Anyone else have this "problem"?

[Prettygurl12]

If you eat healthy you don't lose weight/inches but if you eat junk food for a day you get smaller?

Anyone have this?

This happens to me all the time.

I start running and eating healthy and I gain weight/inches but then I'll binge on junk food for a week and be 3 lbs lighter and 2 inches thinner.

Weird or normal? What's the science behind that?

This happened in HS too. One summer I only ate popcorn and ice cream with maple syrup (like 3 quarts a day) and lost 10 lbs and got thinner.

Another time I ate like 4 jars of peanut butter over the course of 7 days and again... lost weight and got thinner.

But as soon as I started eating healthy I got bigger again.

Curious, no?

Anyone else like that?

[George1992]

A 2004 American documentary "Super Size Me" showed Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker, who ate only McDonald's food three times a day for a continuous 30-day period. As a result of a complete McDonald's diet, the then-32-year-old Spurlock claimed to gain 24.5 pounds, a 13 percent increase in body mass and a cholesterol level of 230. Spurlock also experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction and fat accumulation in his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose the weight gained using a vegan diet supervised by his future wife. However, John Cisna, a science teacher in the Colo-Nesco School District, went on a McDonald's only diet for 90 days and interestingly lost weight. But During the course of the 30-day experiment period, Cisna started walking for 45 minutes a day. Cisna reports that by the end of the ninetieth day he lost 37 pounds and his cholesterol dropped from 249 to 170. so it is possible to lose while on junk foor. in regards to the gain Believe it or not, gaining weight at the beginning of a new exercise program is quite common. Not only is it common, but it is normal. If you have not exercised regularly in months, you can expect to add a couple of pounds at the beginning, but have no fear, this weight gain is good weight gain, and it will do nothing to keep you from reaching your goals as long as you understand what is actually going on Your body stores energy in two main ways – fat and glycogen. Fat storage is fairly linear – meaning it fluctuates slowly based on your current lifestyle. However, glycogen storage can swing wildly on a day to day basis depending on the type of exercise you do, the amount you do, and how long it’s been since you’ve done any exercise. Your body mostly stores glycogen in the muscles, but it also stores it in the liver. Glycogen comes from glucose, which comes from eating carbohydrates (or protein via gluconeogenesis). When we eat carbs our body breaks them down into glucose. That glucose enters the bloodstream, and any extra is taken up by insulin and stored as glycogen in the muscles and liver. all that stored glucose means extra Weight. also keep mussle Weight in mind. hope it helped

[red324]

I think it's cause you burn up anything and the fact that the junk food has no nutrients really it's the same as starving yourself, whereas you eat good food and your body absorbs it all up. I live with my brother and his girlfriend and they got on the health food kick. That healthy food doesn't fill me nearly as good as the rich unhealthy stuff, so I don't know. I'm a skinny guy with a fast metabolism. Funny how a coke and a candy bar seems to go farther with me then a healthy meal. lol

[spuitkaas]

I do have that sometimes, but only temporarily. It's because I'm quite sensitive for greasy things and get nauseous fast. So I could eat 2 slices of bread with topping as lunch and be hungry again 2 hours later or I could eat one Mars and not eat again before dinner. Unfortunately I get used to greasy food so after a while the effect isn't there anymore.

[Pink2000]

That started happening to me I've been eating nothing but junk food for the past 2 months and I've lost weight.

[Stefan1738]

Do you monitor your caloric intake? You could be on a deficit or surplus and not know it. It doesn't matter if it's heathly or junk.

[Prettygurl12]

I do monitor my intake and on my splurge days I eat WAY more (like 3,000 calories) whereas on my healthy days I stick around 1200.

[apple24]

Really? I don't gain weight if I eat a lot. But if I don't eat less I don't lose anything!

[Bluemax]

No, I don't have that problem... damnit! ;)