How ??

cnjg420

How do you put on 2.5 pounds in one week

malibu927

Eat 8750 calories over maintenance.

If that didn't happen...water retention from a variety a reasons

RecognitionT

2.5 pounds can be gained in a day.

Just eat 8750 calories over your maintenance.

RoxieDawn

cnjg420 wrote: »

The highest I’ve gone over maintenance is 1200 last week

Total of 1200 for the week or 1200 calories over per day?

triciale555

Too much sodium and it takes a few days to go away

sarahthes

I cycle water like crazy. I can go up 5 lbs overnight easy, let alone over the course of a week...

estherdragonbat

Have surgery. The edema will even overshadow the 12 hours of clear fluids, 15-hour fast, and enema required prior. Why yes. That did happen this week. Why do you ask?

AnnPT77

Be a pre-menopausal female at a particular stage of her menstrual cycle, for one. Or start a new exercise program. Or eat more carbs or sodium than usual, even if it's a perfectly healthy amount of either/both. Or eat a bunch of high-fiber food within a couple of days before the 2nd weigh-in, that's still mostly in digestive transit. Or one of many other reasons for water weight or digestive contents to be a little higher.

Heck, I gained 4.4 pounds between Friday morning and Sunday morning, and I'll guarantee you I didn't eat 15,400 calories over maintenance (and I'm post-menopausal). In my case, it's water weight and digestive contents from extra carbs/sodium . . . it'll be gone in a few days. In fact, 2 pounds of it was gone by this afternoon.

If you didn't eat 8750 calories more than maintenance, your water weight will be gone in a few days, too.

Don't worry.

MichelleSilverleaf

cnjg420 wrote: »

The highest I’ve gone over maintenance is 1200 last week

Why are you undereating?

sarahthes

estherdragonbat wrote: »

Have surgery. The edema will even overshadow the 12 hours of clear fluids, 15-hour fast, and enema required prior. Why yes. That did happen this week. Why do you ask?

Oh gosh now I'm having flashbacks to feet so swollen I thought my skin would split. Once it started to clear out of my system I peed and sweated out 25 lbs in 3 days.

JeromeBarry1

MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »

cnjg420 wrote: »

The highest I’ve gone over maintenance is 1200 last week

Why are you undereating?

She's not undereating if her diary is accurate for the last week.

RoxieDawn

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »

cnjg420 wrote: »

The highest I’ve gone over maintenance is 1200 last week

Why are you undereating?

She's not undereating if her diary is accurate for the last week.

Same question came up a week ago, so wondering if this goes back further than one week? Looking her diary I see nothing that should put her above eating over maintenance. Has to be water weight shifts/retention.

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/41826053#Comment_41826053

MichelleSilverleaf

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »

cnjg420 wrote: »

The highest I’ve gone over maintenance is 1200 last week

Why are you undereating?

She's not undereating if her diary is accurate for the last week.

I may have misunderstood her comment, I thought she meant she had once gone over 1200cal, with that number being her maintenance.