I can't figure out how I sped up my metabolism

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My eating habits haven't really changed. Yeah, I try to limit my food intake as I'm now living on my own, but I end up failing, and spending money at work and on delivered pizzas. Energy drinks, 2 $2 cans a day.

I noticed that just since Christmas, I've dropped a good 40 pounds (at total I've lost 50, as I had previously lost about 40 and gained back 30). I'm looking considerably thinner, and for the first time in years, I can run. I feel great.

But I haven't changed my eating habits. But I seem to have been losing weight so quickly in the past month that I've actually been trying to keep it up, and unsuccessfully until the past couple weeks. It's managing to stay at about 221. But I'm not gaining weight, despite what they say about "if you lose weight fast you'll gain it all right back." And that's worrying me.

Yesterday I I ate:
3 bags of popcorn
A big bowl of oatmeal
7 slices of garlic bread
25 hot wings
A half-gallon of ice cream
Half of a 13oz. TV dinner (I would've finished that off but I didn't like it very much, ironic cuz you'll like anything when you're munchie-ridden)
How did I end this nightmare? By baking some brownies from a large box of Betty Crocker mix. After eating the majority of that batch I was finally conked out.

There. I just rewrote "The 12 Days Of Christmas."

And even after 2 Red Baron French bread pizzas during lunchtime at work and a burger and fries from Sonic after work, I've not gained anything.

Have I got a parasite?

Last edited by CowboyFromHell on 25 Mar 2010, 1:03 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Wow thats an awful lots of calories, carbs and fat, if you want to fix your metabolism stop eating
all that junk food, because your killing yourself and are well on your way to becoming diabetic, or
developing hypertension, which could lead to having either a stroke or heart attack.
Those energy drinks may make you feel good for a few hours but pumping your self full of caffeine,
increases levels of caffeine in the body that can lead to anxiety or panic attacks, cardiac arrhythmia's
and stomach problems.
Do your self a favor, see a doctor and get checked out, you may be hypoglycemic which is low blood
sugar and get on a proper diet low carbs and fat, I didn't any vegetables mentioned, you need to be
eating more of those for fiber and vitamins your missing out on.

All those ENERGY drinks you consume are LOADED with caffeine...and caffeine is a main ingredient in diet pills. Consequently, caffeine increases your metabolism and will cause you to burn calories and lose weight.

Are you taking any anti depressant medication as well? Anti depressant medications are psychic "energizers," also called stimulants and they can speed up your metabolism as well. For others, it can be just the opposite and cause them to gain weight...no two people respond the same to such medication.

It's the energy drinks, they crank up your metabolism.

i think someone mentioned that sudden loss of weight may be a sign of diabetes (dunno how true/reliable the source is) . . . get that tested just to be sure.

Try eating as a person does who has a fast metabolism. Eat little and often. Take a normal sized meal (not super-sized) cut those meals in half and eat six meals a day instead of three. More protein, fruits and veggies, less sugar/carbs. Fast exercise, not slow! The rest is willpower.

Just so you guys know, that was not a typo. I sped it up. I meant "sped" not "speed." I already sped it up and don't know how I did.

Mechanicalgirl39, I didn't know they did that. I thought it was the unhealthy stuff that slows the metabolism down.

I am not sure you need to have a fast metabolism, since your burning though so much food, empty calories will get your metabolism going but still not a healthy way to eat

maybe, maybe not a tapeworm or such, but DIABETES is closer to the truth. please get checked NOW! my dad went from 6' and 300# down to 130 within 6 months, and he collapsed one day due to diabetic shock. your diet description was similar to his, and this is not reassuring. he "felt great" also up until he collapsed. get it checked, por favor.

Cowboy,

they're right!
Please get yourself checked for diabetes. It's easy and costs next to nothing.

Actually I think you can buy the tools over the counter in a pharmacy: It's small strips that you urinate on, and seconds later you can read if you have elevated sugar levels in your urine. It shows from what color the strip becomes after you've urinated on it (or dipped it in fresh urine). The color codes is written on the package.

But really: Go have your doc do it.
As you can see from my description it takes less than 2 minutes.

After that your doc will take a couple of blood samples and send them to a screening. When they come back he'll know what kind of insuline and how much you need. - You can be almost certain that you'll only need tablets, because you haven't been diabetic for very long (possibly not, anyway).

Do yourself a favor, pal, and do this. Life's just not worth playing with to that extent!

Good luck! ^L^,

Puzelle.

This is true- and energy drinks are not going to speed up anyone's metabolism. They just make you hyper (well they make me sleepy).

I would go get tested for diabetes if I were you. Insulin creates weight gain, and if your weight is dropping off with no extra exercise and no change in diet then you have the main symptom of diabetes. You may also get very thirsty and your pee or breath may smell sweet. It isn't always the same- some people have no symptoms until they pass out at some point. Please go get checked out!