Gaining weight eating high carbs???
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You've gotten a lot of consistent explanation for your weight fluctuations and consistent advice on what you should do. Until you can apply some patience and realistic goals, you are going to continue to be frustrated. Really read all the replies you've gotten from all your threads, especially the veterans with thousands of posts who have already been successful and are just here trying to help. The answers are there if you want them. Good luck.
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Also they only way you gain 5lbs after eating a bowl of pasta is if that bowl of pasta weighs 5lbs. There are probably around 20 servings of pasta in 5lbs of cooked pasta and at around 200 calories a serving that would be 4000 calories. If your story is true, carbs aren't the problem...
If you drink 5lbs of water with out going to the bathroom you will gain 5lbs, do you blame water for your weight gain?
Sometimes we have to look at things logically instead of panicking and blaming everything under the sun instead of watching what we eat.
I had a packet pasta of batchelors pasta n sauce made with water only, I’m not saying it’s made me gain ‘fat’ I was just wondering why pasta could make me bloated and gain on scales (again only know what I weighed after because I went to slimming world to get my weekly weigh in done)
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »Also they only way you gain 5lbs after eating a bowl of pasta is if that bowl of pasta weighs 5lbs. There are probably around 20 servings of pasta in 5lbs of cooked pasta and at around 200 calories a serving that would be 4000 calories. If your story is true, carbs aren't the problem...
If you drink 5lbs of water with out going to the bathroom you will gain 5lbs, do you blame water for your weight gain?
Sometimes we have to look at things logically instead of panicking and blaming everything under the sun instead of watching what we eat.
I had a packet pasta of batchelors pasta n sauce made with water only, I’m not saying it’s made me gain ‘fat’ I was just wondering why pasta could make me bloated and gain on scales (again only know what I weighed after because I went to slimming world to get my weekly weigh in done)
Because pasta + water in sauce + sauce + water that you probably drank with your meal + maybe not having gone to the bathroom since breakfast = 5 lbs of "waste" (aka urine and poop), water, and pasta. Literally you probably ate and drank 5 lbs worth of food and water.
If you cooked your pasta properly, there was salt in the water, salt in the sauce, and salt on the pasta after you cooked it. SODIUM. MAKES. YOU. RETAIN. WATER. Water has weight too.
BONUS: is the slimming world the SAME scale you used as your before AND after? Because scales are NOT ALL THE SAME.8 -
sammyj19902015 wrote: »Also they only way you gain 5lbs after eating a bowl of pasta is if that bowl of pasta weighs 5lbs. There are probably around 20 servings of pasta in 5lbs of cooked pasta and at around 200 calories a serving that would be 4000 calories. If your story is true, carbs aren't the problem...
If you drink 5lbs of water with out going to the bathroom you will gain 5lbs, do you blame water for your weight gain?
Sometimes we have to look at things logically instead of panicking and blaming everything under the sun instead of watching what we eat.
I had a packet pasta of batchelors pasta n sauce made with water only, I’m not saying it’s made me gain ‘fat’ I was just wondering why pasta could make me bloated and gain on scales (again only know what I weighed after because I went to slimming world to get my weekly weigh in done)
It was explained very well further upthread. Every molecule of carbohydrate is accompanied by 3-4 molecules of water. If you've been eating low-carb, you've depleted your glycogen stores, and they were replenished by eating the carbs, which created water weight gain. You didn't gain fat, you gained weight in the form of water/glycogen. Which is both perfectly normal and temporary.
It's the exact same mechanism by which low-carb diets create a relatively high rate of weight loss in the initial stages and fool people into thinking that they're magical - eating low-carb depletes your water/glycogen stores and you quickly lose water weight - but as with above, you didn't lose fat, you just lost water. Over the long term, low-carb diets have no advantage over any other diet in terms of the rate/amount of actual weight loss - it still all comes down to calories.3 -
Low GI carbs don't agree with me. I have some insulin resistance and it bumps up my BG too much, I end up with some stomach or BM issues more frequently, and I get a lot of headaches. I tend to minimize carbs in my diet because of that. For me, a diet without bagels or many other refined carbs is healthier.
