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scared and confused

mattquit
mattquit Posts: 175
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Hello last night i ate 3000 more calories to what i'm suppose to eat even with exercise. i also ate 8k more sodium.
today i went to the weighing scale and i lost 0.5. I'm confused how i lost 0.5 pounds, can anyone offer up a solution?
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  • BobbyClerici
    BobbyClerici Posts: 813 Member
    Sometimes a good feeding shocks the body's metabolism into overdrive.
    Be glad, but cut back to goal over the next 5 days before trying that again.
  • Sublimely_Self_Righteousreused
    Sublimely_Self_Righteousreused Posts: 935 Member
    I would be scared too.
  • shanolap
    shanolap Posts: 1,204 Member
    <----Runs away from this topic...I'm sooooo scared!

    In all honesty, the body is a mystery. But I wouldn't try doing that again soon expecting the same reults.
  • WarriorMom2012
    WarriorMom2012 Posts: 621 Member
    All that salt made you pee alot and it's water weight. Oh wait, salt is supposed to make you bloat. Is it right before your time of the month. Sometimes, I lose water weight right before. Maybe you should see your gynecologist.
  • MrsCon40
    MrsCon40 Posts: 2,351 Member
    I would make an appointment with your doctor right away!
  • JDMPWR
    JDMPWR Posts: 1,863 Member
    Hello last night i ate 3000 more calories to what i'm suppose to eat even with exercise. i also ate 8k more sodium.
    today i went to the weighing scale and i lost 0.5. I'm confused how i lost 0.5 pounds, can anyone offer up a solution?

    Solution? You lost weight.

    If you want a fix next time eat 3 times that and Im sure you will gain weight!
  • billsica
    billsica Posts: 4,741 Member
    As an unlicensed internet physician, I will try to sum this up with a diagram of what is happening with your weight loss and increased caloric intake.

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  • koosdel
    koosdel Posts: 3,317 Member
    I see a trend!
  • MrsCon40
    MrsCon40 Posts: 2,351 Member
    As an unlicensed internet physician, I will try to sum this up with a diagram of what is happening with your weight loss and increased caloric intake.

    hdc_0001_0003_0_img0261.jpg

    I want one of those.
  • mahidac
    mahidac Posts: 126 Member
    Hello last night i ate 3000 more calories to what i'm suppose to eat even with exercise. i also ate 8k more sodium.
    today i went to the weighing scale and i lost 0.5. I'm confused how i lost 0.5 pounds, can anyone offer up a solution?

    cycling the amount of calories you get is always good for confusing your metabolism - however if you eat over consistently like that then the poundage will come on
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    Ah, yes. Hello old friend.

    40 wings @ Applebees? Pfft... lightweight.
  • pucenavel
    pucenavel Posts: 972 Member
    It's not the next day you need to worry about. It's the day after and the day after that.

    I notice that my weight will lag a day or even two behind my behavior. It goes both ways. The day after a 10 mile run, I've lost nothing - two days later, I'm down 2-3 lbs.
  • IronmanPanda
    IronmanPanda Posts: 2,083 Member
    Hello last night i ate 3000 more calories to what i'm suppose to eat even with exercise. i also ate 8k more sodium.
    today i went to the weighing scale and i lost 0.5. I'm confused how i lost 0.5 pounds, can anyone offer up a solution?

    Very intriguing. I think we should run an experiment and have you eat like that every day for a month and see how much weight you've lost.
  • carrie_eggo
    carrie_eggo Posts: 1,396 Member
    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/411444-weight-falls-after-cheat-days

    http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/of-whooshes-and-squishy-fat.html

    These should explain a lot. You're welcome.
  • infamousmk
    infamousmk Posts: 6,033 Member
    You probably pooped a little extra this morning.
  • CakeFit21
    CakeFit21 Posts: 2,521 Member
    Hello last night i ate 3000 more calories to what i'm suppose to eat even with exercise. i also ate 8k more sodium.
    today i went to the weighing scale and i lost 0.5. I'm confused how i lost 0.5 pounds, can anyone offer up a solution?

    Very intriguing. I think we should run an experiment and have you eat like that every day for a month and see how much weight you've lost.

    Yes! OP should blog and we will all follow it! He will be MFP famous!
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    You probably pooped a little extra this morning.
    This is why I weigh my poop.
  • carrie_eggo
    carrie_eggo Posts: 1,396 Member
    You probably pooped a little extra this morning.
    This is why I weigh my poop.

    That makes me scared and confused.....
  • MrsZMartin
    MrsZMartin Posts: 165 Member
    It's not the next day you need to worry about. It's the day after and the day after that.

