Gained 6 lbs in ONE day!!?? why.....

balesalicia
balesalicia Posts: 80 Member
edited January 15 in Health and Weight Loss
I have been doing really well ( i think ) with exercising 5 days a week and eating healthy. Yesterday i weighed myself and then went and did P90X plyometrics. I just weighed myself tonight, and ive gained 6 lbs!
Sundays are usually my "cheat days" because i heard having a cheat day will throw your metabolism off and prevent plateauing so i ate around 1450 calories instead of my normal 1200 but i dont think it would cause a 6 lb gain! Any thoughts on this?

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  • balesalicia
    balesalicia Posts: 80 Member
    and another added question.....i dont understand why when i excersize, MFP tells me to eat so many more calories? I want to lose weight, so i just stick to my 1200 a day even though it tells me to eat many more calories and it keeps telling me i am not eating enough?
    I am graduating in June and really want to lose this weight before then so i am having a hard time finding balance.
  • robot_potato
    robot_potato Posts: 1,535 Member
    Your weight fluctuates several times a day, and if you are weighing daily you will notice that. Try weighing once a week, at the same time and you will see more steady results. I weigh in on Saturday morning. I wake up, go pee, step on the scale nekkid. Steady results, and I'm a lot more at ease. I would go crazy weighing in every day.
  • MissJJ74
    MissJJ74 Posts: 111 Member
    You might also not be eating enough calories on days when you work out and throwing your body into starvation mode, causing you to gain weight instead of losing.

    Also stress, hormones, and any other number of things can affect your weight numbers.
  • Tatiyanya
    Tatiyanya Posts: 255 Member
    Yeah, the difference can be overwhelming sometimes. But think of it that way : There is NO WAY you\d put 6 lbs of fat in one day, means - its a water weight most likely.
    That can be caused by many things. the time of the month,oral birth control, muscles retaining water, too much sodium etc etc.
    I do strongly advice once a week weight in if you are scared that you will loose motivation like that.
    Also heck, my cheat days happen sporadicaly when I need to attend social meetings and rise a glass or eat something I didnt prepair. If I had a designated cheat day I'd just pig out full mode and stuff my face with more than 6 lbs of unhealthyness .
    But dis body is a temple, we do not cheat on temples, rite?!

    Edit: You want to NET 1200 (and more, depending from goals) calories. Means food you eat - workout calories = net. I found that if i net under that I am like a zombie next day and its aparently because you are loosing muscle mass rather than fat if you prolong unhealthy deficit and THAT will lower your metabolism and make you plateu. Remember tho that MFP overestimates some excercises and while HRM is cool I am just as hapy with double checking other data bases for same excercise and puting it "in between/lower" excercise burned value.
  • Don't weigh every day nothing but madness that way lies.
    I weigh once a week, first thing on Friday. Many other people weigh on the 1st of the month. Some people avoid the scales altogether, and just use how their clothes feel or by measuring.
  • laurelobrien
    laurelobrien Posts: 156 Member
    too much sodium + carbs making you hold water, or possibly hormonal things like periods/birth control
  • volume77
    volume77 Posts: 670 Member
    i easily go up and down 5-7 lbs. on any given day. the scale flectuates. take measurements instead.
  • 1lb is 3500 calories. You didn't gain weight. Did you eat a lot of sodium? Sounds like a messed up scale or water retention.
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