gained weight in 3days
TheGetFitGal
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I am 5.3" and weight 128 poundz, i have gained 80 pounds in the last 3 days even tho i have been on 1200 calories per day, i dont understand, and if its water retention t, what exaxtlt is rhat?
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80? Wow!0
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Have you been drinking olive oil by the litre? 80 is a lot...0
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0.80 pounds, sorry! Typo0
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you must mean 8 not 80??0
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That is a natural fluctuation, not weight gain.gaurikudav3 wrote: »0.80 pounds, sorry! Typo0 -
Yes 0.80 pounds guys! Sorry0
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much better number. Your weight will fluctuate up and down from day to day. Don't stress and try weighing yourself once a week rather than everyday. You'll be less stressed. Although I do weigh everyday, I only record once a week b/c I can't help myself. lolgaurikudav3 wrote: »0.80 pounds, sorry! Typo
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gaurikudav3 wrote: »I am 5.3" and weight 128 poundz, i have gained 80 pounds in the last 3 days even tho i have been on 1200 calories per day, i dont understand, and if its water retention t, what exaxtlt is rhat?
I am guessing that English is not your first language (if it is your first language, please don't textspeak) so can you please clarify?
Water retention is when your body holds on to more fluids than it usually does. You fingers and face will be a little puffy. The human body need water in order to function, and sometimes it needs more in order to fix something. The most common reasons are: you just started exercise (the muscles need more fluids in order to repair themselves), you ate high salt foods, you ate a higher carb meal than normal, you drank more alcohol than normal, you took some medications, you are a woman and your period is coming in a couple of days, and many other things.
Unless your kidneys are not functioning well, the water retention goes away anywhere from a day to a week, depending on what caused it.
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alisonkrupp wrote: »
much better number. Your weight will fluctuate up and down from day to day. Don't stress and try weighing yourself once a week rather than everyday. You'll be less stressed. Although I do weigh everyday, I only record once a week b/c I can't help myself. lolgaurikudav3 wrote: »0.80 pounds, sorry! Typo
Wagaurikudav3 wrote: »I am 5.3" and weight 128 poundz, i have gained 80 pounds in the last 3 days even tho i have been on 1200 calories per day, i dont understand, and if its water retention t, what exaxtlt is rhat?
I am guessing that English is not your first language (if it is your first language, please don't textspeak) so can you please clarify?
Water retention is when your body holds on to more fluids than it usually does. You fingers and face will be a little puffy. The human body need water in order to function, and sometimes it needs more in order to fix something. The most common reasons are: you just started exercise (the muscles need more fluids in order to repair themselves), you ate high salt foods, you ate a higher carb meal than normal, you drank more alcohol than normal, you took some medications, you are a woman and your period is coming in a couple of days, and many other things.
Unless your kidneys are not functioning well, the water retention goes away anywhere from a day to a week, depending on what caused it.
was a typo on the weight gain lol, i would die if i gained 80 pounds
and thank you for the info, ill weight my self in 15days, so that way i can track my progress 
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gaurikudav3 wrote: »Yes 0.80 pounds guys! Sorry
If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance. Take some time and learn about normal weight variation and weigh yourself everyday to get a good idea of your own variation.-1 -
ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude? Give her a break, we all have these kinds of freak out moments, even if it's a half second long. Every time I get on the scale and it has gone up, even 0.2 pounds, I start to question what I've been doing, how accurate (or inaccurate) I have been weighing my food...etc. It happens and weight will fluctuate. I've had times where my weight will go up 2-3 pounds over night. Just look back over your last few weeks or months and see the overall trend.0 -
ruggedshutter wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude?
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ruggedshutter wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude? Give her a break, we all have these kinds of freak out moments, even if it's a half second long. Every time I get on the scale and it has gone up, even 0.2 pounds, I start to question what I've been doing, how accurate (or inaccurate) I have been weighing my food...etc. It happens and weight will fluctuate. I've had times where my weight will go up 2-3 pounds over night. Just look back over your last few weeks or months and see the overall trend.
