Alexandros1886
New member
First off I apologize if this is posted in the wrong section, I am new here so please feel free to redirect me to the right topic section
About me: I am a 22 male college student. Over the past three years I have ballooned from a toned 180 lbs to a beer belly 240 lbs. Starting three weeks ago when I moved back home for the summer I had some major life changes. In school I was drinking heavily 5-6 nights a week, eating wings, pizza, mexican food and other college essentials daily, all while sitting on my butt all day either studying or in class. The most physical activity I was getting involved walking to class or to the bars. Now that I am home for the summer I am working construction 50+ hours/ week, drinking at most one night a week (and not at nearly the same level), and eating three square meals a day. My family is largely gluten free due to recent diet imposed on my father by a doctor for a non-weight related issue so my dinners are usually rather healthy, my breakfasts light, and my packed lunches healthy and limited to purely what I put in my lunch box.
For instance my diet today was a fairly typical day
Breakfast
Half a ham sandwich
Banana
Black Coffee
Lunch:
Ham sandwich
Handful of each: pretzels, carrots, and almonds
Banana
Fat-Free pudding cup
Dinner:
Gluten free butternut squash ravioli
Steamed broccoli
Bowl of mixed fruits
I drink at least a gallon of water a day during work, and while at home I usually drink unsweetend ice tea or skim milk
Despite these drastic changes to my daily activity and diet I have not lost any weight over the past three weeks. My body weight will vary about 4 lbs per day depending on how much food I ate, how much water I lost due to sweat, and at what time I weight myself, but has consistently stayed between the 238-242 lbs range. While I conceed that I am surely building some muscle due to the nature of my work I do not understand how I am not loosing weight overall. Based on what I have been able to determine it seems that I would need to have a net caloric intake of about 3500 calories/day to be maintain my current weight but I do not see anyway how I would be consuming that much due to my decrease in caloric intake and increase in expenditure. The only thing I can think of would be a low metabolic rate due to my tendency at school to eat only one or two large, unhealthy meals a day with large periods of no food in between, but I think that three weeks of a consistent three square meals a day would have reset my metabolism by now.
If anyone has any advice or suggestions it would be much appreciated.
Thank you
About me: I am a 22 male college student. Over the past three years I have ballooned from a toned 180 lbs to a beer belly 240 lbs. Starting three weeks ago when I moved back home for the summer I had some major life changes. In school I was drinking heavily 5-6 nights a week, eating wings, pizza, mexican food and other college essentials daily, all while sitting on my butt all day either studying or in class. The most physical activity I was getting involved walking to class or to the bars. Now that I am home for the summer I am working construction 50+ hours/ week, drinking at most one night a week (and not at nearly the same level), and eating three square meals a day. My family is largely gluten free due to recent diet imposed on my father by a doctor for a non-weight related issue so my dinners are usually rather healthy, my breakfasts light, and my packed lunches healthy and limited to purely what I put in my lunch box.
For instance my diet today was a fairly typical day
Breakfast
Half a ham sandwich
Banana
Black Coffee
Lunch:
Ham sandwich
Handful of each: pretzels, carrots, and almonds
Banana
Fat-Free pudding cup
Dinner:
Gluten free butternut squash ravioli
Steamed broccoli
Bowl of mixed fruits
I drink at least a gallon of water a day during work, and while at home I usually drink unsweetend ice tea or skim milk
Despite these drastic changes to my daily activity and diet I have not lost any weight over the past three weeks. My body weight will vary about 4 lbs per day depending on how much food I ate, how much water I lost due to sweat, and at what time I weight myself, but has consistently stayed between the 238-242 lbs range. While I conceed that I am surely building some muscle due to the nature of my work I do not understand how I am not loosing weight overall. Based on what I have been able to determine it seems that I would need to have a net caloric intake of about 3500 calories/day to be maintain my current weight but I do not see anyway how I would be consuming that much due to my decrease in caloric intake and increase in expenditure. The only thing I can think of would be a low metabolic rate due to my tendency at school to eat only one or two large, unhealthy meals a day with large periods of no food in between, but I think that three weeks of a consistent three square meals a day would have reset my metabolism by now.
If anyone has any advice or suggestions it would be much appreciated.
Thank you
