Is it possible to gain 7 lbs in 3 days?

Probably the salt in the takeaways has caused your body to retain water. Get back on the diet and it should go quite quickly.

Good luck x

Is it possible to gain 7 lbs of water weight? Yes.
Is it possible to gain 7 lbs of fat? No.

Weight can rise temporarily due to:
-Starting or changing an exercise regimen
-Eating extra sodium
-Fluctuations of the amount of food in the digestive tract
-Menstruation

I'm confused. You decided to reward yourself for losing weight by returning to "pre-diet" eating for three days? I suppose this is the problem with "dieting" as opposed to changing your lifestyle. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a healthy eating lifestyle that included some of the foods you mentioned? (ie. a square or two of chocolate or a takeaway once a week).

Keep at it rosie! It's neverending and hard!

Same thing has happened to me. Sometimes it doesn't go away for a LONG time! I'm sure a little - maybe a pound or two is fat but the other five are water. You'll lose it Don't let the depression of this drive you to eat more.

Although I am not a binge eater, I have experienced tremendous weight gain in an incredible short period of time that takes months and months to come off. If for example I gain 8 in 4 days, the first 2 lbs will come off rapidily. The remaining 4-6 can easily become a permanent part of my profile, despite clean and reserved eating habits. What is it for me? Rheumatoid arthritis. Immune and endrocine imbalances and diseases run among the females on my maternal side. It took me years of clean eating to figure out the triggers: sugar consumption and inadequate fat intake.

RA is ikely not in your picture. But insulin sensitivities are common in culture due to the standard american diet (SAD). There are studies you should read that trace excess sugar intake to not only to weight gain, but also high cholesterol and many other health problems.

Once you can tame the binge eating you might be able to track your body's behavior better and determine what your clean diet will look like. Mine is light an grains, minimal added sugars, adequate protein for my age & activity level, plenty of good fats, lots of fiber with vegetables and legumes and some fruits, and finally 8-12 glasses of filtered water daily.

Ditch the scale!

Or, if you must, watch for trends every two weeks or monthly.

Find other ways to track progress - measurements, endurance, stamina, strength, etc.

Same for me, I always need to a whole week to come off after a weekend weight gain.

Although I am not a binge eater, I have experienced tremendous weight gain in an incredible short period of time that takes months and months to come off. If for example I gain 8 in 4 days, the first 2 lbs will come off rapidily. The remaining 4-6 can easily become a permanent part of my profile, despite clean and reserved eating habits. What is it for me? Rheumatoid arthritis. Immune and endrocine imbalances and diseases run among the females on my maternal side. It took me years of clean eating to figure out the triggers: sugar consumption and inadequate fat intake.

RA is ikely not in your picture. But insulin sensitivities are common in culture due to the standard american diet (SAD). There are studies you should read that trace excess sugar intake to not only to weight gain, but also high cholesterol and many other health problems.

Once you can tame the binge eating you might be able to track your body's behavior better and determine what your clean diet will look like. Mine is light an grains, minimal added sugars, adequate protein for my age & activity level, plenty of good fats, lots of fiber with vegetables and legumes and some fruits, and finally 8-12 glasses of filtered water daily.

I'm confused. You decided to reward yourself for losing weight by returning to "pre-diet" eating for three days? I suppose this is the problem with "dieting" as opposed to changing your lifestyle. Wouldn't it make more sense to have a healthy eating lifestyle that included some of the foods you mentioned? (ie. a square or two of chocolate or a takeaway once a week).

The only way to permanently loose weight is a lifestyle change, not dieting! It took me until my fiftieth birthday to realize this and now that I have I have made more progress in a little over three months than any diet I had ever tried.

If your goal is to loose weight and be healthy you need to change you think about your whole self which includes both healthy eating and exercise.

I lost over 33 lbs from the beginning of November and even though I was not working out for a month I didn't gain it all back.. because I avoided all the things I had learned to understand as being unhealthy. In fact I probably did gain some weight during the month I wasn't "working out regularly" but it was definitely not the equivalent of what you gained in those three days.

Takeaways are loaded with salt and all kinds of other additives that I have begin to understand are simply a different type of poison.

I have come to the conclusion that without re-educating myself about both exercise and the food I put in this big chemical plant called the human body it will not function optimally.

I just had the same thing. Not 7lbs but about 5 in 3 days, from falling off the wagon. I've been back on track since monday and 2 of them are already gone. I am also a horrible binge eater, and its a daily struggle. I am also obsessed with my scale, and trying to break the cycle!!!!

Someone above mentioned ditching the scale. I have to agree.. I used to get so discouraged years ago that I would just give up... But then it wasn't a lifestyle change but just more exercise.. Took me what maybe 20 years to figure out that the two go hand in hand.. Now I will only get on the scale once a week max, maybe twice a month..

thank you so much and 113 lbs lost is phenomenal

Thanks! the last year has been hard going up and down. It is a battle. I am trying to get my binge issues resolved so this is not so hard.


Try not to sweat the gains too much. You make take a little longer but you will still get there.