9 pound weight gain in 3 days!!!!!!!!

n_green_l
n_green_l Posts: 74 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
I admit it. I ate loads this weekend. Friday to Sunday I ate lots. I also drank a lot of alcohol. I had a lot on so I was eating out all weekend, BBQ Sunday and then out in the evening drinking and eating.

But I'm absolutely horrified to see I'm 9 lbs heavier today. I didn't even put this amount on when I went to America for a week. I'm so mortified I've worked hard to get to that weight. One binge weekend and I'm 9lb up.

Is this even possible?? I don't even wanna eat dinner this evening now. Im a huge fat pig. I'm back to square one now :( I wasn't even this weight after Christmas!!!
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  • n_green_l
    n_green_l Posts: 74 Member
    And I've weighed myself on the same scales and everything. I weigh every day
  • Kathryn247
    Kathryn247 Posts: 570 Member
    It's okay - there's no way you ate 9 x 3500 calories this weekend. It's probably water retention from salty food. Just get back to your routine, weigh and track everything. Check your weight again in a few days and it should be back down. Maybe not to where is was, but it won't be 9 pounds up.
  • n_green_l
    n_green_l Posts: 74 Member
    I've never seen weight gain like this in one day. My scales aren't broken either.
  • thewindandthework
    thewindandthework Posts: 531 Member
    edited June 2017
    Yep, it's probably mostly water weight. Normal. It's possible you gained a bit of fat, but certainly not 9 pounds.

    It's also possible there are other variables that changed between your weigh-ins. Different times of day, different clothes, wet hair, did go to the bathroom before one weigh-in, didn't before the other, tons of things can cause differences in weight.

    Don't worry about it, keep making good choices, you'll prob see the vast majority of these 9 pounds come off within a few days.

    ETA: I see you weigh daily. This is good! I bet you've seen plenty of days that were a few pounds higher than the previous day. You just happened to have three in a row. No big deal.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Relax. A lot of that is just water weight. Take a step back from the ledge and have an extra glass of water or two today. You'll be fine.
  • apullum
    apullum Posts: 4,838 Member
    Everyone is giving you good advice. This weight gain is caused by water retention and possibly by a larger amount of food moving through your digestive tract. With a few days of eating in moderation and hydrating well, it should come off.
  • hunhun57
    hunhun57 Posts: 74 Member
    Don't let it beat you down. Its mostly water weight and it can happen. Just keep moving forward and be consistent.
    I have put it this way to one of my great friends. You want to fuel up your car with the best gas andtake good care of it. Our bodies we need to fuel it up with healthy foods that give us energy. If we fuel it with crap our bodies will be sluggish and no energy to move.
    Hey its a new day , new start!!
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    nataliegreenlouise wrote: »
    I've never seen weight gain like this in one day. My scales aren't broken either.

    It's still water weight....

    this is exactly what it is.



  • ishredder
    ishredder Posts: 6 Member
    Happens to me all the time. Water is heavy. Check your sodium intake over those days. Its probably 2X or 3X your normal intake. Ironically for me... drinking more water helps get rid of that water weight. I think it helps dilute the sodium down to normal levels. If you get back to normal you will probably loose 6 of those lbs in the next 4 days or so. That is my experience.
  • StaciMarie1974
    StaciMarie1974 Posts: 4,138 Member
    Water weight and still some of the extra food mass in your body. Within 24-48 hours at least 1/2 of that will be gone.
  • Chadxx
    Chadxx Posts: 1,199 Member
    I was on vacation last weekend and spent 3 days down at the coast eating out. I gained 6 pounds but guess what? It all went away after a few days because weight and fat are not the same thing. Yes, you gained 9 pounds of weight temporarily but as others have pointed out, you didn't gain pounds of fat. Just relax, get back to normal, and watch most of that go away in the next few days.
  • sllm1
    sllm1 Posts: 2,130 Member
    It typically takes me about 3 days of eating right and drinking my water to get the water weight back off. No worries.
  • chaosbutterfly
    chaosbutterfly Posts: 71 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    chaosbutterfly wrote: »

