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3 days of bingeing = 2 kilo weight gain in a week

wuwu90
wuwu90 Posts: 275 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
This is what happened to me this week. Just thought i would share for educational purposes and maybe inspire people to not binge. The aftermath is painful

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  • donjtomasco
    donjtomasco Posts: 790 Member
    Yes you are proving that more calories in adds weight.
  • itsbasschick
    itsbasschick Posts: 1,584 Member
    unless you ate over 14,000 calories above maintenance in three days, which would be hard to do, a lot of the weight you see is more food than you usually eat still moving through your body and probably some water retention.
  • Somebody_Loved
    Somebody_Loved Posts: 498 Member
    unless you ate over 14,000 calories above maintenance in three days, which would be hard to do, a lot of the weight you see is more food than you usually eat still moving through your body and probably some water retention.

    All joking aside, ^^ this. Most of it is probably just water weight. Get right back to it and the majority of the weight will be gone in the next few days.
  • donjtomasco
    donjtomasco Posts: 790 Member
    I am very sorry you had this terrible experience and I did not mean to hurt your feelings. What I said was simply true. I doubt any one person here feels good when they have an unplanned craving and cave to it, resulting in weight gain.
  • donjtomasco
    donjtomasco Posts: 790 Member
    Did you eat a lot of salt and food loaded with sodium?
  • Katwin2013
    Katwin2013 Posts: 23 Member
    If you have a calorie burn watch you can see everything you have to do to burn those calories and then you wont want to binge
  • faidwen
    faidwen Posts: 131 Member
    Water retention from sodium.....
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
    If it makes you feel any better, I gained about 6 lbs (2.7 kilos) after a long weekend of too much food and alcohol. But jumped back on the deficit on Monday, and by Wednesday was back down to my pre - weekend weight . .
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Yeah, water weight...
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