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cnjg420
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How do you put on 2.5 pounds in one week
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Eat 8750 calories over maintenance.
If that didn't happen...water retention from a variety a reasons10 -
2.5 pounds can be gained in a day.
Just eat 8750 calories over your maintenance.
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Too much sodium and it takes a few days to go away3
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I cycle water like crazy. I can go up 5 lbs overnight easy, let alone over the course of a week...3
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Have surgery. The edema will even overshadow the 12 hours of clear fluids, 15-hour fast, and enema required prior. Why yes. That did happen this week. Why do you ask?10
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Be a pre-menopausal female at a particular stage of her menstrual cycle, for one. Or start a new exercise program. Or eat more carbs or sodium than usual, even if it's a perfectly healthy amount of either/both. Or eat a bunch of high-fiber food within a couple of days before the 2nd weigh-in, that's still mostly in digestive transit. Or one of many other reasons for water weight or digestive contents to be a little higher.
Heck, I gained 4.4 pounds between Friday morning and Sunday morning, and I'll guarantee you I didn't eat 15,400 calories over maintenance (and I'm post-menopausal). In my case, it's water weight and digestive contents from extra carbs/sodium . . . it'll be gone in a few days. In fact, 2 pounds of it was gone by this afternoon.
If you didn't eat 8750 calories more than maintenance, your water weight will be gone in a few days, too.
Don't worry.
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estherdragonbat wrote: »Have surgery. The edema will even overshadow the 12 hours of clear fluids, 15-hour fast, and enema required prior. Why yes. That did happen this week. Why do you ask?
Oh gosh now I'm having flashbacks to feet so swollen I thought my skin would split. Once it started to clear out of my system I peed and sweated out 25 lbs in 3 days.6 -
MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »
She's not undereating if her diary is accurate for the last week.3 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »
She's not undereating if her diary is accurate for the last week.
Same question came up a week ago, so wondering if this goes back further than one week? Looking her diary I see nothing that should put her above eating over maintenance. Has to be water weight shifts/retention.
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/comment/41826053#Comment_41826053
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »MichelleSilverleaf wrote: »
She's not undereating if her diary is accurate for the last week.
I may have misunderstood her comment, I thought she meant she had once gone over 1200cal, with that number being her maintenance.0 -
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