It's not really that rude. It's 100% the truth. Obsessing over every little "gain" will burn a person out completely. Learning about weight fluctuations and looking at trends rather than single data points is a good way to keep your sanity in this process.
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ruggedshutter wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude?ncboiler89 wrote: »ruggedshutter wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude?
Yes
Then go away. The OP didn't understand what water retention is so she is here to learn, not be mocked.
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chubby_checkers wrote: »ruggedshutter wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude? Give her a break, we all have these kinds of freak out moments, even if it's a half second long. Every time I get on the scale and it has gone up, even 0.2 pounds, I start to question what I've been doing, how accurate (or inaccurate) I have been weighing my food...etc. It happens and weight will fluctuate. I've had times where my weight will go up 2-3 pounds over night. Just look back over your last few weeks or months and see the overall trend.
It's not really that rude. It's 100% the truth. Obsessing over every little "gain" will burn a person out completely. Learning about weight fluctuations and looking at trends rather than single data points is a good way to keep your sanity in this process.
It was very rude because the OP is a newbie who does not understand fluctuations, not an obsessive person with ED.
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chubby_checkers wrote: »ruggedshutter wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude? Give her a break, we all have these kinds of freak out moments, even if it's a half second long. Every time I get on the scale and it has gone up, even 0.2 pounds, I start to question what I've been doing, how accurate (or inaccurate) I have been weighing my food...etc. It happens and weight will fluctuate. I've had times where my weight will go up 2-3 pounds over night. Just look back over your last few weeks or months and see the overall trend.
It's not really that rude. It's 100% the truth. Obsessing over every little "gain" will burn a person out completely. Learning about weight fluctuations and looking at trends rather than single data points is a good way to keep your sanity in this process.
Thank you. Please don't confuse my thanks as being rude.-1 -
12.5oz (0.36liters) of water would weigh 0.8lbs (0.36kg). -- Liter of water = 1kg. One of the reasons I wish we used metric in the US.
I've gained more than 3lb between the time I walked into the gym and when I left, due to sweaty clothes and drinking lots of water.
1 liter of muscle weighs 1.06kg (2.30lbs)
1 liter of fat weighs 0.9kg (1.98lbs)0 -
chubby_checkers wrote: »ruggedshutter wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude? Give her a break, we all have these kinds of freak out moments, even if it's a half second long. Every time I get on the scale and it has gone up, even 0.2 pounds, I start to question what I've been doing, how accurate (or inaccurate) I have been weighing my food...etc. It happens and weight will fluctuate. I've had times where my weight will go up 2-3 pounds over night. Just look back over your last few weeks or months and see the overall trend.
It's not really that rude. It's 100% the truth. Obsessing over every little "gain" will burn a person out completely. Learning about weight fluctuations and looking at trends rather than single data points is a good way to keep your sanity in this process.
It was very rude because the OP is a newbie who does not understand fluctuations, not an obsessive person with ED.ncboiler89 wrote: »gaurikudav3 wrote: »Yes 0.80 pounds guys! Sorry
If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance. Take some time and learn about normal weight variation and weigh yourself everyday to get a good idea of your own variation.
Requoting @ncboiler89 so you can see his full comment. He told OP to take some time to learn about weight variations and gave her an idea of how to go about it. I find that the opposite of rude.0 -
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Also, at 5'3" and 128 pounds, you must not have very much to lose… So your losses will be very slow, I would think. Small fluctuations will happen…0
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Your diary is not open, but I'm guessing that like most people here, you shoot to overdo it on water. If you are drinking the 8 glasses of water that this site thinks you should have, that is 4lbs of water running through you every day. the exact number on the scale is a better indicator of your hydration state than your weight.
I would strongly recommend weighing EVERY DAY so that you can start to do some data analysis. Waiting 14 days to weigh in again is a mistake. What if you're a little bloated, and you're expecting to see 3 lbs gone, but are up .5 lbs? this may be a normal fluctuation, but you will have no way of knowing. This is where freakouts come from.
