If an average apple weighs .33lbs, would you gain .33 lbs?
motolady11
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Silly silly question but yesterday I ate within my calorie limits of 1600 but I had a huge appetite for apples and had 5 of them 
yesterday I weighed 124 and this morning I'm 127? I'm also breast feeding a 3 month old if that has anything to do with it
yesterday I weighed 124 and this morning I'm 127? I'm also breast feeding a 3 month old if that has anything to do with it 0
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Wight goes up and down depending no one day changes you it is consistency over the long term. likely it is water weight. Just look to the future and no you are doing your best2
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Also what ddes a food scale do0
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Fluctuations day to day are water weight or food in the system and not anything to worry about.3
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If you eat an apple and immediately get on the scale, you'll gain weight. But a three pound gain over the day can be pretty much anything but overeating (you'd have to eat 10,500 calories over maintenance for that to happen). Sodium intake, hormones, excess food weight in your stomach, new or increased exercise, these can all cause weight fluctuations.
Read this: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear5 -
There's fibre in your digestive system right now that's not going to hang around. Water retention varies too. An apple is unlikely to cause water retention but something else you ate or did might have. Depending on the type and size of Apple you had you were probably around 300 calories. Less than a tenth of a pound.0
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motolady11 wrote: »Also what ddes a food scale do
A food scale allows you to weigh food and thus determine how many calories are in whatever it is.1 -
I eat peaches like there is no tomorrow. xD If I eat a pound of peaches [as I often do], I'll have gained a pound IMMEDIATELY, only because I added a pound inside of me. It isn't body fat. x] See below.
Something can be a pound in weight, but only 178 calories [peaches, extremely low for the weight]. Something can be a pound in weight, but 2608 calories [almonds, extremely high for the weight]. Everything is different despite the IMMEDIATE pound of food in you. So don't worry about the weight of the food itself as you eat it, just worry the calories in the amount of food you are eating.
A food scale is so you accurately know how much of a specific food you are eating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjKPIcI51lU
^ Shows why weighing your food matters vs eyeballing the measurements.5 -
Fluctuations, water retention. Also not sure on your stats but 1600 seems a bit low for breastfeeding a 3 month old.. but as long as your supply isn't affected0
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Aren't you the one who was recently fussing over 2 pounds and weighing yourself at 2 in the morning?2
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motolady11 wrote: »
Going by BMI, 124lbs at 5'9" is just barely underweight. 127lbs is just barely into normal range. Are you trying to lose or maintain? Please maintain, do not lose.2 -
Did these apples add many more carbs to your day than normal? If you did not properly weigh them you might know this answer.
But anyway, weight fluctuates (female hormones, carbs (more or less than normal), sodium (more or less than normal), sleep, muscle repair, hydration or lack there of), etc...
Do not stress about apples or this minor blip on the scale, you cannot gain fat like this over night.. Embrace the fluctuations cause they are there in one form or another daily, weekly and monthly..
And 1600 seems low btw.. and why are your trying to lose more.?0 -
@PixelPuff I love this YouTube video. When people ask me how I lost the weight and then immediately reject the idea when they find out it involves some work, I 'll then describe this video to them. A really eye opener with a big "wow" factor.0
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After reading several of your posts saying pretty much the same thing, you may want to see a professional since we can't help you1
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@PixelPuff I love this YouTube video. When people ask me how I lost the weight and then immediately reject the idea when they find out it involves some work, I 'll then describe this video to them. A really eye opener with a big "wow" factor.
I just posted this in another thread, I'll quote it here since you mentioned it. I tried to make the most basic explanation of calorie counting and why it works in the most common-sense way. xD
But yep. I have that youtube video bookmarked for just such occasions!I'll put it this way...
If you were to eat more of the food you normally do, you would gain weight, right? If you were to eat less of the food you normally do than you would lose weight. That is what calorie counting is, pretty simple. n___n
Even if you didn't change what you ate at all, eating a higher quantity would result in more calories. You would gain weight. If you didn't change what you ate at all, but ate a lower quantity of it, you would be taking in less calories, resulting in a deficit & weight loss [unless your regular eating pattern was majorly overeating, where you end up with just slightly less of a surplus instead of a massive one].
