate is about 2200 calories per day. If you eat less than that you will lose weight; if you eat more, you will gain weight. Exercise will burn calories in addition to that. Saying that you will gain weight if you eat more than 1500/day can't be right unless you are carrying around in your body a localized violation of the laws of thermodynamics.
I suspect that you are significantly underestimating your calorie intake.
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I get that a lot too. But I read what I'm eating; I'm not stupid. If there's 2 servings in a can of something and I split it with my wife then I eat 1 serving. For 3 years I counted calories every single day. For about 2 years I was on strictly 1500 a day and never got below 210. I ate out one day a week on Friday for lunch and dinner so obviously I went over 1500 on those days but a lot of people say that you should have 1 "eat what you want" day anyway.
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Originally Posted by madli
Your story is so physiologically improbable that it makes me wonder if you have some variant of Kleine-Levin Syndrome (sleep disorder with compulsive hunger/eating - Kleine-Levin Syndrome Foundation Inc. | What is Kleine-Levin Syndrome?), which because you keep such tight psychological and behavioural control of the hunger during the day, has resulted in Night Eating Syndrome (a sleep eating disorder - Night Eating). Maybe you gain weight on more than 1500 calories/day, despite exercising, because you're eating tons of calories in your sleep.
From the sounds of your responses, you feel like you've tried everything, when in fact, it sounds like there's a lot you don't know. Your medical, nutritional and exercise knowledge base in this area is not comprehensive enough to conclude that things are hopeless for you. Yet, you are reluctant to seek expert medical advice. I don't know why you're aversive to seeing doctors, but as an MD myself, I do hear this a lot from patients, and I think it's important to get past for health reasons.
In the end, I think a big problem for you will be that your problem is multi-factorial, so you will need the opinion of a number of medical experts (maybe a geneticist, an endocrinologist, a psychiatrist, a neurologist, a sleep medicine specialist, etc.) to get a final diagnosis. In the Canadian health care system where I am, that may be more feasible to do, so maybe I'm biased by not knowing your situation. At any rate, your family doctor should be the place to start.
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Thanks for the tips but I highly doubt I have a sleep eating disorder. There is nothing to eat in my house. I keep no snack foods, nothing that I can twist the top off of and go at it, nothing that I can get out of a bag or take a little here and there, etc. I purposely keep easy access foods away because I'll eat an entire family size package of oreos in 1 night if I buy it. So if I did have sleep eating disorder there would be opened cans, food packaging thrown away, etc. and there never is. Thanks for the advice. I'm still hesitant about calling my doctor -- I can just imagine walking in there..."So, what's wrong?" "I'm hungry. Like all the time, no matter what." "You came to the doctor because you're hungry?"