Gained 7 pounds in 7 days!
I'm little over 5 months out and over the past week, I have gained 7 pounds since last Monday.
My water intake is good and I have not eaten more than usual. There are only two things that I did different this week.
1) I bumped up my work-out to doing 60 minute Zumba classes everynight at the gym rather than everyother night, (last Wednesday I did 2 classes back to back - never again by the way). By Saturday I was 5 pounds more.
2) Did commit 1 sin, had a couple of mixed drinks on Saturday night (I was hopeful that the 3 hours of dancing would have burned some calories off - lol)! By Monday 2 more pounds have added.
Does anybody have any suggestions why 7 pounds just magically appeared? Besides the extra calories from drinks, surely didn't help!
My co-worker suggested due to the increase in cardio and not eating enough calories - may have put my body in starvation mode. Any thoughts? Makes no sense to me though!
Thanks for your help if you reply!
Jamie
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Working out for a week isn't gonna make enough of a difference is your muscle density to account for the sudden increase in weight.
Working out for a week isn't gonna make enough of a difference is your muscle density to account for the sudden increase in weight.
This is correct. It's water weight. Try drinking lots of water with a little lemon juice added to balance things out, and give it a few days.
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The drinking is def empty calories however I know most everyone has a drink once in a while. I wish I could but my fibromyaglia will give me a 3 day hangover so it's not worth it.
I say keep working out..you're gonna build muscle that will help burn fat down the road when you are trying to maintain your loss.
~Lori
HW 286.5 GW 155 CW 153
Ditto on it not being muscle, but that in time you will gain muscle (although cardio is not a good muscle building activity, if that is what you are looking to do), but it will not be pounds in a small amount of time.
Another bummer thing folks sometimes realize is that alcohol is not just empty calories, it changes the way to metabolize things, it throws gunk in your gears so to speak, so folks, sometimes, end up stalling for much longer periods of time when they drink alcoholic calories than if they just ate other calories.
Its like everything with this journey though, you have to see how your body reacts to things and the one GREAT thing about experiencing this, is you can decide if its worth it next time! Might be! Or might not be.
