Can you gain 4lbs in 5 days?

carolinaborrego15

My family came to visit me from Mexico and I haven't stucked to my diet for 5 days and when I weight myself I gained 4 pounds is it possible that it might just be water retention or could it be fat ? I'm starting to get discouraged and I'm starting to feel depressed again about my weight

From9five

Its most likely mostly just water weight especially if you ate a lot of carbs/sugar. After a few days of getting back on track it should even back out

Maxematics

Water retention. You would have had to consume 14,000 calories above your maintenance calories within those five days for it all to be fat gain. I think you knew that, though.

sijomial

I gained 8lbs on a recent 7 day holiday which included all the elements that lead to me rapidly gaining weight:

• Higher food volume
• More salt used in food preparation
• More alcohol than normal
• Intense exercise (I cycled up a mountain)
• International flying

Didn't depress me in the slightest as I understand that weight was mostly water weight with a bit of fat gain plus I have the memories of a lovely family holiday. What's to be depressed about that?

sijomial

@SusieBanyon
Yes it's just one of the normal reports. From your home web page on the web you will see a "Reports" tab.

MikePTY

I can gain 4 pounds in like 12 hours. It is definitely likely to be majority water weight. If you are at consistently over maintence for those 5 days, a portion of it may be fat, but I would be surprised if that even equaled 1 pound of the total. You will lose it all quickly once you get back on track.

Jackie9003

I gained 3.8lb in 1 day, it took the next 5 days to lose it, its likely to be mostly water.

lalalacroix

I'm 4 pounds up since breakfast. No biggie, just water and food.

jennifer_417

I can gain that much in one day.

MHarper522

Unless you ate 4*3500 calories in excess of your maintenance calories, you may have have gained
weight, but it's not 4 pounds of fat. Most likely just water weight.