You don't need fad cleanses, 'diet supplements', etc. Many are to be used in conjunction with a caloric deficit anyway - it is how slimfast works. You replace a meal with a shake or bar thing. The meal you WOULD have eaten would be higher in calories than one of the bars or shakes, instantly lowering your would-be calorie intake. Etc etc.
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Immediately after eating the apple that weighs a third of a pound, you will gain a third of a pound of apple weight. Then your body will break the apple down into its separate parts. Most of the apple weight is water, which you will pee out fairly shortly afterwards.
The fibre will go into your digestive tract and work its way out by the following day. The vitamins, minerals etc will be distributed to where they are needed. The sugar will turn into blood glucose and either be burned for energy, or if you have eaten more than your immediate energy needs, stored as glycogen (starchy stuff in your muscles and liver), or possibly, if you have significantly overeaten without taking in much fat, converted to fat (generally, though, your body prefers to store fat as fat and carbs as carbs and will only convert if it really has to).
The final change in fat stores has little to do with the weight of the original apple, but with how much energy (calories) were contained in it and all the other food you ate that day, versus how much energy you burned.
Your change in weight today is probably a random change in how much water you are retaining, which happens all the time, especially when breastfeeding. It is not far gain and it's not worth worrying about.3 -
Not to be crass, but.... if you eat a bag of apples, those apples are going to be "weight" until you (ahem) go to the bathroom. Its like you are still physically carryign them. But its not like you "gained weight" the moment you ate them.
This is why obsessing about tiny scale movements is not just counterproductive but damaging.0 -
Aren't you the one who was recently fussing over 2 pounds and weighing yourself at 2 in the morning?
2 pounds isn't a lot but if it is continuous gain then it could become a lot, and I did it one time because I was curious.
Also no to those asking if I'm trying to lose I'm not I'm just trying to maintain in the mid 120s0 -
I would suggest using something like trendweight (website) or HappyScale (app) to monitor the trends in your weight instead of worrying about daily fluctuations. I can swing 5lbs in a day...motolady11 wrote: »Aren't you the one who was recently fussing over 2 pounds and weighing yourself at 2 in the morning?
2 pounds isn't a lot but if it is continuous gain then it could become a lot, and I did it one time because I was curious.
Also no to those asking if I'm trying to lose I'm not I'm just trying to maintain in the mid 120s
1600 seem low to me if you are nursing, you don't want to compromise your milk supply.
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sky_northern wrote: »
I would suggest using something like trendweight (website) or HappyScale (app) to monitor the trends in your weight instead of worrying about daily fluctuations. I can swing 5lbs in a day...motolady11 wrote: »Aren't you the one who was recently fussing over 2 pounds and weighing yourself at 2 in the morning?
2 pounds isn't a lot but if it is continuous gain then it could become a lot, and I did it one time because I was curious.
Also no to those asking if I'm trying to lose I'm not I'm just trying to maintain in the mid 120s
1600 seem low to me if you are nursing, you don't want to compromise your milk supply.
I like Happy Scale too - it takes the worry out of up & down fluctuations for us daily weigh people.
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You're 5'9 and breastfeeding and keeping your weight artificially low and close to, if not, underweight and only eating 1600 calories ?
You should be eating significantly more, you should probably have a healthier goal weight
Please get some help ..your child needs a mentally and physically well mother6 -
Anything that you eat and drink that has weight will make you gain weight. Not body weight, just the weight of the actual food or beveage which will weigh the same regardless of chewing.You're 5'9 and breastfeeding and keeping your weight artificially low and close to, if not, underweight and only eating 1600 calories ?
