I gained 12 pounds???? Help!!
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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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?
Yes. Yes it does.4 -
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 weight
Yes it does. You're still retaining water because you are dehydrated. No matter how many times you say you don't think that can be true, it is.10 -
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?
It makes a difference. Also, could you respond to YesItsKriss's point that you say the 12 pound gain was on a scale at your mom's house. Is that the scale you usually use? Not all scales are calibrated the same.
Calm down. Unless you're constipated or have noticeable swelling (edema), a 12-pound "gain" in a week is not about your body. It's about the conditions you're weighing under.7 -
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It might be water weight. Not fat. Thats my best guess.1
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TavistockToad wrote: »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 weight
Yes it does. You're still retaining water because you are dehydrated. No matter how many times you say you don't think that can be true, it is.
You are a very condescending person. That helps no one.. Something that might be obvious to you isn't to everyone else. And sometimes I repeat things and it comes off as not listening, but I am autistic and have a hard time putting information together. Please stop being so mean to me in my posts.
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YepItsKriss wrote: »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 weight
It already has been explained.
You were very dehydrated, this is not how the body wants to be, the body needs water.
You weighed in as a dehydrated weight.
You have taken on drinking more water, the body is now taking in this water because you didn't have enough in the first place, like pouring water on a dried up sponge. You can ring some of the water out of that sponge (Like going pee) but the sponge is still going to hold on to some of that water. Just like your body, your weight will be what it is once you are finally hydrated to where you should be. But again, its not fat, its water, you need it, stop putting so much emphasis on the scale..
Think of it this way..
Lets say i am very dehydrated and i weigh in at 150 pounds.
I lose 15 pounds and am now 135, but i find out i am super dehydrated so i start drinking more water now.
I go up 12 pounds. So now i am 147.
I didn't gain fat and since my starting weight of 150 was a dehydrated weight, My starting weight if i was properly hydrated at the time, probably was 162 not 150. So all the hard work i put in is still there its just reflected with different numbers because i wasn't hydrating myself up until now. The scale is just information, its not a reflection of your work and who you are, you need to take measurements for that and go by how your clothes fit and how you feel because the scale is going to go up and down chronically from fluid retention from various reasons.
So Im actually like 250 pounds?
But if I lost weight, would it get replaced with water? Or. I dont understand 2 -
Pretty much what they’re saying is since your dehydrated, you weigh less, but you have the same fat content whether you’re dehydrated or not. So don’t worry about the 12 pounds. Keep drinking water, it’s better for you body in the long run.9
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TavistockToad wrote: »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 weight
Yes it does. You're still retaining water because you are dehydrated. No matter how many times you say you don't think that can be true, it is.
You are a very condescending person. That helps no one.. Something that might be obvious to you isn't to everyone else. And sometimes I repeat things and it comes off as not listening, but I am autistic and have a hard time putting information together. Please stop being so mean to me in my posts.
There's nothing mean about any of my posts on this thread.23 -
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