    I notice that my weight will lag a day or even two behind my behavior. It goes both ways. The day after a 10 mile run, I've lost nothing - two days later, I'm down 2-3 lbs.

    So true. I'm always fine the next day after a big indulgence, but then a couple days down the road....BOOM scale skyrockets. It's not going to derail you completely, and maybe you won't have a gain in a few days. Take it as a deserved night of indulgence and MOVE ON. :drinker: cheers
  • ldalbello
    ldalbello Posts: 207 Member
    I wish that would happen to me. Last Friday morning I weighed 148 and Monday morning weighed 155 ! I ate pretty good except for one lousy salami sandwich Saturday night and 4 beers.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    You probably pooped a little extra this morning.
    This is why I weigh my poop.
    That makes me scared and confused.....
    Don't be. I use gloves and wax paper on the scale.
  • mzkynd
    mzkynd Posts: 63
    Ah, yes. Hello old friend.

    40 wings @ Applebees? Pfft... lightweight.

    Reading this reminded me of the time I was pregnant with my son, hugely pregnant and with my usual taste for hot and spicy in overdrive; had some friends over helping us move. So I thought I would do the nice thing and get wings and pizza. Well i ordered the nuclear hot wings (160#) turns out only the preggo liked hot and spicy eveyone ate (at most 1-2 wings, between 5 people)

    I just couldn't keep my fingers out of the wings, finished off the last couple for breakfast the next morning. lol no lightweight here :=)
  • FatgutBgone
    FatgutBgone Posts: 73 Member
    Sometimes a good feeding shocks the body's metabolism into overdrive.
    Be glad, but cut back to goal over the next 5 days before trying that again.

    Bobby is right, that is what I do when I hit a plateau. Bodybuilders do this too they call it "carb cycling" you eat low carbs on the days you don't lift heavy and load up on heavy lifting days about 2 to 3 days a week. It gets your body out of starvation mode. I usually work out just before I eat my dinner or breakfast. That way my body is already burning calories when I eat and I don't store much as fat. I wouldn't worry about a gain or loss over night unless it is more than 3 - 5 lbs. I can lose 3 lbs. going to the bathroom LOL.
  • FatgutBgone
    FatgutBgone Posts: 73 Member
    You probably pooped a little extra this morning.
    This is why I weigh my poop.
    That makes me scared and confused.....
    Don't be. I use gloves and wax paper on the scale.


    The way I do it is I weigh myself before and after going to the bathroom. No muss no fuss.
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    Sometimes a good feeding shocks the body's metabolism into overdrive.
    One high cal day will not do anything to alter one's metabolism.
  • carrie_eggo
    carrie_eggo Posts: 1,396 Member
    You probably pooped a little extra this morning.
    This is why I weigh my poop.
    That makes me scared and confused.....
    Don't be. I use gloves and wax paper on the scale.


    The way I do it is I weigh myself before and after going to the bathroom. No muss no fuss.

    ......pretty sure he was joking.......um, are you?
  • CaptainGordo
    CaptainGordo Posts: 4,437 Member
    You probably pooped a little extra this morning.
    This is why I weigh my poop.
    That makes me scared and confused.....
    Don't be. I use gloves and wax paper on the scale.
    The way I do it is I weigh myself before and after going to the bathroom. No muss no fuss.
    ......pretty sure he was joking.......um, are you?
    Only my scale knows...
  • carrie_eggo
    carrie_eggo Posts: 1,396 Member
    You probably pooped a little extra this morning.
    This is why I weigh my poop.
    That makes me scared and confused.....
    Don't be. I use gloves and wax paper on the scale.
    The way I do it is I weigh myself before and after going to the bathroom. No muss no fuss.
    ......pretty sure he was joking.......um, are you?
    Only my scale knows...

    Ha ha...I knew YOU were joking...was wondering if HE knew that...lol
  • FatgutBgone
    FatgutBgone Posts: 73 Member
    You probably pooped a little extra this morning.
    This is why I weigh my poop.
    That makes me scared and confused.....
    Don't be. I use gloves and wax paper on the scale.
    The way I do it is I weigh myself before and after going to the bathroom. No muss no fuss.
    ......pretty sure he was joking.......um, are you?
    Only my scale knows...

    Ha ha...I knew YOU were joking...was wondering if HE knew that...lol


    Hey I heard stranger things on the shows about anorexia.
  • tegla
    tegla Posts: 132
    Ah, yes. Hello old friend.

    40 wings @ Applebees? Pfft... lightweight.

    Beat me to it... You must have been incredibly thirsty afterwards. That has to be a lot of protein as well... And a great #2!!!
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