How long does it take you to lose the weekend weight?

fastfoodietofitcutie

I tend to always gain a few pounds over the weekend but then lose it right away within a day or two as I know it's mostly water. I'm up over 5 pounds from this past weekend and it's sticking to me like glue! Granted, I ate fast food the past few days but I didn't go over my calorie or carb goals and I've been drinking a lot of water. Not sure what is going on this time around but I'm definitely going to have a big gain this week and I'm bummed.

I know a lot of you also gain a few over the weekend, how long until it drops off?

ManiacalLaugh

fastfoodietofitcutie wrote: »

I tend to always gain a few pounds over the weekend but then lose it right away within a day or two as I know it's mostly water. I'm up over 5 pounds from this past weekend and it's sticking to me like glue! Granted, I ate fast food the past few days but I didn't go over my calorie or carb goals and I've been drinking a lot of water. Not sure what is going on this time around but I'm definitely going to have a big gain this week and I'm bummed.

I know a lot of you also gain a few over the weekend, how long until it drops off?

I'm in almost the same boat. Gained 4 lbs over the weekend and it's not leaving. I'm trying not to let it get to me, as I know that I didn't eat 3,500 x 4 calories extra this weekend, but I definitely relate to the temptation to feel bummed.

Typically, I shed this weight by Tuesday. This week, it's still going up. I'm going to temporarily blame a major pressure drop in our area and hormones for the lack of stabilization. Hopefully, we'll both whoosh it out soon!

ashliedelgado

It just depends. Where are you in your cycle? My weekend weight holds on MUCH longer in the week or so after my period. Once I started noticing trends in my weight loss/gain during my cycle, things were a lot easier.

murp4069

I've switched from logging my weekly weigh-ins from Monday to Wednesday or Thursday, as I've found that it takes a few days for me to get rid of that weekend weight. Usually by Wednesday it's gone, but occasionally the scale won't budge until Thursday.

cwolfman13

I don't usually have this issue...when I do it takes about a day.

SarcasmIsMyLoveLanguage

Totally depends for me. Usually my weight gain is due to too much sodium in my diet over the weekend, which only takes me 2 days or so to shed. If it's "true" weight, closer to a week.

lucy_girl

I went up for the first time since starting to log and exercise a month ago and it hasn't come off in 4 or 5 days. It is SO frustrating! I don't expect a straight line down, but... Well, maybe I do... Normally I weigh in on Fridays but I can't help jumping on the scale every day.

ClosetBayesian

fastfoodietofitcutie wrote: »

I tend to always gain a few pounds over the weekend but then lose it right away within a day or two as I know it's mostly water. I'm up over 5 pounds from this past weekend and it's sticking to me like glue! Granted, I ate fast food the past few days but I didn't go over my calorie or carb goals and I've been drinking a lot of water. Not sure what is going on this time around but I'm definitely going to have a big gain this week and I'm bummed.

I know a lot of you also gain a few over the weekend, how long until it drops off?

I don't gain on the weekends. It's much easier that way. There is no reason why what I eat on weekends should go over my calories for the day. If I want a glass (or two or three) of wine on weekends, I compromise with calories elsewhere (i.e., a burger for dinner on Saturday night is fine, but maybe a salad instead of fries).

richardgavel

I weigh and track daily, so I can always have the reassurance easily visible that those peaks do fall and a weeks worth of up and down are soon to be followed by a whoosh. For me, there's a difference between "knowing" and the visible evidence in the progress graph and weekly tracking doesn't give me enough data points to visualize it.

blues4miles

Every weekend? That would be a problem. That would be wiping out any weight loss during the week by eating too much on the weekend.

That said, if I go over my calories by a lot (which definitely isn't every weekend) it will take 1-3 days usually to drop back down. If it takes longer than that, I know I put on fat not just water.

fastfoodietofitcutie

blues4miles wrote: »

Every weekend? That would be a problem. That would be wiping out any weight loss during the week by eating too much on the weekend.

That said, if I go over my calories by a lot (which definitely isn't every weekend) it will take 1-3 days usually to drop back down. If it takes longer than that, I know I put on fat not just water.

I don't gain 5 pounds every weekend but I can rarely get through a weekend without some kind of gain. I never weigh the same on Monday morning as what I weighed on Friday.

Machka9

I got to the point where I had to join MFP because I gained weight each weekend. Too much eating!

Now, if I gain weight on the weekend, it is maybe about 500 grams of exercise-induced water weight, and it is gone by Tuesday. Then I continue to lose more weight during the week.

chimaerandi

I bank for the weekends, so I almost always see Monday as my highest weight. It's usually gone by Tuesday or Wednesday, but at certain times in my cycle, it'll hang on longer.

blues4miles

fastfoodietofitcutie wrote: »

blues4miles wrote: »

Every weekend? That would be a problem. That would be wiping out any weight loss during the week by eating too much on the weekend.

That said, if I go over my calories by a lot (which definitely isn't every weekend) it will take 1-3 days usually to drop back down. If it takes longer than that, I know I put on fat not just water.

I don't gain 5 pounds every weekend but I can rarely get through a weekend without some kind of gain. I never weigh the same on Monday morning as what I weighed on Friday.

Well this was me a couple years ago and I had trouble losing weight consistently. Because I was eating my weekday deficit on the weekends. It didn't help that of course the weekend starts Friday night, so it was 4 days of 'okay' eating and 3 days of high calorie eating. Sure not as high as when I wasn't watching, but still enough I wasn't losing the weight. Just pointing that out, it's okay to eat more on weekends but it's also important to make sure it isn't undoing all your week day work!

Lounmoun

I weigh myself every Sunday morning. I don't have weekend weight gain. I log and stick to my calorie goal even on the weekend.
I do have a couple pound gain with my period and that goes away by the next week. So if it is water retention showing up on the scale a few days to a week to go away maybe.

fastfoodietofitcutie

Lounmoun wrote: »

I weigh myself every Sunday morning. I don't have weekend weight gain. I log and stick to my calorie goal even on the weekend.
I do have a couple pound gain with my period and that goes away by the next week. So if it is water retention showing up on the scale a few days to a week to go away maybe.

I give you a lot of credit. I have such a hard time on the weekends.

richardgavel

fastfoodietofitcutie wrote: »

Lounmoun wrote: »

I weigh myself every Sunday morning. I don't have weekend weight gain. I log and stick to my calorie goal even on the weekend.
I do have a couple pound gain with my period and that goes away by the next week. So if it is water retention showing up on the scale a few days to a week to go away maybe.

I give you a lot of credit. I have such a hard time on the weekends.

I treat weekends no different than weekdays. For me, building and reinforcing the habits that produce results was my priority and only practicing those habits in 5 day spurts I think would make it harder to create the habit mentally.

lorrpb

0 days because I follow the same eating plan on weekends as during the week.

keepupwithjack

Fast food has a lot of sodium. That could give you water weight gain.

Is this a sustainable long term strategy? I keep preaching to myself that it's not about scale numbers, it's about changing my relationship with food.

Meganthedogmom

Typically I'm back down to my "normal" weight by Wednesday. However, this week I'm also holding onto a couple pounds. Possibly due to me just having my period.

dollydiva2

My weekend (booze) bloat is normally gone by Wednesday.
I'm not getting on the scales on a Monday anymore.

fastfoodietofitcutie

So the verdict is in. I weigh in on Friday's and out of the 5 lbs I gained over the weekend I lost 2 so I'm up 3 lbs this week. I'm not sure if I'm still not done losing the water weight or I actually over ate that much last weekend. Nothing else I can do about it now so onward and upward!