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shearer061080
shearer061080 Posts: 15 Member
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Hi everyone, I've just started eating properly again lol,only been 10 days but I was barely eating any decent calories before,my question is this,is it normal to have gained a couple of pounds in the first phase of eating more and weight training because maybe my metabolism hasn't kick started yet?some opinions on this would be appreciated. Keep grinding peeps.💪👍💯

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 32,872 Member
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    It's normal to have gained a couple of pounds because when you eat more food,

    * There's more food in your digestive system on average (on its way to becoming waste),
    * Eating food usually means eating some additional amount of sodium and carbs, both of which will hold onto a little extra water during the digestion/metabolization process.

    If you increased strength training at roughly the same time, that tends to increase water retention, for (oversimplifying) muscle repair.

    Good read:

    https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations

    Neither retained water nor waste-in-transit are bodyfat, so they're not worth worrying about in the big picture of weight management. Just recognize that they'll fluctuate, and that multi-pound quick changes on the scale - without a dramatic change in eating or life routine - are probably water/waste, not fat.

    Look at multi-week scale weight trends over at least 4-6 weeks on a new routine, to avoid twitchily over-correcting over misleading signals.
  • shearer061080
    shearer061080 Posts: 15 Member
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    Thanks my friend that's some really good info,never really liked weighing too much anyway so I'll probably go on bmi and body fat percentage to notice changes until it's a significant amount, I appreciate your reply,cheers good luck on your fitness journey, any questions regarding strength training I'd be happy to help with.💪💯👍
  • MargaretYakoda
    MargaretYakoda Posts: 2,861 Member
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    shearer061080 wrote: »
    Thanks my friend that's some really good info,never really liked weighing too much anyway so I'll probably go on bmi and body fat percentage to notice changes until it's a significant amount, I appreciate your reply,cheers good luck on your fitness journey, any questions regarding strength training I'd be happy to help with.💪💯👍

    Tracking long term trends with an app like Happy Scale can be useful also.

    Apple
    https://happyscale.com/
    Android
    https://baixarapk.gratis/en/app/532430574/happy-scale

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