Wow...

shoeloveramber
shoeloveramber Posts: 291 Member
edited November 9 in Health and Weight Loss
I ate chinese food this weekend and gained 5 pounds! All I had was a cup of hot and sour soup and some pork chow mein...I NEVER thought eating that would make me gain 5 pounds overnight. I have drank a ton of water the past few days but I am still up this morning :(
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  • EbonyHunter
    EbonyHunter Posts: 12
    That seems unreal! What else did you eat?
  • Krizzle4Rizzle
    Krizzle4Rizzle Posts: 2,704 Member
    I doubt you gained it. Chinese food has a lot of sodium. It's prolly just water weight. Drink a ton of water and pee it out!
  • hazedot
    hazedot Posts: 111 Member
    Honestly, keep going with the water it WILL come off again, I can almost guarantee it :)
  • BethanyMasters
    BethanyMasters Posts: 519 Member
    You don't just gain 5 pounds over night. Likely it's just some stubborn water weight. Are you due for your t.o.m.?
  • amoffatt
    amoffatt Posts: 674 Member
    I ate chinese food this weekend and gained 5 pounds! All I had was a cup of hot and sour soup and some pork chow mein...I NEVER thought eating that would make me gain 5 pounds overnight. I have drank a ton of water the past few days but I am still up this morning :(

    More and likely it is weight gain in sodium and so forth. As its been preached through out the forums that 1 pound of fat is 3500 calories, so its probably not fat. Watch sodium and drink water and you will find the weight will come down. :happy:
  • Krizzle4Rizzle
    Krizzle4Rizzle Posts: 2,704 Member
    Honestly, keep going with the water it WILL come off again, I can almost guarantee it :)

    Jinx
  • AllergicToExercise
    AllergicToExercise Posts: 436 Member
    Salt can really affect the scales the day after. There's no way you ate enough cals to put on 5lb so give it a few days and it will come down I bet! :smile:
  • johngcarmody
    johngcarmody Posts: 1
    It is likely a reaction to all those carbohydrates (rice/breaded food/noodles/etc.) which make you retain water...
  • tamerkins2
    tamerkins2 Posts: 212
    That is impossible. There is just no way you could gain 5 lbs overnight!! Weight can fluctuate quite a bit. It could be water retention (or maybe that time of the month, if you know what I mean!). I would not stress too much. The chinese did not make you gain 5 lbs overnight!!
  • 2hungariangirls
    2hungariangirls Posts: 220
    Before I started MFP and this weight loss journey, I decided to eat some Chinese take-out. I felt HORRIBLE the next day & couldn't sleep that night. It is full of sodium. I gained almost 5 lbs as well. It took a few days to get all that weight off. I haven't had it in weeks and I really don't miss it. Mind you, I love Chinese food but not since it makes me feel so bad. GL!
  • robinogue
    robinogue Posts: 1,117 Member
    I doubt you gained it. Chinese food has a lot of sodium. It's prolly just water weight. Drink a ton of water and pee it out!

    my thoughts exactly! I had wonton soup last night and feel like a whale :cry:
  • japruzze
    japruzze Posts: 453 Member
    Chinese food is high is sodium, fat and carbs...the trifecta of weight gain. Could take a few days to burn it off...water alone isn't going to solve the problem. Get moving!
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    You cannot deal with sodium by drinking water. Potassium is what balances out sodium. Water flushes both out. If you are low on potassium and high on sodium, and then drink a bunch of water, then you dump all of your potassium and hold on to the excess sodium which will lock in most of that water that you just drank.

    Drinking water to flush out sodium is a myth.
  • Dayna154
    Dayna154 Posts: 910 Member
    you are probably retaining a lot of water..
  • JennaM222
    JennaM222 Posts: 1,996 Member
    I gain 3-4 lbs every weekend - it is alwaus gone by tuesday & wed ANNNDDDD repeat! haha
  • shoeloveramber
    shoeloveramber Posts: 291 Member
    That seems unreal! What else did you eat?

    We were running around that day so I had oatmeal at home before we left, taco bell fresco taco for lunch with a diet coke and then that for dinner.

    Thinking about it now I do remember eating chinese food when I was pregnant with my first son, I gained 4 pounds in a week and my midwife flipped out. The next week I was back down those 4 pounds so maybe it is just taking a while to get the water weight off of me. I really hope that is the case!
  • janet_pratt
    janet_pratt Posts: 747 Member
    Did you look to see how many calories it was? Chinese food is ridiculously high. I found that out much to my dismay. We always had Chinese of Friday night. Second, it is very high in sodium and will cause you to retain water for a while. You will probably drop back down all of a sudden if you have continued to eat in moderation.
  • salene17
    salene17 Posts: 16 Member
    I have a cheat meal once a week. I honestly gain about three pounds... every time... then like clockwork three days later it passes.... I think it is the high sodium ... water retention is my guess.... I usually lose the 3 pounds and a pound or two more within a day or two....
  • TheDecision
    TheDecision Posts: 43
    +1 on water weight, or inaccurate weighing.

