weight gain HELP!!!!

I am 14 months out and I have gone from 327 to 131. I was 131 in june and i noticed that meat hurt when i ate it. so i decided to become a vegitarian and now i am 148 and climbing. i think it is the cearl oatmeal and berries?i do as low as sugar like 3g and glutin free cearl sugar free oatmeal and blurberries, pears, bannanas, and i love the veggies. Why would i be gaining? anyone have a suggestion i am so lost and need help asap i am so afraid that i am back on my way up and it wont stop.

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 I am no expert  - but maybe you need to introduce more protein into your diet again.  Does fish hurt?  In the begining (I am 3 yrs out) I couldn't eat pork or chicken without it feeling like a brick in my pouch - so painful.  What I did do was eat a lot sashimi and lighter fish.  Salmon and Tuna were too dense.  Now I can eat pork again but only on occassion.  Chicken works if it's really moist.

My surgeon really pushes the protein idealism and I noticed that I started to gain weight when I was eating that less and sticking mainly to carbs.  I was eating cereal, tons of fruit, and adding some other carbs that I shouldn't have.  Protein was on the back-burner.

I gained 22 pounds over the last 5 months - I probably wouldn't have gained as much had I not starting feeling sorry for myself and eating more.  I've managed to lose 6lbs in the last 2 weeks by just eating about 85% of protein with my meals.  My favorite is making a canned tuna salad - adding celery, tomatoes, onions and a tiny bit of mayo to moisten for the "crunch".  If I am really craving a carb... I will put it on a slice of whole wheat toast.  But I've really been working on staying away from too much bread and rice.

I hope that this helps!  Good Luck  :)

It's simple math. In spite of eating a vegetarian diet, you are eating or drinking more calories than you are burning on a daily basis.  

I suggest that you get a calorie guide and a notebook and track your intake--every mouthful without cheating. Research has shown that this truly works, and it's one technique I swear by. Really LOOK at what you eat every day. If I am eating 2,000 calories per day and not exercising when my body only needs 1,300, I am going to gain a pound and a half per week!

When you were 131, assuming you lead a relatively sedentary lifestyle, your body needed only 1,310 calories a day to exist without excess fat storage happening. Since you say your weight is climbing, you are eating MORE THAN 1,480 calories per day. That's a difference of at least 170 calories per day, or an extra pound every 20 days.

This is how insidious weight gain can be--it can happen over the course of months when we abandon our scales and weekly weigh-ins and our measuring and our FEAR of the consequences of overeating. If you have a healthy fear of chronic joint and extremity pain, immobility, diabetes, lymphedema, heart disease, and sleep apnea, you will grasp the bull by the horns, accept responsibility and accountability for what goes in your mouth, and start the basics again. Weight regain is not inevitable--it is a consequence of eating more and exercising less. 

Decrease your intake and increase your exercise. Real exercise that makes you sweat. It's that simple. Check out the Exercise and Fitness Board--those guys never worry about regain because they freakin' move their bodies, yo! Good luck!