One day off keto?!?! Weight gain?

mariaageexox

I started keto about a week ago and lost 5 pounds. It was my boyfriend and I anniversary on Sunday and we went out to dinner. I had pasta and a chocolate lava cake. It is two days later and I am 3 pounds heavier. Could it be?!?! I went back on keto the next day but I am concerned about the gain.

TavistockToad

yep, cos you ate carbs... its water weight

h1udd

that weight you lost a week ago .... it wasnt fat .. it wasnt muscle, it was water and glycogen bound to the carbs your body was using as fuel. When you went on Keto, you deprived your body of that energy source and the glycogen depleated, and the water was dropped so you lost a nice chunk of "weight" not "fat".

yesterday you ate carbs, water gets bound to carbs, your muscles topped back up with glycogen and you put some weight back on.

dont worry, its just water, your body is just doing what evolution designed it to do

NovusDies

This keto business was well thought out to give early "rewards" and then "penalties" to keep people scared into submission.

Sabine_Stroehm

NovusDies wrote: »

This keto business was well thought out to give early "rewards" and then "penalties" to keep people scared into submission.

Thought out? It's just the way our bodies work.

Sabine_Stroehm

OP: yes, as you've just read, the "gain" is water. In that first week you probably *lost* a pound, the rest was likely water. Try not to let it freak you out. If you decide keto is the approach for you, get back on it, and wait out the water. It will take a few days. Each time you do something like eat cake, the scale will go up. If you stay in a calorie deficit, and lose quite a bit, the temporary UP on the scale when you eat a lot of carbs will not be so noticeable.

deannalfisher

Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »

NovusDies wrote: »

This keto business was well thought out to give early "rewards" and then "penalties" to keep people scared into submission.

Thought out? It's just the way our bodies work.

but the keto folks don't explain that - so people who do keto see that immediate water weight loss and then a gain if they eat something...so they freak out

cwolfman13

mariaageexox wrote: »

I started keto about a week ago and lost 5 pounds. It was my boyfriend and I anniversary on Sunday and we went out to dinner. I had pasta and a chocolate lava cake. It is two days later and I am 3 pounds heavier. Could it be?!?! I went back on keto the next day but I am concerned about the gain.

It's just water. Every gram of carbohydrate holds 4 grams of water. Water has weight. Most of that 5 Lbs loss was water too. When you go low carb, you dump water and glycogen.

Sabine_Stroehm

deannalfisher wrote: »

Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »

NovusDies wrote: »

This keto business was well thought out to give early "rewards" and then "penalties" to keep people scared into submission.

Thought out? It's just the way our bodies work.

but the keto folks don't explain that - so people who do keto see that immediate water weight loss and then a gain if they eat something...so they freak out

That's not what your post said. But regardless, are they obligated to? (do they all know?) Does MFP explain, and do all the calorie counters explain that I'll gain when I get my period each month? And meanwhile, we get COUNTLESS new posts asking why the scale went up when aunt flo visited. It happens. And now, some people who are keto and some people who aren't have explained it to the OP. And tomorrow someone else will. And then someone will post about their period. Or ovulation, or a sushi dinner... And someone will freak that they've stalled after two weeks on a diet. And people will tell them why their weight loss slowed down, not stalled..... it's the nature of the forums.

NovusDies

Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »

That's not what your post said. But regardless, are they obligated to? (do they all know?) Does MFP explain, and do all the calorie counters explain that I'll gain when I get my period each month? And meanwhile, we get COUNTLESS new posts asking why the scale went up when aunt flo visited. It happens. And now, some people who are keto and some people who aren't have explained it to the OP. And tomorrow someone else will. And then someone will post about their period. Or ovulation, or a sushi dinner... And someone will freak that they've stalled after two weeks on a diet. And people will tell them why their weight loss slowed down, not stalled..... it's the nature of the forums.

Last I checked MFP doesn't advocate a specific weight loss method and it does have sticky threads with information that someone could read about TOM if they weren't so quick to create a new topic. Also, to your point there have been countless threads so a person could find their answers by scanning a few pages or doing a simple search. It is actually rude by popular message board etiquette, and has been for close to 3 decades, to start a new topic without at least trying to find your answers otherwise.

Sabine_Stroehm

NovusDies wrote: »

Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »

That's not what your post said. But regardless, are they obligated to? (do they all know?) Does MFP explain, and do all the calorie counters explain that I'll gain when I get my period each month? And meanwhile, we get COUNTLESS new posts asking why the scale went up when aunt flo visited. It happens. And now, some people who are keto and some people who aren't have explained it to the OP. And tomorrow someone else will. And then someone will post about their period. Or ovulation, or a sushi dinner... And someone will freak that they've stalled after two weeks on a diet. And people will tell them why their weight loss slowed down, not stalled..... it's the nature of the forums.

Last I checked MFP doesn't advocate a specific weight loss method and it does have sticky threads with information that someone could read about TOM if they weren't so quick to create a new topic. Also, to your point there have been countless threads so a person could find their answers by scanning a few pages or doing a simple search. It is actually rude by popular message board etiquette, and has been for close to 3 decades, to start a new topic without at least trying to find your answers otherwise.

Yep. Not disagreeing with any of that. I have moderated large forums. Not disagreeing.

WholeFoods4Lyfe

When you follow a ketogenic diet, you are teaching your body to burn fat for fuel instead of glucose, or in addition to. Technically, you don't need to consume carbs. Yes, the body uses glucose as fuel, but the body can actually make glucose from protein through a process called gluconeogenisi. HOWEVER! This is not a process that the body can just figure out in 5 days, as with anything, you need to give yourself at least 30 days for the body to start to figure out what it was already designed to do. For most who consume the SAD, the body uses glucose for fuel because it has easy access, the body has to work much harder to burn fat for fuel.

All of that to say, that in 7 days you haven't really lost a lot of fat, so as soon as you return to your old habits, so will the scale. If you really are committed to losing weight and following a ketogenic diet, then you need to actually commit to it. Keto can be a great diet, when done correctly.

__TMac__

Also, restaurant meals usually mean higher sodium, so there's a second reason for water retention.

Also, weight loss is a long-term proposition. Try not to worry about short-term fluctuations.

HestiaMoon1

NovusDies wrote: »

@michelle172415 There is just so much wrong you should just edit and delete the entire post.

You obviously disapprove of the Keto diet, so why are you even answering? The OP wasn’t asking for opinions about the diet as a plan. There will be others who actually ask what opinions folks have on Keto or Paleo or Jell-O diets, they’ll welcome your input.

johnslater461

michelle172415 wrote: »

When you follow a ketogenic diet, you are teaching your body to burn fat for fuel instead of glucose, or in addition to. Technically, you don't need to consume carbs. Yes, the body uses glucose as fuel, but the body can actually make glucose from protein through a process called gluconeogenisi. HOWEVER! This is not a process that the body can just figure out in 5 days, as with anything, you need to give yourself at least 30 days for the body to start to figure out what it was already designed to do. For most who consume the SAD, the body uses glucose for fuel because it has easy access, the body has to work much harder to burn fat for fuel.

All of that to say, that in 7 days you haven't really lost a lot of fat, so as soon as you return to your old habits, so will the scale. If you really are committed to losing weight and following a ketogenic diet, then you need to actually commit to it. Keto can be a great diet, when done correctly.

Your body doesn't need to "learn" to burn fat for fuel. It's the primary fuel source when you are at rest.

Keto works exactly the same as any other diet, caloric deficit.

HestiaMoon1

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