Just a question

pretty_ribbons

Do you put on weight weeks after you eat bad even if you have eaten good and exercised for the past week?

The reason i'm asking is because in December I was bad and just ate whatever I wanted and didn't really exercise at all and I didn't really put on any weight, but now i'm concerned that even though I am exercising and eating well all the weight that I thought I didn't put on will catch up with me!

timadotcom

:huh: why worry about something that has not happened

mruntidy

i agree plus its a fat/muscle balance you might eat junk n not exercise but get physically bigger but not put an ounce on as you are losing muscle weight, then pound the gym lose one pound of fat but put on one and a half pounds of lean muscle.

Don't beat yourself up about what you ate last week just concentrate on diet going forwards.

pretty_ribbons

LOL! i dont know! im just anxious about my next weigh in

pretty_ribbons

i agree plus its a fat/muscle balance you might eat junk n not exercise but get physically bigger but not put an ounce on as you are losing muscle weight, then pound the gym lose one pound of fat but put on one and a half pounds of lean muscle.

Don't beat yourself up about what you ate last week just concentrate on diet going forwards.

Very true, i think im just trying to prepare my feelings for if i havent lost any weight this week and im very impatient which is why its taken me so long to lose weight, i get frustrated and i hate feeling like i wanna give up :sad:

amysj303

I don't know the answer. It takes about 3500 excess calories over maintenance to gain a pound of fat. And it take a deficit of 3500 calories to lose a pound of fat.
Quick weight gain is usually the result eating a lot of sugars and carbs can make your body hold onto water. That is why low-carb diets provide quick results, because initially it is the water loss from the lower carb consumption that you see as weight loss.

Dave198lbs

27 days after you pig out the fat hits your hips and you must do cardio for the next 21 days to get back to square one. Not really that bad if you cleanse and detox. The maple syrup cleanse is good for this.

MaximalLife

Do you put on weight weeks after you eat bad even if you have eaten good and exercised for the past week?

The reason i'm asking is because in December I was bad and just ate whatever I wanted and didn't really exercise at all and I didn't really put on any weight, but now i'm concerned that even though I am exercising and eating well all the weight that I thought I didn't put on will catch up with me!

No, but I binge eat weekly, and notice water retention which adds a few lbs that take 3 days to come off.

pretty_ribbons

27 days after you pig out the fat hits your hips and you must do cardio for the next 21 days to get back to square one. Not really that bad if you cleanse and detox. The maple syrup cleanse is good for this.

Thank you

Captain_Tightpants

Nope.

There is a delay while your body processes the energy content of your food - but it's in the realm of a half day to a few days at most depending on all sorts of variables (how fast your metabolism is, how rapidly you digest, the type of foods eaten etc.)

As soon as you eat food (any food, not just 'bad' food) - that food starts immediately on a journey through your digestive tract, into your bloodstream and then through your liver, being broken down further and further at each stage. At the end of the journey, some of it has been used for energy, some of it has been used to build new body structures, and whatever is leftover has been packaged up as a fat cell and stored for later use by your body. This is a really simplified answer but you can see the process from excess food to storage as a fat cell is pretty quick.

amysj303

27 days after you pig out the fat hits your hips and you must do cardio for the next 21 days to get back to square one. Not really that bad if you cleanse and detox. The maple syrup cleanse is good for this.

Thank you

Pretty sure he was being sarcastic there.

pretty_ribbons

27 days after you pig out the fat hits your hips and you must do cardio for the next 21 days to get back to square one. Not really that bad if you cleanse and detox. The maple syrup cleanse is good for this.

Thank you

Pretty sure he was being sarcastic there.

so was i