up 6 pounds in 2 weeks...what could it be ?
cvcman
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Ok I still have been running/biking 7 days a week...nothing has changed except I mixed in some HIT training oo...admit over easter I splurged and ate lots of jelly beans and ice cream while on vacation but that was weeks ago and after that week I was at 138 pounds...last thursday I was 142...now today 144...wth is going on im climbing like crazy
could this be a health issue ? I still eat some pretzles at night after supper but I scrape the salt off......i cut back on my cals again last week.....i havent weighed this much in over a year
could this be a health issue ? I still eat some pretzles at night after supper but I scrape the salt off......i cut back on my cals again last week.....i havent weighed this much in over a year
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Could be water retention from salt and/or new or increased exercise (when muscles hold on to water).
Not sure how much you are eating, if you are tracking, how close you are to your GW, etc. All that makes a difference.0 -
my goal was 140 or just under which I have been at even when I ate ice cream everyday....other than the easter week and the week after all the candy ????0
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Maybe it's mixing in the HIT training. Starting an exercise program can increase water weight, but so can intensifying one.0
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When I started doing HIIT workouts, I was up 6 pounds too. It went back down after a couple weeks.0
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naaa im not sure thats it.....I was doing it a yr ago too and didnt spike up...this bums me big time....I told the wife im ready to just bag it and eat what I want when I want and do my exercise and forget the scale..I dont notice my pants any tighter....for the last 6 or 8 weeks ive been cheating on Thursdays and eating a couple slices of pizza with a small bag of doritos...also eating a couple brownies after my morning workout and a bunch of cashews after lunch and pretzles with my wine after supper...
but the following week my weight was still under 140....ugggggg....0 -
the olny other thing I did different was take a couple Ibuoprofin the day before0
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water weight. increase your water intake you'll eventually pee it out.0
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Question...
Plenty have advised you it's water weight and will come back off. You say no...So what do you want people to say?
Are you weighing your foods?
What is your daily calorie intake?0 -
Plenty have advised you it's water weight and will come back off. You say no...So what do you want people to say?
Seriously.
Weight loss is not linear. Jjust because water weight gain didn't happen THAT time doesn't mean it won't happen under similar circumstances. The body doesn't work as neat and tidily as you would like to think.0 -
I've been having the same issue and it started around Easter as well. Number of factors contributed to my climb, but I'm making sure to be more diligent about weighing and tracking my foods and drinking more water. Patience is helping as well.0
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You've been here since June of 2011 and don't understand that weight fluctuates yet?0
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Over on sodium? Cortisol up due to increased exercise?
Have you taken pics, taken measurements, how do your clothes feel…the scale doesn't always tell a true story.
Do you have a food scale? "Two pieces of pizza" on 5/4 at 208 calories only (no info for fat, protein..) is not doing you any favors.
Congrats on your weight loss though! 55 lbs. is great! Be patient! Weight loss is not linear!0 -
Over on sodium? Cortisol up due to increased exercise?
Have you taken pics, taken measurements, how do your clothes feel…the scale doesn't always tell a true story.
Do you have a food scale? "Two pieces of pizza" on 5/4 at 208 calories only (no info for fat, protein..) is not doing you any favors.
Congrats on your weight loss though! 55 lbs. is great! Be patient! Weight loss is not linear!
Yeah, if you aren't logging properly than that's your issue right there. What kind of pizza only has 208 calories for 2 slices? Huh?0 -
Don't worry about it. Be more concerned over the trend in your weight. Using a linear trend line and then considering the slope of that line is better than just worrying about individual readings over the course of a couple weeks.
Something like this: http://www.mrexcel.com/tip067.shtml0 -
If it's not water weight then you're eating too much crap . I'm bulking on 4200 calories a day and I'm lucky if I put on 1lb a week0
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if you are logging consistently then running some of the reports should help you to answer your question. I find using the 30 day and 90 day reports are especially helpful to me to see what is going on.0
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Looked at your diary. The last 5 days you had an average of 1000 cals a day left over...maybe need to eat more. The 10ish days before that, you didn't log at all. It's hard to figure out where you're going wrong if you don't pay attention to what you're doing.0
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Looked at your diary. The last 5 days you had an average of 1000 cals a day left over...maybe need to eat more. The 10ish days before that, you didn't log at all. It's hard to figure out where you're going wrong if you don't pay attention to what you're doing.
The OP is logging 2 slices of pizza 208 cals. He doesn't need to eat more. Even so to gain six pounds of fat, he would have to been eating an excess of 10.5k calories over maintenance for two weeks.0 -
I would agree. Not even my homemade pizza with no cheese and mostly veggies has that few calorie for a small slice. Most of the calories are in that delicious crust.Over on sodium? Cortisol up due to increased exercise?
