Gained 7 pounds in a week?

jessicataylor2

I recently bought a scale for my dorm because I had only been able to use my boyfriends or the one when I went home. On both of those I fluctuated between 114-116 usually. I weighed myself on mine and it said 118. I figured it was a normal fluctuation so I recorded it. But today I weighed myself again, just three days later, an it says I gained another 4 pounds! I do allow myself to have treats but only if they fit in both my cals and macros. My workouts consist of dance team practice three times a week with a half an hour workout first and then 2.5 hours of dancing, our performances on the weekends where we have to stretch and rehearse for a while first, lots of walking to and from classes, and I try to get to the gym once a week if I have time. I recently upped my water intake from 6-8 cups a day to around 10. Anybody have an idea of what's going on?

jessicataylor2

Bump?

truddy6647

I had this happen recently. I increased my water and now almost a week latter I have lost all but 1.8 pounds of the gain. I increased my water from 8 glasses of 8 oz each to 10 glasses of 8 oz each. I also watched my sodium intake very closely and lowered that as well

kellicci

Unless you ate over 14000 calories in those couple days then it's not fat that you gained so don't be to alarmed.

Make sure you always weigh in at the same time of day and the same way. Most people do mornings before the shower. I always weigh 3-4 pounds more in the evening then in the morning. Then I always gain a little around my TOM and after I eat out b/c of the sodium increase. So there are lots of things that can cause a 4 pound increase just keep up your healthy diet and routine and it should go back down.

jessicataylor2

I have been drinking lots of water like I said. I weigh in the morning after I go to the bathroom and before I consume anything or shower. Plus it's not my TOM and I haven't gone out to eat at all recently. I already thought about all of these and it can't be any so I'm freaking out. I have a very disordered mind so even though I know I didn't consume 14,000 extra calories, I still feel like I gained all fat. I'm really struggling here.

californiagirl2012

I recently bought a scale for my dorm because I had only been able to use my boyfriends or the one when I went home. On both of those I fluctuated between 114-116 usually. I weighed myself on mine and it said 118. I figured it was a normal fluctuation so I recorded it. But today I weighed myself again, just three days later, an it says I gained another 4 pounds! I do allow myself to have treats but only if they fit in both my cals and macros. My workouts consist of dance team practice three times a week with a half an hour workout first and then 2.5 hours of dancing, our performances on the weekends where we have to stretch and rehearse for a while first, lots of walking to and from classes, and I try to get to the gym once a week if I have time. I recently upped my water intake from 6-8 cups a day to around 10. Anybody have an idea of what's going on?

Your weight can fluctuate with water, hormones, sodium, etc, but not usually that much, it's more like 3 lbs in a day depending on your size. You are roughly the same size as me and it's only 3 lbs of fluctuations for someone my size. You can't out exercise too many calories. It's easy to incorrectly estimate calories. Yes, excess calories make you gain weight.

jessicataylor2

I recently bought a scale for my dorm because I had only been able to use my boyfriends or the one when I went home. On both of those I fluctuated between 114-116 usually. I weighed myself on mine and it said 118. I figured it was a normal fluctuation so I recorded it. But today I weighed myself again, just three days later, an it says I gained another 4 pounds! I do allow myself to have treats but only if they fit in both my cals and macros. My workouts consist of dance team practice three times a week with a half an hour workout first and then 2.5 hours of dancing, our performances on the weekends where we have to stretch and rehearse for a while first, lots of walking to and from classes, and I try to get to the gym once a week if I have time. I recently upped my water intake from 6-8 cups a day to around 10. Anybody have an idea of what's going on?

Your weight can fluctuate with water, hormones, sodium, etc, but not usually that much, it's more like 3 lbs in a day depending on your size. You are roughly the same size as me and it's only 3 lbs of fluctuations for someone my size. You can't out exercise too many calories. It's easy to incorrectly estimate calories. Yes, excess calories make you gain weight.

I always have at least a couple hundred calories leftover at the end of the day. So I don't think somehow I've been underestimating my calories so much that I've left out 14,000 extra in the past week...

love4fitnesslove4food_wechange

You'd definitely expect and know it if you ate enough to gain that much. Take the batteries out of your scale. Weigh yourself again. Weigh daily even or 3 times back to back holding different objects. It could be your scale.

jessicataylor2

You'd definitely expect and know it if you ate enough to gain that much. Take the batteries out of your scale. Weigh yourself again. Weigh daily even or 3 times back to back holding different objects. It could be your scale.

I'm going to weigh again tomorrow and see if it goes down at all. I'll definitely try this too. Anything to make that number go down