So am I gonna gain weight this week now?! Hope not :/

leann74016

Since Wednesday of this past week i have been very sick. 19 hours straight of vomitting and 48 hours straight of diaherrea. (if TMI, sorry). I was finally able to start drinking fluids again friday and saturday i ate very minimal food. My weigh in was this morning and I had lost 5 lbs this week. I know losing the weight was due to being sick, but do you think i will gain it back this week? I don't want to, but with it being so much water loss in the past few days is it likely to gain again? just wonderining.

smae1980

Most of that was probably water, it sounds like you had the opportunity to become very dehyrated and your body will take the fluids back in now that you're healthy again. A small amount may have actually been fat loss due to calorie restriction because you couldn't eat for an entire day, so you were negative about 2,000 calories (instead of the normal 500 or so that you have set for weight loss on this site). that's still lesss than a pound (3500 calories= 1lb). I wouldn't be too concerned, just concentrate on being healthy this week and I'm happy to hear you're feeling better. i would bet your scale goes back up at leat 3-4 lbs this week from gaining back your lost fluids. Don't be discouraged, you need to be healthy above all else

smbyrd13

Probably...a couple years ago I lost 10lbs in about a week and a half due to Gallbladder surgery and got down to 140lbs. Within a couple weeks of eating "normally" I was back up to about 148lbs. You're body will need to replenish the fluids you lost, I wouldn't worry about it too much though, just stay the course. Hope you're feeling better!

skylark94

Don't even consider it a loss. It's artificial. When I had the flu was down 6 pounds, but it all came back as soon as I was able to re hydrate.

dg09

If anything comes back, it's water.

Don't let it stop you from drinking lots of fluids, that kind of sickness can get you dehydrated really fast.