Weight Loss is all crazy

Wtn_Gurl
Wtn_Gurl Posts: 396 Member
edited July 2017 in Health and Weight Loss
so i was doing well. Then on June 26 i went out and had a bit too much food that day. Next week after that, also the same. Then a week ago, i stopped my water weight pill that the doc prescribed for slight high blood pressure, i asked to get off of it because i started getting a particular side effect (mild dizziness sometimes) and so i asked to be taken off. Now i got that horrid water weight rebound that i read about happens when you go off the water pill. Weight went back up 4 pounds in all this time. Each day it goes up a pound. I am going nuts. All my hard work has stalled now about a month and the pounds go up once a day. I am about to freak out! How long will this take to get back to normal? Do i need to have less than 1,000 (grams?mg?) sodium a day to get back to normal? I'm basically eating within my macros. Except those two days or maybe 3 at most went up over my macros a tiny bit.

What would you do to survive this time of my body adjusting and what would you do to stop this increase of weight? i hope it is just water weight. I read about how bad diaretics are for your body, but i feel like going back to them just to stop this increase of weight.

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  • Wtn_Gurl
    Wtn_Gurl Posts: 396 Member
    Thank you - i was doing so well and now this.. today i just went to the store looking at the sodium on labels. wanted to get cereal, too much! other things, bread even. so i passed it up, i might have to just eat fresh food and im going to try to make some kind of substitute mayo with Greek dressing. i hope it will help. i cannot believe how much sodium is in food, even organic food items. i hope to have good news soon, but the body is going to do what its going to do, and i have to be patient. i guess no one can predict when it will happen. i hope not more than a week but nothing is guaranteed.
  • Wtn_Gurl
    Wtn_Gurl Posts: 396 Member
    Thank you.. I'm studying info on the internet, hope it is true (but cant hurt in this case if not necessarily so).. it says food high in potassium and/or water could have a diuretic affect like fruits and vegetables. so i bought some of these items today and i hope they will help. (cabbage, spinach, pommagranite juice that perhaps i can mix with greek yogurt to make salad dressing, broccoli, etc). I might have to throw out my mayo or use a teeny bit. i just made tuna salad and while it has 315 calories, it has 618 mg sodium coz of the mayo :( but im going to eat a serving once a day so maybe that will not hurt too bad.
  • Wtn_Gurl
    Wtn_Gurl Posts: 396 Member
    seska422 wrote: »
    If you stopped water pills, it's likely that your new normal will include a few extra pounds of water. The water pills kept you drier and now they aren't there to do that. Just start a new baseline when you settle out.

    Don't psych yourself out. As long as you stick to what you know is a calorie deficit, you are losing fat under that water that's masking your fat loss. Trust the process.

    wait! i just re-read your post and you said i am losing weight underneath this, but the sodium is holding on to water??? i know some days i have been under my calories.. that is encouraging!! Didn't realize that till i re-read your post :)

  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    You need to separate water weight and fat weight in your thinking. You can lose fat weight and gain water weight at the same time. Obviously you are gaining water weight because you went off your water pill. I would encourage you to ask your doctor if there is another one you can try. It is up to you and your doctor to decide, but I would think that occasional mild dizziness might be worth tolerating in order to keep water weight under control. Water weight is a huge risk to your heart and kidney health because of the added pressure that builds up in your system.

    If you are eating at a calorie deficit, you can lose fat weight, but it sounds like you chose to stop doing that after a couple days of overeating. I would encourage you to start weighing your food on a food scale, logging, and staying within a calorie goal that would give you a loss of .5-1 lb per week. Put your stats into MFP and see what it gives you for calories.
  • Wtn_Gurl
    Wtn_Gurl Posts: 396 Member
    lorrpb wrote: »
    You need to separate water weight and fat weight in your thinking. You can lose fat weight and gain water weight at the same time. Obviously you are gaining water weight because you went off your water pill. I would encourage you to ask your doctor if there is another one you can try. It is up to you and your doctor to decide, but I would think that occasional mild dizziness might be worth tolerating in order to keep water weight under control. Water weight is a huge risk to your heart and kidney health because of the added pressure that builds up in your system.

    If you are eating at a calorie deficit, you can lose fat weight, but it sounds like you chose to stop doing that after a couple days of overeating. I would encourage you to start weighing your food on a food scale, logging, and staying within a calorie goal that would give you a loss of .5-1 lb per week. Put your stats into MFP and see what it gives you for calories.