You should be eating significantly more, you should probably have a healthier goal weight
Please get some help ..your child needs a mentally and physically well mother
And this.0 -
So when you eat food it goes into a tube that connects your mouth to your *kitten*. As soon as you eat it the weight of that food is added to your weight exactly if you were to step on a scale. That said that food is not really a part of you, its in the tube connecting your mouth to your *kitten*. Only some of the weight of that food is actually absorbed truly inside of you and much of that weight is going to be water. Some of the weight of course is not digested and stays in said tube until it is eventually eliminated which might be days later. The water could stay in you if you are dehydrated or it could be expelled in your urine or it could be recombined by oxidizing the hydrocarbons in the food into CO2 and expelled in your breath.
How much of that weight from the atoms in the apples stays actually as part of you depends on the balance of atoms you are taking in and atoms you are expelling through your breath, water exchange and waste. That is dependant pretty much entirely on your metabolic processes which are measured indirectly as a function of how much energy in the form of calories you are taking in versus how much energy in terms of activity you are expending.
So, long story short if you eat 1.66 pounds of apples immediately after that you have gained 1.66 pounds...not of fat, just of apple-weight. That apple-weight is then broken down into fiber, water and hydrocarbons and the hydrocarbons are then processed for energy and/or stored for future use. If you are in caloric balance that 1.66 pounds will eventually leave your body (although some of the apple atoms may remain a part of you others will have left). If you are in caloric deficit you will eventually lose more weight than you intake and the opposite if you are in caloric surplus. A day after eating that 1.66 pounds of apple it is quite possible that say 0.2 pounds of undigested matter and 1 pound of water are still inside you and although they aren't going to be adding fat to you are at that moment contributing to your weight.
Could you "put on weight" by eating a bunch of food...yeah, as soon as you eat the food its going to add to your weight. That doesn't mean you are putting on fat which is what is going to increase your weight in the actual meaningful way that is relevant to your health. Thats why you shouldn't obsese too much about your scale weight.
Edit: Seriously MFP, I used the anatomy term and you turned THAT into *kitten*? We can't say a_nus?5 -
Aaron_K123 wrote: »So when you eat food it goes into a tube that connects your mouth to your *kitten*. As soon as you eat it the weight of that food is added to your weight exactly if you were to step on a scale. That said that food is not really a part of you, its in the tube connecting your mouth to your *kitten*. Only some of the weight of that food is actually absorbed truly inside of you and much of that weight is going to be water. Some of the weight of course is not digested and stays in said tube until it is eventually eliminated which might be days later. The water could stay in you if you are dehydrated or it could be expelled in your urine or it could be recombined by oxidizing the hydrocarbons in the food into CO2 and expelled in your breath.
How much of that weight from the atoms in the apples stays actually as part of you depends on the balance of atoms you are taking in and atoms you are expelling through your breath, water exchange and waste. That is dependant pretty much entirely on your metabolic processes which are measured indirectly as a function of how much energy in the form of calories you are taking in versus how much energy in terms of activity you are expending.
So, long story short if you eat 1.66 pounds of apples immediately after that you have gained 1.66 pounds...not of fat, just of apple-weight. That apple-weight is then broken down into fiber, water and hydrocarbons and the hydrocarbons are then processed for energy and/or stored for future use. If you are in caloric balance that 1.66 pounds will eventually leave your body (although some of the apple atoms may remain a part of you others will have left). If you are in caloric deficit you will eventually lose more weight than you intake and the opposite if you are in caloric surplus. A day after eating that 1.66 pounds of apple it is quite possible that say 0.2 pounds of undigested matter and 1 pound of water are still inside you and although they aren't going to be adding fat to you are at that moment contributing to your weight.
Could you "put on weight" by eating a bunch of food...yeah, as soon as you eat the food its going to add to your weight. That doesn't mean you are putting on fat which is what is going to increase your weight in the actual meaningful way that is relevant to your health. Thats why you shouldn't obsese too much about your scale weight.
Edit: Seriously MFP, I used the anatomy term and you turned THAT into *kitten*? We can't say a_nus?
Apparently, that word makes MFP's sphincter pucker.1
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