Wow, it's sure been a long time since i've been here. I'm not sure if this belongs in this forum, but here goes anyway:

i'm 18 years old, and female (if gender helps), and I weigh 150 pounds. At the end of last august, I weight 128. I gained a few pounds from steroids I was taking for a sinus infection, and I kept at that weight of 136 for a few months.

In the beginning of may, I weighed myself and I found out I was 132, which made me happy. But then 3 weeks later, I weighed myself at a friend's house and I saw that I was 144, and only 2 days after that I weighed myself again and I was 147 :shock: . I thought that perhaps my friend's scale had gone haywire, but I went in for a physical exam about a week later and my doctor confirmed that I was indeed 147.

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In an attempt to drop these extra 20 pounds, I tried to eat less...I tried to cut my calorie intake down to roughly 1000 calories a day. It was through this "diet" that I managed to gain a pound somehow. And with all the parties and picnics i've been forced to attend this past month, I probably am over 150 by this point. I am currently trying to stick with my diet of 1000 calories a day (although sometimes I take in less than 1000, which makes me happy ^-^), and I do my best to monitor this by keeping a strict food journal, writing down everything I take in, unless it is water. I have not weighed myself for quite some time, so I don't know where my weight stands currently.

I've tried the "apple cider vinegar" diet, but gave up on it the very da I started it because the mixture of water and vinegar was far too powerful for me. I had tears streaming down my face as I drank it little by little; in the end, I think I got a couple of spoonfuls down. Starting tomorrow, i'm going to go on a hunger strike until the 30th, when there is yet another picnic I have to attend. And yes, when I say "hunger strike", I mean i'm going to be starving myself to the best of my abilities. I know it's not healthy to do this, but I am desperate; half of my jeans do not fit me because of the inches i've gained on my stomach. I starved myself last summer as well and I managed to lose quite a bit of weight.

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Eh, I went off on a tangent, didn't i? I apologize. My real question is this: is it at all normal to gain 14 pounds in less than a month? I don't recall changing my eating habits in may to the extent that i'd gain such a massive amount of weight. Is there any kind of internal problem that can cause this weight gain?

Any help or advice on this matter would be sincerely appreciated.