    Thanks & am doing that! funny how i eat within my macros and then expect to see a loss on the scale and then oh no! it has gone up! but im going to continue to eat low cal and low sodium if possible. im guessing if i try for 1,000 mg a day that might be a good amount.

  • Sandcastles61
    Sandcastles61 Posts: 506 Member
    I retain water badly also and I didn't want to take diuretics either. My doctor has me try to stay under 1750.. If I go over I can easily gain3-6 pounds in a day and struggle for a week to get it back off :D. Annie's Lite Raspberry vinegrette is a good low sodium salad dressing. He recommended carrot juice as a natural diuretic, but you really need to like carrots for that one LOL!!
  • kels_lyn14
    kels_lyn14 Posts: 14 Member
    Have you talked to your doctor about this? A one pound daily weight gain after stopping your diuretic may not be safe. I would definitely give them a call if I were you.
  • Wtn_Gurl
    Wtn_Gurl Posts: 396 Member
    kels_lyn14 wrote: »
    Have you talked to your doctor about this? A one pound daily weight gain after stopping your diuretic may not be safe. I would definitely give them a call if I were you.

    I have an appt to see him next Monday (1 week). that will be 2 weeks without this. I did not realize mayo and some other condiments had that much sodium. and i ate a couple of higher sodium meals on those 2 or 3 days that i enjoyed eating out. it was the perfect storm of these things put together that i was not prepared for. I've been pretty good otherwise at keeping close to my macros. i will be sure to tell him.

    I'm tempted to go back on it, but i do want to see if i do not need to take it as i dont think it is safe. if my blood pressure has gone down, then i can safely go off it. i dont want to take meds in a way where it is harmful if my body does not require it. but i did need it back a ways, when i was overweight so very long, and my blood pressure was a bit high. but maybe it is not anymore, so that would be good. this getting off the diuretic is a blessing and a cursing lol better for my body being off but horrid for water weight gain.
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    If you're going to go for fruit, try watermelon and cantaloupe, Both high water fruits which i eat everyday. I too suffer from water retention, and have to make sure i drink at least 2L of plain water everyday. Tea and coffee do not help me one bit, even though they say it counts as water, my body doesn't seem to agree with this one unfortunately, as i could happily drink just tea and coffee all day long and have zero plain water.
  • kam3190
    kam3190 Posts: 157 Member
    If you enjoy it, Frosted shredded wheat has Zero sodium. It's the only thing I've ever seen with no sodium. I mean there could be others but I've never seen them lol
  • Wtn_Gurl
    Wtn_Gurl Posts: 396 Member
    Hi - update - so the scale reached 313 on Saturday and now it has begun to go down. I watched what I eat like a hawk. I ate NO condiments and kept my calories lower (1,000 to 1,200). I aimed for about 1,000 of sodium (g or mg, whatever MFP records the sodium at). So I'm going to do this and hopefully I will catch up to my lowest weight of 309 in a couple days if I keep this up. I hope hope hope my body has adjusted to the no water pill so that I can continue losing. the best part is that I did not give up after losing hope, though I did panic a bit when I saw it go up from 309 to 313. thank you all for helping me get thru and I hope this continues.
  • brznhabits
    brznhabits Posts: 126 Member
    You are 313 and your intake is 1000-1200 cals? That sounds unhealthy and unsustainable! This isn't a race, its' about new sustainable habits and a long term lifestyle change.
  • Wtn_Gurl
    Wtn_Gurl Posts: 396 Member
    brznhabits wrote: »
    You are 313 and your intake is 1000-1200 cals? That sounds unhealthy and unsustainable! This isn't a race, its' about new sustainable habits and a long term lifestyle change.

    hi - just temporary till I lose 2 more pounds, then I will go back to my MFP recommendation. Which is 1300 cals per day.

  • brznhabits
    brznhabits Posts: 126 Member
    Wtn_Gurl wrote: »
    brznhabits wrote: »
    You are 313 and your intake is 1000-1200 cals? That sounds unhealthy and unsustainable! This isn't a race, its' about new sustainable habits and a long term lifestyle change.

    hi - just temporary till I lose 2 more pounds, then I will go back to my MFP recommendation. Which is 1300 cals per day.

    Um, that doesn't sound right. Even if you are only 4 ft tall and 80 years old I'm still seeing your BMR at 1864 and target cals for 25% rate loss (which is a lot) at 1678. I didn't want to muck up my settings in MFP but this calculator does the same. You need to check your MFP settings.

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