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Eat more and lose weight

leejoyce31
leejoyce31 Posts: 794 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I've been maintaining my weight for a while on purpose. I decided to up my calories slowly 2 weeks ago, and now I'm losing. Anyone else experience this? My activity level has not changed.

I'm not concerned. Just curious.

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  • vismal
    vismal Posts: 2,463 Member
    edited August 2017
    leejoyce31 wrote: »
    I've been maintaining my weight for a while on purpose. I decided to up my calories slowly 2 weeks ago, and now I'm losing. Anyone else experience this? My activity level has not changed.

    I'm not concerned. Just curious.

    It's just coincidence and water weight. Eating more calories per day without changing your activity level would not cause fat loss so the weight that was lost was something other than fat. This is almost always water.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    Happens to me when I jack up carbs, but it's because when I do so, I suddenly can't sit still. The first week of my last bulk, I went from 12,000-ish steps per day, to well over 20,000 without consciously trying.
  • leejoyce31
    leejoyce31 Posts: 794 Member
    Thanks. Makes sense to me. I agree it's probably water.
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