Weight gain ‘fluctuations’ for me are not temporary

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asonrody

Dude, chill out! You're stressing yourself out so much over 15 pounds. Losing weight is a slow process, especially when you don't have a lot to lose. Up your calories so you're losing weight slower but able to eat more. Get a food scale and track everything you eat, including fruits and veggies. WATCH YOUR SODIUM! You throw pity parties when the scale doesn't immediately go down, but you're just setting yourself up for failure. Having a lot of sodium will increase your water retention, which makes it look like you're gaining weight. Drink lots and lots of water every day, especially when you have a lot of sodium. Restaurant food is full of sodium and calories. The four pounds wasn't four pounds of fat gain, it was four pounds of food in your stomach and water retention from the sodium. Start reading everyone's replies and actually listen, because we can't help you if you won't even take such simple advice as lowering your sodium intake.

AliceDark

If seeing daily fluctuations is causing you this much distress...stop weighing on a daily basis. Weigh weekly or even monthly.

ashliedelgado

phwdjones wrote: »

ashliedelgado wrote: »

I was looking at your diary, and all other things aside, have you tried eating more than once or twice a day? Maybe you need to eat more than one or two big meals to feel satisfied. Eat 3 smaller meals, or toss a snack in there.

That's a good plan, yes. I have a huge appetite though so its very hard to have smaller meals, when I eat I eat big.

Big glass of water 10-20 minutes before meal. Big plate of salad or steamed veggies first. Smaller portions of the rest after that. You'll cut calories, and still get that full feeling.

And FFS dude, throw your scale away. You've got to be going nuts. Take measurements instead, and work for new personal bests at the gym. When you get to your goal, you're just gonna rocket right back the way you are living.

Throw your scale away. Manage your sodium. BREATHE.

gibbs1993

Maybe try a keto diet? I suggest this based on the issues you're experience. When you are keto, you can consume more salt, the proteins and fats will help you feel full at your calorie goal, and there's a good chance you will see regular loss on the scale. But, it's not for everyone because you really need to accurately track your food intake and macros and need to stay in the 20g of carb a day range.

Lynzdee18

SweetPea. I mean this with kindness, but I’m not sure losing 15 pounds is going to make you any happier... just how I see it......

TavistockToad

phwdjones wrote: »

Went out last night. Had 900+ calories spare for dinner. Ate some sourdough bread, 1 bottle of beer, 1 duck curry and some small shrimp. Woke up today and am 194 lbs. FOR *kitten* SAKE

The meal wasn't even that large!! So I probably hit 2700 cals - yet 4 lbs gain?!!??!

The sad thing is, after all your threads and everyone's responses, you are still surprised to have gained water weight...

Where's the flogging a dead horse gif?!

Nony_Mouse

This seems to apply pretty perfectly to you: https://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/another-look-at-metabolic-damage.html/

Especially this paragraph:

I think what’s really going on is you have a bunch of neurotic crazed female dieters, who are misreporting their food intake (especially the crazy food binges we KNOW happen in this population) and who are holding onto massive amounts of water due to the combination of low calories, high-cardio and being batshit stressed mentally about the whole process. And who magically start losing fat again when their poorly controlled 1200 calories becomes a well-controlled 1250 calories, well….you’ll have to call me incredulous about the whole thing.

busyPK

If I were you I'd put the scale away. That number does not define you! Focus on a workout goal and how your clothes feel. I've gained and lost the same 3lbs for a month now, although my pants are fitting a bit looser and a co-worker has mentioned she is impressed with my weight loss so far.

MegaMooseEsq

phwdjones wrote: »

Went out last night. Had 900+ calories spare for dinner. Ate some sourdough bread, 1 bottle of beer, 1 duck curry and some small shrimp. Woke up today and am 194 lbs. FOR *kitten* SAKE

The meal wasn't even that large!! So I probably hit 2700 cals - yet 4 lbs gain?!!??!

