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I gained 12 pounds???? Help!!

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  • Posts: 7,682 Member
    sgtx81 wrote: »

    I've already had 133.8 oz today since about 3 hours ago and I will probably end up drinking at least 80oz more.

    If you lose weight it shouldn't get replaced with water, under normal circumstances. I lost 50 pounds, give or take, from August to the end of September and another 20+ pounds this month and I've been drinking water like a camel.

    If water replaced fat I'd be sloshing around like a water balloon right now.

    why so much water? you do know you can over-hydrate yourself as well right? too much water can be toxic
  • Posts: 466 Member
    edited October 2017

    why so much water? you do know you can over-hydrate yourself as well right? too much water can be toxic

    Yes, I know. I also sweat a whole lot when I exercise and I'm a coffee drinker. I judge my hydration by the color of my urine. Thanks though...

    https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2013/10/what-the-color-of-your-urine-says-about-you-infographic/
  • Posts: 7,682 Member
    sgtx81 wrote: »

    Yes, I know. I also sweat a whole lot when I exercise and I'm a coffee drinker. I judge my hydration by the color of my urine. Thanks though...

    https://health.clevelandclinic.org/2013/10/what-the-color-of-your-urine-says-about-you-infographic/

    I get that, but thats an awful lot of water for even a very obese person(not saying you are as I have no clue your height or weight, nor am I asking).but hey as long as you arent having issues I guess.,
  • Posts: 18,349 Member

    I get that, but thats an awful lot of water for even a very obese person(not saying you are as I have no clue your height or weight, nor am I asking).but hey as long as you arent having issues I guess.,

    I down 6+ litres a day, and I'm obese but not very obese. It's just what I'm used to and what I'm happy with.

    But OP - you had a number of factors at play here.

    1. You've been dehydrated a long time and your body is hanging on to well needed water. This is going to show a gain in water weight, but that's not a bad thing - you need that hydration. Any loss shown by dehydrating yourself is a fake loss, and as your last thread canvassed extensively, ongoing dehydration is dangerous and unhealthy.
    2. You weighed later in the day, after eating and drinking and while wearing shoes. All of that shows up. Just because it's in your stomach and not on a plate doesn't mean it doesn't still have mass.
    3. You weighed on a different scale. This will pretty much always show a change, home scales are not perfect or calibrated the same way. This doesn't mean they're useless - just that it's better to weigh on the same one.
  • Posts: 6,840 Member
    Sarellynn wrote: »

    Thats probably the best explanation ive read , thank you very much. So if I keep hydrating, I might gain weight, but it wont be fat, and then I can start looking at my weight?

    Yep, that's the idea!

  • Posts: 616 Member
    Weigh yourself in the morning before you eat after you go to the restroom on the same scale in the same place every day. Yes, clothes and shoes can weigh several pounds. Yes, two scales can be several pounds different. Yes, the time of day you weigh yourself can have an impact of several pounds. And yes, if you were SEVERELY dehydrated before (and you WERE), then the act of hydrating will raise the number on the scale. However, it will not mean you gained any fat. If you take measurements of different parts of your body on a regular basis you should be able to see more accurately changes in fat.
  • Posts: 1,143 Member

    I get that, but thats an awful lot of water for even a very obese person(not saying you are as I have no clue your height or weight, nor am I asking).but hey as long as you arent having issues I guess.,

    On average, I drink 100 oz a day so I don't get kidney/bladder infections. Yesterday, I drank about 50-60 oz and woke up this morning with a headache and burning. I've drank about 90 oz so far today. Working on another 40. I am feeling a lot better. Some people can and need to drink that much.
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  • Posts: 1,362 Member
    Do you usually weigh yourself at home, but weighed on a different scale at your moms today? There’s the reason you ‘gained’ 12 pounds. You didn’t really. It’s almost certain that the scales are not calibrated exactly the same. At the beginning of my weight loss, I gained about 6 pounds in minutes by replacing my old scale with a new one.
  • Posts: 36 Member
    Sarellynn wrote: »

    Yes but I feel like Im doing better. I dont see why id be gaining weight

    Your body is still adjusting to your new levels of water consumption, it may take some time for it to "believe" that you're going to be consistent with your water intake and retaining extra water in the meantime, just in case you suddenly stop drinking water again tomorrow. You aren't gaining fat, your body just needs some time to adapt to the change.
  • Posts: 2,212 Member
    You're gaining weight because instead of your body using water as part as elimination your body is retaining it because it needs water to function properly. You're just retaining the water you have taken in. So get a whole bunch of water bottles (full) and stand on the scale, the weight goes up right? That's the same concept except it's inside your body. Hope that explains it well enough.
  • Posts: 2,212 Member

    You can't be serious right? I found nothing that was said offensive. This is the internet, you should expect some mean people but they weren't being mean. They were trying to help you out by explaining it.

    My apologies if that came off as rude, I did not see you have a mental disability until now.
  • Posts: 23 Member
    Sarellynn wrote: »
    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????

