How do you know if it real...

leon0897
leon0897 Posts: 35 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
First hello and thanks to all for your support and motivation! I couldn't do this with out it. Now I'm curious on how to determine when you are actually losing weigh and when you are just running on empty in terms of food and water in your system. First if you review my food diary I don't starve myself. I eat a decent amount of calories and I don't even factor all of the crstal light that I drink daily (probably around 6-8 cups a day) Sometimes after eating I still feel like I'm hungry and like my body is starving. I try to tack that to the point that my body is used to consuming many more calories between drinking probably a 1000 calories a day in juice and 1000s of calories eating food and sweets. When I workout I typically don't feel hungry after especially when I workout at night and when I weigh myself in the moring I'm pleasantly surprised by the scale creeping down. Within the last 49 days I've lost almost 20 of the 25.6 pounds I've lost on MFP (started at 265 last jusly got to 245 by Sept stopped working out and eating right got back to 258 49 days ago and now I'm 239.4!) and I'm hoping that it is real weight loss but what stinks is that I have one bad day (I probably consumed 3-4000 calories, can't really calculate but I ate a lot and drunk a lot of sugary drinks) and when I weighed myself the morning after I was 5 pounds heavier and at 245! It took me 4 days to get back to 240 and just this morning I got to my new low of 239.4. i just don't get how the pounds can come back like a vengence after 1 day.

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  • dinosnopro
    dinosnopro Posts: 2,177 Member
    Read thread title thought of this....

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  • bomftdrum
    bomftdrum Posts: 270 Member
    More than likely it is water retention. 3500 calories equal a pound. Unless you had a crazy and painful binge, it is water.
  • leon0897
    leon0897 Posts: 35 Member
    There's no way that I consumed 15000 calories that day lol. And I also don't believe I ate 5 pounds of food either but idk. Just stinks to have 1 bad day and have to spend 4-5 days to get it back.
  • RockWarrior84
    RockWarrior84 Posts: 840 Member
    I guess it would also depend on when you weighed your self the first and when the second time. Water weight can flucuate and poop. You might have been low on water weight last time and high on the send time.
  • leon0897
    leon0897 Posts: 35 Member
    Idk. I weighed myself that morning and I was 240 even, the night before probably 241.2 and the night after I ate and drank I weighed 245 then that morning 243.6 and it took 4 days to get back to 240 and this morning it was 239.4. I wish there was an explanation other then I can't have any 'bad' days.... Too much work to recover from them lol.
  • mccindy72
    mccindy72 Posts: 7,001 Member
    Any time you eat a lot of carbs or sodium your body will retain water. It's easy to retain 3-5 lbs of water. It can take a few days for your body to release that water so it will seem like you aren't losing. It might be a good idea not to weigh yourself the day after a binge day if you're going to allow yourself a binge day. Also when you do add in new exercise that involves muscle work you will do some damage to those muscles, and your body will hold water to repair them so be prepared for that as well.

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