3500 = one pound gained - RANT !

nikkerbob
nikkerbob Posts: 78 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So this morning, I go to weight myself and I have gained 3 pounds. So if 3500 = one pound above maintenance, then I ate over 10,500 calories in the week. I just don't get it. Given I had the flu last weekend, so no over eating and this week I have been really good ( ok, I did eat a couple home made cookies I made) but I weight train in the mornings, cardio at lunch and then do a nice long walk/run/hike after work. I am feeling extremely frustrated today =(

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  • smr09012
    smr09012 Posts: 42 Member
    Water weight and hormones. Cool your jets. It'll all come back off.
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    More likely to be normal fluctuations than eating 10,500 extra calories by accident.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,207 Member
    That equation only applies to fat gains. Chances are you're up with water weight, it happens to us all at some stage. Also, if your period is due you can 'gain' 5+ pounds in water weight. Good news is, it disappears.
  • malibu927
    malibu927 Posts: 17,562 Member
    Water weight can fluctuate upwards of five pounds a day. Are you nearing TOM or did you consume excess sodium in the past couple days?
  • SimoneBee12
    SimoneBee12 Posts: 268 Member
    smr09012 wrote: »
    Water weight and hormones. Cool your jets. It'll all come back off.

    Man, I wish I could like this. Hahahaha.

    OP: Smr is right, it's just water weight, did you eat something salty? I notice if I go out for dinner, eat something salty, or have alcohol, my weight fluctuates a lot. Once I controlled for all those things it just started falling off.
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  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    your weight will fluctuate +/-5 pounds a day and weight loss is not linear.

    Last Friday I weighed in at a 177.5 which showed a pound gain for me, which is not possible because I a have been cutting at about one pound per week. Today, I weighed in this morning and I am 176.3...so my "gain" was really just water weight...

  • barryplumber
    barryplumber Posts: 401 Member
    Water weighs 10 lbs /gal
    4 litres of water = 1 us gal
    high sodium will cause you to retain water so is not just a matter of what you drink. Do the math
  • galgenstrick
    galgenstrick Posts: 2,086 Member
    I was up 7 pounds last night. Lost it all by this morning. Guess how many times I had to get up to pee last night lol.
  • nikkerbob
    nikkerbob Posts: 78 Member
    I don't think I have a lot of sodium, but maybe I do and have to tone that down a bit. I can be OK with gaining water weight.. I guess lol...
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    3500 calories = one lb of fat gain.
  • kingnarsis
    kingnarsis Posts: 14 Member
    Apple Cider Vinegar helps with getting rid of the excess sodium and water weight. don't overdo it though. 2 tbsp in large glass of warm water.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,148 Member
    Water weight and it sucks.
  • PeachyPlum
    PeachyPlum Posts: 1,243 Member
    smr09012 wrote: »
    Water weight and hormones. Cool your jets. It'll all come back off.

    Ten points for using "cool your jets." I haven't heard that since my granddad (an Air Force pilot) used to say that to me when I was a little girl. I'm going to say it all the time from now on!
  • Lasmartchika
    Lasmartchika Posts: 3,440 Member
    smr09012 wrote: »
    Water weight and hormones. Cool your jets. It'll all come back off.

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  • HeySwoleSister
    HeySwoleSister Posts: 1,938 Member
    smr09012 wrote: »
    Water weight and hormones. Cool your jets. It'll all come back off.

    ^that.
  • raelynnsmama52512
    raelynnsmama52512 Posts: 1,184 Member
    smr09012 wrote: »
    Water weight and hormones. Cool your jets. It'll all come back off.

    I could only read "cool your jets" in Bart Simpson's voice! :laugh:
  • jaga13
    jaga13 Posts: 1,149 Member
    normal fluctuation. Also, if you had the flu this week, you have become a little dehydrated. So your body holds onto water even more (this happened to me the last time I had a stomach bug). I once read that a gain of more than 1.5 lb is usually just water weight/fluctuation. I think that's a good rule of thumb unless you know you went crazy with food (which you didnt).
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    nikkerbob wrote: »
    So this morning, I go to weight myself and I have gained 3 pounds. So if 3500 = one pound above maintenance, then I ate over 10,500 calories in the week. I just don't get it. Given I had the flu last weekend, so no over eating and this week I have been really good ( ok, I did eat a couple home made cookies I made) but I weight train in the mornings, cardio at lunch and then do a nice long walk/run/hike after work. I am feeling extremely frustrated today =(

    you do realize that scale weight is comprised of more than just fat right?

