Why do I gain 3-4lbs everytime I eat?!

jonnie256
jonnie256 Posts: 169 Member
edited November 16 in Health and Weight Loss
Its so irritating and discourageing! I was eating 3-600cal meals a day but since my weight explodes so easily I have to turned to Intermittent Fasting. I do a 20-4 window(1800cal meal).It seems to be helping with my weightloss but I still gain 3-4lbs when I eat that meal too...
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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,250 Member
    Erm, you know whatever the food on your plate weighs will weigh the same in your belly until it is processed and digested?

    A litre of water weighs a kilogram, whether it is in a bottle, or in your gut. Food is the same. Of course you will weight more right after eating, you just put physical matter into your stomach.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,260 Member
    Please use an applications such as weightgrapher or trendweight to smooth out your natural daily weight variations and uncover the underlying trends of how your weight is changing over time.
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  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    I hate that! I also gain weight every time I put clothes on!
  • jonnie256
    jonnie256 Posts: 169 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    What do you think happens to food when you eat it?
    Why are you repeatedly weighing yourself after you eat? What's the purpose?
    Just curiosity I guess?.
  • jonnie256
    jonnie256 Posts: 169 Member
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Please use an applications such as weightgrapher or trendweight to smooth out your natural daily weight variations and uncover the underlying trends of how your weight is changing over time.

    Wut?.
  • mathandcats
    mathandcats Posts: 786 Member
    This is why you should only weigh at most once a day, in the morning, before you've eaten.... Of course you gain after eating, what do you expect??
  • jonnie256
    jonnie256 Posts: 169 Member
    Erm, you know whatever the food on your plate weighs will weigh the same in your belly until it is processed and digested?

    A litre of water weighs a kilogram, whether it is in a bottle, or in your gut. Food is the same. Of course you will weight more right after eating, you just put physical matter into your stomach.

    This is true. Maybe I should start weighing my food more.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    I hate that! I also gain weight every time I put clothes on!

    In for the win :bigsmile:
  • jonnie256
    jonnie256 Posts: 169 Member
    Think I am just addicted to the scale and need not be.
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,260 Member
    edited April 2015
    MrM27 wrote: »
    PAV8888 wrote: »
    Please use an applications such as weightgrapher or trendweight to smooth out your natural daily weight variations and uncover the underlying trends of how your weight is changing over time.
    Huh?
    He eats. He weights more. He drinks he weights more. He pees and poos. He weights less. He retains water due to salt or exercise and he weights more. He wonders why he weights more. He gets concerned. He is trying to fix that concern by changing how he eats so that his weight doesn't vary.

    Or

    He can plug his weight in an app every day. The app smooths out irrelevant variations. He can look at a trend. The trendline more clearly answers the question that is probably underlying his weighting himself, namely: am I gaining or losing weight today?

    I mean at any point of time he weighs the weight his scale told him he weighs. Not sure what that tells him in isolation and without comparing it meaningfully to previous numbers especially if the changes seem to cause concern.
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member
    Erm, you know whatever the food on your plate weighs will weigh the same in your belly until it is processed and digested?

    A litre of water weighs a kilogram, whether it is in a bottle, or in your gut. Food is the same. Of course you will weight more right after eating, you just put physical matter into your stomach.

    It weighs a lot more on Jupiter.

    Maybe he's eating and then going to Jupiter.
  • nancyjay__
    nancyjay__ Posts: 310 Member
    Ooooookkkkkkkk......

    Let's see
    One pound of food on your plate is the same weight in your stomach. It doesn't disappear or disintigrate. It eventually gets absorbed and used/expelled in different ways but not immediately
  • nancyjay__
    nancyjay__ Posts: 310 Member
    edited April 2015
    Erm, you know whatever the food on your plate weighs will weigh the same in your belly until it is processed and digested?

    A litre of water weighs a kilogram, whether it is in a bottle, or in your gut. Food is the same. Of course you will weight more right after eating, you just put physical matter into your stomach.

    Should have just quoted lol
  • nancyjay__
    nancyjay__ Posts: 310 Member
    jonnie256 wrote: »
    Erm, you know whatever the food on your plate weighs will weigh the same in your belly until it is processed and digested?