    Stay off away from scales! focus on staying within your calories count and how your clothes are fitting you :)
  • Posts: 1,583 Member
    Well first of all scales are just a TOOL in the whole process. I read earlier you said you felt like you drank a lot with just 20 ounces. 20 ounces is nothing when it comes to being properly hydrated. I am 51yo and recently passed out due to two things. One I did not drink enough water and was out walking a paved path with my family and second I did had to pee which I did. The combination of the two caused me to pass out and I face planted on the hard pavement and broke my face. Teeth broke thru my lower lip and one tooth was broken at the gum line. I looked like I was hit by a truck. It is VERY important to stay hydrated.

    Also I have seen my weight fluctuate 5lbs in a day just from needing to drink more water. You also know if you severely limit your calorie intake it can cause your body to stop losing FAT and store it. You need to EAT HEALTHY and EXERCISE to properly lose weight.

    The other thing to keep in mind is even like myself I have let the weight gain for me over the last 20+ years and you cannot expect it to just fall off like it was melting. The most you should lose a week is about 2lbs. You may experience more in the beginning, but over all 2lbs a week is a good goal.

    Do you exercise at all? Also I may have missed it ,but what is your age? have you been seen by a doctor to eliminate any possible things like thyroid problems that can cause people weight gain.

    Make sure you wear the same clothing and use the same scale if your going to be like me and step on that evil thing way to much. Muscle weighs more then fat so could be muscle growing. Depends on what your doing for exercises.
  • Posts: 35,719 Member
    I swear i said all that... i did say it right? I didn't fall asleep and dream about it?

    You're a mean boy though, remember?!
  • Posts: 6,840 Member
    pogiguy05 wrote: »
    Well first of all scales are just a TOOL in the whole process. I read earlier you said you felt like you drank a lot with just 20 ounces. 20 ounces is nothing when it comes to being properly hydrated. I am 51yo and recently passed out due to two things. One I did not drink enough water and was out walking a paved path with my family and second I did had to pee which I did. The combination of the two caused me to pass out and I face planted on the hard pavement and broke my face. Teeth broke thru my lower lip and one tooth was broken at the gum line. I looked like I was hit by a truck. It is VERY important to stay hydrated.

    Also I have seen my weight fluctuate 5lbs in a day just from needing to drink more water. You also know if you severely limit your calorie intake it can cause your body to stop losing FAT and store it. You need to EAT HEALTHY and EXERCISE to properly lose weight.

    The other thing to keep in mind is even like myself I have let the weight gain for me over the last 20+ years and you cannot expect it to just fall off like it was melting. The most you should lose a week is about 2lbs. You may experience more in the beginning, but over all 2lbs a week is a good goal.

    Do you exercise at all? Also I may have missed it ,but what is your age? have you been seen by a doctor to eliminate any possible things like thyroid problems that can cause people weight gain.

    Make sure you wear the same clothing and use the same scale if your going to be like me and step on that evil thing way to much. Muscle weighs more then fat so could be muscle growing. Depends on what your doing for exercises.

    Based on information from the previous thread, 20 ounces is a lot more than she was previously drinking - she has a history of not drinking more than a few ounces in a day and trying to drink water it was coming back up at first. So this is a big step in the right direction.
  • Posts: 402 Member
    Hi OP,
    You almost certainly did not gain 12 lbs, for all the reasons others already mentioned. From what you said you are not eating that much at all. But even if you did by some strange combination of circumstances gain 12 lbs, your priority should be to work on your hydration levels. I remember your other thread about hydration and was really concerned for your well being. Continue working on that first - glad to see you are making some progress with your water consumption.

    Advice to other posters who drink ridiculously large amounts of water - I don’t think it’s helpful to OP to know that people drink 1,000 gallons of water a day. Not that anyone said 1,000 gallons, of course, but some strangely large amounts of water have been mentioned. I think that’s unhelpful, as the OP won’t necessarily realise those amounts are an outlier in the opposite direction, and she may feel like there’s no point even trying to improve her water consumption given she’ll never reach the amount quoted. This is similar to those posters who in response to posts saying “my starting weight is 250 lbs, my goal is 160 lbs, is that ok?” will respond something like “my starting weight was 130 and I felt really gross so my goal weight is 105”. This just obscures the fact that getting to 160lbs would be a major victory, in the same way that the OP drinking just an extra half a litre of water would be a major victory given her starting point.
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  • Posts: 35,719 Member

    We both are. Boy power...?

    :drinker:
  • Posts: 1,377 Member
    edited October 2017
    You're also eating a lot of high sodium foods, and your logging looks like it is way off, a lot of under estimated food with generic labels in there.
  • Posts: 2,212 Member

    TBH out of both those posts, i think this one was worse lol.
    I think it would of been more appropriate just to apologize rather then apologize simply because you discovered she is autistic.

    I didn't apologize because she was autistic or had a mental disability. I didn't even think my first post came off rude but I apologized for saying she can't be serious because she didn't understand, and has a hard time understanding.
  • Posts: 48 Member
    Sarellynn wrote: »

    I wore my shoes this time and did it at about 4:15pm . Does it make that big of a difference?

    I would recommend only weighing yourself once every morning after using the restroom. If you're wearing the same clothing or lake of that would be a good idea. I weigh myself naked first thing in the morning after using the restroom. If I gain weight I know the reason way it's because what I had the day before. I'm thinking you've been weighing yourself in the mid afternoon where the weight of the body is still in your system plus the shoes you're wearing which can be an extra 1 or 2 pounds maybe even more especially if you're also wearing socks with them.
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