I gained 2.5 pounds overnight!!

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  • parrotlover
    parrotlover Posts: 143 Member
    It's agua

    Why are you half naked in your picture?
  • determinedbutlazy
    determinedbutlazy Posts: 1,941 Member
    It's agua

    Why are you half naked in your picture?

    Why AREN'T you?
  • llbennett74
    llbennett74 Posts: 132 Member
    Up your water intake and watch your sodium. It will go away soon.
  • tgeiger777
    tgeiger777 Posts: 8 Member
    Consider your sodium intake from the day before. It is possible that if you ate out alot the last two days or high sodium foods, your weight will go up due to sodium intake. It may take 2-4 days for it to disipate through the body. Drink water!
  • cvw1013
    cvw1013 Posts: 2
    I am not sure.....maybe it is your lack of rest, low water intake or high salt intake. It probably won't make you feel any better but I gained 4 pounds overnight. It is very frustrating but I am just going to try and continuing doing what is right and if worse comes to worse I will have something to study on and see if I can find a pattern.....
  • zoeysasha37
    zoeysasha37 Posts: 7,088 Member
    You did not gain 2.5 pounds over night. Weight can fluctuate daily due to many factors. You can't freak out when this happens, it's part of the journey and no big deal
  • mgibbons22
    mgibbons22 Posts: 69 Member
    I have been consistently losing 4 pounds a week for nine weeks. Several times I "gained" 1.5 to 2.0 pounds overnight. Yeah, I get upset when I see that too, but my net loss over any seven day period remains at four lbs. Don't worry about it, probably the sodium/water thing everyone else has cited.
  • beckytcy
    beckytcy Posts: 135 Member
    Don't panic! This happens to me all the time. Your weight will zig-zag from day to day, but as long as it is on a general downhill trend, you're doing well. If day-to-day changes are going to bother you, try weighing yourself once a week instead. If your goal is 0.5-1.0 pounds per week, of course you will see some normal fluctuations each day. I can gain or lose even 4 pounds in a day. Relax and keep doing what you're doing.
  • somefitsomefat
    somefitsomefat Posts: 445 Member
    You should panic.
  • MzNeecie
    MzNeecie Posts: 107 Member
    eat some prunes and take a dump, I think you'll see the scale right itself again . . . well, but hopefully not by 2.5 pounds . . . a 2.5 pound **** would be . . . yeah, i've already said too much.

    I agree with this statement! take a good pooh!
  • 2013sk
    2013sk Posts: 1,318 Member
    Drink lots of water, Weigh once a week!!!

    Don't stress
  • leslieo23
    leslieo23 Posts: 1
    it's probably from lack of sleep.
  • trogalicious
    trogalicious Posts: 4,584 Member
    it's probably from lack of sleep.
    it's probably poop.
    or water.

    not lack of sleep.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    Wth. I've been on a diet for a little over a week now. I had already lost almost 5 lbs from Mar. 24-yesterday. I went 132 calories over yesterday because I read the nutrition labels on my lunch wrong and didn't realize until after I had already purchased the food. I also slacked up on my water and only drank about 4 cups instead of 6 (which I'm working to get up to 8+). Then, at around 12:30 AM I ate a 255 calorie sandwich because I worked 5-10 and missed dinner.

    I exercised everyday but Sunday last week and was going to work out yesterday, but I was up until almost 1:00 doing homework (and still didn't finish everything) and was barely awake enough to finish one (of many) of my assignments. While I could have and have got by on 2 hours of sleep and less, I just could not motivate myself to do exercise last night/this morning.

    I got on the scale this morning and it read +2.5 pounds.
    >:-((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((( I weighed myself again just to make sure it and it still said +2.5 lbs. WTFFFFFFFFF
    Is this normal or just water weight?
    Weight naturally fluctuates. You could be retaining water due to anything- stress, too much sodium, new exercise, close to time of month. You don't gain fat overnight.

    According to the scale, I've put on 2 pounds since last Friday. Well, not two pounds of fat but two pounds of water. How do I know this? (1) I haven't went over my TDEE by 7,000 calories or even anywhere close, (2) fat does not appear overnight or even over a week, (3) My sodium intake is up this last week, and sodium grabs water, (4) I've upped my weights, which causes your body to hold onto water for muscle repair.

    All this, plus work has been pretty stressful lately.

    My gosh, what do I do?

    I continue doing what I am doing and the water weight will drop in a few weeks. If I am wrong and it doesn't, simply set my calorie goal to lose .5 pounds a week and get it off.

    The thing about using MFP is that it is loaded with tools to help you manage your weight.
  • Athijade
    Athijade Posts: 3,300 Member
    This is why I don't weigh daily. Your weight will naturally fluctuate on a daily basis. Unless you can handle these natural fluctuations, then don't weigh every day. Problem solved.

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