If carbs make losing weight harder, and not just the water weight, you can lower them or mostly skip them. If you can moderate carbs while losing then continue to eat them. Do what works best for you.2 -
Weight fluctuates. Get an app that trends your fluctuations, weigh at the same time of the day, on the same scale, on the same spot on the floor, in the same clothes, having gone (or not gone) to the bathroom. Nothing else is going to be apples to apples.
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »Also they only way you gain 5lbs after eating a bowl of pasta is if that bowl of pasta weighs 5lbs. There are probably around 20 servings of pasta in 5lbs of cooked pasta and at around 200 calories a serving that would be 4000 calories. If your story is true, carbs aren't the problem...
If you drink 5lbs of water with out going to the bathroom you will gain 5lbs, do you blame water for your weight gain?
Sometimes we have to look at things logically instead of panicking and blaming everything under the sun instead of watching what we eat.
I had a packet pasta of batchelors pasta n sauce made with water only, I’m not saying it’s made me gain ‘fat’ I was just wondering why pasta could make me bloated and gain on scales (again only know what I weighed after because I went to slimming world to get my weekly weigh in done)
Why not try taking pictures and seeing if there is visual change rather than comparing a scale weight? Or try using a trend app like Libra or Happyscale so instead of having the wild swings in weight (due to so many reasons besides eating carbs) you can see where it trends.1 -
you aren't eating high carb.
You had ONE carby meal. There is a distinct difference. Stop panicking- go back to eating the way you were and you'll be fine.5 -
I'm not saying anything about fat. The only way you can instantly gain 5lbs is if you put 5lbs in your body.0
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sammyj19902015 wrote: »I track my calories everyday and have been well below them until yesterday which I was on my allowance
Regarding your comment about trying to figure out why you "binge eat," maybe this is your answer. If you set MFP to lose weight, you should be aiming to reach your calorie goal (provided you are logging accurately). If you are consistently "well below" your goal, and you are tracking correctly, you may be creating too big of a deficit and then eating more to compensate because your body actually needs more.7 -
I think we're beyond logic and reasoning at this point.10
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CarboHYDRATES = Water weight.
I don't eat a low carb diet, but when i have a particularly higher than usual carby day i know the scale will spike up the next morning. I'm usually back down to normal the next day or two.4 -
ladyhusker39 wrote: »I think we're beyond logic and reasoning at this point.
On the second page?! Good work MFP :laugh:7 -
You've received a lot of great advice from many people here and I'm sure the answers to help you achieve your goals are contained within it. That said, the following quote struck me:sammyj19902015 wrote: »I track my calories everyday and have been well below them until yesterday which I was on my allowance
I don't know how large a calorie deficit you're on and for how long you've been dieting at this deficit but I can tell you from personal experience that prolonged dieting can mess up your metabolism and literally bring your weight loss to a screeching halt! I lost 50 lbs in 5 months on an extreme calorie deficit and then the weight loss slowed to a crawl to the point where it stopped completely even though I was still in 500 calories/day deficit. My Metabolism compensated for the extended deficit and literally put the brakes on weight loss. Still on my significant calorie deficit, it took me 4 months of zero weight loss and lots of research to realize what had happened and how to reset it. I began eating at maintenance level to even a slight surplus (10%) for about a month. Over that time I boosted my calories/day up by 1000-1500/day and gained only 5 lbs in total over the whole month. My metabolism had reset and when I went back into a moderate (20%) calorie deficit, I began losing weight again at a health and consistent rate.
The moral of this story is that calorie deficit dieting should be short term, intermittent with healthly weight maintenance eating to preserve the function of your metabolism and help you reach your goals faster.
Hope this helps, good luck!8 -
TavistockToad wrote: »ladyhusker39 wrote: »I think we're beyond logic and reasoning at this point.
