rosio19's Journal, 25 June 2018

Exactly. I am up 4 lbs. Water weight, not a single ounce of fat. 

How do you know the difference? 

the difference is easy to tell when you know how much food you’re consuming & what your weekly routine/lifestyle is like to contribute. Generally water weight is the easiest and most frequent contributor to weight gain, for many reasons. Majority of the time you will only gain significant amounts of body fat by eating excessive amounts of food over long periods of time. Any time you wake up and the scale is up anywhere from, on average, 2lbs or more the day after eating large meals and/or, more sodium/carb foods, then 99% of the time the weight is just water weight. As long as you’re following some type of diet/exercise regime consistently, you won’t have to worry about gaining body fat to any significantly detrimental degree to halt progress. 

What diablo said 😉 

The way I tell the difference is I count my calories even when I over eat. After a year or more of counting calories you should have a good idea of when you're in a deficit or surplus. I trust the numbers even when the scale shows a gain. Sodium plus extra carbs can easily make me up to 8 pounds heavier. 

I almost took a picture yesterday of a boxer who gained 15 lbs. Overnight. This was on a 140-150 lb frame. They go to the extreme dehydrating and rehydrating but I was only going to post it as an example of why people need to stop freaking out when they are up 2 lbs. 

I’m up 5 lbs in one week. Hopefully it’s water 😔 

The only way you would ever be able to gain 5lbs of literally just body fat, would by having to consume nearly 17500 calories over the weekly amount you already need to have to maintain your body weight currently... yes that 5lbs is all water  

hope that is truth, even after a healthy BM still up in numbers.  

This may offer some perspective... this guys a competitive easter, he discusses the stuff that happens after his large consumption of 100,000 calories over the span of 4 days. He gained 21lbs. That doesn’t mean it’s 21lbs of body fat. It’s possible he may have gained somewhere between 2-3lbs of fat, that’s only if he wasn’t working out, which means that not all those calories will automatically be shuffled into body fat. So when you see several pounds on the scale go up, you can reassure yourself, that it’s not body fat. https://youtu.be/Be6qH5q31Ys 

Maybe I lost fat and gained water 😝 

Raven that can happen  

Also when one does weight, u can lose fat n gain muscle n u could literally see the scale not more or even gain  

Haha, I love watching the competitive eaters. One bodybuilder did a 10k calorie challenge I think he netted a .6 lb gain. 

.6 I gain that with a surplus of 200 calories or even less haja  

Honestly it does not bother me to gain 3 pounds on the weekend n lose them by Wednesday n start all over again 😆 it gives me something to do, I find this as a stress reliever 😳 

Only thing I pay attention to is ensuring I hit my weekly loss consistently, or when I choose to gain weight hitting my weekly amount I want to gain. I didn’t that whenever my weight is doesn’t really matter to me or how much it goes up as long as I am heading the numbers I want consistently  

But for that I guess we gotta be true believers, people don’t have faith or patience 😳 I don’t know how I even did it 😆