Oh FARK I gained

sassiebritches

Ok, yall I went out and got a scale, just curious what my weight is since my last weigh in and I am up 5 lbs! I am 249!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I have lost inches and feel great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have not been "cheating" I admit to going over on cals no more then 250 and not with bad choices, an apple here or there...Now I do have a whacky schedule as I wake up at 10:30 have breakfast at 11:00, snack at about 12:30, lunch around 1-2, and dinner at 7 or 8......but I am not in bed til 2am, so I am switching stuff around to fit my schedule.

So I gain weight...almost to 250, but I lose an inch in my belly and 1.5 inches in my waist....feel great, noticing my aches and pains are gone....but still I gain.......what the hell......I am only 11 days in......what your thoughts?

ARGH I AM DISGUSTED!!!!:sad:

sassiebritches

Ok, yall I went out and got a scale, just curious what my weight is since my last weigh in and I am up 5 lbs! I am 249!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I have lost inches and feel great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have not been "cheating" I admit to going over on cals no more then 250 and not with bad choices, an apple here or there...Now I do have a whacky schedule as I wake up at 10:30 have breakfast at 11:00, snack at about 12:30, lunch around 1-2, and dinner at 7 or 8......but I am not in bed til 2am, so I am switching stuff around to fit my schedule.

So I gain weight...almost to 250, but I lose an inch in my belly and 1.5 inches in my waist....feel great, noticing my aches and pains are gone....but still I gain.......what the hell......I am only 11 days in......what your thoughts?

ARGH I AM DISGUSTED!!!!:sad:

Hannah_Banana

My thoughts.

Water. Water. Water. :drinker:

Think about it this way - it is IMPOSSIBLE for you to have gained fat, doing what you're doing. Even more impossible because you've lost inches. Since you can't gain 5 pounds of muscle in 11 days, really the only solution is water weight. Try drinking the proper amount of water for seven days (that would be around 125 ounces/day for someone 250 pounds) and see where that gets you on your scale next week. :bigsmile:

sassiebritches

WOW, double my intake of water? I am drinking 75 ounces now........I will try it out......

Hannah_Banana

WOW, double my intake of water? I am drinking 75 ounces now........I will try it out......

Oh yes, it does seem like a lot. It IS a lot really. :ohwell: But whenever my scale does something ridiculous (like it did to you) then I just really pay attention to my water. By the next week, it is always gone. :bigsmile: I want to be 120 pounds just so that I only have to drink 8 cups a day. :laugh:

Wolfena

Maybe you didn't gain any weight. Maybe it's just that you weighed on a different scale! :flowerforyou:

Hannah_Banana

Maybe you didn't gain any weight. Maybe it's just that you weighed on a different scale! :flowerforyou:

Oh! I missed that you had gotten a new scale. Sorry! That will definately do it. :flowerforyou: See? You're still doing well. Its just the silly scales fault.

lulubar

Sassie - don't be discouraged! My water weight can fluctuate a LOT. Plus, you got a new scale, which may weigh differently that the scale you started on... can you weigh on that first scale again and then calibrate the new one accordingly? Ach, there could just be sooooo many variables that affect the weight - - time of day, surface your on i.e. hard or soft, with or without clothing, before or after b.m.:blushing: You get my drift.

Don't stress about the weight! Concentrate on being FIT! You feel better, you're losing inches - You're doing GREAT! Keep it up!

sassiebritches

Maybe you didn't gain any weight. Maybe it's just that you weighed on a different scale! :flowerforyou:

SO which is it 244 or 249? Cause the scale I got says 249, which I thought was wrong, but I put an 8 pound weight on it and it says 8 lbs.........although I notice if you tip a bit to the right or left it changes.......I did weigh in the afternoon too.......darnit, I will just have to see.......

So I am already drinking about 75 oz a day of water...and peein all day....I guess I need to double my intake and bring my pillow and blankets to the toidy with me?

ARGH I WANT CHEESECAKE NOW!

sassiebritches

The original scale I weighed on is at my granny's 175 miles away....I am just gonna keep doing what I am doing.......it's not bad, so can't hurt. But its weird I feel like I am not doing something right.......like maybe I have been doing MFP incorrectly...............................................

Ah Fark.

Hannah_Banana

Maybe you didn't gain any weight. Maybe it's just that you weighed on a different scale! :flowerforyou:

SO which is it 244 or 249? Cause the scale I got says 249, which I thought was wrong, but I put an 8 pound weight on it and it says 8 lbs.........although I notice if you tip a bit to the right or left it changes.......I did weigh in the afternoon too.......darnit, I will just have to see.......

So I am already drinking about 75 oz a day of water...and peein all day....I guess I need to double my intake and bring my pillow and blankets to the toidy with me?

ARGH I WANT CHEESECAKE NOW!

