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Hey, this is what I ate today:

100 grams of white grapes
I piece of cactus fruit
A mandarin
150 grams of skimmed yoghurt

A whole grain bread bun (80 grams)
30 grams of cheese on it

75 grams of brown rice
50 grams of smoked salmon
200 grams of green beans

That's not a lot, but I feel like I've eaten so much. Especially since I at the dinner only 1,5 hours after my bun. I got out of bed late so I ate my breakfast at 12 o clock. Then I was away for hours shopping.
Will this make me gain weight? How come I feel so full even though I didn't eat more than 1200 calories?

If you didn't eat more than 1,200 calories, you couldn't possibly gain weight.

I can eat no more than 500 cal. and still gain wait. Believe me, it's possible.

I'm no expert on what foods are more filling than others, but I fill up quickly on a lot of those foods you mentioned--grapes, yogurt, whole grain bread, and brown rice. I don't know why with the grapes, but whole grains are bulky foods and take longer to digest. You stay full longer that way.

Also, if you've been cutting portions, you lose your appetite and your stomach will shrink. When I fast a couple or 3 days a week, I usually feel stuffed after an 8-oz. meal.

How are your liquids? I try to drink what for most would be an obnoxious amount of water every day, though I don't think I drink more than a gallon a day. Between that an occasional cups of coffee or diet sodas, I don't get that hungry very much.

Gaining weight on 500 kcal would violate the laws of thermodynamics.

Combination of water weight/sodium, inactivity, and slow metabolism. Some of us need more effort to burn than others.

I don't see how that's possible. I'm 5'4"/115lb and my basal metabolic rate supposed to be approximately 1157cal/day.
A man bigger than me living on 500cal/day may sustain his current weight (which is still pretty incredible, maybe if he was in a coma) but gaining weight? I'd like to witness that.

^ How can you calculate your metabolic rate?

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/tools/bmr-calculator

Your estimated BMR is: 2,306 calories/day*
seems like alot. I'm gone back to trying to only eat 1200-1600

Eating that little will slow down your testosterone levels.

You burn more calories if you are heavier? Doesn't that depend on whether the weight is fat or muscle? I'd think that fat would insulate you and therefore needing fewer calories.

Regardless of if the weight is fat or muscle, you do burn more if you're heavier. It takes more work to function the heavier you are. If nothing else, your heart burns at least a few hundred calories every day.

The only way I've EVER managed to lose weight was to just stop eating. I could eat iceberg lettuce salad for two meals a day, a teaspoon of dressing and no croutons, and skip breakfast and still gain weight. Fasting for 40 days (water fasting, no supplements), I initially didn't lose ANY weight for about a week, and then it was somewhere around 1 lb./day for 4 or 5 weeks. The very last week I barely lost 0.5 lb., and I'd gone from 230 to 152 and really didn't have much fat left to lose by that point. It will be 2 years this December since I started that, and I've put 20 lb. back on. Generally I don't eat more than 24 oz. food on any given day, fast at least once a week and sometimes up to 3 days a week, and walk 2.5 miles/day for 5 days a week, and since I have my 2-yo with me that takes about 1.5 hours every day. I've just recently started doing 1 chin-up after each lap, which sends needle-like pain shooting up my elbows, but I think MAYBE I'm starting to grow some biceps?idk. The thing is, once I put on weight, it's almost impossible to get rid of it, and I'd love nothing more than to drop the 20 lb. I've gained. Overall I feel good fasting, I usually focus intensely on something to take my mind off the hunger and keep at it until my fast is over.

I've never as long as I can remember needed more than 500 cal. At the risk of TMI here, I also have extremely slow bowel movements?like, once a week or less BM. So I'll typically gain up to 5 lb. and literally lose it overnight. I gain up to 8 lb. DURING the day, and it's almost all water, and depending on how well I'm keeping my salt consumption up, I MIGHT end up with a morning weight lower than the previous morning. If I discuss my weight, I'm normally referring to my morning weight since it's the lowest. If I don't keep my water up on the weekends, I'll lose roughly about another 3 lb before ending my fast on Saturday evening. Sometimes I'll maintain that weight through Sunday, but somehow I really put on a lot of weight on Mondays.

My worst days for maintaining weight are Wednesdays. I practically live at church all day on Wednesdays, so there's a meal at noon Bible study, a repeat for evening Bible study if I don't go for junk food with the youth group (I play in the band), I may/may not eat an apple when I get home at 8:30 at night. For the last two weeks in a row, I've sharply cut how much I eat on Wednesdays and so far I've been able to maintain my weight rather than ballooning my usual 5 lb./week.

^What do you eat mostly everyday? Do you eat any vegetables and fruits? You probably need to build better intestinal flora.

Angel, Starving yourself and low intensity cardio isn't the way to go, you might lose weight but you will lose lots of strength and it's simply dangerous for your bodily functions.

I went from a 34 inch waist to a 29 inch one whilst increasing my chest size to almost 50 inches at the same time. I went from having arms with little vascularity to vein popping chiselled ones, your jaw will go from bloated to chiselled and you will start to see positive strength gains as you lose weight.

One thing I noticed in the gym is that the people with the best bodies train more intensely over the larger people. When I do 200 pull ups followed by 500 push ups with different variations, I definitely break a sweat because I set myself a time limit but even after that, I do an hour of weightlifting focusing on progressive tension overload.

Another good program I record which teaches you to use your body weight is Tapout XT but you have to follow it closely if you want to be shredded and lose weight really fast. Some of you just need to work out properly and stop counting walking, yoga or Zumba as a workout, try sprinting intervals up steep hills followed by knee jumps for thirty seconds and keep repeating that.

Any woman who doesn't respect her own body isn't likely to be respectful towards herself or her relationships. The human body is a thing of beauty and should be taken care of, if someone eats junk food, it is a huge turn off for me as it shows the woman does not respect herself or her property.

If you have a beautiful piano, you should take the time to fine tune and to clean it, to keep it sparkling and beautiful and I feel one should treat everything in the same manner.

^Any woman? What about men? Don't be sexist, dude.