AAGH please tell me this is temporary!!

bethygirlie

I was at a plateau and I started working out more, and gained 4 pounds...in a week. I was eating 1200 calories. Don't know how that happened. Then I increased my cals because ppl told me to eat back some of my exercise calories, and increase my calories because I wasn't eating enough. I gained another 4. In ONE DAY!! PLEASE tell me this is going to stop. I can't keep going on like this. I have jeans I need to stay fitting into!!

Rayman79

Sorry if this sounds rude, but is this a serious post or a parody?

Pedal_Pusher

Keep on keepin on

bethygirlie

Sorry if this sounds rude, but is this a serious post or a parody?

I am being serious. I'm freaking out.

ihateroses

There is a 0% chance you gained 4 lbs in a day with a calorie deficit.

I think you should put away the scale for a while.

frogz21

Have you thought about it being water weight?

Julesofoz

All I can see is 225lbs lost on your ticker, so amazing

mariagabriella

You might need to take a few days or a week off exercising. You must be retaining a hell of a lot of water. Maybe increase your cals a bit, then after a week or so slowly start decreasing your cals and exercise again.

Overexerising and undereating can cause you to plateau and retain a lot of water.

What sort of exercises do you do?

hailzp

You have lost all that weight and you are worried about 8 measly pounds!!! Don't want to sound rude here but I think you are being really silly. You should know that scales are not your friend and weight fluctuates a lot throughout the day, especially if you have upped your cals. Give it two weeks to settle down, maybe exercise a little less and I bet you, it won't be weight you gained, just water. You won't of gained on a deficit.

*Edited to sound less nasty**
Congrats on losing all that weight by the way, it is bloody amazing.

kaylabrianna

How often are you weighing yourself?
What time of the day?

Rayman79

Sorry, I just saw the amount of weight you have lost, and thought you might be havin' a laugh

The most logical cause from the information you have given is just an increase on fluid retention. If you have changed up your workouts your muscles will retain more water as part of the healing process. If you have one day off from working you will most likely see the scales drop.

Just give if a week or so and it should level out again - don't panic!

If it hasn't leveled off by then, you can come and personally kick my butt

bethygirlie

Sorry, I just saw the amount of weight you have lost, and thought you might be havin' a laugh

The most logical cause from the information you have given is just an increase on fluid retention. If you have changed up your workouts your muscles will retain more water as part of the healing process. If you have one day off from working you will most likely see the scales drop.

Just give if a week or so and it should level out again - don't panic!

If it hasn't leveled off by then, you can come and personally kick my butt

Ok but I'm going to hold you to that....lol

EvgeniZyntx

You did not gain 4 lbs of fat in a day - that would be approx 14000 calories consumed, processed and stored. Therefore a lot of that is fluid retention from either salt equilibrium or swelling. It is often an edemic response (extracellular water retention) to new exercise. The solution? Drink MORE water as this allows clearance to increase and wastes to clear, requiring less water to balance tissues.

TOMs?

NewAngel35

Sorry, I just saw the amount of weight you have lost, and thought you might be havin' a laugh

The most logical cause from the information you have given is just an increase on fluid retention. If you have changed up your workouts your muscles will retain more water as part of the healing process. If you have one day off from working you will most likely see the scales drop.

Just give if a week or so and it should level out again - don't panic!

If it hasn't leveled off by then, you can come and personally kick my butt

Your funny, but I agree. There is a lot of things that cause weight fluctuations. us women get the raw deal. There is only 10 days a month I get whats called my true weight. A week before my period I go up..then it takes five days at least after for it to go away.Women can fluctuate up to 10lbs .Dont worry your doing great.

purple_tux1

Water? TOM? You've lost a lot of weight so clearly you know what you're doing. Don't weight yourself so frequently. Just focus on your tracking and exercise and the rest will work itself out.

lenniebus

Unfortunately I am very much like this as well, and that's why I love this site. I can look back and reassure myself that it can't be real...that it's the scale or water or some other anomaly, but eating what I did, I might be the samish weight, but certainly not bigger. Now, eating what I ate before a few weeks ago..I could believe I would gain that much weight in a week (but even then not a day).