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What could have happened to my body in one week?

carolynbergen1
carolynbergen1 Posts: 57
edited January 18 in Health and Weight Loss
Help! I am SO upset! How could I have GAINED 2 lbs since my weight in last week? While I have lost .5 inches around my mid thigh and .5 inches around my upper thigh, I've actually added .25 in to my already fat waist and .5 inches to my hips! Of course I've lost .5 in from my bust. The only thing I have done in the past week was to INCREASE my exercise and played with my diet. Since my sugar was too high and my fat almost non existent I lowered my sugar intake and met or just went over my allowed fat intake. Still too low on protein. I've ate back some of my exercise calories which I wasn't before. I never used to eat lunch or breakfast and I started doing that "to be more healthy" and yet I still could barely meet the base of 1200 calories or more when I exercised. What was I supposed to do? Stuff my face in order to meet it? I can understand not losing weight or inches one week, but gaining weight AND inches or having my fat redistributed? Anyone have any ideas here? Should I just go back to the higher sugar and super low fat when I was consistently losing? Cut back on the cardio? This makes NO sense to me. It's like when I joined eDiets about 5 years ago and gained weight following their regimen. Quit that after two weeks.

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  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    First, take a deep breath. Now, one week is not how you judge whether any plan is working. You've changed a lot of things and could be just retaining some water from your exercise. If you can barely meet 1200 calories you still need to work on your foods. It's not hard to eat that much and fat is not going to make you fat so be sure to include full fat dairy, nuts, meats, oils, etc in your diet.

    It sounds like you are very impatient and you have to realize that you didn't gain weight over night and it doesn't come back off that quickly either. Taking measurements is great but the accuracy down to .25 of an inch is going to lead to frustration. You may have been off by that much last time.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    Bloating, water retention, sodium, new workout, hormones, etc. I weigh myself daily (it's just a habit and the constantly changing numbers don't bother me), and I can easily go up and down 2-3 pounds overnight. It's certainly not fat gain, just normal weight fluctuations on our bodies.
  • carolynbergen1
    carolynbergen1 Posts: 57
    No, I'm really not impatient. I knew this was going to be a LONG journey when I started. I expected plateaus. I knew they were coming. I didn't expect to gain. Weight? Possibly, IF I gained muscle mass. But inches? That doesn't make much sense to me, especially where I gained them! Around the belly and hips! I kind of expected certain things...like perhaps an increase around my calves. Have not measured them before but now they are as hard as a rock. My guess is that could cause their circumference to increase. But abs should either stay the same or hopefully go down, as should hips. Even though I don't want this to happen I am aware that my bust will decrease. I don't "get" this redistribution.

    As far as it not being hard to maintain 1200 calories, it is. I've been this way for as long as I can remember. I was a size 4-6 all through my teens and 20s and then yo-yo-ed through my 30s and 40s. Size 6-16. I've gained from pregnancy and medical/medication issues and lost from power walking and step aerobics. Only went on a "diet" when I joined eDiets a few years back and immediately GAINED weight on that program. Needless to say I never paid much attention to what I ate, just tried to stay away from crap. My downfalls were that I was misjudging what a real portion was AND I had an addiction to Coffee and French Vanilla creamer. This past January when I was heavier than I'd ever been. I said, enough is enough, and found this website. Regardless of what I weighed, I've never been a breakfast eater. The thought of solid food in the morning will send me heaving, literally. Half the time I skip lunch as well. I don't generally snack on anything either. I'm strange because I have never really enjoyed food like most people do. I don't have an eating disorder. If I am hungry I eat but it doesn't usually take a lot to feel full. I struggle to eat up to 1200 cal simply because I don't feel hungry or deprived when I consume 1000 or 1100 per day. This past week I felt "off" eating more and moving more. Then I get on the scale and freaked out because I'm going the wrong way and don't want it to be the start of a trend.

    Thanks AmyRhubarb...you've made me less anxious. Mokey, I appreciate the advice. I really do. I just don't think eating more is going to make my body all that happy to be honest. By the way I DO eat things such as real butter, sour cream, avocados, etc...I would rather eat real butter than margarine. Honestly I can't believe I got hooked on the coffee creamer. Used to tell my husband it's all chemicals and I'd rather use milk and sugar. But now, I look at my diet as I've been pretty good about logging everything I put in my mouth, and it's naturally high in sugar and low in fats. I'm almost diabetic so I know I have to get that sugar down. I KNOW I need more protein as I am woefully low in that. So I tinkered with it, added more fats, cut back on the sugars, and after 9 days it is what it is. Maybe I am naive but again, I expected this to be a long journey but I don't think I expected any more yo-yo-ing, that's all.

    Thanks for the ear you guys.
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