Bingings The Only Time Im Losing Weight

determinedtolivefree
determinedtolivefree Posts: 23 Member
edited November 20 in Health and Weight Loss
I've been tracking on a different app (livestrong) since july 17th. I was eating around 1700 calories a day and burning 300-450 a day with cardio and weight lifting. I weigh all my food, and I dont eat any exercise calories back. I didn't lose any weigh on that, in fact I gained. Every time I binged this week I wound up losing weight (and alot of it) the next day. What the heck is going on?

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Tighten up your logging. "Around" 1700 a day is too vague.

    I sometimes lose after a big meal too. I have no explanation other than maybe I was under-eating for many days before that...(?) I have no idea. It's not a good practice to get into, I know that much.
  • rmgnow
    rmgnow Posts: 375 Member
    LMAO. You actually binged?
    Maybe, I have a different definition of binge.

    Anyway, it could depend on what your stats are.
    If you're a healthy muscular person, it may take a while to move the scale.
    ...and it's just been 7 days :|
  • cheryldumais
    cheryldumais Posts: 1,907 Member
    If part of the binge was alcohol you might be dehydrated. I've heard many on here say they dropped weight when they drank but it tends to come back.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    Define "binge".

    Are you consuming, say, 6000+ calories in a binge, eating what you can find, or just eating more than you usually do?

    You say you're eating 1700 and burning 350-400. How are you determining those burns? How much weight do you have to lose?

    I'm guessing cortisol had a part in this.
  • determinedtolivefree
    determinedtolivefree Posts: 23 Member
    amyrebeccah wrote: »
    You had an unreasonable set of expectations for 10 days of logging, especially 10 days that apparently included more than one "binge".

    Yeah, losing this last 20 pounds has been alot different from losing the first 20. Also, Ive been logging for a very long time (more than 10 days), but this is my first time on this amount of calories. I didn't expect to gain weight.
  • determinedtolivefree
    determinedtolivefree Posts: 23 Member
    cerise_noir wrote: »
    Define "binge".

    Are you consuming, say, 6000+ calories in a binge, eating what you can find, or just eating more than you usually do?

    You say you're eating 1700 and burning 350-400. How are you determining those burns? How much weight do you have to lose?

    I'm guessing cortisol had a part in this.

    I use a watch and heart rate monitor strap. As for my binges, they're binges to me, I think thats subjective. Theyre definitely more than 1000 calories usually.
  • determinedtolivefree
    determinedtolivefree Posts: 23 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
    Tighten up your logging. "Around" 1700 a day is too vague.

    I sometimes lose after a big meal too. I have no explanation other than maybe I was under-eating for many days before that...(?) I have no idea. It's not a good practice to get into, I know that much.

    Im under 1696 a day to be exact unless I of course I binge
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    Could be raising leptin levels if your binges are not that much over maintenance and mostly carbs but I'm surprised the glycogen wouldn't hide the fat loss right away. idk. keep binging if it's working! lol
  • determinedtolivefree
    determinedtolivefree Posts: 23 Member
    I have no idea how to edit a post but I just read it over again, and I didn't mean that I've been logging for like 3 days. Its been wayyyy longer than that (months). I was previously eating 1300 and hit the wall and then figured all the exercise and eating that low wasnt the best for my body. Then, I upped it to 2000 (plus exercise) and I was still losing. Now, I lowered it again and Im gaining.
  • determinedtolivefree
    determinedtolivefree Posts: 23 Member
    cheryldumais wrote: »
    If part of the binge was alcohol you might be dehydrated. I've heard many on here say they dropped weight when they drank but it tends to come back.

    No alcohol for me, haha! but maybe dehydration
  • AliceDark
    AliceDark Posts: 3,886 Member
    Your body doesn't respond immediately to changes in intake or exercise; the amount of weight you lose or gain today doesn't necessarily correlate to what you did yesterday. You need to look at trends over time. If, in the last 4-8 weeks, you see a downward trend, you are in a net deficit and are losing weight, regardless of individual spikes or dips on the scale. (Same thing with an upward trend, which means you are in a net surplus).
  • Muscleflex79
    Muscleflex79 Posts: 1,917 Member
    determinedtolivefree wrote: »
    I have no idea how to edit a post but I just read it over again, and I didn't mean that I've been logging for like 3 days. Its been wayyyy longer than that (months). I was previously eating 1300 and hit the wall and then figured all the exercise and eating that low wasnt the best for my body. Then, I upped it to 2000 (plus exercise) and I was still losing. Now, I lowered it again and Im gaining.

    this doesn't add up. if you were losing on 2000 plus exercise, you would lose (more) on 1700 - not gain. sounds like some definite issues with logging/weighing your intake.
  • determinedtolivefree
    determinedtolivefree Posts: 23 Member
    Muscleflex79 wrote: »
    determinedtolivefree wrote: »
    I have no idea how to edit a post but I just read it over again, and I didn't mean that I've been logging for like 3 days. Its been wayyyy longer than that (months). I was previously eating 1300 and hit the wall and then figured all the exercise and eating that low wasnt the best for my body. Then, I upped it to 2000 (plus exercise) and I was still losing. Now, I lowered it again and Im gaining.

    this doesn't add up. if you were losing on 2000 plus exercise, you would lose (more) on 1700 - not gain. sounds like some definite issues with logging/weighing your intake.

    I would assume not considering I use a scale for everything and I lost weight before but the only thing I can think of that changed was definitely my macros I was high carb & low protien for the 2000 and getting very very hungry every two hours and now I switched to higher protien and lowered my carbs and I never really get hungry at all now and I use alot of sodium filled things
  • CattOfTheGarage
    CattOfTheGarage Posts: 2,745 Member
    Sounds like random fluctuation to me. Never draw conclusions based on less than three or four weeks of consistent logging. You need to give it more time.
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