Water weight gain??? Help??

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  • essexgirl1971
    essexgirl1971 Posts: 28 Member
    2LBS A DAY???? thats a lot, at your current weight i wouldnt worry about a gain. given yuor eating disorder i suppose its just part of parcel of your recovery
  • collectingblues
    collectingblues Posts: 2,541 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    robm1brown wrote: »
    Come on guys. You said she should see a doctor she replied that she already is. We have to take her at her word and trust the experts to advise the right things. I bet she doesn't want a dozen people questioning her on her eating disorder if all she wants to know about is periods and water retention.

    When someone is in a dangerous situation, I think it's appropriate for people to sometimes repeat advice appropriate to the situation.

    If OP doesn't want further advice, she's free to request that her post be deleted. Until then, I'm glad people are expressing their concern. I have no interest in living in a society where people don't ever try to help one another.

    And, along those lines, if you've got an ED, and simultaneously have questions about water weight, there's no law that says you have to give your weight/height stats when you ask. Like, I know I've got issues with weight and obsession -- so I just keep my mouth shut and Google instead of posting on a forum asking people to validate me. (Or, you know, stick to boards like MPA where there's more of a focus on the loss and not so much on the healthy behavior.)

    Yes, I was grilling her. Because I'm living this right now, and I know what I'm hearing from my treatment team, and I know they are having enough issues with me at the weight where I am, and with my anxiety levels related to weighing and water weight. So if my experiences can help someone else, I'm going to put it out there -- even if it then raises questions for the OP to think about whether she's really doing as well as she thinks she's doing.

    Protip: Good treatment teams know when you're trying to pull one over on them.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    essexgirl1971 wrote: »
    2LBS A DAY???? thats a lot, at your current weight i wouldnt worry about a gain. given yuor eating disorder i suppose its just part of parcel of your recovery

    OP said .2, not 2.
  • Rusty740
    Rusty740 Posts: 749 Member
    Kindlesprite wrote: »
    So I have been very steadily losing about .2 lbs per day sticking to my regular diet but for some reason the past two days I have gained 2 lbs each day going from 104 to 108!! I have read that this is likely because I am about a week out from my period, but this has never happened to me before and I am freaking out! Does this happen to other people? Can someone explain this to me?

    Yeah, this is the answer. It's to do with the estrogen/progesterone switch around day 14 or so and water retention. The good news is it is only temporary, the bad news is it'll drive you crazy :smile: . The best way for women to track weight loss is to compare the same weeks in their cycle to each other, not go from week to week. So week 1 is compared to week 5, and so on. I got this from Lyle Mcdonald on a youtube podcast. You can look up his name and women and fat loss and you'll find it.
  • Kindlesprite
    Kindlesprite Posts: 36 Member
    Rusty740 wrote: »
    Kindlesprite wrote: »
    So I have been very steadily losing about .2 lbs per day sticking to my regular diet but for some reason the past two days I have gained 2 lbs each day going from 104 to 108!! I have read that this is likely because I am about a week out from my period, but this has never happened to me before and I am freaking out! Does this happen to other people? Can someone explain this to me?

    Yeah, this is the answer. It's to do with the estrogen/progesterone switch around day 14 or so and water retention. The good news is it is only temporary, the bad news is it'll drive you crazy :smile: . The best way for women to track weight loss is to compare the same weeks in their cycle to each other, not go from week to week. So week 1 is compared to week 5, and so on. I got this from Lyle Mcdonald on a youtube podcast. You can look up his name and women and fat loss and you'll find it.

    Thank you so much! It makes me feel a lot better to have an understanding of the hormones behind it. I think because I have struggled with an ED, my hormones have been out of whack for a long time and haven't been operating normally so I haven't experienced this before. It's new and scary but having the logic behind it is helpful.
  • Rusty740
    Rusty740 Posts: 749 Member
    Kindlesprite wrote: »
    Rusty740 wrote: »
    Kindlesprite wrote: »
    So I have been very steadily losing about .2 lbs per day sticking to my regular diet but for some reason the past two days I have gained 2 lbs each day going from 104 to 108!! I have read that this is likely because I am about a week out from my period, but this has never happened to me before and I am freaking out! Does this happen to other people? Can someone explain this to me?

    Yeah, this is the answer. It's to do with the estrogen/progesterone switch around day 14 or so and water retention. The good news is it is only temporary, the bad news is it'll drive you crazy :smile: . The best way for women to track weight loss is to compare the same weeks in their cycle to each other, not go from week to week. So week 1 is compared to week 5, and so on. I got this from Lyle Mcdonald on a youtube podcast. You can look up his name and women and fat loss and you'll find it.

    Thank you so much! It makes me feel a lot better to have an understanding of the hormones behind it. I think because I have struggled with an ED, my hormones have been out of whack for a long time and haven't been operating normally so I haven't experienced this before. It's new and scary but having the logic behind it is helpful.

    Glad to hear :)
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