Gaining weight after starting new active job
Hannahwalksfar
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So on Monday I weight 73.8kg. I started an incredibly active job that day which includes basically this list every day
Wake up 4:30am. Eat breakfast porridge with almonds and maple syrup. Hop on a horse at 5:45am and muster cattle at a trot (rising) and canter until 9-9:30am. Break for half an hour. Normally have a piece of toast or two with jam and water. At 10am go down to the cattle yards and draft cattle then preg test and AI approx 100-300head. At 12 feed horses then swim them (this means walking them around a pool a certain amount of times each). Clean out yards and stables. 1pm lunch for an hour. Usually a poached egg with tuna and a green salad and raw nuts. 2pm make chaffand cart hay and other off jobs (rake and shovel seed, sweep and rake yards, clean tractors, shovel drains, clean tack, fencing etc) then back on a horse to run the cattle back to their paddocks. 4pm clean stables feed horses.4:30 day finishes and dinner which is usually black bean pasta or brown rice with a meat and veggies. I don’t really have time to log but I don’t snack ever or drink anything but water and eat the same things all the time (booooring I know). So today is Friday and I currently weight 75.4. How is that much weight gain possible with that level of physical activity?
Wake up 4:30am. Eat breakfast porridge with almonds and maple syrup. Hop on a horse at 5:45am and muster cattle at a trot (rising) and canter until 9-9:30am. Break for half an hour. Normally have a piece of toast or two with jam and water. At 10am go down to the cattle yards and draft cattle then preg test and AI approx 100-300head. At 12 feed horses then swim them (this means walking them around a pool a certain amount of times each). Clean out yards and stables. 1pm lunch for an hour. Usually a poached egg with tuna and a green salad and raw nuts. 2pm make chaffand cart hay and other off jobs (rake and shovel seed, sweep and rake yards, clean tractors, shovel drains, clean tack, fencing etc) then back on a horse to run the cattle back to their paddocks. 4pm clean stables feed horses.4:30 day finishes and dinner which is usually black bean pasta or brown rice with a meat and veggies. I don’t really have time to log but I don’t snack ever or drink anything but water and eat the same things all the time (booooring I know). So today is Friday and I currently weight 75.4. How is that much weight gain possible with that level of physical activity?
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I assume this is an increase in physical activity for you? My guess would be water retention for muscle repair. Scale weight doesn't go down in a linear way, I weigh daily and it's not unusual for my weigh ins to jump a kg or so between days with a stable activity level. I think you need more time to judge whether it's actual weight gain.
You say you don't have time to log, but if you eat the same things consistently you could try logging in advance? For example I know what I'm having for dinner tonight so it's already logged in my diary. You could log your day the night before and then just correct any deviations instead of having to log everything on the go.7 -
Massive jump in physical activity. Couldn’t move for the first two days. Good to hear as I weighed myself this morning and am 76.4kg which makes no sense but my legs are killing me today so maybe that’s why3
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Hope you’re not out on the range when the whoosh hits. And it will..... Yikes!!!2
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Water weight. If your legs are "killing you", then they are retaining water to repair themselves.
Read this article.
http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/4 -
The water weight for muscle repairs may well stay with you for a while given the increase in intensity and duration of your activity.
It is not an increase in fat, so it's all good!!!2 -
Yes, water retention from increased activity. My own scale went up 7 pounds when I started lifting weights again. Took a few weeks to come back off.
Also, if you are a woman with a menstrual cycle and are near ovulation or menstruation, you could have water retention from that going on as well.2 -
All I have to say is this is an awesome job and who hoo, you are really using your body in almost every way! I'm a newbie but I don't see how all of this physical work is possible without more meat protein, or carbs but that's just me.0
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Thanks all. I rode again this morning and crumpled when I got off, my legs were so heavy so you’re probably right lol0
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Wtf. 77.4kg this morning! My face looks puffy, my eyes are read and I feel like crap! What is going on?!1
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Did you read the article referenced above?
Also do you have any allergies?1 -
I have food intolerances and ate chicken last night for the first time in ages. I thought because it was organic it would be fine0
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Was thinking more along hay, animal dander, not necessarily chicken!1
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No I’m not allergic to anything like that. I get a bit of hay fever in spring but have worked with animals all my life without I’ll effect0
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But, depending on where you are, it has been a very wet year so far, so mold counts may be higher, plus different weeds in different places, etc.
Also it is very hot here, working outside if you have been working inside before. There is another thread going about heat, sweating, causing electrolyte imbalances and water retention.2 -
Hannahwalksfar wrote: »No I’m not allergic to anything like that. I get a bit of hay fever in spring
Allergies change over time. Moulds as mentioned by @corinasue1143 ; heat.
Puffy faces = water retention.
Water retention = scale weight.
In general caloric deficits do not cause puffy faces, red eyes, and feeling like crap.
To be honest I suspect your deficit is way too large currently for the amount of work you're trying to do all of a sudden. But even that does not address the rest.
Your scale weight increase is because of water retention between your sore muscles and everything else--such as an allergy or heat or whatever else is affecting you.
When you're not sore you will be able to evaluate better what your actual underlying weight is.
But again, this doesn't address the part where you're feeling like something the dog dragged in.2 -
The job only lasts another week then back to regular normal hard work so we’ll see if I continue to go up after I leave. Thank you1
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Today is my last day as I’m very sick and another kg heavier this morning.0
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It's traditionally considered a good idea to visit a doctor when people unexpectedly start feeling like *kitten*, especially when they deteriorate rapidly...
I mean allergies, rhabdo lots of nice stuff.2 -
So I finished the job two days ago. I have dropped 2.5kg since then. Dropping consistently throughout the day. Feeling a lot better. Staying at my friend’s place for a week or two to relax a bit. Fluid build up is a *kitten* but my butt looks great2
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Hannahwalksfar wrote: »So I finished the job two days ago. I have dropped 2.5kg since then. Dropping consistently throughout the day. Feeling a lot better. Staying at my friend’s place for a week or two to relax a bit. Fluid build up is a *kitten* but my butt looks great
So any idea what happened? Sounds more than just excess exercise?0
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