Put on 1 pound - my first ever failure!
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Lysander666
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I've normally got this weight loss thing sorted but for the first week ever, I put ON a pound!
How did this happen? I'm normally on about 1500 cals a day, and my last week looked like this:
Sun - family meal [cannot estimate cals]
Mon - ~2500 cals [maintenance]
Tue - over by 900 cals roughly [birthday]
Wed - hit goal
Thur - hit goal
Well, I say 'hit goal' but the fact is that I had a lot of bulgar wheat and I have no idea what the cals are for that. I thought it was about 250-300 a bowl.
So I suppose this was just a] an inconsistent week foodwise and b] a case of not being able to log correctly.
But I'm still surprised it was as much as a pound over.
Back to being strict next week then.
How did this happen? I'm normally on about 1500 cals a day, and my last week looked like this:
Sun - family meal [cannot estimate cals]
Mon - ~2500 cals [maintenance]
Tue - over by 900 cals roughly [birthday]
Wed - hit goal
Thur - hit goal
Well, I say 'hit goal' but the fact is that I had a lot of bulgar wheat and I have no idea what the cals are for that. I thought it was about 250-300 a bowl.
So I suppose this was just a] an inconsistent week foodwise and b] a case of not being able to log correctly.
But I'm still surprised it was as much as a pound over.
Back to being strict next week then.
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Water weight.0
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Just to add: one pound is NOT a failure. It's variance.0
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I agree, probably water weight. People retain water occasionally, for a number of reasons.0
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Seriously not a big deal. Your weight is not static when eating at maintenance. It moves up and down through the day, the week, and through your menstrual cycle. The same holds when you are eating in a deficit.0
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Do what you can to keep things in perspective. There will be ups and downs.
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Most people set a maintenance range, rather than a single number. It's OK to vary a bit within a range, of say, three pounds.
How about a three pound, no panic range?0 -
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Lysander666 wrote: »IsaackGMOON wrote: »Water weight.
Could you elaborate?
I can. I've been in my deficit consistently and yesterday, due to that time of the month, a couple high sodium meals and tons of exercise Wednesday, the scale was up 1.5 lbs from last week.
I know I'm just retaining water. And by Tuesday the scale should be back where it belongs.0 -
Lysander666 wrote: »IsaackGMOON wrote: »Water weight.
Could you elaborate?
Ok. Basically, when you first restrict your calories you most likely lost a lot of water weight.
When you consume a high amount of calories after this phase your body tends to retain water for a week or two.
Water retention can be affected by carbohydrate intake, creatine intake, calorie intake and sodium intake.0 -
If this is your first ever failure, you haven't had any real problems. Chill0
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IsaackGMOON wrote: »Lysander666 wrote: »IsaackGMOON wrote: »Water weight.
Could you elaborate?
Ok. Basically, when you first restrict your calories you most likely lost a lot of water weight.
When you consume a high amount of calories after this phase your body tends to retain water for a week or two.
Water retention can be affected by carbohydrate intake, creatine intake, calorie intake and sodium intake.
Got you, thanks. Yes, this was my first high-er calorie week so that makes sense.0 -
Yeah, when you increase you calories, your body replenishes it's lost glycogen, hence water weight. Also if you went out to eat, sodium. Sodium gets me every time.
It goes away though in a day or two.0 -
Water retention0
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Your body weight constantly fluctuates. I hate to break it to you, but this won't be the first time that you see the scale go up, even after you've done everything right all week.
Just some unsolicited advice: take the word "failure" out of your vocabulary. If you're logging everything faithfully and staying within your calorie goal, you're not failing, no matter what the number on the scale says.0 -
booksandchocolate12 wrote: »Your body weight constantly fluctuates. I hate to break it to you, but this won't be the first time that you see the scale go up, even after you've done everything right all week.
Just some unsolicited advice: take the word "failure" out of your vocabulary. If you're logging everything faithfully and staying within your calorie goal, you're not failing, no matter what the number on the scale says.
Hmm OK, I'll change my attitude!0 -
Lysander666 wrote: »booksandchocolate12 wrote: »Your body weight constantly fluctuates. I hate to break it to you, but this won't be the first time that you see the scale go up, even after you've done everything right all week.
Just some unsolicited advice: take the word "failure" out of your vocabulary. If you're logging everything faithfully and staying within your calorie goal, you're not failing, no matter what the number on the scale says.
Hmm OK, I'll change my attitude!
Thank you.
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My weight moves a lot 1lb in maintenance id call a success0
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