Why am I weighing more?

stefania6587
stefania6587 Posts: 5
edited November 8 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone,

I opened this profile a long time ago but never used it. I'm now starting to use it again and don't have any friends :( lol Anyways, I need help with something. I weigh myself every Friday morning after going to the bathroom. This week I've been eating very healthy, not going over my calories and have not missed one day from the gym. I always do cardio on the elliptical and the treadmill for an hour. Last night I went to Olive Garden and I ate about 900 calories more than what I was supposed to. This morning I weighed myself and the scale read one pound higher than last friday. To weigh one more pound I had to eat 3,500 more calories than what my body burns but that is impossible because I always eat 1,200 to 1,300 calories a day and I burn around 500 calories doing cardio according to my polar ft4. Can it be water weight since the food from last night had a lot of sodium? Please tell me if I'm correct or not.. thank you!!

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  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    By "eating healthfully," what do you mean?

    I can eat what I consider to be quite healthful foods but if I eat too much of them, I'll gain weight.

    How long since you re-started...can you open up your diary? Do you have at least a few days worth of entries in there yet?

    Are you certain you're only eating 1200-1300 calories a day?

    The Olive Garden "gain" could be water or the weight of the food...what exactly did you eat there?
  • jacksonpt
    jacksonpt Posts: 10,413 Member
    Yes, it's most likely water weight. Restaurant food, generally speaking, is fairly high in sodium.
  • deninevi
    deninevi Posts: 934 Member
    I also think it's just water weight.
  • stefania6587
    stefania6587 Posts: 5
    LAWoman72 wrote: »
    By "eating healthfully," what do you mean?

    I can eat what I consider to be quite healthful foods but if I eat too much of them, I'll gain weight.

    How long since you re-started...can you open up your diary? Do you have at least a few days worth of entries in there yet?

    Are you certain you're only eating 1200-1300 calories a day?

    The Olive Garden "gain" could be water or the weight of the food...what exactly did you eat there?

    When I said "healthy eating" I mean fruits, veggies, chicken, greek yogurt, pistachios, lentils, beans, etc.. My nutritionist says I can eat those things. I've been couting my calories with this page caloriecount.about.com. I started using MFP about two days ago.

    And last night I ate two breadsticks, salad, classic calamari and shrimp scampi fritta. My hope is that I'm weighing more Today because I ate that last night and not because I'm doing something wrong or over eating during the week.

    Thank you for any advise you can give me.
  • jacksonpt
    jacksonpt Posts: 10,413 Member
    Something else to keep in mind... weight loss is never linear. 1lb is well within normal fluctuations for body weight. Don't worry so much about week to week changes in weight, focus more on month to month... watch for long term trends in weight, not short term fluctuations.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Olive Garden =high sodium = water weight.
  • stefania6587
    stefania6587 Posts: 5
    jacksonpt wrote: »
    Something else to keep in mind... weight loss is never linear. 1lb is well within normal fluctuations for body weight. Don't worry so much about week to week changes in weight, focus more on month to month... watch for long term trends in weight, not short term fluctuations.

    Yes, you are right. Thank you!
  • wkwebby
    wkwebby Posts: 807 Member
    That one pound could be your TOM coming. One pound in the grand scheme of things isn't much to worry about. Like another poster has said, you should look at month to month. Log your week to week numbers and then plot them all on a graph. You will see the trend of up or down fairly easily this way. Then start to worry about upward trends if that is the case. In this case, it should only be water weight though.
  • mitch16
    mitch16 Posts: 2,113 Member
    Probably retaining water due to all of the sodium (each breadstick is ~460 mg of sodium!), plus there's also the weight of the food as it's working its way through your intestines.
  • stefania6587
    stefania6587 Posts: 5
    Yes! You are all very right. I shouldn't worry so much. I need to be more patient and continue with my weightloss journey. Thank you very much...I feel better now :)
  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,151 Member
    yes, water retention due to high sodium. Drink lots of water, as it will help flush it out.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    stefania6587 wrote: »
    Hi everyone,

    I opened this profile a long time ago but never used it. I'm now starting to use it again and don't have any friends :( lol Anyways, I need help with something. I weigh myself every Friday morning after going to the bathroom. This week I've been eating very healthy, not going over my calories and have not missed one day from the gym. I always do cardio on the elliptical and the treadmill for an hour. Last night I went to Olive Garden and I ate about 900 calories more than what I was supposed to. This morning I weighed myself and the scale read one pound higher than last friday. To weigh one more pound I had to eat 3,500 more calories than what my body burns but that is impossible because I always eat 1,200 to 1,300 calories a day and I burn around 500 calories doing cardio according to my polar ft4. Can it be water weight since the food from last night had a lot of sodium? Please tell me if I'm correct or not.. thank you!!

    Either it's normal fluctuation

    Or all the food from last night

    Or you have been eating more than you realized and gained a pound of fat.
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