Did you gain water/glycogen weight when switching to maintenance?

jswigart

heybales wrote: »

Fursian wrote: »

sijomial wrote: »

When you go from deficit to maintenance the store of glycogen/water returns to a normal but higher range, it's not temporary.

@sijomial, With this being said, do you think it is a good tactic that some people do, overshoot goal by some? So when the glycogen/water returns, they're at their goal weight, and not 2-5lbs or so over?

@benevempress, good thread and questions. I find all this stuff fascinating!

The other possibility that happens to many that have had exercise as a major component of new life losing weight.

You get to goal weight and realize it isn't about the weight anymore anyway - but rather the performance in exercise or the look from the improvements from exercise.

As such weight no longer matters as much as other more useful signs.

And even then if concerned about weight, or weight as a proxy to say body fat, is if the place you gain fat first starts to increase. For many that is waist - and easy to see and check.
If the pants start to feel tight for no known expected reasons - you trim a couple hundred calories for a couple of weeks - all good.

I'm struggling with this same dilemma right now.
I am slowly increasing my calories from 1200 during weight loss, to eventually 1850 for maintenance.
Trying to add just small increments around 100 calories at a time.
It's been rocky. It's pretty scarey when the scales begin to swing upward!

alexandrakendal

I really don't understand how people are gaining water/glyco weight and NOT feeling like nothing fits anymore. And even losing inches! I've been stuck in my "fat pants" for almost a month now, and I'm definitely not eating more than my fair share. But maybe that's because I exercised before entering maintenance.

cwolfman13

alexandrakendal wrote: »

I really don't understand how people are gaining water/glyco weight and NOT feeling like nothing fits anymore. And even losing inches! I've been stuck in my "fat pants" for almost a month now, and I'm definitely not eating more than my fair share. But maybe that's because I exercised before entering maintenance.

Most glycogen is stored in the liver and should have no bearing on how your clothes fit.

heybales

cwolfman13 wrote: »

alexandrakendal wrote: »

I really don't understand how people are gaining water/glyco weight and NOT feeling like nothing fits anymore. And even losing inches! I've been stuck in my "fat pants" for almost a month now, and I'm definitely not eating more than my fair share. But maybe that's because I exercised before entering maintenance.

Most glycogen is stored in the liver and should have no bearing on how your clothes fit.

Ditto's.

And even the slight increase in what is stored in the muscle mass would be spread amongst all the muscles, so again should be barely noticeable.

But if that "fair share" was determined from when in a diet and exercising - and you aren't exercising now as your phrasing sounds like to me - well .....

scrittrice

I took that to mean the OP didn't wait to reach maintenance to start exercising, but now I can see reading it your way, too.

heybales wrote: »

cwolfman13 wrote: »

alexandrakendal wrote: »

I really don't understand how people are gaining water/glyco weight and NOT feeling like nothing fits anymore. And even losing inches! I've been stuck in my "fat pants" for almost a month now, and I'm definitely not eating more than my fair share. But maybe that's because I exercised before entering maintenance.

But if that "fair share" was determined from when in a diet and exercising - and you aren't exercising now as your phrasing sounds like to me - well .....

bunnyluv19

Bump! great post_for new maintainers.

lorrpb

5. No. I was losing so slowly at the end there really wasn’t much transition.