GAINED 10 POUNDS IN 1 DAY! :(

I think waiting a few days after a cheat meal or binge can be helpful. If I go out for pizza on Friday night, I will wait until Monday or Tuesday until I weigh myself. I use Friday morning for my weekly weigh-in. I then chart my weight in a graph.

If you weigh yourself daily, there can be lots of ups and downs that can be emotionally taxing. One day, I exercised 3.5 hours and ate maybe 2,000 calories but had no change. I think it's helpful to look at the big picture. The scale is just one part of being healthy. How do you feel? What are your measurements like? I have also been tracking my waist and hip measurements every other week for the last 18 weeks. I have lost 9 inches in my waist (measured at my navel) in the last 18 weeks. I think that's more of a victory than the 33 pounds that I have lost in the last 18 weeks.

I just laugh at this post and keep moving on to the next

Seriously unnecessary- comments like that get people even more down then they already are. The OP is young and may have limited knowledge of nutrition and fitness basics. Why shouldn't she come here and ask her questions?

It's Friday, c'mon! Be a good person and just ignore if you think her post is so ridiculous...

Well said. I couldn't agree more.

I will still laugh because 1. she just joined. 2. Its her first post. 3. She hasnt been back to say anything else in 3 pages of replies. 4. I cant believe so many took it serious enough to answer.

Hmmm...interestingly enough, she edited her first post to say that she now understands it's probably water weight and that she appreciates everyone's help. AND, she did that about 15 minutes after the original post and about 50 minutes before you this response saying she hasn't been back. So...yeah...there's that.

Umm... Just the piece of pizza alone has 1 day worth of sodium in it. Don't eat anything processed for a couple of days and drink your weight in water and the scale number will go down. Promise.

no this is not a joke im like crying so much right now....

so yesterday i weighed myself in the morning and in weighed 120 i was so happy...but for some reason i ate really bad i gad

130 cal pack of nilla waefers
2 large mcdonalds fries
one reg mcflurry (oreo)
one small strawberry shake
a thick slice of banana bread
a BIG cinnamon roll
a slice of pizza with stuffed crust cheese
some tyson chicken nuggets

I dont know why i ate all that!!!! But im so mad at myself and when i weighed myswlf this morning i was 130 how did i gain 10 pounds):

You know how many calories are in 10lbs of fat? 35,000 calories ABOVE your TDEE.

So use some common sense.

TDEE + 35,000 calories = 10lbs gain of fat

Did you consume 35,000 calories? NO you didn't, so it's not fat... stop stressing.

This guy knows his stuff...Seriously, at 120lbs you would probably vomit and be in the hospital if you at that much food in 16 hrs assuming you sleep for 8 hrs. Stop crying....you'll be fine..just eat normal the next few days and your body will regulate back to normal. No Worries...I don't believe in "cheat days" but I guess you could say that's what you had.

Today is a new day and a new beginning. It happened, get over it, learn from it, and go on. Also, you may wanna check the batteries in your scale, my sometimes fluctuates when they are low. Happy Friday Everyone!!!

I know people keep saying water weight but I put on 6 pounds in a couple of days. Problem I have stayed on the same weight for 3 weeks. That is not water weight for that amount of time and haven't gone over my 1600 calories.

The fact remains that 1 lb of actual fat stored is 3500 calories above and beyond your bodies maintenance calories. Most people on here are eating at a deficit to begin with. So, in your case, that would be 21000 calories above what you are at maintenance or your total daily energy expenditure (TDEE).

As previously stated, the scale is not a good indicator of what your body is doing regarding fat loss. The scale is good for long term trending. If you are noticing the scale going up on a regular basis over a long period of time, you may need to adjust your calories, but if it's just not moving, then there are several other factors involved which include time of day, food eaten, sodium, liquids, and so on and so on.

Also, for several people, losing weight go in "swishes," so when you think you've held onto those 6 lbs forever, all of the sudden one day you wake up, step on the scale and you've lost 4 or 6 or even 8 lbs.

I just laugh at this post and keep moving on to the next

Seriously unnecessary- comments like that get people even more down then they already are. The OP is young and may have limited knowledge of nutrition and fitness basics. Why shouldn't she come here and ask her questions?

It's Friday, c'mon! Be a good person and just ignore if you think her post is so ridiculous...

Well said. I couldn't agree more.

I will still laugh because 1. she just joined. 2. Its her first post. 3. She hasnt been back to say anything else in 3 pages of replies. 4. I cant believe so many took it serious enough to answer.

How in the world are any of those reasons still good reasons to laugh at someone? And instead of taking her question seriously and answering, people should just ignore it or make fun of her like you did?

Because I was "mean" and said just laugh and move on..........instead of being sarcastic like alot of folks..........I'm the bad one. its ok, I can be a douche and own it. The post is ridiculous. Plain and simple. No one will gain 10lbs in one day. NO ONE. Even water weight. Its not possible. Over the course of several days of eating the way she did, maybe I would take this as a serious post. But not after one day. If I got on the scale tomorrow and I was up 10lbs from today, my first thought would not be "omg, I gained 10lbs". Its more likely to be "hmm maybe my battery is going dead on my scale" or something like that. Stop taking everything so serious.

I do apologize if I came off rude...it's Friday, I'm in a good mood, and everyone else should be too! I just think it's easy to forget that at one point in our lives NONE of us knew anything about weight loss or nutrition. I highly doubt that the OP posted this to be ridiculous- even though you might think it is. She's putting forth an effort to learn, reaching out to others (which can be very hard!), and appreciating the feedback she's getting instead of throwing out excuses. Sounds like the right thing to do to me

I just laugh at this post and keep moving on to the next

Seriously unnecessary- comments like that get people even more down then they already are. The OP is young and may have limited knowledge of nutrition and fitness basics. Why shouldn't she come here and ask her questions?

It's Friday, c'mon! Be a good person and just ignore if you think her post is so ridiculous...

Well said. I couldn't agree more.

I will still laugh because 1. she just joined. 2. Its her first post. 3. She hasnt been back to say anything else in 3 pages of replies. 4. I cant believe so many took it serious enough to answer.

How in the world are any of those reasons still good reasons to laugh at someone? And instead of taking her question seriously and answering, people should just ignore it or make fun of her like you did?

Because I was "mean" and said just laugh and move on..........instead of being sarcastic like alot of folks..........I'm the bad one. its ok, I can be a douche and own it. The post is ridiculous. Plain and simple. No one will gain 10lbs in one day. NO ONE. Even water weight. Its not possible. Over the course of several days of eating the way she did, maybe I would take this as a serious post. But not after one day. If I got on the scale tomorrow and I was up 10lbs from today, my first thought would not be "omg, I gained 10lbs". Its more likely to be "hmm maybe my battery is going dead on my scale" or something like that. Stop taking everything so serious.

I do apologize if I came off rude...it's Friday, I'm in a good mood, and everyone else should be too! I just think it's easy to forget that at one point in our lives NONE of us knew anything about weight loss or nutrition. I highly doubt that the OP posted this to be ridiculous- even though you might think it is. She's putting forth an effort to learn, reaching out to others (which can be very hard!), and appreciating the feedback she's getting instead of throwing out excuses. Sounds like the right thing to do to me

Happy Friday! Have an awesome weekend.

impossible, you would have to eat 35,000 calories...

all that sodium caused you to hold water, it will come back off in a couple of days