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Went out to eat with family and didn't really feel like I ate all that much but I'm up 4 pounds.

waterweight130
waterweight130 Posts: 107 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Yeah as the topic states I went out to eat I ordered a cup of potato soup and a cheesesteak and fries water and Diet Coke so yeah it made me gain a lot of water weight I was wondering if it had anything to do with the fact that I ate beef I normally never have red meat in my diet I'm mostly vegetarian

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  • Sara1791
    Sara1791 Posts: 760 Member
    I think you would have had to eat 14,000 calories to actually gain 4 pounds of fat. When was this?
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,251 Member
    edited September 2016
    WHEN? It's likely sodium sodium sodium.
  • Pawsforme
    Pawsforme Posts: 645 Member
    Restaurant food is loaded with sodium.
  • leejoyce31
    leejoyce31 Posts: 794 Member
    waterweight130 wrote: »
    Yeah as the topic states I went out to eat I ordered a cup of potato soup and a cheesesteak and fries water and Diet Coke so yeah it made me gain a lot of water weight I was wondering if it had anything to do with the fact that I ate beef I normally never have red meat in my diet I'm mostly vegetarian

    Yeah it can actually take longer than a couple of days. It takes me 10 days usually.
  • TonyB0588
    TonyB0588 Posts: 9,520 Member
    waterweight130 wrote: »
    Yeah as the topic states I went out to eat I ordered a cup of potato soup and a cheesesteak and fries water and Diet Coke so yeah it made me gain a lot of water weight I was wondering if it had anything to do with the fact that I ate beef I normally never have red meat in my diet I'm mostly vegetarian

    Did you actually record the food in your MFP diary. No need to guess. Just go by the numbers and see if there really was a big excess of calories that day.

    Also weight fluctuates a bit from one day to the next, so see what it averages out to over a week or so. I doubt it will actually be a 4 lb increase after all.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Sodium. Drink some extra water.
  • ncfitbit
    ncfitbit Posts: 1,058 Member
    Lots o' Carbs+sodium=you're lucky it was only 4 lbs! But yeah, not permanent.
  • ksenya03
    ksenya03 Posts: 51 Member
    Sodium causes water retention and is the most likely cause of weight gain after a restaurant meal. Weigh yourself after a day or two and see if the water weight has come off again.
  • dragon_girl26
    dragon_girl26 Posts: 2,187 Member
    Water weight.
  • 220Dani
    220Dani Posts: 198 Member
    I'd say the fries probably gave you more sodium than the red meat. At least I know when I eat fries, even just a handful, it shoots my water weight up really high.
  • Golbat
    Golbat Posts: 276 Member
    It's funny that your username is water weight too! :D Your scale will show more weight for a few days but you'll lose that water weight eventually if you just keep going.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    I just want to be sure, was the four pound gain immediately after you'd eaten? If so, you're adding the weight of the food still in your stomach. Of course you're up a few pounds :) if you weighed yourself a day or two later, then I agree with everyone else that it's water weight from the sodium. Nothing to worry about. Your body just needs to hold onto a little extra fluid for a bit. Drink plenty of fluids and give your body some time.
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