sudden gain?!?!

laurad8911
laurad8911 Posts: 99
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey everyone,

So I just started on MFP on July 17th and realized from logging that I hadn't been eating enough most days in relation to my exercise, so I started eating what MFP told me plus most of my exercise calories and felt amazing. More energy and I lost 3.1 lbs by this past Sunday (so one week from when I started). I went from 153.2 to 150.1. I weighed myself this morning and it says 152.5! WHY?!?!??!? Yesterday afternoon I started to feel prettty bloated and like I had a food baby kind of even though I hadn't overeaten, and then even though I wasn't too hungry at all i still ate my snack and dinner because I wanted to make sure I got close to eating all my calories plus exercise calories. This morning i woke up not hungry, even though every other morning since I started this I woke up hungry. Any insights as to what may be going on? (Also, sorry if this is TMI, but i think i might be constipated...not sure why though). I will set my diary to open if it would help to look at it.

Thanks!

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  • mamaboobear
    mamaboobear Posts: 52
    Hi, I am by no means a proffessional, but it could just be salt retention, or if you are working out, I hear that muscle cells hold onto water like crazy for a few day before a drop in weight or size. Best and easiest thing is to just down lots of water today and see if its gone tomorrow.
  • promiseskept
    promiseskept Posts: 119
    You may need to be drinking more. Sometimes this happens but in a day you will be right back to where you were.
  • kysassyblonde1
    kysassyblonde1 Posts: 96
    First off want to say that I am far from a diet expert but to me your diary looks good except I was wondering if you are drinking the water and not logging it? I am bad about not logging the water myself. What I learned from others on here is if you excercise your body and muscles need that water to repair themselves and if you dont drink it then it can cause weight gain. Also when your body is new to exercise and you start gaining muscle it may show a slight weight gain at first. The scale is my enemy I cant help but to weigh myself every morning when I first get out of bed and it goes up and down in pretty much a 2lb radious.... best wishs to you on this journey!!!
  • MelissaJ20
    MelissaJ20 Posts: 46
    I am also not a professional, but I used to be crazy about weighing myself and had the same problem. It could be a number of things, but if you weigh yourself on the same day and time every week you might have a more accuarte picture. :)
  • curiousmissclay
    curiousmissclay Posts: 72
    is it that time of the month? ( as my mum calls it lol)
    I put on 3 lbs this week for that reason alone.
    If your not then dont worry about it just keep working hard and things will level out.
  • laurad8911
    laurad8911 Posts: 99
    no its not that time of the month. and no i dont tend to track my water because i drink 40 oz nalgene's full of it all day and ive always been a HUGE water drinker so it doesn't concern me too much and is hard to keep up with.

    i did go to my first spinning class yesterday though and although i ride my bike a lot it definitely felt different and my quads felt it all day so maybe they are holding onto water?

    also i checked my sodium and fiber levels over the last few days and they both seem fine to me.

    ive been trying to weigh myself less because it makes me crazy and i want to do my weekly weigh-ins on wednesdays (which is why i want this to be resolved before tomorrow!). i weighed myself this morning only because i felt so weirdly full and gross.

    and i have been working out MORE and harder lately but ive always worked out so its not like my body is completely new to this.

    so you guys think it's just temporary and doesnt mean ive lost basically everything that i had gained progress wise?
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