Weigh in every day, and plot a moving average of your weight. That moving average is a better reflection of your weight than any individual data point. There's tons of tools out there that can help you with this. I use some from "The Hacker's Diet". Here's an example you can see that individual data points jump around a lot. That is normal and expected:
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Ok i will try and weight everyday or everyweek to understand this weight loss better, and yes i am a newbie here just 14days into the app and weight loss.so yes everything is new for me, i see the food items which i didnt know had so many calories, so its a good learning phase.may be ill get better in about a month or 2.i Googled how come i gained 0.80 pounds in 3 days and most of the articles said it was water retention and hence wanted to know what it was.so thank u all for your help and critisicm, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger!! 0
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12.5oz (0.36liters) of water would weigh 0.8lbs (0.36kg). -- Liter of water = 1kg. One of the reasons I wish we used metric in the US.
I've gained more than 3lb between the time I walked into the gym and when I left, due to sweaty clothes and drinking lots of water.
1 liter of muscle weighs 1.06kg (2.30lbs)
1 liter of fat weighs 0.9kg (1.98lbs)
Sure 1L = 1 KG, but in imperial measurements, 1pint of water weighs one pound (i.e. 1 fluid oz of water weighs 1oz on the scale). The translation is just as easy .. And Powers of 10 (10, 100, 1000) vs powers of 2 .. (8, 16, 32 ... ) doesn't make much difference from a math standpoint.0 -
chubby_checkers wrote: »chubby_checkers wrote: »ruggedshutter wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude? Give her a break, we all have these kinds of freak out moments, even if it's a half second long. Every time I get on the scale and it has gone up, even 0.2 pounds, I start to question what I've been doing, how accurate (or inaccurate) I have been weighing my food...etc. It happens and weight will fluctuate. I've had times where my weight will go up 2-3 pounds over night. Just look back over your last few weeks or months and see the overall trend.
It's not really that rude. It's 100% the truth. Obsessing over every little "gain" will burn a person out completely. Learning about weight fluctuations and looking at trends rather than single data points is a good way to keep your sanity in this process.
It was very rude because the OP is a newbie who does not understand fluctuations, not an obsessive person with ED.ncboiler89 wrote: »gaurikudav3 wrote: »Yes 0.80 pounds guys! Sorry
If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance. Take some time and learn about normal weight variation and weigh yourself everyday to get a good idea of your own variation.
Requoting @ncboiler89 so you can see his full comment. He told OP to take some time to learn about weight variations and gave her an idea of how to go about it. I find that the opposite of rude.
Calling an uninformed newbie obsessive and telling them that they don't stand a chance is rude, especially when they specifically said that they did not understand.
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chubby_checkers wrote: »chubby_checkers wrote: »ruggedshutter wrote: »ncboiler89 wrote: »If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance.
Could you possibly be any more rude? Give her a break, we all have these kinds of freak out moments, even if it's a half second long. Every time I get on the scale and it has gone up, even 0.2 pounds, I start to question what I've been doing, how accurate (or inaccurate) I have been weighing my food...etc. It happens and weight will fluctuate. I've had times where my weight will go up 2-3 pounds over night. Just look back over your last few weeks or months and see the overall trend.
It's not really that rude. It's 100% the truth. Obsessing over every little "gain" will burn a person out completely. Learning about weight fluctuations and looking at trends rather than single data points is a good way to keep your sanity in this process.
It was very rude because the OP is a newbie who does not understand fluctuations, not an obsessive person with ED.ncboiler89 wrote: »gaurikudav3 wrote: »Yes 0.80 pounds guys! Sorry
If you obsess over 0.8 pounds you don't stand a chance. Take some time and learn about normal weight variation and weigh yourself everyday to get a good idea of your own variation.
Requoting @ncboiler89 so you can see his full comment. He told OP to take some time to learn about weight variations and gave her an idea of how to go about it. I find that the opposite of rude.
Calling an uninformed newbie obsessive and telling them that they don't stand a chance is rude, especially when they specifically said that they did not understand.
That didnt seem to happen though .. "If" is such an important word ..0
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