Gained a pound in a month... while eating below TDEE?
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stargirlhorse
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SO as the title said yes I gained a pound and no, I'm not happy about it. I am now 122lb when I was 121 a month ago today (June 2, 2020). But this really doesn't make sense since I've been eating 1200-1410 calories per day. I don't want this pound, I'm trying to lose weight!
I'm a 5'5.5, 18-year-old Asian.
I posted a thread before and people were like "yOu'Re sKinNy aNd dOnT nEeD tO lOsE wEiGhT."
This tiktok adequately describes how I feel. especially when she says you're never allowed to complain because you're already "skinny." People suggested recomposition and to read this so you want a nice stomach thread and I've been doing my squats, lunges, and ab exercises (as I said in the original thread, I literally CANNOT do a push-up. I can barely do one with *kitten* form on my knees, but I can somehow hold a high plank.)
I ended up getting a job at a restaurant so I upped my calorie intake to 1,410 (losing .5lb/week per the MFP formula). When calculated at sedentary, the lowest number any calorie calculator ran was 1,596 to maintain weight. I have been accurately measuring my food and drinking 96 oz of water per day. So why did this pound come back? Previously I had been stalled at 121 until at least June 17 when I posted my original thread. I don't want this weight. I want to be 115 (which is a healthy weight as according to the CDC).
If anything, I should be LOSING weight but I'm not...
I'm a 5'5.5, 18-year-old Asian.
I posted a thread before and people were like "yOu'Re sKinNy aNd dOnT nEeD tO lOsE wEiGhT."
This tiktok adequately describes how I feel. especially when she says you're never allowed to complain because you're already "skinny." People suggested recomposition and to read this so you want a nice stomach thread and I've been doing my squats, lunges, and ab exercises (as I said in the original thread, I literally CANNOT do a push-up. I can barely do one with *kitten* form on my knees, but I can somehow hold a high plank.)
I ended up getting a job at a restaurant so I upped my calorie intake to 1,410 (losing .5lb/week per the MFP formula). When calculated at sedentary, the lowest number any calorie calculator ran was 1,596 to maintain weight. I have been accurately measuring my food and drinking 96 oz of water per day. So why did this pound come back? Previously I had been stalled at 121 until at least June 17 when I posted my original thread. I don't want this weight. I want to be 115 (which is a healthy weight as according to the CDC).
If anything, I should be LOSING weight but I'm not...
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Also, does this tiktok have any truth? If I can get a smaller waist by lying on the ground for 5mins/day... I'm all in.2
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It's a pound, it could be any number of things. It could be related to your increased workouts, more time on the feet with your new job, where you're at in your cycle, some extra food in your body, increased humidity (if you're in a part of the world where summer has hit). Stressing out over a pound is counter-productive.
You're very close to your goal so it's going to require patience and consistency. There are probably going to be times when the scale goes up and you can't get thrown by that.17 -
Same girl, Im also 18,5'5, Asian (Pakistan) and my goal is 120, and right now I'm at 138lb. It honestly kills me when the weight goes up even by half a pound. A veryyyyy small side of me knows it is probably because of too much salt the day before or water retention, but it still KILLS me, no joke. I know i have a very toxic mindset but the mind does what it does. How did you achieve your goal?5
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janejellyroll wrote: »(cut)
You're very close to your goal so it's going to require patience and consistency. There are probably going to be times when the scale goes up and you can't get thrown by that.
How much going up is normal?
andmeharmahshahid wrote: »Same girl, Im also 18,5'5, Asian (Pakistan) and my goal is 120, and right now I'm at 138lb. It honestly kills me when the weight goes up even by half a pound. A veryyyyy small side of me knows it is probably because of too much salt the day before or water retention, but it still KILLS me, no joke. I know i have a very toxic mindset but the mind does what it does. How did you achieve your goal?
Welcome to the club haha. Do you happen to know how much water our bodies retain?1 -
stargirlhorse wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »(cut)
You're very close to your goal so it's going to require patience and consistency. There are probably going to be times when the scale goes up and you can't get thrown by that.
How much going up is normal?
andmeharmahshahid wrote: »Same girl, Im also 18,5'5, Asian (Pakistan) and my goal is 120, and right now I'm at 138lb. It honestly kills me when the weight goes up even by half a pound. A veryyyyy small side of me knows it is probably because of too much salt the day before or water retention, but it still KILLS me, no joke. I know i have a very toxic mindset but the mind does what it does. How did you achieve your goal?
Welcome to the club haha. Do you happen to know how much water our bodies retain?
I have no idea, but from my personal experience, around one or even two pounds3 -
stargirlhorse wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »(cut)
You're very close to your goal so it's going to require patience and consistency. There are probably going to be times when the scale goes up and you can't get thrown by that.
How much going up is normal?
andmeharmahshahid wrote: »Same girl, Im also 18,5'5, Asian (Pakistan) and my goal is 120, and right now I'm at 138lb. It honestly kills me when the weight goes up even by half a pound. A veryyyyy small side of me knows it is probably because of too much salt the day before or water retention, but it still KILLS me, no joke. I know i have a very toxic mindset but the mind does what it does. How did you achieve your goal?
Welcome to the club haha. Do you happen to know how much water our bodies retain?
