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Biggest swing yet: 10# in 57 hours. What's yours?

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  • Packerjohn
    Packerjohn Posts: 4,855 Member
    Back in college lost about 10 pounds between 1 PM Friday and 11 AM Saturday. Drank a bunch of beer/hard liquor and somewhat dehydrated.
  • Noreenmarie1234
    Noreenmarie1234 Posts: 7,492 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    Football Practice in August.

    11 pounds in 3 hours.

    From loss of water weight?!
  • mazcor536
    mazcor536 Posts: 115 Member
    145 to 154 in a week, then down to 141 the following week (all Monday weights). That was a combination of TOM and effervescent paracetamol (acetaminophen) which has a stonking 845mg of sodium per 2 tablet dose.
  • CarvedTones
    CarvedTones Posts: 2,340 Member
    OP here again; now 6.5 of the 10 pounds have dropped back off. That's pretty close to the real bottom as I noted in the first post that the low weight was right after a long intense paddle on a day when I hadn't eaten much yet.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,370 Member
    Biggest 24-hour(ish) drop that I recall was 6.2 pounds: 137.6 Saturday AM to 131.4 when I got up on Sunday (might not have been AM ;) ).

    On Thursday AM, I'd been 133.4, which was kinda normal at that point. Ate a few hundred over maintenance on Thursday, more normal on Friday but a sodium bomb right before bed, so weight well up on Saturday. Skipped a strength day on Saturday so possible water weight drop; drank lots of water to counter previous sodium; ate less fiber-rich foods than usual so possibly less digestive contents; then slept extra late on Sunday so more dehydrated. No or negligible fat gain/loss involved. (I usually under-eat maintenance calories, and go well over it once a week or so, so probably netted out close to neutral for the week.)

    I know I've gained 5 or more pounds from one AM weigh-in to the next, too, but don't recall details. With my eating style, the quick-gain fluctuation isn't notable enough to remember - it happens a lot (usually the gain is overnight, the matching drop takes 2-3 days, so the quick drop was a new thing).
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,311 Member
    Carved Tones. just wondering how you were doing post shoulder surgery I think you had a little bit ago? Haven't seen you posting much but hope all is well and you are back to paddling again. After all. it is SUMMER!!!
  • jrwms714
    jrwms714 Posts: 421 Member
    6 pounds on a 5'0" frame after a long flight, and 3 -4 days to get that water weight off. Same thing with a 12 hour car ride. Can also do up to 4 lbs. with a salty restaurant meal, which most of them are, IMHO. Not comfortable, not at least not from eating poorly.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,605 Member
    Seven pounds up over several days, then six pounds off in one day a couple weeks ago.
  • robingmurphy
    robingmurphy Posts: 349 Member
    I guess childbirth doesn't count? Other than that, my biggest change was losing 10 pounds in four days on a modified fast, and then gaining 10 pounds back in the three days after the end of it.
  • steveko89
    steveko89 Posts: 2,223 Member
    Nerdy write-up I did of mine a while back

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10672255/examination-of-outlying-scale-fluctuation#latest
  • nooboots
    nooboots Posts: 480 Member
    I lost a stone once in one week by being in hospital with a kidney stone. Being sick with the morphine but not being able to eat as I was nil by mouth every day because apparently every day I was due for the stent operation but it never happened so by the time I found out I wasnt going down for surgery it was too late to order a meal as there was nothing left.

    It was the worst week of my entire life.

    I couldnt stop eating cheese on toast when I got home.
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