Sudden Weight Gain
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Sudden Weight Gain
Postby ft_critical » Sat Aug 19, 2017 8:04 pm
Any thoughts on this?
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby trailgumby » Sat Aug 19, 2017 8:43 pm
So assuming the answer is yes and you haven't stuffed yourself overfull at a recent family occasion, could it be fluid retention? Batteries going flat?
*Yeah, sorry, TMI
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby ft_critical » Sat Aug 19, 2017 9:05 pm
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby Nobody » Sat Aug 19, 2017 9:55 pm
Scales faulty?
You might be eating the same food, but did you eat it later than usual?
Or...you're just getting fat!
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby ft_critical » Sun Aug 20, 2017 8:58 am
I think I am building muscle but maybe I am dreaming. I did a very hard block late last week including the weekend, then went into a rest phase. During the rest phaseNobody wrote:Are the scales getting low in battery (if they have batteries)?
Scales faulty?
You might be eating the same food, but did you eat it later than usual?
Or...you're just getting fat!
, which includes light riding, I can't really sleep well due to the aching in my legs. Not that smashed feeling, just seriously aching. But 1 kg is a lot overnight, that is why I wonder?
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby ft_critical » Sun Aug 20, 2017 9:17 am
I thought this myself, wow, 3kg! I assume that it be fat, water, muscle or a combo of all three.Baalzamon wrote:Nah 1kg over night is nothing. Try 2kg or 3kg. It can happen. Better off ditching the scales and using a tape measure. They don't lie
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby brumby33 » Sun Aug 20, 2017 10:48 am
When you weigh yourself, do you do it in multiples of 3 times each, often get different readings?
I know mine have been threatened multiple times
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby PA » Sun Aug 20, 2017 1:09 pm
Baalzamon wrote:Nah 1kg over night is nothing. Try 2kg or 3kg. It can happen. Better off ditching the scales and using a tape measure. They don't lie
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby madmacca » Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:24 pm
A salty meal on Friday or Saturday night??? Salt = fluid retention (at least until you can flush it from the system).ft_critical wrote:I weigh myself each day. Last week I was 73.2 each day. Suddenly, overnight (literally) I gained 1kg exactly.
Any thoughts on this?
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby Strawburger » Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:13 pm
Here's mine on a daily basis. Same proceedure every morning. Swing of around 3kg from peak to trough in this graph, over the last 90 days.
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby Neddysmith » Mon Aug 21, 2017 1:21 pm
My weight stays pretty constant but i know if i have a big weekend on the turps and food i can weigh in maybe 3kg heavier on monday, but usually by weds or thurs i am back to roughly the same weight as the previous week.
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby march83 » Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:12 pm
If you must weigh every day, keep a rolling average because random discrepancies happen all the time and they are very rarely motivating - 1 random low weigh in is always accompanied by a rebound, and high weigh ins are inevitable.
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby ValleyForge » Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:02 pm
Day to day fluctuations of 5% are very normal. This is due almost entirely water shifts - maybe 200g of pooh, assuming you weigh with bladder empty. Unless you have significant renal failure, a salt load will not cause you to gain weight on its own. Neither will solid food, unless it is truly massive. At worst a 400g steak will gain you 275g or so by 24hrs.
Next is fat gain which you can measure in weeks. Fat cells take up circulating lipids from the bloodstream so weight gain with fat can be relatively quick.
Last is weight gain from muscle. Each muscle cell needs to synthesise new proteins in response to stress and this takes weeks to achieve. Muscle does become more "water-logged" if heavily exercised; it does this in response to injury. Also such exercise at this level will stimulate your kidneys to increase your plasma volume by holding back chiefly sodium & chloride from your urine. The water then follows into your circulation.
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby ValleyForge » Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:09 pm
And then some household things will alter your weight. Coffee obviously, tea less so, protein loads and calcium supplements all act as mild diuretics. Sleep deprivation, NSAIDs (Nurofen), codeine and some anti depressants can do the reverse. And then there are the street drugs.....
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Re: Sudden Weight Gain
Postby jules21 » Tue Sep 26, 2017 11:10 am
bowel movement patterns seem to have a big impact, as does hydration level variations.
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