Put on 1 pound - my first ever failure!
Lysander666
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I've normally got this weight loss thing sorted but for the first week ever, I put ON a pound!
How did this happen? I'm normally on about 1500 cals a day, and my last week looked like this:
Sun - family meal [cannot estimate cals]
Mon - ~2500 cals [maintenance]
Tue - over by 900 cals roughly [birthday]
Wed - hit goal
Thur - hit goal
Well, I say 'hit goal' but the fact is that I had a lot of bulgar wheat and I have no idea what the cals are for that. I thought it was about 250-300 a bowl.
So I suppose this was just a] an inconsistent week foodwise and b] a case of not being able to log correctly.
But I'm still surprised it was as much as a pound over.
Back to being strict next week then.
How did this happen? I'm normally on about 1500 cals a day, and my last week looked like this:
Sun - family meal [cannot estimate cals]
Mon - ~2500 cals [maintenance]
Tue - over by 900 cals roughly [birthday]
Wed - hit goal
Thur - hit goal
Well, I say 'hit goal' but the fact is that I had a lot of bulgar wheat and I have no idea what the cals are for that. I thought it was about 250-300 a bowl.
So I suppose this was just a] an inconsistent week foodwise and b] a case of not being able to log correctly.
But I'm still surprised it was as much as a pound over.
Back to being strict next week then.
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Water weight.0
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Just to add: one pound is NOT a failure. It's variance.0
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I agree, probably water weight. People retain water occasionally, for a number of reasons.0
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Seriously not a big deal. Your weight is not static when eating at maintenance. It moves up and down through the day, the week, and through your menstrual cycle. The same holds when you are eating in a deficit.0
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Do what you can to keep things in perspective. There will be ups and downs.
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Most people set a maintenance range, rather than a single number. It's OK to vary a bit within a range, of say, three pounds.
How about a three pound, no panic range?0 -
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Lysander666 wrote: »IsaackGMOON wrote: »Water weight.
Could you elaborate?
I can. I've been in my deficit consistently and yesterday, due to that time of the month, a couple high sodium meals and tons of exercise Wednesday, the scale was up 1.5 lbs from last week.
I know I'm just retaining water. And by Tuesday the scale should be back where it belongs.0 -
Lysander666 wrote: »IsaackGMOON wrote: »Water weight.
Could you elaborate?
Ok. Basically, when you first restrict your calories you most likely lost a lot of water weight.
When you consume a high amount of calories after this phase your body tends to retain water for a week or two.
Water retention can be affected by carbohydrate intake, creatine intake, calorie intake and sodium intake.0 -
If this is your first ever failure, you haven't had any real problems. Chill0
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IsaackGMOON wrote: »Lysander666 wrote: »IsaackGMOON wrote: »Water weight.
Could you elaborate?
Ok. Basically, when you first restrict your calories you most likely lost a lot of water weight.
When you consume a high amount of calories after this phase your body tends to retain water for a week or two.
Water retention can be affected by carbohydrate intake, creatine intake, calorie intake and sodium intake.
Got you, thanks. Yes, this was my first high-er calorie week so that makes sense.0 -
Yeah, when you increase you calories, your body replenishes it's lost glycogen, hence water weight. Also if you went out to eat, sodium. Sodium gets me every time.
It goes away though in a day or two.0 -
Water retention0
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Your body weight constantly fluctuates. I hate to break it to you, but this won't be the first time that you see the scale go up, even after you've done everything right all week.
Just some unsolicited advice: take the word "failure" out of your vocabulary. If you're logging everything faithfully and staying within your calorie goal, you're not failing, no matter what the number on the scale says.0 -
booksandchocolate12 wrote: »Your body weight constantly fluctuates. I hate to break it to you, but this won't be the first time that you see the scale go up, even after you've done everything right all week.
Just some unsolicited advice: take the word "failure" out of your vocabulary. If you're logging everything faithfully and staying within your calorie goal, you're not failing, no matter what the number on the scale says.
Hmm OK, I'll change my attitude!0 -
Lysander666 wrote: »booksandchocolate12 wrote: »Your body weight constantly fluctuates. I hate to break it to you, but this won't be the first time that you see the scale go up, even after you've done everything right all week.