There is no one answer to what is "normal." My weight trends around 110 average, but I will swing up between 108 and 115 during the month. I know that's normal for me because I've been observing the trend for quite a while.13 -
stargirlhorse wrote: »
How much going up is normal?
personally, I've seen my weight fluctuate as much as 6-7lbs day to day depending on time of month, what I ate the day before and... uh.. constipation... or a combination of all 3... and I'm roughly 5'3 and 126lbs atm... if you're aiming for a small deficit a weight spike on the day of weighing yourself easily covers up any potential weight/fat loss, so I wouldn't worry too much about just one weigh in, I'd look at long term trends
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Is it possible that some of this weight is loose skin from weight loss?
In January I was somewhere like 136, so I lost about 14 pounds.1 -
^^ and if so, how do I reduce that (non-surgically)1
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I highly doubt you have loose skin from weightloss from being barely overweight and if so it would be very minimal. Either you’re retaining fluid (very likely and nothing to worry about) or you’re not weighing your food and eating more than you think. Either way your reaction to one lb of weight gain is a little concerning since you’re within normal bmi. Have you considered speaking to a gp to have them assess you and workout a plan?10
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Next month you will have lost a pound. Yay!1
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stargirlhorse wrote: »Is it possible that some of this weight is loose skin from weight loss?
In January I was somewhere like 136, so I lost about 14 pounds.
No. Think about it: Let's say you do have loose skin (which I agree is doubtful, from that small a weight loss at your age).
It isn't new skin, so it's been part of your weight all along. Loose skin happens when we lose fat, so the skin gets wrinkly or droopy, because the fat isn't keeping it filled out. It isn't skin that was mysteriously added on. It's skin we had all along, that we don't want/need anymore. And it's very likely to shrink on its own (especially at age 18) . . . it just takes time.16 -
stargirlhorse wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »(cut)
You're very close to your goal so it's going to require patience and consistency. There are probably going to be times when the scale goes up and you can't get thrown by that.
How much going up is normal?
andmeharmahshahid wrote: »Same girl, Im also 18,5'5, Asian (Pakistan) and my goal is 120, and right now I'm at 138lb. It honestly kills me when the weight goes up even by half a pound. A veryyyyy small side of me knows it is probably because of too much salt the day before or water retention, but it still KILLS me, no joke. I know i have a very toxic mindset but the mind does what it does. How did you achieve your goal?
Welcome to the club haha. Do you happen to know how much water our bodies retain?
IIRC, a normal healthy body is around 70% water, so it can be pretty significant - not that all of that is a candidate to fluctuate, but at 120 pounds, that's 84 pounds of water, so if you get a 10% fluctuation of that, it could be more than 8 pounds. That's extreme, but not impossible.
I'm a little heavier than you (129 this morning), but routinely see fluctuations of more than two pounds from one day to the next (or the 2nd Tuesday of one month to the 2nd Tuesday of the next
). Under unusual circumstances, I've seen up to 6 pounds in a day or two, and that's without the hormonal fluctuations in the picture, that will apply to younger women. (I'm post-menopausal.) I've seen women here - who are not obese - report 6-8 pound hormonal fluctuations across a typical month.
Healthy bodies fluctuate in water weight. It's just a fact. Frankly, I think that - difficult though it may be - it's more profitable to work on managing one's emotional reactions to it, than it is to try to game it.11 -
stargirlhorse wrote: »Is it possible that some of this weight is loose skin from weight loss?
In January I was somewhere like 136, so I lost about 14 pounds.
Loose skin is skin you already had when you were heavier. It doesn't weigh more now just because it's loose.9 -
Wouldn’t that suck if a side effect of weightloss was extra skin just growing to replace fat so your body always weighed the same no matter what you lost? Good idea for a book.. The Skin that wouldn’t quit.15
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OP
A pound is nothing so try and stop stressing. It’s within normal fluctuations.
Carry on doing what you’re doing. Weight loss when it’s the last few pounds can be frustratingly slow. I’m crawling at a pace of a quarter of a pound a week.8 -
my weight goes up and down 5lbs just throughout the day... 1lb is a bottle of water8
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Sounds like water weight to me. I can fluctuate 1-4 lbs a week, especially when its hot out, I tend to retain. Yo have a better idea of how your body fluctuates, you shuld try weighing in every day for 2 weeks and writing it down. Youll see that you can very 1-2 lbs from before bed to the morning even.4
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Every time someone in these forums asks a question like this, someone (or many someones) always comes in to say "Your're eating more than you think." I'm going to be one of those people, but don't just tune me out.
The truth is, you can have the most accurate scale on planet Earth, and you could use that scale to weigh every atom of food that you eat ... and STILL be eating more calories than you think. How is that possible? Let me answer that question with a question.
How many calories are in an 85g pork chop?
When I enter that into myfitnesspal, I get a range of possibilities from 110 calories up to 262 with lots of numbers in between. Which is correct? Well, you could refine your search by adding modifiers, but even then you'll often end up with a range of possibilities. When that happens, you'll have to guess which one to use.
So, how do you know if you guessed right? Simple. The scale will tell you.
What's the scale telling you?1 -
You don't need to guess, just look at different sources of information outside of MFP.3
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