1.5kg Gain in 4 days?

warezWally · July 2012

Hi,

New to the weightloss game. MFP is outstanding so far, its made me realise how badly I was eating previously. I wasn't awful, but would often eat chocolate, coke, crisps etc. Now I'm attempting Swimming 40mins 3 times a week (at least twice, sometimes only once depending on schedule) and I've just joined a gym.

I was suggested MFP by my Doctor and he weighed me at 84Kgs (I'm 24, 5' 8"/172cm) however after working out at the gym I weighed myself on their scales... getting 85.5Kgs. Of course I was a bit concerned,.. should I be. I'm achieving 1250 calories a day, but is there anything I can do to improve?

tadpole242 · July 2012

No two scales will ever weight you the same, not even if all you do is step from one to the other.

Pick one scale that you have access to, and use that.

Don’t worry about the numbers, (no, really) just the direction they go. Don’t weigh too often, I‘d say twice a month. So long as the numbers go downwards you are doing something right, if they go up more than 1% try something different for a couple of weeks and see if that makes a difference. If it does stick with it, if not try something different.
Most scales are only accurate to about 1%
So at 85.5kg you could be 86.35kg or 84.65kg on the same scale and at the same time both would still be right.

vtachycardia · July 2012

Weigh yourself everyday at the same time of day, preferably one hour after your evening meal, been to the toilet, done your exercise.

Do that for a week and then average the figure, that is your weight. ie 89+85+88+85+86+84+83 = 85.71 that is your baseline.

With that you can then weigh everyday and do the same thing. Or once a week.

When you first start losing weight you will tell people, oh I lost two pounds this week. They will invariably say,

"Ha ha ha, I lose that when I go to the toilet."

Well, I have measured and I pass about 250g to 500g when going to the toliet and can be 750ml of urine. Sorry to be scatalogical but it bugs me when people say this.

Hence I always weigh on an emptyish bowel and bladder.

emma155 · July 2012

Hi
I am in the same situation but I think in your case the gain is more likely to be down to muscle gain and like someone else said a difference in the scales. Also if you are exercising you may not be taking in enough fluids meaning your body it retaining water because it thinks there ia a water shortage or something and it is keeping a store!

and water weighs alot!

Please update with your progress soon as I am interested in knowing how you do as have just started too.

vtachycardia · July 2012

Hi
I am in the same situation but I think in your case the gain is more likely to be down to muscle gain and like someone else said a difference in the scales. Also if you are exercising you may not be taking in enough fluids meaning your body it retaining water because it thinks there ia a water shortage or something and it is keeping a store! and water weighs alot!

Please update with your progress soon as I am interested in knowing how you do as have just started too.

It would take about 6 weeks to gain 1.5kg of lean muscle, working to muscle atrophy and having a protein ration of about 60% in your diet. Please do not perpetuate the "muscle gained" myth. Weight fluctuates full stop, that is why you need a baseline figure.

warezWally · July 2012

I'm going to put it down to the scales and the general fluctuations in weight. My skin around my non so fat areas has certainly got tighter over the last week though. As said the water retention thing could be quite likely, considering I used to spend a lot of time dehydrated so now I'm guzzling lots of water and my body probably doesn't know what to do with it.

I will buy my own set of home scales today and weigh in every morning.

vtachycardia · July 2012

evening preferable to morning

1.5kg Gain in 4 days?

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