Just some unsolicited advice: take the word "failure" out of your vocabulary. If you're logging everything faithfully and staying within your calorie goal, you're not failing, no matter what the number on the scale says.
Hmm OK, I'll change my attitude!
Thank you.
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My weight moves a lot 1lb in maintenance id call a success0
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The fact you think its an issue means you should learn about fluctuations.0
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If you need to lose weight, obviously you've put on pounds (many of them) before.Lysander wrote:I've normally got this weight loss thing sorted but for the first week ever, I put ON a pound!
1 lb is a normal fluctuation. Look back over the last few weeks. Have you lost weight from a month ago? Then
keep doing whatever you're doing.
1 lb is 2 cups of water. It's not hard to drink that much or (at least in summer) sweat it off. One day last winter I
weighed before & after shovelling, and IIRC I'd lost nearly 2 lb. That was a lot of heavy snow!
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We can't see anything about you, other than that you say you're male, but 1500 is the minimum for a male ofI'm normally on about 1500 cals a day
average size who's inactive. If you're younger, or active, you'll need more.
How much do you have to lose to get to a healthy BMI range? If it's 40 lb or less, aim for 0.5 lb a week.
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Sure you can. Record what foods you ate, and make your best guess as to the volume or mass of your serving.Sun - family meal [cannot estimate cals]
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How big is your bowl? How full do you fill it?I say 'hit goal' but the fact is that I had a lot of bulgar wheat and I have no idea what the cals are for that.
I thought it was about 250-300 a bowl.
Weigh & or measure the volume of your food, until you get to where you can estimate well.
As for finding nutrition info...
When I put the string [usda bulgar wheat] into the food search bar, it came up with lots of entries.
Of the first 17, 12 would be usable. Pick one which has "USDA" or that's a brand name (Tesco, Arrowhead,
Hodgson Mill).
For "Hodgson Mill, 1/4 cup dry", the database says 120 calories. Not sure how much that weighs or how much it
cooks up to.
When I used [USDA bulgher wheat] one of the first entries is "Whole Foods - bulgher, cooked", and for 1 cup it
says 151 calories.
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Our bodies naturally fluctuate with our weight. I have been doing it by 3 pounds. I'm trying not to stress over it, one pound is nothing. just try using a food scale and accurately looking up food calories, not everything posted on MFP in the food logging area is accurate.0
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Just to add: one pound is NOT a failure. It's variance.
Weight loss is not linear. No matter how "good " you are, you will not lose weight every single week! Salt, time of month, undigested food in your belly, etc will all show up on the scale. Expecting to lose every week will set you up for disappointment because it just isn't realistic.0 -
I am 2.1 lbs heavier this morning than I was yesterday morning. I can assure you I didn't eat 7000 calories over maintenance yesterday. Weight goes up and down all the time.0
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lol. I put on 4 pounds every monday. Am I a failure?!0
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Ah...you women. Gain a pound and you are lost. Lol. Don't sweat it, its not really an issue. If you weighed yourself 5 times per day, you'd probably have a cow. Just keep doing what you are doing, and it will all be fine.
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OP you are doing great; but, you also need to address your expectations.
Either you haven't been at this for a very long period of time, or you have an insanely large deficit. In most other cases you would have long realized that a 1lb variance (a multi-lbs variance if you are a woman and dealing with TOM) is absolutely trivial and common and almost always caused by water retention.
1500 Cal for a man says you've set MFP at 2lbs a week. Which is fine if you're currently obese. A more conservative target would be 0.5lbs per week per 25lbs you need to lose to get to the bottom end of your normal bmi.
Using a program such as www.weightgrapher.com to record your weight ins (happy scale for the iphone; www.trendweight.com in conjunction with an appropriate scale or a free fitbit account you can use to manually record your weigh ins) will allow you to see your weight trend over time and eliminate the noise introduced by water weight variations.
Sounds like you had a great week with family and celebrations. Good for you!0 -
Weight fluctuates all the time +/- a few pounds, tomorrow it could be gone and some more with it 0
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Well, today I am a whole two pounds less than yesterday. Didn't know weight could change this much over a short period. Thanks, everyone.0
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