Weight Gain After Workouts

WillLose60

WillLose60

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Hi!


I weigh myself quite frequently throughout the day. I know I probably shouldn't, but I do. Anyway, I was noticing that I weigh about 1-2 lbs MORE after a workout. Why is this. The workouts that I am speaking of are strength training sessions or aerobics and usually last about half an hour. Why would this happen? I don't recall drinking a lot of water prior to/during the workout. I even went to the bathroom before weighing myself (sorry if that's gross!), and weighed 2 lbs. more today. Can someone explain this to me?

WillLose60
 
stop worrying about how much you weight throughout the day and weighing yourself all the time. it's unhealthy. in fact throw the dam scale out. no one should obsess this much on their weight, and I would strongly recommend you talk to someone about this if it is indeed an issue.

Weigh yourself once a week in the morning. And worry about your size and shape first. the scale is a gawd freaking aweful measure of health.

that being said, it's water weight. As an example, one thanksgiving me and all my friends weight ourselves when we got there, and again after dinner. I won by gaining a total of 13lbs over 2 hours. am i 13lbs fatter? gawd no. i just have stuff in my stomach that has weight to it. you did not gain fat or muscle while you worked out. it's just a little bit more fluids going in that adds a bit of weight. no big deal.

1L of water = 2.24lbs. so how much do you drink while you work out?
 
WillLose60 said:
Hi!


I weigh myself quite frequently throughout the day. I know I probably shouldn't, but I do. Anyway, I was noticing that I weigh about 1-2 lbs MORE after a workout. Why is this. The workouts that I am speaking of are strength training sessions or aerobics and usually last about half an hour. Why would this happen? I don't recall drinking a lot of water prior to/during the workout. I even went to the bathroom before weighing myself (sorry if that's gross!), and weighed 2 lbs. more today. Can someone explain this to me?

WillLose60
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Your body weight varies throughout the course of a day. It can actually vary around 2 +/- lbs per day.

Umm, why weigh yourself so much throughout the day anyway? Nothing good will come out of that.
 
Sign my name to the above. Weighing yourself multiple times during the day is a recipe for disaster. I weigh once a day and ONLY because I know I'm not tying myself to that number. I like knowing what's going on with my body and this is one of the ways I can keep an eye on things, but even so, I won't do it more than once a day.

Keep in mind that when you work out, your muscles retain fluid to help them recover - and the fluid retention from a workout can last anywhere from 2-7 days. Plus whatever you ate or drank that day is still going to be in your system - even possibly in your stomach.

And, as someone else pointed out, 4 cups of water (that's 32 oz total, or a little less than a liter) is over 2 lbs. So if you drink one 20 oz bottle of water before, during, or after your exercise, right there is your 2lbs.
 
I was told that I should weigh more after a workout due to the water intake during the workout. If I do not weigh more then I did not drink enough water. I was a constant weigher also, and I am no long stuck on what the scale tells me because of the way my body works with an actual loss on the scale vs an actual loss in inches.

What i find strange is this last week (girl week :reddevil: and I ate oh did I eat............................embarassing how much I ate and of what) but any way, last week I saw no drop in the scale and no drop in inches off of hips stomach, thigh, calf, chest or arms...........But looking at myself in the mirror my fat reporportioned itself and all my clothes are WAY loser and I have had several people tell me yesterday that I have lost weight (DUH) LOL. So do not get hung up on that scale. I am down to weighing myself 2 times a week where I was weighing like you every chance I got.

Good luck on your journey!!! Take pics so you can go back and look at that first pic and say NEVER again!!!!

Tracy
 
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For me, I weight myself, go on a 4 mile jog, take my head band off, weigh myself again and my body `dropped` 1.5 to 2.0 lbs. I then take my head band and "squeeze" the juice out of it. Oh - that's where 1.5 lbs went. I cannot understand if someone weighed their body AFTER a 4 mile jog (or some other work out) why their body weight would go `up` in lbs. This math is very strange on this one... If it were me, I'd get a "second opinion" from a different body weight scale. LOL!!!!

BTW: My body's weight will also flex 1-2 lbs during the day. This is normal for every human body - whether they exercise or not. For some women, their body can even flex up to 5 lbs during the same day - especially during monthly cycles.

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