How can I gain 4 lbs in one weekend!?

Take a look at your sodium - I weigh daily - its pretty interesting to see what affects weight gain/loss - If it is going to freak you out don't do it though because stress can also add lbs.

1100 is low for your weight - sometimes too few calories make our bodies fight to hold what they have - relax and try eating as MFP recommends or at least 1500 - I lose steady at 1500 and was 227 when I started again this year.

for me - things that affect a weight gain like that are

1. retaining water (from sodium, exercising heavily, stress etc)
2. building muscle - but usually not over the weekend
3. not accurately counting calories
4. alcohol - it makes me forget to log and munch - so its a double whammy
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Id really look at sodium out of curiosity - and then I'd wait and see how it is after I drank lots of water and ate better

Do up your calories though - just eat fresher healthier for now :-) You can do it - don't give up

losergood2011 wrote: »

Take a look at your sodium - I weigh daily - its pretty interesting to see what affects weight gain/loss - If it is going to freak you out don't do it though because stress can also add lbs.

1100 is low for your weight - sometimes too few calories make our bodies fight to hold what they have - relax and try eating as MFP recommends or at least 1500 - I lose steady at 1500 and was 227 when I started again this year.

for me - things that affect a weight gain like that are

1. retaining water (from sodium, exercising heavily, stress etc)
2. building muscle - but usually not over the weekend
3. not accurately counting calories
4. alcohol - it makes me forget to log and munch - so its a double whammy
5.
Id really look at sodium out of curiosity - and then I'd wait and see how it is after I drank lots of water and ate better

Do up your calories though - just eat fresher healthier for now :-) You can do it - don't give up

you arent going to be building much if any muscle in a deficit and if you do its going to in most cases be a small amount but its not going to stall weight,its hard enough for women to build it in a surplus and takes time. there are a few exceptions but isnt going to happen eating 1200 calories and may not .

1500 is not going to be for everyone,either. upping calories is not the answer. if you arent losing there are reasons why,for many its eating more than they think and thats easy to do when you dont use a food scale,for some its eating back exercise calories that are inflated meaning they think they burned that many calories when in reality they didnt,sodium,waste,water retention can lead to seeing no loss on a scale for a short time. if someone is new to exercise they can also retain water to repair their muscles.I agree that 1100 is too low but if OP was truly eating 1100 she would be losing pretty quickly at her weight(no offense OP)
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mommy2ellaleecozbi wrote: »

I'm getting really discouraged. According to my scale I gained 4 lbs in 3 days. I haven't cheated. I've been doing low carb low sugar. I worked out at the gym for an hour both Friday and Saturday and skipped yesterday. This always happens to me. I'll lose a couple lbs and then they come right back even after being good. I eat 1200 calories a day. Yesterday less. I only got in 1100 yesterday. I weigh around 240 so there is no reason I shouldn't be losing weight. I realize 3 days isn't a good time gap enough to weigh in again but I needed the motivation. I've been working so hard and I feel like nothing's changed. I've had my thyroid checked before, nothing wrong there. Wth. Any one else have this happen? Did you just keep pushing through even though you weren't losing any weight?

low carb low sugar has nothing to do with weight loss. if you truly arent in a deficit you wont lose. and if you are really eating that little over time you would be losing quickly in most cases. weight loss is also not linear so some weeks you wont lose,some you may gain. water retention can be a big culprit for many reasons including that time of the month. when you work out your body will retain water to help repair muscle so that could be part of the issue. waste,sodium,etc can also cause it. how are you gauging how much you are eating?

Your body will take on cellular water in response to several different stimulus - hormone change, change in workout, change in stress, etc. all result in this - water weight. Just hydrate and realize that while your weight has shifted, it isn't fat and will go away in 5-7 days.

FYI - my water weight fluctuates ~5 lbs throughout the day and I can easily lose 5 lbs of water on a run, or gain just by hydrating or eating a salty meal.

Beer + TOM have added more than 5lbs to my scale overnight. It's water retention, not fat, so no worries.

Unless you had a few 20,000 calorie days, you didn't gain 4lbs over the weekend. It's just natural body fluctuations.

The numbers from the scale cannot be your main focus, you'll lose your mind. As long as your trending downward, it's all good. I weigh myself daily & I don't sweat the small fluctuations, good or bad. If it's a larger number (like the 3rd of July, I went to 2 parties & had a lot of fun), I can look back at my log & see where the problem occurred. I don't think you're eating enough to begin with. Too few calories & your body will fight to hold on to every ounce it can.

It sounds oxymoronic, but you have to eat enough to lose weight.

JBApplebee wrote: »

The numbers from the scale cannot be your main focus, you'll lose your mind. As long as your trending downward, it's all good. I weigh myself daily & I don't sweat the small fluctuations, good or bad. If it's a larger number (like the 3rd of July, I went to 2 parties & had a lot of fun), I can look back at my log & see where the problem occurred. I don't think you're eating enough to begin with. Too few calories & your body will fight to hold on to every ounce it can.

It sounds oxymoronic, but you have to eat enough to lose weight.

no your body does not hold onto every ounce. look at those who are anorexic or starving in 3rd world countries. starvation is one thing,what you are describing is starvation mode which doesnt exist, also something called adaptive thermogenesis exists but it can be reversed. if you eat less than you burn you are going to lose weight.its how weight loss works