What's causing my weight gain? Which nutrient am I missing?

Based on your irrationally strong reaction, I can only assume you sell eggs for a living. But the truth is that this is neither proved nor disproved.. See here:

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Secondly, to the OP, why do you feel a need to stuff your stomach until you feel full? Doing this only increases your stomach size making you need more to stuff it making you stuff it more making it increase making..

Eat less, and your stomach will need less to be "full".

This is a question of strength of will power, of course

I suppose this is it! I have not gone to bathroom in several days!

You cant be serius?
No way

Ever since I eliminated sugar from my diet I can't bear hunger.

Well it's fox news, what do you expect? But see the wiki link above for the actual health concerns, I just posted the first link I saw when I googled egg health risk lol

Eggs have all proteins in perfect proportion. I can not directly find good links about proportion but it does contain all proteins, that is common knowledge.

I posted a link debunking the notion that dietary cholesterol is harmful.

There's over 100 'essential nutrients', it would be impossible to state if you were missing just one from any diet. Some deficiencies (like B12) can take years to develop before becoming symptomatic. However, saturated fat is a possibility given the foods listed.

Having said that, weight gain is more about the state of your metabolism. What is your body temperature, at various points in the day? Your pulse? Start monitoring these in addition to your weight. Higher body temps and pulse rates indicate a revved up metabolism, good for losing weight. Lower body temps and pulse rates indicate a slow metabolism, necessary for gaining weight.

Don't be surprised if find you need to increase you caloric intake to rev up your metabolism.

lol no i dont.see the link i provided on the last page-i do more research than you with your wiki pages and random google searches.

I'm missing saturated fat from my diet? Did I read that right?

Pretty sure eggs contain saturated fat, and green vegetables contain unsaturated fat.

^this. OP is either a troll or one of that half of americans just makes the rest of us look bad.

whew i bet your farts clear the whole house.

I find that I have to graze all day, like cows and horses do, on vegetables or just eat eggs to help with the hunger.

Several of us talk about this. I was down to 750 up to 1000 cals a day, no help. Thyroid tests normal.
I would say walk every morning 40 minutes to 1 hour, gives you energy, cures depression, starts your lungs and your day.
It takes 3-4 months to see the difference, but worth it.
We have decided it is in the food, even young gals with no car who walk everywhere have a muffin top now, it is crazy.

add some good sugars.
fruit-also good for fibre(pooing aid)in your case prunes too.
have some arganic or manuka honey for when you gett low blood sugar or cravings-have a teaspoon.

Try getting some aloe vera juice-good for intestines bowels and fibre(constipation)

drink more fluids too but maybe have a day off the eggs and eat heaps of high fibre fruits/veg etc to flush your system out and get things going again.

I am not a troll, a shill for the egg industry, a shill in general, or getting any financial benefits from posting.

ask your kidney how she thinks about 24 eggs a day.
kidney failure = weight gain due to water storage.

I refuse to include any sugar in my diet except from green vegetables.
Have you ever seen a celery stick? Those strings in there are fiber, there are masses of fiber in vegetables in general too.

I do not have sugar cravings, or low blood sugar, my blood sugar is completely normal, due to the absence of sugar in diet the body creates and regulate it's own supply of sugars from fatty acids.

Salt causes water storage, not kidney failure. water storage is harmless, it's JUST water.

protein overload?

[link to www.livestrong.com]

Last Edited by woowoochic on 02/22/2013 09:38 PM

I am amazed no one bought up biotin deficiency.

That is probably the only valid deficiency I have.

wait, no, I get that from cucumbers.

You are full of shit.

With my consipitation, I might actually am.

WHY are you eating nothing but eggs and a random few vegetables?

Althought vegetables are good sorces of vitmins and minerals, they are not multivitamins...you have to eat cups and cups of vegetables to get the micronutrients you need. Have you tried tracking your diet on a nutrition tracking website to see if you truly are meeting your RDA for all necessary vitamins and minerals? Given a background in dietetics, I'm betting you think you're getting more nutrition than you actually are.

wrong.. btw, a weak heart causes water storage, too.
you asked about weight gain.
water storage is one possible answer.
if you do not workout with heavy weights and gain much muscle mass, i would recommend see a doctor and have a check-up.
if you eat completely salt-less, you maybe are missing elecrolytes, too. this can result in failures/malfunctioning organs and therefore water storage/weight gain, too.

Do not! Go in there!

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Feb 24, 2010 – MYTH #5: High-Protein Diets Cause Damage to the Kidneys You will often hear from ill-informed sources that a high-protein diet damages the ...


MYTH #5: High-Protein Diets Cause Damage to the Kidneys

You will often hear from ill-informed sources that a high-protein diet damages the kidneys. Not so. Consider the following: everyone knows about step classes and aerobics. They are great calorie burners, get the blood and oxygen flowing, are good conditioners of the cardiovascular system, and, with certain variations, can even be good for muscle toning. So they’re a good thing, right?

Yes.

Except if you have a broken leg.

If you have a broken leg, or a sprained ankle, or shin splints, I’m going to suggest that you not take a step class until the injury heals. Under these special circumstances, the very weight-bearing that does so much good for the normal person is going to be more stress than you need during the healing phase. I’m going to tell you to stay off the leg, let it heal, and avoid putting additional stress on it at this time.

Does the fact that step class is not good for a person with a broken leg mean that the step class led to the broken leg?

No. And ketogenic diets do not—I repeat, do not—cause kidney disease. If your doctor says they do, politely ask him or her to show you the studies. (They don’t exist.) Ketogenic diets are, however, not a good thing if you have an existing kidney disease, much the way a step class is not a good thing if your leg is already broken... The rest are in above link.

Give me a good tracking site please.