4LBS 1 Meal??? WTH?

Abrasue
Abrasue Posts: 218 Member
edited September 26 in Motivation and Support
For my cheat meal for the week, I had on the boarder.....it was aaaamazing :D BUT It made me gain 4lbs! I knew alot of it was just water weight bc of all the sodium. But I can't seem to get back down to what I was before the cheat meal. Whats going on??? TIA!

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  • CeleryStalker
    CeleryStalker Posts: 665 Member
    You didn't gain 4 pounds from that meal. You are retaining water. If you were following a lower carb diet plan prior to your cheat meal, you were in ketosis, which accounts for about 3# of water weight. Once you ate all those delicious carbs at OTB (omg i love that place), you went out of ketosis, retained 3# of water in your liver, in addition to whatever water you are retaining from the sodium. It's all good. Just stay off the scales a few days and really push the water intake.

    You think you got it bad? I don't do cheat days, but I do ride long distances on my bike. Any time I ride longer than 25 miles or so, I retain 4-6# of water in my muscles while they heal themselves. How's that for a slap in the face? LOL



    Mmmmm, on the border. guacamole live. nom nom nom nom nom
  • nicoco78
    nicoco78 Posts: 12 Member
    can you elaborate on " I retain 4-6# of water in my muscles while they heal themselves." ???
  • Abrasue
    Abrasue Posts: 218 Member
    I was totally on a low carb diet before.....makes sense! thanks so much! :D
  • CeleryStalker
    CeleryStalker Posts: 665 Member
    can you elaborate on " I retain 4-6# of water in my muscles while they heal themselves." ???

    Sure thing!

    After are hard workout, glycogen is depleted and when you eat sugar (from simple or complex carbs) your muscles will soak up a fair amount of it along with some water right away.

    When you work out hard, you get tiny micro-tears in your muscles. To repair, they retain some water to help the process along.

    Once your muscles get better even though maybe not fully healed, your body starts to move the water, waste, blood, etc. through you muscles much more normally causing you to “lose” the weight.


    This information is available all over the place, but I lifted it from this link here:

    http://run4change.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/qa-post-weight-gain-after-events-sore-muscles-and-hard-efforts/
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