Why am I 5 pounds heavier

cookieinbk82
cookieinbk82 Posts: 320 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I weighed myself this morning and I weighed 5 pounds more than yesterday. Then I weighed myself again just a few minutes ago and I still weighed the same as this morning. I have not changed my diet the only thing is that I did not go to the gym yesterday and I have my period. What's going on? I'm worried.

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  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
    If you just started your period, it's probably water retention. Nothing to be worried about.
  • AriFit12
    AriFit12 Posts: 10
    Could it be water retention from your period?
  • cookieinbk82
    cookieinbk82 Posts: 320 Member
    If you just started your period, it's probably water retention. Nothing to be worried about.

    This is the 3rd day of my period.
  • Laurenloveswaffles
    Laurenloveswaffles Posts: 535 Member
    It's water retention. Nothing to worry over.
  • FatFreeFrolicking
    FatFreeFrolicking Posts: 4,252 Member
    Weight fluctuates daily. Especially during your menstrual cycle.

    It is water retention.
  • jkal1979
    jkal1979 Posts: 1,896 Member
    If you just started your period, it's probably water retention. Nothing to be worried about.

    This is the 3rd day of my period.

    You can still be retaining water from it.
  • Cappa124
    Cappa124 Posts: 131
    Definitely water weight - drink extra water to try to keep it down, but unfortunately, its not entirely avoidable. Don't let it discourage you - just skip your weigh in this week and you'll see the drop next week.
  • Jim_Barteck
    Jim_Barteck Posts: 274 Member
    Water, water, water.

    Whenever you see a large overnight (or over the span of a week) increase in your weight, it is almost always water.

    Just do the math on your calorie intake over the last week. Were you over by 17,500 calories? Anywhere close to that? No? Then it couldn't be fat.

    Next question, have you suddenly begun working out by lifting small cars over your head? No? Then you probably didn't gain 5 pounds of muscle in the last week either.

    That only leaves water. Water can be retained for a whole list of reasons including: your period, your sodium intake, renal function, muscle recovery, creatine intake, certain medications, etc. The list goes on and on and on.

    The only thing you have to worry about is your calorie intake. If it's where it belongs, then everything else is just statistical noise.
  • psych101
    psych101 Posts: 1,842 Member
    As others have said - water retention is the likely cause.

    For me, I tend to drop weight suddenly before TOM, go up during TOM, then drop again after - monitor your weight and you might see your own pattern developing.
  • newdaydawning79
    newdaydawning79 Posts: 1,503 Member
    Water, water, water.

    Whenever you see a large overnight (or over the span of a week) increase in your weight, it is almost always water.

    Just do the math on your calorie intake over the last week. Were you over by 17,500 calories? Anywhere close to that? No? Then it couldn't be fat.

    Next question, have you suddenly begun working out by lifting small cars over your head? No? Then you probably didn't gain 5 pounds of muscle in the last week either.

    That only leaves water. Water can be retained for a whole list of reasons including: your period, your sodium intake, renal function, muscle recovery, creatine intake, certain medications, etc. The list goes on and on and on.

    The only thing you have to worry about is your calorie intake. If it's where it belongs, then everything else is just statistical noise.

    ^^^ This

    Yesterday I was 3 pounds higher than at any other point this week. Today I'm back down to what I was the last time I weighed, +/- a tenth of a pound or two. I knew I'd been below my cals so there was nothing else it could be other than water. :) It'll disappear as quickly as it appeared in the near future as long as you're getting enough fluids, not getting too much sodium, etc.
  • BostonStrong617
    BostonStrong617 Posts: 117
    I gain 5-7 pounds every time I have my period. Pants are always snug and so is my bra. Sometimes I'll even gain 3-5 after a weekend or day of heavier eating, I used to have a friend who refused to weight herself until she "dropped a few kids off at the pool" so to speak...personally I don't weigh myself at all because weight isn't always an indication of health and/or fitness. At the very least your weight flacutuates so frequently that it's better to think of yourself as X ∓5
  • kevincowart1
    kevincowart1 Posts: 1 Member
    To keep from psyching yourself out record your weights and average them every month. Then gauge your progress by your monthly weight. And while your at it take monthly averages of your waist and hips, they are a munch better indicator or your lean body mass.
  • kcollesano1
    kcollesano1 Posts: 4 Member
    I'm a guy so I have no experience in the period department.... but I would recommend not checking in on your weight so frequently... twice a week max. As others have said your weight fluctuates daily and checking it consistently like that might lead you to believe theres something wrong when in fact there isn't.

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