How the hell did I gain weight so fast?

[madmisskelly]

For the past month I've been eating extremely healthy. Nothing with flour in it, no added sugar. Working out every day. 1 hour of cardio every other day, and in between doing half hour of cardio with weight lifting.

I eat a regimented menu:

breakfast- 8oz nonfat plain yogurt, 6 oz fruit, 1oz oatmeal (before its cooked)

lunch- 4oz cooked protein, 6oz fruit, 6oz veggies

dinner- 8oz salad, 4oz cooked protein, 6oz veggies.

No snacking in between (although lately I've been kinda snacking on fruits), no dairy but I do take a supplement.

Last night I at some spaghetti with sausage in it over semolina noodles. No bread or butter to go with it, just the pasta.

I ate breakfast this morning, went to the bathroom, and was 2 pounds heavier than yesterday.

How the hell did eating that bit of spaghetti make me gain so much weight?

Am I just one of those people who can't enjoy fatty foods because I immediately put on weight?

[toulouse]

If you weigh yourself every day you are going to go crazy weight fluctuates, it must for your organs to be properly bathed in water minerals & nutrients, you are not a doll you are a human

being, weight will fluctuate.

2 pounds is the weight of a liter of water..

2 actual pounds would be 7,000 calories.

unless you ate 7,000 calories for dinnere, you did not put on weigt.

It is approximately oe pound per 500 extra calories, so if you had 1,000 more than usual, you could see that change...

Also you mentioned more fruit, well that is more water, you are not going up in fat or muscle significantly, mostly water, when your eating resumes to normal, you will return to your real weight.

Likewise 1000 milligrams of salt should hold 2 pounds of water

You are seeing a fluctuation of basically 1/3 of a pound in weight appearing as 2 pounds because as I am sure you know, we are 60 to 90 % water.. if you did not go up in weight with the extra food, you would be dehydrated, which is a stress on your kidneys & liver & heart & brain.

If you do not want to see fluctuations , do not deviate from your plan, but if you eat more you WANT the extra weight because you do not want to be dehydrated

- Do you realize that the average person goes up & down 10 pounds a day

If you are so conscious about your weight like you say, you should have noticed fluctuations before this

btw if you get THAT excited to be close to your goal, you will be THAT destroyed if you go above it after you lose

I would find a way to meditate if I were you

Weight does fluctuate , get used to it ;)

[madmisskelly]

I have noticed it flucuate a little bit like a pound- and I usually take into account what I've had to drink or eat that day as well as what I'm wearing.

Im good at maintaining, so when I reach my goal, I'm good with keeping it in a 5 pound range, which I'm fine with, The weight I'm at now is not what I want to maintain- 120/125 is what I would rather maintain.

[toulouse]

Oh I see

well as you know

a couple of pounds will not prevent that from happening

congratulations on your success...:)

[Kismett]

My boyfriends a personal trainer so I'll give you his advice. Main thing you're doing wrong is your eating schedule, the food is fine, but you're supposed to break down your food into 6 smaller meals. Also if you're doing cardio for weight loss, is depends on intensity not how long you go. Sprinting up hills for short distances then jogging or walking, and repeating that, will help a lot. Also the most under rated cardio workout is swimming, if you can get to the local pool and swim laps, that'll beat any other cardio workout you can do. Anyways if you need anything else let me know. Best of luck.

[madmisskelly]

The cardio I do is running for 6mph, for 30 mins, and I've been building up the incline, right now I'm at a 2% incline and I move up every time I go. Then I to the elliptical and I to resistance training, sometimes its one minute on resistance 5 then one minute on resistance 10, or I do a program that is varied anywhere from resistance 2 to resistance 16 for a half an hour. lol, I definitely get that resistance in.

[Kismett]

K by hills I mean steep, there's gotta be some kind of trails around your house or something that's steep enough, you gotta push hard to lose weight at a certain point. If you want, putting on a backpack with magazines or something like that for extra weight works real good as well. It's the same for me, I used to do what you're doing just going 6 for a long time, but it won't do anything after a certain point. You need to speed it up, if you have a track, run x7 100m sprints as fast as you can

[madmisskelly]

I don't have hills around where I live, especially none steep enough to work out on. So I compensate on it for the treadmile. I know the 2% incline is not much, but I'm building on it, eventually ill be up to 15%, and then I can speed it up to 6.5 or 7 mph, and then build on the incline. At least that's the plan. I try to change it up at least a little bit every time I go.

[Kismett]

What's the highest speed on your treadmill, and steepest incline.

[madmisskelly]

The highest incline is 15%, and I'm not sure what the highest speed on the treadmile is

[Kismett]

Ok well if all you're comfortable with is taking it slow and increasing just a bit each time then by all means keep going. But if you can push yourself enough to kick up the incline a bit more and speed to around 9 or 10 for short sprints then walking for a bit, I suggest you do that. All depends how much you can motivate yourself.

[thebestapple]

What? Two pounds? First, you aren't even fat at all, judging by your profile pics. And if you weighed your self after you just ate, of course your going to be slightly heavier than you were when you weighed yourself yesterday, say, after you just worked out. Food weighs something, even chewed up in your stomach. You have nothing to worry about. At all.

[madmisskelly]

I did weigh myself after I just worked out, and I was still 2 pounds heavier than yesterday after I had just worked out.

[thebestapple]

So that's kind of weird. But I still wouldn't worry about the numbers. You look like you can afford it, and also, it could be muscle. Remember, muscle weighs more than fat, and you are bound to gain some after all that working out.

[jimmydean72]

weight fluctuates...i wouldn't weigh daily. maybe weekly or monthly.

[madmisskelly]

Its like a compulsion, I can't not weight myself when I go to the gym, lol. Plus I'm waiting for the moment I break 130 for good, which is only 2 pounds away, so I'm kinda stoked to see that happen.

[sweet18]

Well you're probably putting on muscle. Muscle weighs more than fat you know. The point is to lose the fat...weight doesn't matter.

And if it's either 2 pounds under or 2 pounds over, you're not going be EXACTLY 121 lbs EVERY TIME you weigh yourself. It will fluctuate give or take a few pounds.

Calm down. Jesus

[Maiya]

Are you sure that weight didn't go into your leg muscles or something?