Weight Gain

ThatCookieGurl

I am a little frustrated with my diet habits. I know that I do not eat super well at all, but how is it that I gain so much weight throughout just one day? I gained over a pound between yesterday morning and this morning and I am truly baffled. What foods would you recommend for reducing bloat and weight gain? Diet has always been perplexing to me.

RelCanonical

It's probably just water weight gain from salt. If you ate later in the day than normal, it can also be straight up food weight. Always look at trends over weeks when it comes to weight loss. + or - 5 pounds is considered within a normal range of fluctuation, and can sometimes be even more depending on multiple factors as once, such as high-salt, high-food-volume, hormonal-bloat, etc.

apullum

You don’t gain a pound of fat in one day unless you went over your maintenance calories by 3500. A pound fluctuation in one day is water/waste.

Water weight fluctuations are normal. They are not something that you should be worrying about. They are irrelevant to fat loss. If by “bloat” you mean normal water weight fluctuations, then my advice is to recognize that weight loss is not linear and the scale will not go down every day, or every week.

If by “bloat” you mean feeling or looking bloated on a regular basis, I would recommend seeing your doctor.

AnnPT77

leekatelynne0659 wrote: »

I am a little frustrated with my diet habits. I know that I do not eat super well at all, but how is it that I gain so much weight throughout just one day? I gained over a pound between yesterday morning and this morning and I am truly baffled. What foods would you recommend for reducing bloat and weight gain? Diet has always been perplexing to me.

I strongly suggest you read this article:

https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations

Losing weight will be much less frustrating if you understand how profoundly true it is that some of our weight is fat - which is the part we really want to lose - and some of it is water and food in transit through our digestive systems, which is going to vary much more rapidly and dramatically than fat will change.

We don't have a "true weight". We have a current range of weights, and a longer-term trend. Hour to hour, day to day, body weight moves around through a several-pound current range. Over multiple weeks to months, that range gets lower, if we're losing weight.

This is what my weight loss looked like (chart below). The connected down-hill-ish line is the trend; the little upright bars connect each daily weight to the trend. You can see that the daily weights bounce all over: That's fluctuation!



Expect the fluctuations.

P.S. I accidentally lost weight too fast for a while during the time period shown in the graph above. Don't do that: It's a Really Bad Plan.

kmfeig87

Hydration, bowel movements, sodium intake, DOMS, weighing at different times of the day and STRESS can all make a difference. I actually gained 3.5 pounds overnight this week due to stress. NOT stress eating....just pure, plain, stress. The good news is that it came off in two days (much faster than the stress eating pounds come off, LOL)