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GAINED 14.7 POUNDS IN 3 DAYS

thedean1td1
thedean1td1 Posts: 24 Member
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Well exercise like hell, eat the the right foods and drink your water, well I am a tad po'd and shocked, when this morning at weigh-in I GAINED 14.7 POUNDS. I weighed 577.9# this past Thursday morning at 7:30am and today at 7:30am on the same scale I was 592.6#.

Friday I burned over 4,400 calories, Saturday about 600 and over 1600 yesterday.

What is going on?

Sincerely,

FRUSTRATED

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  • colleen3115
    colleen3115 Posts: 69 Member
    Two words: water weight.

    Unless you literally ate an extra 50,000 calories over the weekend it cannot be fat.

    If you ate extra sodium or worked out extra hard your body is probably retaining water.
  • ANewLucia
    ANewLucia Posts: 2,081 Member
    Dean, how many calories did you eat...you would have to eat 3500 times 14.x....and you and I both know you did not. Weight fluctations can happen if you started eating more...you can hold excess water....now you didn't mention if you were doing that. Have you upped intake???
  • wibutterflymagic
    wibutterflymagic Posts: 788 Member
    There is ABSOLUTELY no way you gained 14lbs of fat in 3days. Common sense....says it's water weight. If you exercised so extremely over the last few days then your muscles are retaining water.
  • prettypaleo67
    prettypaleo67 Posts: 44
    Methinks the OP was April Foolin'. Good one! ;)
  • norcal_yogi
    norcal_yogi Posts: 675 Member
    april fools!
  • thedean1td1
    thedean1td1 Posts: 24 Member
    No, its not an April Fools joke, it's reality.
  • ElizabethKalmbach
    ElizabethKalmbach Posts: 1,415 Member
    I'm gonna go with +/-3 lbs of scale accuracy on each weight, and +/-10 of normal water weight fluctuation + extreme exercise = water retention like whoa. Don't worry about it unless it stays that way for longer than a week.
  • Gapwedge01
    Gapwedge01 Posts: 494
    No, its not an April Fools joke, it's reality.

    :noway:
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Confirm valid weigh-in day in order to minimize those naturally occurring fluctuations.

    Morning after rest day eating normal sodium levels, not sore from previous lifting workout.

    Anything else is not valid data. Unless your are studying the possible ranges of weight fluctuations.
    But that's a bad idea for someone trying to lose weight unless you can make your mind over.
    Or go overboard with that idea, weigh 4 times a day for a week, and realize just how bad it can get.
    Morning, after work, after dinner, before bed.
  • mommamuscles
    mommamuscles Posts: 584 Member
    There is some merit to weighing daily to see how various circumstances affect the number on the scale. I use an app for android called libra that allows you to see fluctuations over time and determine if you are on a gaining or losing trend. I may see for example in one day I am up 5 lbs or whatever, but over a week am on a trend of losing 1 lb. very helpful info.
  • mommamuscles
    mommamuscles Posts: 584 Member
    I believe for iPhone the similar app is called hackers diet

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