Have you taken pics, taken measurements, how do your clothes feel…the scale doesn't always tell a true story.
Do you have a food scale? "Two pieces of pizza" on 5/4 at 208 calories only (no info for fat, protein..) is not doing you any favors.
Congrats on your weight loss though! 55 lbs. is great! Be patient! Weight loss is not linear!
Yeah, if you aren't logging properly than that's your issue right there. What kind of pizza only has 208 calories for 2 slices? Huh?
OP, weight does not come on the day after you eat. It shows up after a time. Besides this, water retention and weight fluctuations are normal.
I would say to be more diligent in obtaining the correct calories for your foods and go from there.0 -
You may be scraping less salt off those pretzels than you think. I struggle with eating too much sodium sometimes, and when I do, my weight often balloons three or four pounds for a few days. I try to drink a lot of water to help, but cutting back on sodium is a big goal for me right now.
There are clear indications in your diary that you aren't tracking accurately. Others have mentioned the pizza, but I also wonder about the cashews (salted, which could cause bloating) and the croutons (1/8 cup of croutons is maybe four or five). The first thing you need to do is commit to logging everything you're eating and your exercises as accurately as you can every day. Over time, you'll be able to start to see patterns that will help you identify where you might be going wrong (not to mention what you're doing right). But it all starts with accuracy. Without that, all you can do is guess.0 -
Things I found in your diary, besides the 208 calories for 2 slices of pizza...
1) Cereals - Oats, regular and quick and instant, unenriched, cooked with water, without salt (oatmeal), 1.5 tbsp - Really only 1.5 tbsp of oatmeal and that fills you up?
2) White - Mushrooms Sliced, 0.05 cup - That would be less than 1 mushroom.
3) Cucumber - With peel, raw, 0.1 cup slices - you had 1/10th of 1 slice of cucumber? Why bother.
Point is...get a food scale, accurately start weighing and logging everything. You are definitely eating more than you think.0 -
Ibuprofin causes water retention.
But yes, also fix your logging inaccuracies.0 -
You'd have take an awful lot to have any significant effect. It is also listed as a 'Very Rare' side effectIbuprofin causes water retention.
What it is is Aliens kidnap you at night. While asleep they inject you with water so you weigh more. So the way to stop this happening is a tin foil hat as they will then be unable to find you. Problem solved0 -
You'd have take an awful lot to have any significant effect. It is also listed as a 'Very Rare' side effectIbuprofin causes water retention.
What it is is Aliens kidnap you at night. While asleep they inject you with water so you weigh more. So the way to stop this happening is a tin foil hat as they will then be unable to find you. Problem solved
Or he is secretly a woman, because women have more water retention.0 -
Ok lets assume the cals are off but...I eat the same thing pretty much day in and day out and have for the last 4 yrs...so if they are off now they always have been,,,,also YES I know weight goes up and down BUT mine has been pretty much the same up until last week...now im 5 pound + over what I have been and I havent changed anything0
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Things I found in your diary, besides the 208 calories for 2 slices of pizza...
1) Cereals - Oats, regular and quick and instant, unenriched, cooked with water, without salt (oatmeal), 1.5 tbsp - Really only 1.5 tbsp of oatmeal and that fills you up?
2) White - Mushrooms Sliced, 0.05 cup - That would be less than 1 mushroom.
3) Cucumber - With peel, raw, 0.1 cup slices - you had 1/10th of 1 slice of cucumber? Why bother.
Point is...get a food scale, accurately start weighing and logging everything. You are definitely eating more than you think.
The mushrooms say 1/2 of a 1/4 of a cup...which would be an 1/8 of a cup...I usually just slice up one small mushroom...the oatmeat is correct...I usually just eat a cooked tablespoon so there is something i my gut before I run or bike...again...ive been eating and working out pretty much the same for 4 yrs....with little fluctuation in weight...until now0 -
I'm no pro at weight-loss advice but, possibly building some muscle?0
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Its water. Done.0
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Its water. Done.
The end.0 -
naaa im not sure thats it.....I was doing it a yr ago too and didnt spike up...this bums me big time....I told the wife im ready to just bag it and eat what I want when I want and do my exercise and forget the scale..I dont notice my pants any tighter....for the last 6 or 8 weeks ive been cheating on Thursdays and eating a couple slices of pizza with a small bag of doritos...also eating a couple brownies after my morning workout and a bunch of cashews after lunch and pretzles with my wine after supper...
but the following week my weight was still under 140....ugggggg....
Quit telling people the advice that you asked for is wrong. Do you understand how obnoxious that is? Seriously, what do you want to hear? That it's a medical condition and if you see a doctor about it you'll be given medication that'll just melt the weight off so you never have to work out again?0
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