Put weight back on and more in a week?!

CharleySmithxoxo · January 2022

Hi,

I started calorie counting two weeks ago (today marks the end of my 2nd week). I lost 8lbs last week, which I know was mostly water weight from xmas but this week I’ve weighed and I’ve put it back on plus an extra 4lbs. I can’t believe it! I’ve not done anything different, I’ve followed it to a t. So disappointed

yirara · January 2022

Hey, slow down! You know you've not lost 8lbs of bodyfat in one week, and hence you've not gained 12lbs of bodyfat in one week either. Unless you've eaten 6000 calories over your maintenance calories for every single day for a week. It's water weight. Water weight constantly fluctuates, and depending on gender and weight, these fluctuations can be considerable. Have you started a new workout? Hormonal fluctuations in women? Eaten more salt than usual? Moved more or less? Little cold? All possibilities, and then some. Weight loss takes time. Every sudden, extreme change is never weightloss.

mowu · January 2022

As yirara said this sounds like fluctuation and it happens....personally I have on numerous occasions "gained" almost 2 pounds within 24 hours. That's more than the weight of the food I ate in that timeframe. It all depends on how much you change your diet composition, how much you train and how your hormones fluctuate, it all affects how you retain water in your body.

The important thing is your trend over time. And we are talking way more than 2 weeks here

springlering62 · January 2022

So many people quit because they don’t get “instant results”.

Two weeks is nothing. Any of the reasons @yirara stated could account for a temporary weight gain.

Basically, are you a quitter, or are you willing to put the effort in to see this out?

I was a quitter so many times. It wasn’t til I got a grip on my expectations that things began to happen.

DancingMoosie · January 2022

Hang in there...

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