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Lost Weight While Sick

jreeves628
jreeves628 Posts: 123 Member
edited November 2024 in Getting Started
Ive lost 8 pounds over the past week as I was really sick and wasn't eating much. Anyway to keep those pounds off or will it automatically come back when I start eating?

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  • ILiftHeavyAcrylics
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics Posts: 27,732 Member
    edited January 2015
    A lot of it will probably come back. Maybe even most of it. A lot of the weight you "lost" was water weight and the weight of the food that's normally in your digestive tract. As soon as you start eating/drinking normally again a lot of that will replenish. But you likely did have a calorie deficit for the week so some of it was probably fat.
  • absurdic
    absurdic Posts: 62 Member
    ILiftHeavyAcrylics wrote: »
    A lot of it will probably come back. Maybe even most of it. A lot of the weight you "lost" was water weight and the weight of the food that's normally in your digestive tract. As soon as you start eating/drinking normally again a lot of that will replenish. But you likely did have a calorie deficit for the week so some of it was probably fat.

    Exactly.
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