    Even if you had eaten 5lbs of food, that wouldn't turn into 5lbs of weight gain.
  • sco8462
    sco8462 Posts: 34
    That is impossible. There is just no way you could gain 5 lbs overnight!! Weight can fluctuate quite a bit. It could be water retention (or maybe that time of the month, if you know what I mean!). I would not stress too much. The chinese did not make you gain 5 lbs overnight!!

    It's not impossible. I've done it myself. It's probably water weight, but the point is, I can step on a scale and go up 5 pds from one morning to the next. It's not often, and it generally has to be a lot of carbs, cheese, and/or sodium, but its doable. Water will fix it.
  • sweetaddict123
    sweetaddict123 Posts: 116 Member
    I ate chinese food this weekend and gained 5 pounds! All I had was a cup of hot and sour soup and some pork chow mein...I NEVER thought eating that would make me gain 5 pounds overnight. I have drank a ton of water the past few days but I am still up this morning :(

    I ate at a pizza buffet Saturday, Monday I was 4 lbs up. It's always like that, especially with pizza and chinese!
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    That seems unreal! What else did you eat?

    We were running around that day so I had oatmeal at home before we left, taco bell fresco taco for lunch with a diet coke and then that for dinner.

    Thinking about it now I do remember eating chinese food when I was pregnant with my first son, I gained 4 pounds in a week and my midwife flipped out. The next week I was back down those 4 pounds so maybe it is just taking a while to get the water weight off of me. I really hope that is the case!

    Too much sodium! Not enough potassium. You get potassium from fruits and vegetables.
  • pauljsolie
    pauljsolie Posts: 1,024 Member
    Mostly water retention. Just keep drinking water, it will come off in a few days.
  • LabRat529
    LabRat529 Posts: 1,323 Member
    It's just water weight. Any time you eat a calorie surplus, you're body is going to stock-up on glycogen. Glycogen carries water with it. Sooo... that's it. That's all those 5lbs are. They'll be gone in a few days, I promise. Just get back on track with your diet and you'll be good.
  • willidewbaby
    willidewbaby Posts: 26 Member
    Don't weigh yourself everyday either, it will drive you insane with water weight.
  • LelliAmi
    LelliAmi Posts: 327 Member
    That happened to me too!!! I had one day where I had some junk food (really some, not a lot at all.) and BOOM, 5 extra pounds! So weird. I have no idea how that works.
  • kristinraynor
    kristinraynor Posts: 3
    Haha thats what always happens to me. I'm going to blame the alcohol... and BBQ's... I should probably cut those out. oh well. I run so I can eat. :)
  • madamepsychosis
    madamepsychosis Posts: 472 Member
    Our weight fluctuates so often and for a variety of reasons, so try limiting yourself to weighing once a week, first thing after your first *ahem* bowel movement and before you've eaten or drank anything.

    I seriously doubt you gained 5lb of fat overnight. 5lb of water weight, sure. As people have been saying on here, Chinese food contains insane amounts of sodium and such. Drink plenty of water and get back on the proverbial horse eating and exercise-wise. It'll drop back off again in no time.
  • Sublog
    Sublog Posts: 1,296 Member
    I ate chinese food this weekend and gained 5 pounds! All I had was a cup of hot and sour soup and some pork chow mein...I NEVER thought eating that would make me gain 5 pounds overnight. I have drank a ton of water the past few days but I am still up this morning :(

    You didn't eat 17000 calories in Chinese food. It's water weight. It will go away, but it may take a week or so to flush depending on many variables.
  • ttrotter1960
    ttrotter1960 Posts: 66
    Chinese food is very high in salt. Salt is composed of Sodium and Sodium in human cells is reponsible for retaining water inside of the cell membrane (remember osmosis). Two primary things are happening here and one is not. First is that you did not gain 5 pounds of fat. That would be impossible because it requires that you store 3500 calories to gain a pound of fat. That entire meal did not equal 3500 calories let alone the 17500 calories required for 5 pounds. And by the way, you don't store every calorie you eat. Some of it is burned off and some of it simply is excreted as undigested food. So most of the weight is from water and the rest is sitting inside your intestines.
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