Weight Gain

ameliag689

YOU GUYSSS!!! was 156.2 on Friday, then Saturday and Sunday I strayed from my diet and ate things I shouldn't have and too much. Anyways Monday morning i am now 167.8lbs!! WHAT THE HELL CAN THIS BE TRUE? HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ME TO LOSE THIS 12 POUNDS THAT I GAINED IN 2 DAYS!!!??? I AM SO SAD. PLEASE GIVE ME ADVICE. IM NEVER CHEATING ON MY DIET AGAIN!! HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE.

Lietchi

It's extra water weight from extra carbs and higher sodium intake. Stay off the scale for a few days if it stresses you out that much

Sinisterbarbie1

Agree with Lietchi, but if you overate to such a degree to put on 12 water weight lbs even from carbs and extra sodium you might examine your “diet” and try to instead find a normal eating pattern that you can stick with without radical ups and downs that allows you to eat out with others and do normal things on the weekends.

cmriverside

If you just eat normally and drink sufficient water for the next couple days, most of that will drop back off.

You didn't eat 42 thousand extra calories in two days, that's what it would take to gain that amount of fat. It's water. Drinking alcohol, eating salty carb-loaded food will cause that. Add lack of sleep, heat, travel, time of the month for women, and you've got water weight.

DFW_Tom

I'm glad I'm not the only one who blows up with water retention from a few days off the reservation. I have a problem with edema to start with, and the swelling in the lower extremities from all the beer, breaded pork tenderloins, pizza and brauts over the 4th of July week took the rest of the month of July to go down. For me, the temporary 15 pounds of gain was a small price to pay to see distant siblings and classmates for the first time in years and spend the weekend at a strange block party that went on for 2 days. Get back to what was working for you and the extra pounds will go away. Mine did, plus another 10 lbs as of this morning.

AnnPT77

ameliag689 wrote: »

YOU GUYSSS!!! was 156.2 on Friday, then Saturday and Sunday I strayed from my diet and ate things I shouldn't have and too much. Anyways Monday morning i am now 167.8lbs!! WHAT THE HELL CAN THIS BE TRUE? HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE ME TO LOSE THIS 12 POUNDS THAT I GAINED IN 2 DAYS!!!??? I AM SO SAD. PLEASE GIVE ME ADVICE. IM NEVER CHEATING ON MY DIET AGAIN!! HOW IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE.

What they said above: Water retention, mostly. If you'd calorie counted the overage, you'd have an estimate of the maximum that could potentially be fat re-gain. (Calories eaten above TDEE, divided by 3500, would be a rough estimate of the maximum fat gain.) If you didn't calorie count, you might still be able to rough count (if you remember what you ate) and estimate, otherwise you'll just have to get back to a better routine and wait.

How long? It depends on a lot of factors, probably especially where you are in your menstrual cycle if that applies to you. For me (in menopause), in 7+ years of calorie counting, it's typically been less than 2 weeks to settle out even a truly major eating-triggered water gain. With monthly cycles in the picture, a full cycle ought to do it.

Here's a thing, though: You know what else can increase water retention? Stress.

I'd strongly encourage you to learn to understand how water fluctuations affect scale weight, and recognize that water isn't fat so it's not worth worrying about.

IOW, figure out how to chill, or water retention could become worse (stress!), and the whole time of your weight loss attempt will be a rough ride psychologically.

For starters, read this:

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

and other MFPers' discussion of it here:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1

You may also want to consider what else you could learn from this "strayed from diet" experience, like whether you may be over-restricting calories (which can trigger compensatory binges); putting foods important to your happiness off limits; not developing new tactics for social eating/drinking, and that sort of thing. Treating something like this as a learning experience (not a drama or disaster) increases chances of long-term success.

Also: Don't try to "make up for it". That just makes things worse, typically. Just get on a healthy, sustainable weight loss routine . . . and wait.

In your specific case, given the nature of your OP, I'd also suggest you read this:

https://bodyrecomposition.com/research/dietary-restraint-cortisol-levels

I wish you long term success, sincerely. Finding a calmer approach can only help.

csplatt

never weigh yourself after two days of bad choices 😂😂 get back on track and weigh in two weeks 😜

ninerbuff

If you keto or low carb, it's mostly water weight.

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