Just pick a scale to weigh with and have that be your weight. Remember it is NOT about how much you weigh, its about how much you loose. :bigsmile:

And resist the cheesecake! It's evil, I know. :devil:

lulubar

Cheesecake ISSSSS the DEVIL:devil: :devil: Stay AWAY!

johnblake

I know we caught up in the weight -in game, every week on TV we see it.
Any new people I train we weight-in once then depending on the person and how much they are working out , I'll have them weight-in once a month. NO I'M NOT JOKING
You said some key things you lost and inch, your cloths are loser and more importantn your are feeling better.
I tell people don't become a slave to the scale, you'll give up, long before you can change your life
good luck

sassiebritches

I know we caught up in the weight -in game, every week on TV we see it.
Any new people I train we weight-in once then depending on the person and how much they are working out , I'll have them weight-in once a month. NO I'M NOT JOKING
You said some key things you lost and inch, your cloths are loser and more importantn your are feeling better.
I tell people don't become a slave to the scale, you'll give up, long before you can change your life
good luck

Yeah I think this is a good point. I didn't have a scale for a long time, which I feel is part of the reason I let it go so long. But my aquilles tendon issue feels better then it has in 7 months, my aches and pains are gone, I am not longer waking up feeling like I hurt.......joints are feeling great and I have lost inches......so I think I just have to remember that this is a life change and that scale is gonna go up and down, analyzing why is probably like asking what heaven looks like....I am just gonna continue doing what I am doing, and the results will happen when they happen......

Thanks all......and I was kidding about the cheesecake, I have no urge to eat anything unhealthy anymore......I make adjustments to those cravings with things that are good for me.

Still makes me a grouchapotomas..................:huh:

Hannah_Banana

grouchapotomas

I'm going to start using that. :laugh:

sassiebritches

grouchapotomas

I'm going to start using that. :laugh:

Hehehehehe feel free......it'sa Sassie original.......................

heal4444

You said you wake up a lot better now without aches and pains in your joints and you also lost inches. Focus on that. Don't focus on the cheesecake. Here, I got some flowers :flowerforyou: for you to cheer you up so you can forget about the cheesecake. It's not really the cheesecake you want or any food. You're just disappointed is all. We've all been there. I know what you mean, at times, I gain a lb here, or 2 lbs when I've been doing more exercises. And I just want to give up, pig out, gourge every food in sight and give up on the exercise. It's just an old habit of dealing with disappointment to numb myself with food. Don't do it. You're not alone. We're here with you. So what, if its' 250. You had the courage to get a new scale. And you had the courage to step on and find out. Let this be your motivation not your discouragement. Tks for sharing your frustration. We are here. Don't give up. Here, some more flowers!! :flowerforyou:

sunflower8926

Thanks for your post. I thought I was crazy. I seem to be up 3 lbs since I started, too. At first it looked like I lost a couple, then I bought a new scale and it said I was at my starting weight. A week later, it said I had gained 3 lbs.

BUT, I can tell that my pants are a bit looser, even though I was having my TOM, so I couldn't figure out what was going on. I've been pretty consistent on my calories.

But anyway, thanks for posting. It's good to hear that when most people on the site seem to be losing several lbs a week.

hmo4

Hey sas, calm down, hit the hay, and reweigh in the am buck naked on your scale, and use that as your measurement. Having a crap helps too. Don't lose that motivation, you're doing well! Hormomes play a huge part. PMS week is a killer for me. I stay then away for sure! Tomorrow is a new day, hang tight

eye_am_ready

PLEASE READ!!! TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING CAN KILL YOU...

Liquid H2O is the sine qua non of life. Making up about 66 percent of the human body, water runs through the blood, inhabits the cells, and lurks in the spaces between. At every moment water escapes the body through sweat, urination, defecation or exhaled breath, among other routes. Replacing these lost stores is essential but rehydration can be overdone. There is such a thing as a fatal water overdose.

Earlier this year, a 28-year-old California woman died after competing in a radio station's on-air water-drinking contest. After downing some six liters of water in three hours in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" (Nintendo game console) contest, Jennifer Strange vomited, went home with a splitting headache, and died from so-called water intoxication.

There are many other tragic examples of death by water. In 2005 a fraternity hazing at California State University, Chico, left a 21-year-old man dead after he was forced to drink excessive amounts of water between rounds of push-ups in a cold basement. Club-goers taking MDMA ("ecstasy") have died after consuming copious amounts of water trying to rehydrate following long nights of dancing and sweating. Going overboard in attempts to rehydrate is also common among endurance athletes. A 2005 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that close to one sixth of marathon runners develop some degree of hyponatremia, or dilution of the blood caused by drinking too much water.

Hyponatremia, a word cobbled together from Latin and Greek roots, translates as "insufficient salt in the blood." Quantitatively speaking, it means having a blood sodium concentration below 135 millimoles per liter, or approximately 0.4 ounces per gallon, the normal concentration lying somewhere between 135 and 145 millimoles per liter. Severe cases of hyponatremia can lead to water intoxication, an illness whose symptoms include headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, frequent urination and mental disorientation.

