Gained 30 lbs in 3 wks? Extreme Weight Loss

yeah that was crazy. Saw it while I was at the gym. Lol and she tried to play it off by shaking her head and acting like it was because she drank 2 bottles of water that morning. Glad she was able to get back on track in the end though.

I didn't see it, but I'm really good at gaining weight so I could easily see myself gaining that much (unfortunately).

I gained 18 lbs in 10 days on my honeymoon. It is possible if you do nothing but eat and drink.

Saw that too.:grumble: Inspired me to do 100 pushups and 100 body weight squats during the next 4 commercial breaks. I will not back slide!:drinker:

Watched it too, She is a little like me, committed sometime, but keeps falling off the wagon and going back to former weight. The trick for me is to keep plugging along. I hope she keeps plugging along. but I was impressed with her walking the grand canyon with all that weight on her. It is something I want to do, I was there 3 years ago but felt even the donkey ride was too strenuous. Letting weight get in the way of life and what you want to do is NOT the way to live.

Watched it too, She is a little like me, committed sometime, but keeps falling off the wagon and going back to former weight. The trick for me is to keep plugging along. I hope she keeps plugging along. but I was impressed with her walking the grand canyon with all that weight on her. It is something I want to do, I was there 3 years ago but felt even the donkey ride was too strenuous. Letting weight get in the way of life and what you want to do is NOT the way to live.

A lot of it would be water weight, if she was on a very strict diet before. Dieting depletes glycogen, glycogen is stored with water. Eating way too little results in your body burning up all its glycogen stores, which means you lose a lot of water in the process. I don't know exactly how much glycogen the body stores, but you get rapid gains and losses of scale weight as your body stores and burns glycogen.

If she's gained that much, there's probably a fair bit of fat gain in there as well, if she's totally binged for 3 weeks then she will have done, but a large proportion of the gain will be water/glycogen.

Moral of the story is, don't aim for extreme weight loss. Aim for 1-2lb a week fat loss (or a little more if you're extremely obese) through sustainable lifestyle changes. The aim is to burn fat off and not gain it back again, not see how much scale weight you can drop in the shortest possible time. And it's not just about physiology, it's also about behaviour. If any animal is deprived of food, when it gets food again it will eat as much as it can. Humans are no exception and while humans can choose to attempt to override this basic biological drive, it's at the root of a lot of binge eating and even if you have cast iron will power, why set yourself up to be constantly battling your body's basic survival instincts...? it's much better to do things slowly and sustainably and not be in battle with yourself all the time.

I find it really disturbing that TV shows set people up for such failure. Extreme weight loss is not healthy or sustainable. They're just damaging people's physical and mental health for entertainment and to make money.

I saw that too and had to rewind because I couldn't imagine gaining that much wieght in such a short amount of time. WOW!
Her mother is a piece of work, she should have gone out with the old furniture. It is sad she needed her mothers support and kept asking her mom questions about how she was doing. And then the mother would crush her feelings. I cried the whole time.
I was freaking out about that nurse too! I would have never wieghed myself on camera if I wasn't serious. I guess she just isn't ready yet.

Guess this goes to show that losing weight is not the greatest accomplishment - but losing weight gradually because you are making good choices for the rest of your life.

I think people like this would say "diets dont work' when its really the person choosing to go back to old habits.

i can imagine that once she got off the weight loss drudgery, when she put that food in her mouth, it was so delicious and she probably was feeling so deprived of it that she went nuts. I know i could possibly do this if someone told me i could. I'd be eating all the food I have been missing all these months - pizza, tacos, italian beef, cake with buttercream frosting,etc.

My deal was...she kept making insane excuses for not going to the gym. Her shot of it "snowing" and not wanting to go out in that weather.

Seriously, if I didn't go to the gym in "that weather" I'd miss a day at the gym at least once a week.

My deal was...she kept making insane excuses for not going to the gym. Her shot of it "snowing" and not wanting to go out in that weather.

Not to mention she HAD A GYM IN HER HOUSE. Come on..

Remind me again how much glycogen the liver can store and the water needed for it? Did you really say that it was 30 lbs of water weight? How much did this person weigh, and how dehydrated did she get? Please.

A lot of it would be water weight, if she was on a very strict diet before. Dieting depletes glycogen, glycogen is stored with water. Eating way too little results in your body burning up all its glycogen stores, which means you lose a lot of water in the process. I don't know exactly how much glycogen the body stores, but you get rapid gains and losses of scale weight as your body stores and burns glycogen.

If she's gained that much, there's probably a fair bit of fat gain in there as well, if she's totally binged for 3 weeks then she will have done, but a large proportion of the gain will be water/glycogen.

Moral of the story is, don't aim for extreme weight loss. Aim for 1-2lb a week fat loss (or a little more if you're extremely obese) through sustainable lifestyle changes. The aim is to burn fat off and not gain it back again, not see how much scale weight you can drop in the shortest possible time. And it's not just about physiology, it's also about behaviour. If any animal is deprived of food, when it gets food again it will eat as much as it can. Humans are no exception and while humans can choose to attempt to override this basic biological drive, it's at the root of a lot of binge eating and even if you have cast iron will power, why set yourself up to be constantly battling your body's basic survival instincts...? it's much better to do things slowly and sustainably and not be in battle with yourself all the time.

I find it really disturbing that TV shows set people up for such failure. Extreme weight loss is not healthy or sustainable. They're just damaging people's physical and mental health for entertainment and to make money.

My deal was...she kept making insane excuses for not going to the gym. Her shot of it "snowing" and not wanting to go out in that weather.

Not to mention she HAD A GYM IN HER HOUSE. Come on..

That too. I just laughed at the 2.5 inches of snow as "I don't want to go out in this".

I was in shock at the gain. I noticed how they did not focus very long on the nurse that lost 14lbs. I was expecting to see her come out with some huge transformation as well. Just glad to see they all had the scale moving though. Hopefully Trina can keep this group motivated for some long-term results. Her weight gain scared me though..i would hate t know I have been working this hard for that much to come back on that quick. She did look amazing at the end of the show.