I gained 9 pounds in 5 days! help!

my doctor put me on concentrated estrogen pills and she never explained the side effects. apparently one side effects is weight gain! it does though water retention and causes the body to store fat by inhibiting thyroid function and other ways that i don't care to type out. also, I have been over eating for the past 4 days cause it the pills increase your appetite too. I usually eat around 1300 calories and wen i have a free day where sometimes i binge eat, I gain like 3 pounds the next day but it goes away in a couple days. but ive never gained 9 pounds! and im worried taking the pill for 5 days is going to make it stick. i was 135 before and now im 144. will the weight go back down if i go back to eating like before? any advice? im kinda panicking here! oh and im 5'5" if that matters.

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  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    my doctor put me on concentrated estrogen pills and she never explained the side effects. apparently one side effects is weight gain! it does though water retention

    I would guess since it has only been 5 days a lot of that is water weight.

    Since it increases your appetite I'd try eating filling foods - lots of protein and fiber that really fill you up.
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
    It has to be water. There is no other explanation. 9 pounds translates to 31,500 calories or 6300 calories a day more than you need. Assume you maintain at your 1300 calories a day. Have you eaten 7600 calories every day the last 5 days? Do you know how much food 7600 calories would be?

    Relax. It's water. It will come right off. Don't sweat it.
  • S0nsh1ne
    S0nsh1ne Posts: 218 Member
    I gained 5 lbs in 1 day and it took me a week and a half to lose. I could tell from my food diary it was sodium and not calories. Like stated above, you know it wasn't calorie intake so it'll come back off eventually. Good luck with your new medication.
  • JDHINAZ
    JDHINAZ Posts: 641 Member
    Call your doctor tomorrow and see if there is an alternative medicine you can take.
  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
    So in one post it was gained 9 lbs in 4 days and another it was gained 9 lbs in 5 days...and the stories in both of those are completely different...so which story is it? Not trying to be mean, just asking.

    Then one post is about fasting but the other is about getting out of starvation mode? But in one of your weight gained posts you've been binging...

    Please see a medical doctor to help you. No one on these boards are qualified. I'm sure you've heard all this before...

    And before anyone tries to "slam" me...here ya go...

    TOPIC: gained 9 pounds in 4 days!? HELP! Sat 08/17/13 01:57 PM
    so for 4 days i ate more than i usually do. I didn't count calories but I didn't binge or anything. i did have things i never do though, like cookies, donuts, cheese and chocolate. its been a week since my last day of over eating and my weight still hasn't returned to where it was before! I have been constipated for about 2 weeks and my periods is kinda all over the place, could any of these be contributing to me not losing the weight?

    oh and before when i used to have one binge day, i would gain about 2-4 pounds but i would lose it in like 5 days. so I'm kinda panicking now!
    FaryRochester
    Joined Jan 2013
    Posts: 4

    TOPIC: I gained 9 pounds in 5 days! help! Sun 08/11/13 09:03 PM
    my doctor put me on concentrated estrogen pills and she never explained the side effects. apparently one side effects is weight gain! it does though water retention and causes the body to store fat by inhibiting thyroid function and other ways that i don't care to type out. also, I have been over eating for the past 4 days cause it the pills increase your appetite too. I usually eat around 1300 calories and wen i have a free day where sometimes i binge eat, I gain like 3 pounds the next day but it goes away in a couple days. but ive never gained 9 pounds! and im worried taking the pill for 5 days is going to make it stick. i was 135 before and now im 144. will the weight go back down if i go back to eating like before? any advice? im kinda panicking here! oh and im 5'5" if that matters.
    FaryRochester
    Joined Jan 2013
    Posts: 4

    TOPIC: intermittent fasting? Thu 07/25/13 08:30 PM
    so I just found out about this IF diet and the more i read about it, the more confused i get! there are so many different ways to do IF and each one has mixed reviews. IF goes against everything I've read about weight loss and metabolism and its messing with my head. anyway, I've stopped losing weight with restricting calories (i eat around 1300 cal a day) and ive been stuck at 134 pounds for 2 years now. so my goal is weight loss, I'm not necessarily looking to build muscle, i just want o get rid of excess fat.

    so I'm just looking for advice on which IF style diet to try out. any review/info on these diets would help out cause my head i just spinning from all the search i did on all the different kinds. lean gains seems to focus more on the muscle gaining aspect rather than weight loss, right? I was leaning more toward eat stop eat. has anyone tried ESE?
    FaryRochester
    Joined Jan 2013
    Posts: 4

    TOPIC: how to get out of starvation mode? Thu 01/31/13 05:03 AM
    weight: 132 pounds
    height: 5'5"
    age:18
    gender: female

    ok so im not sure if i am in starvation mode or not...I count calories but I don't really know the exact calories of the stuff i eat, so i do an estimate and i usually undercount. anyway, i think I've been eating somewhere around 1000-1200 everyday, expect on saturday when i let myself eat whatever i want (i guess it's binging for a day?) i have s small meal every 3 hours and I eat healthy foods and haven't cut out any food groups. so i've been doing this for a year now and I've only lost about 7 pounds. now I'm obsessing over wether i've been starving myself or not! i don't want to mess up my metabolism (i genetically have a slow one to begin with) oh and I get hungry; like I'm not always satisfied with what i eat. but thats a good sign, right? it means my body isn't in starvation mode where it's learnt to survive on low energy?

    so what can I do now? I want to lose weight nit maintain by eating so little. should i up my calories? how much weight will I gain if I do? would this weight gain actually fat or would it just be water weight which i can easily loose again?
  • bauer1971
    bauer1971 Posts: 70 Member
    So in one post it was gained 9 lbs in 4 days and another it was gained 9 lbs in 5 days...and the stories in both of those are completely different...so which story is it? Not trying to be mean, just asking.