In humans the kidneys control the amount of water, salts and other solutes leaving the body by sieving blood through their millions of twisted tubules. When a person drinks too much water in a short period of time, the kidneys cannot flush it out fast enough and the blood becomes waterlogged. Drawn to regions where the concentration of salt and other dissolved substances is higher, excess water leaves the blood and ultimately enters the cells, which swell like balloons to accommodate it.

Most cells have room to stretch because they are embedded in flexible tissues such as fat and muscle, but this is not the case for neurons. Brain cells are tightly packaged inside a rigid boney cage, the skull, and they have to share this space with blood and cerebrospinal fluid, explains Wolfgang Liedtke, a clinical neuroscientist at Duke University Medical Center. "Inside the skull there is almost zero room to expand and swell," he says.

Thus, brain edema, or swelling, can be disastrous. "Rapid and severe hyponatremia causes entry of water into brain cells leading to brain swelling, which manifests as seizures, coma, respiratory arrest, brain stem herniation and death," explains M. Amin Arnaout, chief of nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Where did people get the idea that guzzling enormous quantities of water is healthful? A few years ago Heinz Valtin, a kidney specialist from Dartmouth Medical School, decided to determine if the common advice to drink eight, eight-ounce glasses of water per day could hold up to scientific scrutiny. After scouring the peer-reviewed literature, Valtin concluded that no scientific studies support the "eight x eight" dictum (for healthy adults living in temperate climates and doing mild exercise). In fact, drinking this much or more "could be harmful, both in precipitating potentially dangerous hyponatremia and exposure to pollutants, and also in making many people feel guilty for not drinking enough," he wrote in his 2002 review for the American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. And since he published his findings, Valtin says, "not a single scientific report published in a peer-reviewed publication has proven the contrary."

Most cases of water poisoning do not result from simply drinking too much water, says Joseph Verbalis, chairman of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. It is usually a combination of excessive fluid intake and increased secretion of vasopression (also called antidiuretic hormone), he explains. Produced by the hypothalamus and secreted into the bloodstream by the posterior pituitary gland, vasopressin instructs the kidneys to conserve water. Its secretion increases in periods of physical stress—during a marathon, for example—and may cause the body to conserve water even if a person is drinking excessive quantities.

Every hour, a healthy kidney at rest can excrete 800 to 1,000 milliliters, or 0.21 to 0.26 gallon, of water and therefore a person can drink water at a rate of 800 to 1,000 milliliters per hour without experiencing a net gain in water, Verbalis explains. If that same person is running a marathon, however, the stress of the situation will increase vasopressin levels, reducing the kidney's excretion capacity to as low as 100 milliliters per hour. Drinking 800 to 1,000 milliliters of water per hour under these conditions can potentially lead a net gain in water, even with considerable sweating, he says.

While exercising, "you should balance what you're drinking with what you're sweating," and that includes sports drinks, which can also cause hyponatremia when consumed in excess, Verbalis advises. "If you're sweating 500 milliliters per hour, that is what you should be drinking."

But measuring sweat output is not easy. How can a marathon runner, or any person, determine how much water to consume? As long as you are healthy and equipped with a thirst barometer unimpaired by old age or mind-altering drugs, follow Verbalis's advice, "drink to your thirst. It's the best indicator."

Hannah_Banana

Considering that 125 ounces is only about 3.5L, I think we'll be okay.

However, yes - I agree. Drinking too much water can hurt you, you just have to drink an outrageous amount of it. Its also affected by how fast you drink it because if your serum sodium drop gradually (by drinking throughout the day instead of all at once) you should be fine. :flowerforyou:

Another good indicator is the color of your urine. An accepted rule of thumb is that if it is very light yellow, you are properly hydrated. :drinker:

Fitness_Chick

The original scale I weighed on is at my granny's 175 miles away....I am just gonna keep doing what I am doing.......it's not bad, so can't hurt. But its weird I feel like I am not doing something right.......like maybe I have been doing MFP incorrectly...............................................

Ah Fark.

now let's see how many cals burned gettin back to grandma's house? hm....:huh: :laugh:

Personally I'd go with the new scale weight as that's the one you'll be using from this point on unless you do take a long jog to Granny's house:ohwell: .. It may feel ouch at first but then you'll know where you're at from then on.

Just reread your post .....your 'wacky scedule' could have much to do with it as well....changes in our day to day lives can show up in many ways/weighs Your body will adjust, inches and feeling better are by far greater proof than any number a scale will show you:flowerforyou: Least that's my thoughts for myself:drinker:

FC

sassiebritches

I am going to settle with the thought that my new scale is correct and that my starting weight at grandma was a good day......I have lost inches, I do feel better.....much better and again though I have not been exact on my cals, I know I have not been a bad girl with what I am going over with....again unless I am doing this totally wrong I need to remember that last time I did this 10 years ago it took a long while to actually see the wait fall off.

I think I am gonna just not worry about it.......

Thanks yall

GO GREEN!!!!!!!!!!!