    good lord...have you even considered the fact that if you eat more you are going to have inherently more waste in your system...and that you are also gong to retain more fluids? Guess what...all that has mass and thus weight.

    maybe take a step back here and chill.
    nikkerbob wrote: »
    I don't think I have a lot of sodium, but maybe I do and have to tone that down a bit. I can be OK with gaining water weight.. I guess lol...

    you don't have to have a ton of sodium to retain fluids...you retain and release fluids naturally regardless...also, more food is going to require more fluids to metabolize...more food is also going to top off glycogen, etc.
  • belleamore1234
    belleamore1234 Posts: 105 Member
    Pointless rant
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    kingnarsis wrote: »
    Apple Cider Vinegar helps with getting rid of the excess sodium and water weight. don't overdo it though. 2 tbsp in large glass of warm water.

    No. Just the plain ol' water does that.

  • nikkerbob
    nikkerbob Posts: 78 Member
    belleamore1234 wrote: »
    Pointless rant

    then don't read or reply, easy as that !
  • nikkerbob
    nikkerbob Posts: 78 Member
    I appreciate all the helpful hints, but GOOD LORD, do some of you have to be just so generally rude all the time. This is why I don't even bother asking anything on this site and just research.
  • socajam
    socajam Posts: 2,530 Member
    2 ounces of 100% cranberry juice mixed with 7 ounces of water will pi$$ out all that water.
    Trader Joe's sells 100% CJ @$3.99 per bottle - works wonders and all the other wonders cranberry juice is good for.
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    nikkerbob wrote: »
    I appreciate all the helpful hints, but GOOD LORD, do some of you have to be just so generally rude all the time. This is why I don't even bother asking anything on this site and just research.

    Which comment would you say is rude?
  • Sarasmaintaining
    Sarasmaintaining Posts: 1,027 Member
    PMS/time of month, sodium intake, new exercise/changing current exercise routine, digesting food, drinking fluids before weighing, taking a shower before weighing etc etc can all affect the scale, but are not actual gains.
  • Kst76
    Kst76 Posts: 935 Member
    I think people deep inside already know the answer to half their "issues, rants , problems" etc. But they just want other people to validate it and make them feel better. I am the same way by the way.
    That's how you get threads with hundreds of replies almost identical to each other.lol
    But yes, if many of us just did some research or just read threads already created here on mfp, we could sure save ourselves some energy not worrying about things out of our control.
    I also don't think it was meant to be rude to say "pointless rant". It was more a "tough love" kind of reply.

    Now, saying all this, this very thread is why I think the scale messes with people and causes people to give up. They work hard and eating healthy within their limits and the scale shows a gain. Water weight or not, it can be annoying as hell.
  • strong_curves
    strong_curves Posts: 2,229 Member
    karintalley wrote: »
    I think people deep inside already know the answer to half their "issues, rants , problems" etc. But they just want other people to validate it and make them feel better. I am the same way by the way.
    That's how you get threads with hundreds of replies almost identical to each other.lol
    But yes, if many of us just did some research or just read threads already created here on mfp, we could sure save ourselves some energy not worrying about things out of our control.
    I also don't think it was meant to be rude to say "pointless rant". It was more a "tough love" kind of reply.

    Now, saying all this, this very thread is why I think the scale messes with people and causes people to give up. They work hard and eating healthy within their limits and the scale shows a gain. Water weight or not, it can be annoying as hell.

    This is also why we have a gazillion threads that are practically the same topic. "I gained 5 lbs in a day, why?" "RANT Why am I not losing weight?" The search function could answer a lot of these topics and they wouldn't have to worry about someone "being rude".

  • SuggaD
    SuggaD Posts: 1,369 Member
    this is why I don't weigh all that often. the water retention is ridiculous. and avoid weighing in the day after weight training....always up 2-3 lbs. TOM -- up to 7 lbs for me.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Do you want to see what maintenance looks like?

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    Cos water weight

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