I'm 5'8" and 124.2 lbs (last time I weighed myself was June 29th). I went home for the long weekend, ate my mom's homecooked meals (nothing HORRIBLE but I could've eaten less) and weighed myself today (July 8th) and the scale said 127!!!!!!!! :d_eek:

Can this be true?!! How can someone gain 3 lbs over a weekend? Maybe it's hormones or water retention or something (at least I'm hoping it's one of the two). Should I wait a few more days before weighing myself again? Hopefully I'll be back to 124 in a couple of days. I'm so worried!!! :(

You'll find that when you start eating clean through the week it'll drop off quickly, I don't think you gain three pounds of fat in 3 or 4 days. But you can gain 3 pounds in water very easily.

If it makes you any more saner, weigh yourself in a couple of days after working out and eating well again, and it should be gone.

Right?

I'm 5'8" and 124.2 lbs (last time I weighed myself was June 29th). I went home for the long weekend, ate my mom's homecooked meals (nothing HORRIBLE but I could've eaten less) and weighed myself today (July 8th) and the scale said 127!!!!!!!! :d_eek:

Can this be true?!! How can someone gain 3 lbs over a weekend? Maybe it's hormones or water retention or something (at least I'm hoping it's one of the two). Should I wait a few more days before weighing myself again? Hopefully I'll be back to 124 in a couple of days. I'm so worried!!! :(


Female 5'8 127lbs , why are you worried? you are a healthy weight for your statistics and a few pounds fluctuation over a weekend is not fat, more likely water retention.

You'll drop again.


HITT MAN

I wouldn't worry about it... I weigh myself every day and my weight fluctuates constantly.
June 28th. I weighed 186.5
29th 182
30th 185.5
July 1st 181
2nd 184
3rd 185.5
4th 184
5th 182
6th 183.5
7th 180.5
8th 183.5
I'm maintaining right now, But If I were trying to lose weight I would use the scale as a guide for the long-term. On any given day I could gain 3 lbs. but for the week or a 2 week period I'd lose 2 - 3 lbs.
Don't live & die by the scale, it will drive you crazy, LOL
Hans

Unless you ate ~10,000 calories over your maintenance level, you didn't add 3lbs. of permanent fat. That's like TEN Denny's All American Slam breakfasts!

Do as Hans M Dude says, follow the trend. I do that with an Excel chart. As long as that red line is pointed downward, everything is cool. Check out the last part of the chart -- a big 5lb spike after a big cheat meal (first one in a month). Everything's back under the red line now. :d_smile:

Yeah, your body is like the new Tour de France rules - the lead can't swing more than 20 seconds in a single time trial leg, and your body just can't gain or lose that much fat in a weekend. Unless you competed in a hot-dog eating contest and beat Mr. Kobayashi, you didn't gain that much weight. You'd be violently, violently ill if that were happening, and would have to be forcing more food down your mouth while being constantly sick in order for it to happen.

When you change what you eat and when you eat, it throws off your body a little bit; this is almost certainly mostly water weight, but at least a little bit of it could be the food itself, sitting in your stomach or guts rather than swiftly being eliminated from your body.

But, yeah, at least 80% of it (and probably all of it) is almost certainly water. So don't worry.

Just as a person can drop water weight quickly when they start dieting, so to can they pile it on if they eat poorly right after dieting. It's not fat - dont' worry about it, unless you were eating gobs and gobs of food. I have a once weekly cheat day and I gain 2-3 pounds by Sunday morning than I was on saturday, even though I definitely didn't put on 2-3 of fat.

Thanks everyone for your advice. I feel much better now and I'm sure the 3 lbs is either water retention or the food that's still sitting there.

It's just a little disappointing to see a 3 lbs increase over one measly weekend, even if it will eventually disappear once I get back into my normal routine.

I'll weight myself again over the next couple of days and see if my weight returns to normal. Keeping my fingers crossed...

If it makes you feel better I weighed two lbs more today than I did yesterday. I mean I did have a big cheat meal last night... but there is no way to consume enough to add that much fat in a day or a weekend... each lb is about 3500cals. If you do the math, there is no way you ate enough to get your body to store 10500cals worth of fat :) You might even see yourself drop down to below what you were in the coming days due to a higher metabolism from the eatting binge.

