Weight gain or water retention?

aniazawadzki
aniazawadzki Posts: 58
in Health and Weight Loss
Hello so I have recently started to try to maintain my weight instead of losing, but I'm using the "banking my calories" system and saving those maintamence calories for the weekend, last Thursday I weighed 4 lbs less, is it possible that I could have gained 4 lbs just by having two milkshakes over the weekend using those maintamence calories? Other thn that my diet has not changed or would this be water retention?
Thanks guys :)

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  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    Eat more than your maintain over the week. My cousin metabolism was so fast that he had to eat 4000 calories a day for two weeks to gain weight.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    you are a woman...so I would suspect water retention long before i would say weight gain.

    As long as you are sure you are at maintenance consistently then no worries.
  • aniazawadzki
    aniazawadzki Posts: 58
    Do women hold in more water retention than men? Sorry silly question but curious!
  • _KitKat_
    _KitKat_ Posts: 1,066 Member
    To gain 4 lbs. of actual weight you would need to be at a 14,000 surplus (4*3500).

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