9lb Gain!!!!

I would say its water.

could be a number of things, are you ah...um... backed up, it could be that along with water retention. it is almost impossible to put on 9 lbs in one week you would have to consume 31500 more calories than you burn. so if your maintenance cals are 1500 you would have to take in 6000 calories/day plus exercise calories to gain 9 pounds in one week.

It happened to me! 8lb loss one week then an 8lb gain the next. I was now working out the gain week but I too expected like 2-3lb. I think it was just water weight though because I lost 5 of the 8lb the next two days without working out. Have you watched your sodium? Drank enough water? Your TOM? I know it's hard not to get discouraged and want to give up but it's not worth it. Just use it as inspiration to try that much harder next week. Good luck! and hang in there :flowerforyou:

I bet its water..I also yoyo a lot and to my surprise I started taking a water pill and now im at my lowest weight ever..I eat right and also exercise but im sure the water was what was holding me back..I never thought that I was one to retain but I did and now I dont..GNC has a great water pill WATEREX its cheap and very effective. Chin up and kee at it. Make sure that you are not buring yourself out with so much exercise..beleive it or not that can hinder your progress..

Hi, Can you explain the water pill a bit more? I haven't really heard of that - does it defeat the purpose of drinking all that H20 that they want us to drink? Just curious about it because I haven't heard many people mention this. Thanks

I agree with a lot of has been written so far .. without knowing exactly what you were eating while celebrating your hubbies return (congrats, btw), it's virtually impossible to give you an accurate answer. However, here are a few things I've learned in the many years I've been yo-yo-ing on the scale:

Scales are funny things. They aren't always 100 % accurate, so I always take what they say with a grain of salt. Perhaps your "140" weigh in wasn't entirely accurate, and maybe it should have read closer to 142 or so. This is especially true if you sometimes move your scale. I have a small bedroom, and need to keep the scale under my dresser when I'm not using it. If I move it to one part of the floor & weigh myself, I will get one reading. I can move it two inches in any direction & get a completely different number. If the floor is even slightly out of balance, your scale won't be accurate. I finally had to mark off an area of the floor to put the scale (with brown tape, so its not THAT obvious), in the hopes that I will always get a reading that is close to accurate, but I also know that isn't guaranteed.

Hidden sugars & sodium affect body weight ... read this -- if you haven't already -- it's got some good points: http://www.skwigg.com/id12.html

Between the sodium, the more than likely relaxed portioning when DH came home, possibly a reduction in water intake, as well as scale fluctuations, I'm sure that when you WI again, things will have balanced themselves out!

You know that the change on the scale is NOT from added weight, because there is no way you could have intake that many calories & had them convert to fat that quickly, so double check your portions & what you've been eating, drink some extra water, and you'll be right as rain in no time!

Good luck!!

Just for your own sanity's sake, why don't you try to weigh again tomorrow. Maybe you'll be surprised and find that you only gained a few pounds rather than 9 lbs. Sorry to be so blunt for the guys that may read this, but it's a fact of a woman's life. If you're period isn't due to start until next week, you may very well be retaining some extra fluid...even now. Don't get yourself too worked up about what happened on the scale today. As Scarlet says, "tomorrow is another day". Put it behind you and get yourself back on track with your eating. The other thought too is that you may be gaining muscle weight so between the fluid retention and the muscle weight could very easily explain what's going on with your body. Again, try the scale again tomorrow.

Maybe it was water but that is a lot of water. You can see why I am so upset it just doesn't make any sense.

It's not that much water A gallon weighs like 8 pounds and there are PLENTY of places for your body to stash it. I had one MEAL of eating something I was craving (just happened to be a burger & fried pickles, lol) and the next day I was up 3 pounds. That was Monday. I drank a lot of water Monday and yesterday & peed my life away but today the water weight is gone and I'm down about 5 whole pounds from Monday.

Drink a lot of water to flush yourself out and I bet you'll be down near 140 again in a few days.

Edit: It's also important to consider that when you weighed yourself the time before and you were near 140 you could have easily been dehydrated. Even a little bit of dehydration that is otherwise unnoticable can make a big difference in the scale.

One of my MFP buddies in my check-in group was able to get off of the diuretic she was taking to help control her BP. She stopped taking it and, wham, 7 pound gain. She's doing everything right, it's just water weight. So, yeah, you're not alone. This happens all the time. You just have to recognize it for what it is & chugging along to reach your goal.

Because of this thread, I added sodium to the things I track on my main food page. Looks like I've never really gone over the 2500 mg it tells me I can have, altho I have come close with a few frozen food items that are higher in it. I'll have to start watching out for those.

My weight can fluctuate in a day if I have too much sodium and a lot of water and eat off a bit by a few pounds, add my time of the month and, yeah...but then its back down a couple days later. I agree, take it again friday, cut down on sodium, and reevaluate. Don't get discouraged, you're doing awesome girl :flowerforyou:

What did you eliminate in order to be able to track sodium?

I have protein, carbs, fiber, fat and calcium.

I just noticed that my fiber was low today so I logged my 2 fiber tabs.

20 calories!!

I will start logging vitamins after this discovery.

I gain water off and on, not just during TOM....drink more water and keep up with your measurments as well. If those aren't affected by the weight gain, than its probably a temporary thing. Don't worry over it, but if you continue to gain while dieting, see your doctor to make sure you aren't being affected by something more serious.