Thanks everyone for your advice. I feel much better now and I'm sure the 3 lbs is either water retention or the food that's still sitting there.

It's just a little disappointing to see a 3 lbs increase over one measly weekend, even if it will eventually disappear once I get back into my normal routine.

I'll weight myself again over the next couple of days and see if my weight returns to normal. Keeping my fingers crossed...

Heck, I remember when I was really dissappointed because I gained 5.4 pounds in ONE DAY! After I realized that I could not have eaten an estimated 20000 Calories in one day, I didn't feel so bad. By the same time the next week, I was at a lower wait than before that gain, so it was all good. Don't worry about weight fluctuations, they happen all the time. If you keep track of your weight on excel or something like it, then you can track your long term weight and see if you are doing what you want (either maintaining, losing, or gaining weight).

Yeah, your body is like the new Tour de France rules - the lead can't swing more than 20 seconds in a single time trial leg, and your body just can't gain or lose that much fat in a weekend. Unless you competed in a hot-dog eating contest and beat Mr. Kobayashi, you didn't gain that much weight. You'd be violently, violently ill if that were happening, and would have to be forcing more food down your mouth while being constantly sick in order for it to happen.

When you change what you eat and when you eat, it throws off your body a little bit; this is almost certainly mostly water weight, but at least a little bit of it could be the food itself, sitting in your stomach or guts rather than swiftly being eliminated from your body.

But, yeah, at least 80% of it (and probably all of it) is almost certainly water. So don't worry.

Kobayashi can eat! I don't know if you saw him this 4th of July. He broke his old record of 50 1/2 with 53 1/3 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Hell that's about 17,000 calories so you can use that for reference. That is what I call cheating! :eat:

Kobayashi can eat! I don't know if you saw him this 4th of July. He broke his old record of 50 1/2 with 53 1/3 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Hell that's about 17,000 calories so you can use that for reference. That is what I call cheating! :eat:

I didn't see him this year, but I saw him last year, and I have his autograph in Japanese on my fridge. The man is ridiculous!!

Although it was hilarious when he went up against that bear in hot-dog eating on Man vs. Beast and got rocked. At first, you're thinking, "Hey, that guy can eat an insane amount of hot dogs! And the bear doesn't even know it's a contest!" and then, as soon as it starts, and the bear eats all the hot dogs in, like, ten seconds, you're like, "Oh, right. It's a frickin' bear."

Scales aren't the most important thing...

There's a good argument for weighing yourself every day -- after a while of doing this you get used to the occasional water-weight gains. Weighing every day makes some people crazy, but I found that it's better than being surprised every once in a while. I magically "gained" 4 pounds one night! But since I was checking every day, I knew that it was water and would disappear in a day or two. Good luck!

3 lbs? Bah. ;)

I gained 5.5 pounds between Sunday and Tuesday with a "cheat weekend".

2 pounds of it are already gone... water, I suppose.

Also, since you're a woman, it really depends on your cycle. I'm 5'1", and my weight can fluctuate up five pounds during that time of the month. It's almost 4% of my entire body weight :d_eek: , which sounds crazy, but it's my body just doing it's thing. So that could be it too...

Maybe weigh yourself once a week or so. Weighing your self every day will drive you crazy since everyone's weight fluctuates based on water, food in the body, etc. Same with measurements. In the morning sometimes my waist is an inch smaller that at night.

Not unless you're on the Supersize Me diet.

Actually, this is a perfect example of why (in my puny opinion) people should weigh themselves not just daily, but a couple times a day, tracking only the morning weight for consistency. Sholezard didn't do a daily weigh -- she weighed herself infrequently.

I weigh 5 lbs more after I eat dinner than I weigh first thing in the morning. The more I weigh myself, the more I figure out the way my body reacts to the way I'm eating, etc. For me, new low-weights come right after the biggest spikes. The Excel chart prevents any obsessing over the routine fluctuations.