Changing routine = gain?

myriddian
myriddian Posts: 186 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hi all,
decided this week to experiment with eating back my exercise calories.
I know i haven't made the greatest food choices at times but overall I feel to be doing ok.
I had a sneaky look at the scales this morning, which I rarely do and there was over a KG of gained weight :O

Is this normal with increasing Cal's?
I'm happy to stick to it but I don't want to jump on in another 3 days and see ANOTHER kg gained.
What's a good amount of time to see if the theory is sound or not?

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  • cyberiarob
    cyberiarob Posts: 229 Member
    There are a number of possible explanations, but my first suspicion would be that you're over-estimating your number of calories burned.
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    You can't gain a kilo of fat in a week without eating 1000 EXTRA calories each day, more likely you have gained water - either TOTM or you have refuelled your muscles with glycogen (1g glycogen = 3g water) or salt intake.
  • BarackMeLikeAHurricane
    BarackMeLikeAHurricane Posts: 3,400 Member
    Two things, try eating back half of your exercise calories or less and the weight gain is probably glycogen (water weight) if you've recently increased your exercise.
  • myriddian
    myriddian Posts: 186 Member
    You could be right, I'm using my HRM and the Striiv app mainly ATM. I don't tend to count incidental exercise but do use half the app's burned calories if I'm at work.
    It's a little scary but for the past 3 weeks I've had days where my net calories have been under 800 which also cant be good for you!
    Perhaps dropping to half my exercise cals?

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