Long walk and then eat calories

RichSall

Hi,

I've been using the MyFitnessPal tool since January this year and have lost 5 stone at around 2 pounds per week which is what I'm set to lose on the tool.

My activity is sedentary as I have a desk job. 2 or 3 times a week I go for a brisk walk for 30 mins going about 4mph.

So, over the weekend we had friends over and went to London. We did a lot of walking and I clocked up over 1000 calories of exercise. That evening we had a takeaway which including my exercise calories was within the limits of my calories for that day. The next day we went to a country show and walked around for 6.5 hours at around 1mph making up 960 exercise calories. In the evening we ate out at Pizza Express and again ate within my calories including exercise calories.

When I weighed the next day I had put on 2 pounds and have spent this week losing it again. Why would it go up if I've done the exercise?

thisismeraw

That weight gain is not due to fat gain... it's water weight gain. You mentioned two days of eating out which explains the water weight due to the excess sodium. Never weigh when you ate higher sodium the day before.

anxietygirl

Seriously, yeah. If you eat takeout food or even just at a restaurant, don't weigh within the next couple of days, because all that sodium is going to have your body holding on to every ounce of water it can.

RichSall

Brilliant, thanks got your responses guys. That would make sense.

danielleburwell97060

Also, if you ate more volume than normal that all has to be digested and processed. It's normal to go up when increase food for whatever reason. It was definitely not actual fat.

phjorg1

those walks include your bmr. your actual burn was prob about 50% of what you thought it was. possibly less.

fknlardarse

I posted exactly the same thing last week someone told me it would correct itself after 4 days and it did! Overnight! I reckon it's the salt and also sugar ( especially in alcohol) makes your deflated fat cells fill temporarily with water.