Gained 5 pounds after an epic hike?
Tiznonay
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I don't get it. I was doing so good. Ample cardio 5 nights week. 12-1500 well-planned calories a day. I was dropping a steady 2 pounds a week...
Then the other day I went to the Grand Canyon with some friends. We hiked a very long ways. Over 30k steps on my fitbit. I ate about 2000 calories in food that day, plus a TON of water. And then ended the night with about 4 beers.
The following day I returned home to San Diego and discovered I had gained 5 whole pounds! I can't believe on a day where I hiked away thousands of calories that I somehow gained so much. Was it really just because of the beers? I don't drink very often.
That weigh in was yesterday, and even today I'm still up about 4.5 lbs from where I was before my trip. What did I do wrong?
Then the other day I went to the Grand Canyon with some friends. We hiked a very long ways. Over 30k steps on my fitbit. I ate about 2000 calories in food that day, plus a TON of water. And then ended the night with about 4 beers.
The following day I returned home to San Diego and discovered I had gained 5 whole pounds! I can't believe on a day where I hiked away thousands of calories that I somehow gained so much. Was it really just because of the beers? I don't drink very often.
That weigh in was yesterday, and even today I'm still up about 4.5 lbs from where I was before my trip. What did I do wrong?
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Which beer? Makes a difference in how I answer. Lol3
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Was the food higher sodium or higher carb? Combine that with extra water and you are just retaining water.
Side note: 1200 calories is not enough for a man, so you should seriously consider actually hitting your calorie goal rather than under eating.1 -
Cheap beer. Believe they were Michelob's - not the Light kind0
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Was the food higher sodium or higher carb? Combine that with extra water and you are just retaining water.
Yeah, there was some trail mix and a 6" subway turkey. Probably plenty of sodium. Hopefully in a few days it will balance out. If anything, I feel more dried out than usual. But I figured that's just the desert air. I'm a beach guy0 -
I assume you don't do hikes like that every day. That increase in activity along with the foods that were likely high in sodium have resulted in water weight gain. It is not fat, as even including the beers it would not have been enough calories to put on 5 pounds of fat.1
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Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »
I know - kind of embarrassing to admit to Michelobs, haha. That's good though, I figured it had to be some sort of water retention. Time to get back to my normal routine and drop it back off!
And the hike was amazing! We stayed along the south rim, but hiked off the main path to the less-crowded areas. It was so much more lush than I'd ever seen it before. Got some amazing pictures!2 -
Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »
I know - kind of embarrassing to admit to Michelobs, haha. That's good though, I figured it had to be some sort of water retention. Time to get back to my normal routine and drop it back off!
And the hike was amazing! We stayed along the south rim, but hiked off the main path to the less-crowded areas. It was so much more lush than I'd ever seen it before. Got some amazing pictures!
Post some pics if you can. All the water we received over winter has made for some beautiful foliage here in the southwest.
It sounds amazing.1 -
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Jelly! Thanks. So much green!
Have you hiked Zion?0 -
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I don't get it. I was doing so good. Ample cardio 5 nights week. 12-1500 well-planned calories a day. I was dropping a steady 2 pounds a week...
Then the other day I went to the Grand Canyon with some friends. We hiked a very long ways. Over 30k steps on my fitbit. I ate about 2000 calories in food that day, plus a TON of water. And then ended the night with about 4 beers.
The following day I returned home to San Diego and discovered I had gained 5 whole pounds! I can't believe on a day where I hiked away thousands of calories that I somehow gained so much. Was it really just because of the beers? I don't drink very often.
That weigh in was yesterday, and even today I'm still up about 4.5 lbs from where I was before my trip. What did I do wrong?
It's just water retention.
When I exercise a lot on a weekend, I'll gain 1-2 kg .... and then on Wednesday I wear a path in the carpet to the toilet, and Thursday it's gone.
Happens just about every weekend for me.1 -
Likely just water weight from the shock on your body. In another week it'll probably return to normal0
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I don't get it. I was doing so good. Ample cardio 5 nights week. 12-1500 well-planned calories a day. I was dropping a steady 2 pounds a week...
Then the other day I went to the Grand Canyon with some friends. We hiked a very long ways. Over 30k steps on my fitbit. I ate about 2000 calories in food that day, plus a TON of water. And then ended the night with about 4 beers.
The following day I returned home to San Diego and discovered I had gained 5 whole pounds! I can't believe on a day where I hiked away thousands of calories that I somehow gained so much. Was it really just because of the beers? I don't drink very often.
That weigh in was yesterday, and even today I'm still up about 4.5 lbs from where I was before my trip. What did I do wrong?
It's just water retention.
When I exercise a lot on a weekend, I'll gain 1-2 kg .... and then on Wednesday I wear a path in the carpet to the toilet, and Thursday it's gone.
Happens just about every weekend for me.
QFT - my life while marathon training. Every weekend after a long run leaves me with a weight gain on Monday morning regardless of how much/little I eat or what my macros were on Sat/Sun.
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