I gained 12 pounds???? Help!!
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Sarellynn
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I used to eat way more than I have this week and I weighed myself just now and it says I weigh 12 pounds more than I was last week??! I just started drinking water daily and assumed it would help me lose weight, but I am gaining weight even though Im eating less?? Help????
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How many calories are you eating per day?2
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12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?2
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Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know..
I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off? 0 -
Yep, you were chronically dehydrated. It’s just water weight not fat weight.16
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Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
Water won't flush fat off. What it will do is help digestion and help with retention related to sodium over loads. Twelve pounds is a lot - but depending on where you are in your menstrual cycle, amount of stress you are experiencing, the amount of sleep you got, the sodium and carbohydrate content of your meals, etc, there can be a pretty large swing in weight related to water retention that has nothing to do with "fat."
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Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
You're still dehydrated, that's why4 -
TavistockToad wrote: »Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
You're still dehydrated, that's why
But why would that make me gain weight?? Am I drinking too much water?1 -
TavistockToad wrote: »Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
You're still dehydrated, that's why
But why would that make me gain weight?? Am I drinking too much water?
No, your body is retaining water because you're still not drinking enough.9 -
TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
You're still dehydrated, that's why
But why would that make me gain weight?? Am I drinking too much water?
No, your body is retaining water because you're still not drinking enough.
But I feel like Ive been drinking a ton ): I already had 20 oz today5 -
TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
You're still dehydrated, that's why
But why would that make me gain weight?? Am I drinking too much water?
No, your body is retaining water because you're still not drinking enough.
But I feel like Ive been drinking a ton ): I already had 20 oz today
You said yourself you're still dehydrated...4 -
It will take a while for your fluid levels to return to normal and you might be near your time of the month. Aside from the scale how do you feel? Do you feel bloated or bigger?0
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TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
You're still dehydrated, that's why
But why would that make me gain weight?? Am I drinking too much water?
No, your body is retaining water because you're still not drinking enough.
But I feel like Ive been drinking a ton ): I already had 20 oz today
You said yourself you're still dehydrated...
Yes but I feel like Im doing better. I dont see why id be gaining weight
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TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
You're still dehydrated, that's why
But why would that make me gain weight?? Am I drinking too much water?
No, your body is retaining water because you're still not drinking enough.
But I feel like Ive been drinking a ton ): I already had 20 oz today
You said yourself you're still dehydrated...
Yes but I feel like Im doing better. I dont see why id be gaining weight
Because you're still dehydrated...5 -
This may sound stupid but are you weighing yourself at the start of the day? before any food/liquid intake? and are you weighing yourself with the same items of clothes on (or naked)? I can pick up a few pounds during but by the next day I am back to what I was the previous morning.4
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TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
You're still dehydrated, that's why
But why would that make me gain weight?? Am I drinking too much water?
No, your body is retaining water because you're still not drinking enough.
But I feel like Ive been drinking a ton ): I already had 20 oz today
You said yourself you're still dehydrated...
Yes but I feel like Im doing better. I dont see why id be gaining weight
Because you're still dehydrated...
That doesnt explain why im gaining weight5 -
TavistockToad wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »Mrsjones172 wrote: »12lbs in a week sounds very odd! What was your diet like this past week? How much did you eat? Are your scales possibly broken?
I used a scale at my moms house. It works as far as I know.. I know I didn't eat amazingly but I stayed within my calorie limits (always under the goal, avg of around 1300 calories) and even started drinking water daily. I used to never drink anything really (I was and still am highly dehydrated) and just started so I assumed itd flush extra weight off?
You're still dehydrated, that's why
But why would that make me gain weight?? Am I drinking too much water?
No, your body is retaining water because you're still not drinking enough.
But I feel like Ive been drinking a ton ): I already had 20 oz today
In your other thread, I said that yes, this was a side effect of finally starting to drink more. It'll even out eventually, but not overnight -- and likely, more than a month. Your body doesn't think it's going to keep getting more, so it's going to retain as much as it can.4 -
AlexKerr12 wrote: »This may sound stupid but are you weighing yourself at the start of the day? before any food/liquid intake? and are you weighing yourself with the same items of clothes on (or naked)? I can pick up a few pounds during but by the next day I am back to what I was the previous morning.
I wore my shoes this time and did it at about 4:15pm . Does it make that big of a difference?0 -
AlexKerr12 wrote: »This may sound stupid but are you weighing yourself at the start of the day? before any food/liquid intake? and are you weighing yourself with the same items of clothes on (or naked)? I can pick up a few pounds during but by the next day I am back to what I was the previous morning.
I wore my shoes this time and did it at about 4:15pm . Does it make that big of a difference?
:huh:
You think your shoes and all the food you've eaten over the day are weightless?23
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