ate between 3000 and 3500 calorie, real weight gain?

aniazawadzki
aniazawadzki Posts: 58
in Food and Nutrition
Hi so I weighed myself tuesday morning and I was 93 lbs (I am 5'6 and trying to gain) and the last 3 days I ate between 3000 and 3500 calories and I just got off the scale at 100 lbs, is that real weight? 7 lbs after 3 days of huge intakes?

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  • ravenmiss
    ravenmiss Posts: 384 Member
    I believe you'd have to eat 3500 calories over maintenance to gain 1lb. So unless you have eaten 24500 calories over maintenance then it's likely to be water weight.
  • aniazawadzki
    aniazawadzki Posts: 58
    I believe you'd have to eat 3500 calories over maintenance to gain 1lb. So unless you have eaten 24500 calories over maintenance then it's likely to be water weight.

    Ah then if my math is correct then I have gained 2 lbs in 3 days lol
  • jmv7117
    jmv7117 Posts: 891 Member
    I believe you'd have to eat 3500 calories over maintenance to gain 1lb. So unless you have eaten 24500 calories over maintenance then it's likely to be water weight.

    Ah then if my math is correct then I have gained 2 lbs in 3 days lol

    No, your weight gain is water. Sorry
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  • asdelmonte
    asdelmonte Posts: 171 Member
    I believe you'd have to eat 3500 calories over maintenance to gain 1lb. So unless you have eaten 24500 calories over maintenance then it's likely to be water weight.

    Ah then if my math is correct then I have gained 2 lbs in 3 days lol

    No, your weight gain is water. Sorry

    This -

    Plus, you have most likely also increased the volume of the food you are eating (not just the caloric density) and your digestion probably hasn't quite caught up and you will be carrying more waste in your digestive tract. I know - TMI
  • brianpperkins
    brianpperkins Posts: 6,124 Member
    Once again ... GO SEE A DOCTOR THAT SPECIALIZES IN EATING DISORDERS!!!!!!


    Over the course of the past week you've gone from seeking reassurance that underweight could be viewed as sexy when your husband doesn't find that to be the case to now claiming you're stuffing yourself with 3-4x what you ate up until last week because somebody said that's what an ED recovery focused site said you should eat. In the process you've ignored that the person providing information about that other site said you should gradually increase your calories. You are bouncing between opposing, unhealthy ends of the eating spectrum.

    GO GET HELP.

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