    A litre of water weighs a kilogram, whether it is in a bottle, or in your gut. Food is the same. Of course you will weight more right after eating, you just put physical matter into your stomach.

    This is true. Maybe I should start weighing my food more.

    Wait. Are you going to weigh your food for the sole purpose you dont weigh too much more after you eat?
  • blankiefinder
    blankiefinder Posts: 3,599 Member
    nancyjay__ wrote: »
    jonnie256 wrote: »
    Erm, you know whatever the food on your plate weighs will weigh the same in your belly until it is processed and digested?

    A litre of water weighs a kilogram, whether it is in a bottle, or in your gut. Food is the same. Of course you will weight more right after eating, you just put physical matter into your stomach.

    This is true. Maybe I should start weighing my food more.

    Wait. Are you going to weigh your food for the sole purpose you dont weigh too much more after you eat?

    That was what I wondered too.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,250 Member
    nancyjay__ wrote: »
    jonnie256 wrote: »
    Erm, you know whatever the food on your plate weighs will weigh the same in your belly until it is processed and digested?

    A litre of water weighs a kilogram, whether it is in a bottle, or in your gut. Food is the same. Of course you will weight more right after eating, you just put physical matter into your stomach.

    This is true. Maybe I should start weighing my food more.

    Wait. Are you going to weigh your food for the sole purpose you dont weigh too much more after you eat?

    That was what I wondered too.

    Me too. OP, what your food weighs when it goes into you doesn't matter, it's how many calories are in it. If you're considering trying to eat lighter food so you weigh less immediately after then... well... yeah. That's a whole new level of weird. Just stay off the scale, dude.
  • karenrich77
    karenrich77 Posts: 292 Member
    Karen, walk away from the computer immediately before you say something stupid..... oh wait, that's been done already :/
  • hncary
    hncary Posts: 176 Member
    nancyjay__ wrote: »
    jonnie256 wrote: »
    Erm, you know whatever the food on your plate weighs will weigh the same in your belly until it is processed and digested?

    A litre of water weighs a kilogram, whether it is in a bottle, or in your gut. Food is the same. Of course you will weight more right after eating, you just put physical matter into your stomach.

    This is true. Maybe I should start weighing my food more.

    Wait. Are you going to weigh your food for the sole purpose you dont weigh too much more after you eat?

    That was what I wondered too.

    Me too. OP, what your food weighs when it goes into you doesn't matter, it's how many calories are in it. If you're considering trying to eat lighter food so you weigh less immediately after then... well... yeah. That's a whole new level of weird. Just stay off the scale, dude.

    This.
  • misskarne
    misskarne Posts: 1,765 Member
    Not sure if epically trolling...

    These sorts of questions make me wonder whatever happened to COMMON SENSE.
  • nancyjay__
    nancyjay__ Posts: 310 Member
    :D:):#:|:/:(
    My face once I found this thread
  • CherokeeBabe
    CherokeeBabe Posts: 1,704 Member
    Back away from the scale. Weigh at the same time every day, or even better - Weigh once or twice a week. I get discouraged in a tiny part of myself when I weigh every single day, even worse when at random times, because there are natural and frequent fluctuations, even just depending on how hydrated I've been for several days previously. You'd be amazed how one meal or one day of not drinking enough can effect the scale, especially when it comes to retaining water/water weight. Just chillax and give it some time. Don't obsess.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    I'm just going with :trollface: best effort I've seen in a while to be honest!
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  • nancyjay__
    nancyjay__ Posts: 310 Member
    Lol I like that word....cheeky :D everyone say it out loud CHEEKY
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    If you don't want to weigh so much after eating, I'd recommend choosing more calorie dense foods. You could just try drinking your calories in oil?
  • PAV8888
    PAV8888 Posts: 14,260 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    Well, looks like someone is over analyzing things.
    We all have our cheeky kfaults

  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    I've got to stop checking the forums when I can't sleep in the middle of the night....
  • nancyjay__
    nancyjay__ Posts: 310 Member
    Completely And totally unrelated First post I made was "WTF" on one of those "date marry pass" forums.... and it has been notifying me for 3 days HOW THE HELL DO I STOP IT!
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