    Then one post is about fasting but the other is about getting out of starvation mode? But in one of your weight gained posts you've been binging...

    Please see a medical doctor to help you. No one on these boards are qualified. I'm sure you've heard all this before...

    And before anyone tries to "slam" me...here ya go...

    TOPIC: gained 9 pounds in 4 days!? HELP! Sat 08/17/13 01:57 PM
    so for 4 days i ate more than i usually do. I didn't count calories but I didn't binge or anything. i did have things i never do though, like cookies, donuts, cheese and chocolate. its been a week since my last day of over eating and my weight still hasn't returned to where it was before! I have been constipated for about 2 weeks and my periods is kinda all over the place, could any of these be contributing to me not losing the weight?

    oh and before when i used to have one binge day, i would gain about 2-4 pounds but i would lose it in like 5 days. so I'm kinda panicking now!
    FaryRochester
    Joined Jan 2013
    Posts: 4

    TOPIC: I gained 9 pounds in 5 days! help! Sun 08/11/13 09:03 PM
    my doctor put me on concentrated estrogen pills and she never explained the side effects. apparently one side effects is weight gain! it does though water retention and causes the body to store fat by inhibiting thyroid function and other ways that i don't care to type out. also, I have been over eating for the past 4 days cause it the pills increase your appetite too. I usually eat around 1300 calories and wen i have a free day where sometimes i binge eat, I gain like 3 pounds the next day but it goes away in a couple days. but ive never gained 9 pounds! and im worried taking the pill for 5 days is going to make it stick. i was 135 before and now im 144. will the weight go back down if i go back to eating like before? any advice? im kinda panicking here! oh and im 5'5" if that matters.
    FaryRochester
    Joined Jan 2013
    Posts: 4

    TOPIC: intermittent fasting? Thu 07/25/13 08:30 PM
    so I just found out about this IF diet and the more i read about it, the more confused i get! there are so many different ways to do IF and each one has mixed reviews. IF goes against everything I've read about weight loss and metabolism and its messing with my head. anyway, I've stopped losing weight with restricting calories (i eat around 1300 cal a day) and ive been stuck at 134 pounds for 2 years now. so my goal is weight loss, I'm not necessarily looking to build muscle, i just want o get rid of excess fat.

    so I'm just looking for advice on which IF style diet to try out. any review/info on these diets would help out cause my head i just spinning from all the search i did on all the different kinds. lean gains seems to focus more on the muscle gaining aspect rather than weight loss, right? I was leaning more toward eat stop eat. has anyone tried ESE?
    FaryRochester
    Joined Jan 2013
    Posts: 4

    TOPIC: how to get out of starvation mode? Thu 01/31/13 05:03 AM
    weight: 132 pounds
    height: 5'5"
    age:18
    gender: female

    ok so im not sure if i am in starvation mode or not...I count calories but I don't really know the exact calories of the stuff i eat, so i do an estimate and i usually undercount. anyway, i think I've been eating somewhere around 1000-1200 everyday, expect on saturday when i let myself eat whatever i want (i guess it's binging for a day?) i have s small meal every 3 hours and I eat healthy foods and haven't cut out any food groups. so i've been doing this for a year now and I've only lost about 7 pounds. now I'm obsessing over wether i've been starving myself or not! i don't want to mess up my metabolism (i genetically have a slow one to begin with) oh and I get hungry; like I'm not always satisfied with what i eat. but thats a good sign, right? it means my body isn't in starvation mode where it's learnt to survive on low energy?

    so what can I do now? I want to lose weight nit maintain by eating so little. should i up my calories? how much weight will I gain if I do? would this weight gain actually fat or would it just be water weight which i can easily loose again?

    this just got interesting....
  • MoreBean13
    MoreBean13 Posts: 8,701 Member
    What just happened?!

    I got punked I think.

    My answer remains the same. You didn't dain 9 lbs in 4 OR 5 days, it's water and extra food in your body.
  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
    One post you are 18, your profile says 19...I'm thinking you're underage...

    Oh and in another post you're only 2 lbs from your goal weight...so yeah, there's that too.

    Your weight is 134 in one post...132 in another...and your profile says you want to lose 17 lbs.

    Please see a medical professional to help you with this. You probably don't need to lose any, you might just need to tone up. But a medical professional can help.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    IN...because...

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  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
    IN...because...

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    Neither does the OP...
  • plantgrrl
    plantgrrl Posts: 436 Member
    Well, to return to the original question. Constipation could be part of it too. Water and constipation can do a lot of damage. Maybe when you feel a craving you can have a salad or some carrots or something. That will up your fiber and keep your calories low. Drink lots of water--that will help with both the constipation and the increased fiber intake. Anyhow, whatever's going on, I hope you get it figured out.
  • _HeartsOnFire_
    _HeartsOnFire_ Posts: 5,304 Member
    She doesn't have a problem...Read her other posts. Which I actually posted in here...
  • nomeejerome
    nomeejerome Posts: 2,616 Member
    What the.....?
  • onwarddownward
    onwarddownward Posts: 1,683 Member
    IN...because...

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    He can't help it. He's blond.


    And stunning. Why can't I have a god of my own? Darn astrophysicist chicks get the best gods.