On the second page?! Good work MFP :laugh:
I would say that's a record- but I mean- the CICO thread in debate pretty much opened with quackery- sooooooo I wish it was a record- but I know better.2 -
cornflake_2 wrote: »You've received a lot of great advice from many people here and I'm sure the answers to help you achieve your goals are contained within it. That said, the following quote struck me:sammyj19902015 wrote: »I track my calories everyday and have been well below them until yesterday which I was on my allowance
I don't know how large a calorie deficit you're on and for how long you've been dieting at this deficit but I can tell you from personal experience that prolonged dieting can mess up your metabolism and literally bring your weight loss to a screeching halt! I lost 50 lbs in 5 months on an extreme calorie deficit and then the weight loss slowed to a crawl to the point where it stopped completely even though I was still in 500 calories/day deficit. My Metabolism compensated for the extended deficit and literally put the brakes on weight loss. Still on my significant calorie deficit, it took me 4 months of zero weight loss and lots of research to realize what had happened and how to reset it. I began eating at maintenance level to even a slight surplus (10%) for about a month. Over that time I boosted my calories/day up by 1000-1500/day and gained only 5 lbs in total over the whole month. My metabolism had reset and when I went back into a moderate (20%) calorie deficit, I began losing weight again at a health and consistent rate.
The moral of this story is that calorie deficit dieting should be short term, intermittent with healthly weight maintenance eating to preserve the function of your metabolism and help you reach your goals faster.
Hope this helps, good luck!
she saysKept to it all last week until yesterday3 -
Daily variations of multiple lbs is not fat gain.
You don't seem to realize this, and it's important to understand.4 -
Having read this and a couple other posts of yours OP...I think the problem is that you're getting way too wrapped up in the day to day and the, "I ate this and this happened" thing and then concluding that whatever you're doing isn't working and jumping around all over the place trying this and that rather than trusting the process and being consistent over time.
That's not the way our bodies work. You need to take a giant step back and start being consistent and trust the process and look at general trends over weeks and months, not the day to day.18 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Daily variations of multiple lbs is not fat gain.
You don't seem to realize this, and it's important to understand.
I've really come to believe that people with this misconception are not going to succeed, as each fluctuation sends them looking for a new diet. And it's incredibly frustrating because many of them say, "I know it's just water weight", but clearly they don't get what that even means or its significance. Think people! It requires 3500 calories *beyond your maintenance calories* (not the calorie allowance MFP gives you to lose weight) to gain a lb of fat!
And incidentally, though this particular fluctuation happened in the wake of a low-carb diet, it can happen on any restricted calorie diet, as any reduction in calories likely means a person has reduced his/her carb intake.7 -
sammyj19902015 wrote: »I’m wondering if there are any experts on here that can tell me why I gain so much weight by eating carbs??
I’ve been doing low carb diet and lost 5lb last week. I know this is water weight but still a good loss for me. Kept to it all last week until yesterday, I had a huge carb craving which then made me eat 1 round of white bread, lots of chocolate then had a small portion of lasagne and a small portion of shepherds pie for dinner. Got up this morning for my weigh in and I have gained 2.5lb. I’m back in focus on low carb now but just wondering if anyone knows why carbs just DONT agree with me? I have tested previously that eating a bowl of pasta can make me gain up to 5lb after I’ve eaten it? Anyone have any idea why? Thanks
How is it that you understand that the low carb diet results were impacted by water weight when you lost it, but you don't understand that when you ate higher carbs you gained water weight back? Isn't that obvious?
As stated in your other thread, and summarized succinctly by @kimny72 - you've been given great advice in your other thread about the impact that this bouncing around from diet to diet has on your long term weight loss trend. Take some deep breaths and stop looking for quick fixes and direct causative explanations for something that is impacted by countless variables.
Pick a calorie target.
Eat within that calorie target.
Log everything you eat as accurately as possible.
Be patient.
That is all you need to do - seriously. Stop majoring in the minors.15
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