Hey guys,
I was wondering if I could get some advice on my current situation. I dieted down from 130 lbs at just under 5 ft tall, 30%+ body fat (very short male) to about 92 lbs and 11-12% body fat. I did this pretty quickly in 4.5 months, eating around 1200 calories a day toward the end and losing around 1.5 lbs/week. Based on all the weight and calorie data I have, my maintenance seems to be around 1900. I followed a relatively low carb diet, since I had to keep my protein high enough with very few calories to work with.
Since I'm coming off such low calories, and I feel like I can lose another lb or so to get to 10% bodyfat, I figured I would reverse diet a little and increase the calories gradually to maintenance, before bulking. Last week, I increased my calories to 1250, and continued to lose weight at roughly the same pace. This week I decided to go up to 1400-1450, but now I'm steadily gaining weight every day. I am just wondering if this is water weight due to the increase I'm having in carbs, or if I'm somehow putting on fat at 1400 calories, which doesn't seem to make sense. Should I ignore this and assume I'm actually still burning fat, and keep upping my calories each week? Will my weight stabilize at some point, or will I keep putting on water weight? I am just having trouble figuring out how many calories to bulk on now, since I'm already gaining weight.
I was wondering if I could get some advice on my current situation. I dieted down from 130 lbs at just under 5 ft tall, 30%+ body fat (very short male) to about 92 lbs and 11-12% body fat. I did this pretty quickly in 4.5 months, eating around 1200 calories a day toward the end and losing around 1.5 lbs/week. Based on all the weight and calorie data I have, my maintenance seems to be around 1900. I followed a relatively low carb diet, since I had to keep my protein high enough with very few calories to work with.
Since I'm coming off such low calories, and I feel like I can lose another lb or so to get to 10% bodyfat, I figured I would reverse diet a little and increase the calories gradually to maintenance, before bulking. Last week, I increased my calories to 1250, and continued to lose weight at roughly the same pace. This week I decided to go up to 1400-1450, but now I'm steadily gaining weight every day. I am just wondering if this is water weight due to the increase I'm having in carbs, or if I'm somehow putting on fat at 1400 calories, which doesn't seem to make sense. Should I ignore this and assume I'm actually still burning fat, and keep upping my calories each week? Will my weight stabilize at some point, or will I keep putting on water weight? I am just having trouble figuring out how many calories to bulk on now, since I'm already gaining weight.
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