why do i gain so quick???

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  • gemiwing
    gemiwing Posts: 1,525 Member

    .... sort of, nearly, not quite... though the outcome is basically the same. i'll try a different explanation in case it helps.

    muscles require a lot of fuel, so the more muscle you have the more you can eat. that is all it really boils down to. the more you use your body, the more you have to eat. bigger, stronger muscles that are used a lot = eating lots.

    so it boosts the overall amount of potential energy metabolised, but shouldn't change per-cell/per-kg metabolic rate as such, not to my knowledge, at least (would be very interested to know if it does out of curiosity).

    Yes, you're correct. :) Now here's the main point- if you want to eat 'normal' amounts of food and not be on a highly restricted diet for the rest of your life- more muscle is your buddy. So to get and keep the MM and our sanity is, personally, what I think the OP was really going for. I think after doing this for a while she already knows about water weight gain and is looking for the next step.

    I'll take a look at the research I've got here and see if it changes the metabolic rate. So forgive the layman's terms of my post and I hope we can agree on the general principle of what I said.

    ETA- gee the last sentence looks ****ty all typed out. I don't feel the level of ****ty that sentence looks. Need more coffee. :)
  • uk_ja
    uk_ja Posts: 143 Member
    Stop lying to yourself and track the bad days, you are only cheating yourself with denial when you don't track the bad days.

    If you had tracked you would have seen the calorie excess that you had eaten, you would have seen the crazy increase in sodium from the take out/ processed food. The 5lb gain would not be hard to see if the data is there in front of your and the data is what MFP is all about.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
    You have to eat 3500 calories over your maintenance calories to gain one pound of fat. So, unless you ate and additional 17,500 calories this weekend you haven't gained 5 pounds. It's water weight. it fluctuates according to a myriad of things including hormones, carb intake, sodium intake, etc. It will be gone very soon.

    ^ This is correct. As an example, I did log all of my food intake this weekend, and because it was heavy-sodium foods and generally bad for you, I too am up 5lbs from the weekend, even though my weekly goal was only over by 1500.

    So you can see there's no way I even gained back one pound, much less five. It's just the scale being wonky again. I need to eat right and drink lots of water, and I'll be back down to my Friday number in a day or two.
  • haleighallen
    haleighallen Posts: 209 Member
    You have to eat 3500 calories over your maintenance calories to gain one pound of fat. So, unless you ate and additional 17,500 calories this weekend you haven't gained 5 pounds. It's water weight. it fluctuates according to a myriad of things including hormones, carb intake, sodium intake, etc. It will be gone very soon.
    ^THIS^
  • Lesa_Sass
    Lesa_Sass Posts: 2,213 Member
    It's water weight from the sodium in the take out and junk you were eating all weekend. Drink a ton of water and eat some veggies and you'll be fine


    ^^^^^This. I had sashami Friday night and ate a ton of it with soy and wasabi. I woke up the next morning and had gained 4 lbs over night. Well, I knew for a fact this did not happen, it was the sodium retaining all the water I drank

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