I've been dieting for a little over a year now and I've lost a considerable amount of weight. I tried eating 6 small meals with a lean source of protein every meal etc. However this weekend when I went home to visit some family for a vacation, I ate pretty much anything they did. I haven't seen them in a while and it would have been rude for me to refuse to eat what they cooked for me. They fed me ALOT over the course of Friday night-Sunday. Before I left I weighed myself and saw that I was at 172, but when I got home Sunday night the scale read 181.8! I'm just wondering is it possible to gain a whole 10 lbs in a matter of a few days?! or is something wrong here? I sure hope I didn't gain 10 lbs just because I ate Vietnamese food all weekend.
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Weight question
- Thread starter Hankun
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Nope, it's not. That's water weight gain from all the salt. I know very little about Vietnamese food, but I do know that soy sauce and many others used in a lot of Asian food are absolutely loaded with sodium.
That happens to me when I spend time at my parents' house too. My mom doesn't cook horribly bad, but she cooks quite country, and that means salt. Oh well, it sure is good.
That happens to me when I spend time at my parents' house too. My mom doesn't cook horribly bad, but she cooks quite country, and that means salt. Oh well, it sure is good.
I've been dieting for a little over a year now and I've lost a considerable amount of weight. I tried eating 6 small meals with a lean source of protein every meal etc. However this weekend when I went home to visit some family for a vacation, I ate pretty much anything they did. I haven't seen them in a while and it would have been rude for me to refuse to eat what they cooked for me. They fed me ALOT over the course of Friday night-Sunday. Before I left I weighed myself and saw that I was at 172, but when I got home Sunday night the scale read 181.8! I'm just wondering is it possible to gain a whole 10 lbs in a matter of a few days?! or is something wrong here? I sure hope I didn't gain 10 lbs just because I ate Vietnamese food all weekend.
Have you been weighing yourself iin the AM at the same times with like clothing? Be sure to do this, to stave off confusion and distress.
The body will flex in weight anywhere from approximately 2 to 5 pounds during the day from the weight on the scale in the am after you eat and consume liquids and this is normal.
With this in mind, if you have been deficit dieting, and suddenly give the body an over abundance in cals (and carbs, protein and fats), I think its safe to say that the body will take its usual flex weight (of approx 2 to 5 lbs) (from the base in the morning) and have the stimulus to surpass what it normally flexs to. Why? I think its the calories, carbs (shuttle of water in tissue), etc, and you just "Blew up like a balloon" (this is what I call it anyway). Once you revert back to the deficit, it will revert back after the "shock". I wouldnt be too concerned at the moment. Though you may have went over yout limit, this small shock is going to do more good in the short period once you return to your diet.....
If your body is used to a deficit diet (or a steady rate of ratios and cals) and then suddenly gets more than twice (twice as an example) of cals and nutrients, it is saying........"WTF?" and dealing with the situation: Shuttling carbs (and coverting carbs to sugars) and water where its needed (liver, muscle, etc), and dealing with what is not needed. What you experienced is normal in my opinion with what I know of your situation.
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Thanks for your help guys, I really appreciate it. Yeah I was weighing myself with the same clothes/time of the day. I weighed myself this morning though and I am currently at 175. Glad I can breathe a sigh of relief and get back to my diet, thanks again for the very informative posts.