    Here's how I do it:
    1. I fast for as long as I can that day. This gets my body to use up what I have stored more quickly.
    2. When I do eat, I stick to lower carb options, again to get my body to access the glycogen that I already have stored up.
    3. I drink a cleansing tea, like senna, dieter's tea, flat tummy tea, etc. Just something to gently but definitively get my digestion moving and help me eliminate the extra stuff.
    4. Exercise. I try to get more cardio during this time, because I really want to encourage your body to burn up your glycogen stores and sweat out the extra fluid. If I can, I will do the workout fasted and I will wear a sweat belt to stimulate more sweat.
    5. HYDRATE. This one is huge. I drink plenty of water and green tea to help stimulate the release of the water weight, as well as the excess sodium.

    A bunch of yikes up here!

    1. Don't fast. Just go back to your normal routine. Fasting can start a fast/binge cycle.
    2. If you want to do low carb, go ahead. But it isn't necessary.
    3. DON'T do this. Waste of money.
    4. Exercise is good, but it isn't punishment for your actions over the weekend. Exercise if you want.
    5. This one is ok.


    I said what I do lol.
    Didn't say she had to do any of these things too.

    Also, just to a few of your points:
    1. There's nothing inherently unhealthy or mentally damaging about controlled fasting.
    2. I've found a few dieters teas that work really well for me, so that's why I mentioned them. Just because they don't work well for you doesn't mean that they are a waste of money for everyone.
    3. I didn't say anything about punishing anyone. All I said was that I exercise and emphasize cardio when I'm trying to drop water, which is sound. A good hard sweat session after an off-program weekend does not have to be punishment. If I've been eating more than normal for a few days, I usually find that I have some extra juice in the gym, so why not take advantage of it to hit some PRs, increase my running mileage, etc. You can push yourself without punishing yourself.

    People lose and maintain weight in different ways.
    Just because you don't want to do something doesn't make it unhealthy or a bad idea.

  • junodog1
    junodog1 Posts: 4,792 Member
    nataliegreenlouise wrote: »
    I admit it. I ate loads this weekend. .... horrified to see I'm 9 lbs heavier today. I didn't even put this amount on when I went to America for a week. .....

    Because our food is so good that you did not want to restrain yourself. Either that or - Hey! That's not very nice. :o

  • cqbkaju
    cqbkaju Posts: 1,011 Member
    edited June 2017
    nataliegreenlouise wrote: »
    But I'm absolutely horrified to see I'm 9 lbs heavier today. I didn't even put this amount on when I went to America for a week. I'm so mortified I've worked hard to get to that weight. One binge weekend and I'm 9lb up.
    No, you are not.

    Water <> Fat

  • ccsernica
    ccsernica Posts: 1,040 Member
    edited June 2017
    My journal is open. Go look at my graph for the past couple of weeks and see what happened to me last Monday. My unrecorded weight from the previous Friday was 162.2. I typically only record once a week since I hit maintenance, but I recorded every day last week just to demonstrate how this kind of weight might come off.

    The only thing I did differently was to drink a lot of water to flush out the sodium I presumed I'd taken in.
  • chaosbutterfly
    chaosbutterfly Posts: 71 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »

    I hope you get some help for your disordered eating before you do yourself serious damage

    Thanks! :*
  • YvetteK2015
    YvetteK2015 Posts: 654 Member
    it's water weight. This happened to me one time. I don't recall why, but I was so confused that I created a thread asking about it. For me it was 10 lbs. Within 5 or 6 days it resolved itself. I just made sure I ate no more than 2300 mg of salt a day for that time, and drank A LOT of water.
  • astrampe
    astrampe Posts: 2,169 Member
    edited June 2017
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  • Psychgrrl
    Psychgrrl Posts: 3,177 Member
    Not to be indelicate, but a lot of it is probably food waste and it will disappear as soon as you poop.
  • firef1y72
    firef1y72 Posts: 1,579 Member
    nataliegreenlouise wrote: »
    I've never seen weight gain like this in one day. My scales aren't broken either.

    I put on 12lb over a couple days a few weeks back, lost it all over the next week though.
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