I went out last night, estimated 713 calories for dinner - split a plate of pork shoulder, polenta and a dinner roll with a glass of sangria. Went out afterward and had several hard ciders, bread and butter, and a small quesadilla. About 3k net. I’m also incredibly stressed over the fires in Northern California because of family members literally in the line of fire. So yeah, the scale was up a couple of pounds this morning. Figure out your maintenance calories and do some math to figure out about what’s fat and what’s water. I figure I gained about .2 lb fat and 1.2 water. So it goes.

AllSpiceNice

Hi MegaMooseEsq - I hope you and your family are safe and doing well.

MegaMooseEsq wrote: »

phwdjones wrote: »

Went out last night. Had 900+ calories spare for dinner. Ate some sourdough bread, 1 bottle of beer, 1 duck curry and some small shrimp. Woke up today and am 194 lbs. FOR *kitten* SAKE

The meal wasn't even that large!! So I probably hit 2700 cals - yet 4 lbs gain?!!??!

I went out last night, estimated 713 calories for dinner - split a plate of pork shoulder, polenta and a dinner roll with a glass of sangria. Went out afterward and had several hard ciders, bread and butter, and a small quesadilla. About 3k net. I’m also incredibly stressed over the fires in Northern California because of family members literally in the line of fire. So yeah, the scale was up a couple of pounds this morning. Figure out your maintenance calories and do some math to figure out about what’s fat and what’s water. I figure I gained about .2 lb fat and 1.2 water. So it goes.

aeloine

BUT ALSO keep in mind that your dinner was WAY over whatever calories you had left. I've yet to get a curry at a restaurant that couldn't comfortably feed two adults and that wasn't packed with cream, salt, and not served with rice, bread, or BOTH. Just THAT blew you out of the water.

lorrpb

Never saw anyone say water weight will be gone the next day. Most say a few days to 3 weeks!

jennydelgado09

MegaMooseEsq wrote: »

phwdjones wrote: »

Went out last night. Had 900+ calories spare for dinner. Ate some sourdough bread, 1 bottle of beer, 1 duck curry and some small shrimp. Woke up today and am 194 lbs. FOR *kitten* SAKE

The meal wasn't even that large!! So I probably hit 2700 cals - yet 4 lbs gain?!!??!

I went out last night, estimated 713 calories for dinner - split a plate of pork shoulder, polenta and a dinner roll with a glass of sangria. Went out afterward and had several hard ciders, bread and butter, and a small quesadilla. About 3k net. I’m also incredibly stressed over the fires in Northern California because of family members literally in the line of fire. So yeah, the scale was up a couple of pounds this morning. Figure out your maintenance calories and do some math to figure out about what’s fat and what’s water. I figure I gained about .2 lb fat and 1.2 water. So it goes.

How do you do the math for that?

tinkerbellang83

jennydelgado09 wrote: »

MegaMooseEsq wrote: »

phwdjones wrote: »

Went out last night. Had 900+ calories spare for dinner. Ate some sourdough bread, 1 bottle of beer, 1 duck curry and some small shrimp. Woke up today and am 194 lbs. FOR *kitten* SAKE

The meal wasn't even that large!! So I probably hit 2700 cals - yet 4 lbs gain?!!??!

I went out last night, estimated 713 calories for dinner - split a plate of pork shoulder, polenta and a dinner roll with a glass of sangria. Went out afterward and had several hard ciders, bread and butter, and a small quesadilla. About 3k net. I’m also incredibly stressed over the fires in Northern California because of family members literally in the line of fire. So yeah, the scale was up a couple of pounds this morning. Figure out your maintenance calories and do some math to figure out about what’s fat and what’s water. I figure I gained about .2 lb fat and 1.2 water. So it goes.

How do you do the math for that?

A pound of fat equates to roughly 3500 calories. So to gain one pound of fat you would need to eat
maintenance intake+ 3500

So if for example your Maintenance is 2400 and you ate 3000 calories, you were in a calorie excess of 600. Which is approximately 0.2lbs fat, if you saw a gain of more than that overnight it's mostly water retention from the sodium/alcohol/carbs.

Lesscookies

Why do you want to lose 2 pounds a week?