10 lb gain - only water weight?

Scott said:

I gained about 10 lbs during the course of this year, but I'm
suspecting it's only water weight. I've been eating a *lot* of
salty low-carb foods (mostly pork). These foods really make me
feel bloated, but by drinking water, it somewhat reduces the
bloating. By following a low carb diet for over 3 years, I
managed to get down from 270 lbs to 150 lbs. I was really
happy. But now with my recent gain, I weigh 160 lbs and I can
hardly fit into my pants anymore. They're really tight as if I
gained 25 lbs! I just don't understand why they're so tight. I
do an intense cardio workout *everyday* for 40 mins. I never
skip a day of exercise. The other day I decided to cut out the
salty foods for a while, and am basically trying to restart
induction again. I'm on my second day of induction, and I can
tell a difference in my face (no more bloating). However, my
pants are still tight. I've been drinking water like crazy
too. How can you tell if these 10 lbs is just water weight or
is really fat? If it is indeed water weight, how many days
would it usually take to lose the 10 lbs of it?

Thanks

10 pounds of water weight for a man seems a lot.

But recently, I went through a weight surge of a 7 pound gain. It came
off in a few days in which I paid a lot more attention to what I age,
and how much.

It started with a bicycle trip... which I canceled at the end of the
first day. But, because of the exercise, I was much more freely
consuming carbs for energy. Maybe I comsumed too much and loaded up
with the glucose-water thing. And then over the next few days, the
glucose-water dissipated.

There is a hint that you might have done something similar, and a few
days of close attention to eating will get rid of most of it.

Seeing less facial bloat so soon sounds like a good sign.

--
1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the book
2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins book
3) Don't Diet Without Supplimental Nutrients... Chapter 23 title, Atkins
book
4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or Other)

This may seem counterintuitive, but try taking a few days off from your
exercise program every once in a while. Your muscles need recovery
periods. I wonder if you've inadvertantly lost some muscle by not
giving yourself recovery periods. You should probably only work out 4-5
days a week. And take a week or so off from exercise a couple times a
year. I do that and somehow I wind up skinnier after the rest period!

Have you seen your doctor lately? I wonder if the swelling/bloating
could be an indicator of some health problem?

You should be able to lose the water in a few days I would think. How
about loading up on natural diuretics like cranberry herbal supplements
and fresh celery stalks?

Other people here will be more helpful. Good luck.

Try eating less.

--
Most people are dumb as bricks; some people are dumber than that. -- MFW

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Quoted message said:

I gained about 10 lbs during the course of this year, but I'm
suspecting it's only water weight. I've been eating a *lot* of
salty low-carb foods (mostly pork). These foods really make me
feel bloated, but by drinking water, it somewhat reduces the
bloating. By following a low carb diet for over 3 years, I
managed to get down from 270 lbs to 150 lbs. I was really
happy. But now with my recent gain, I weigh 160 lbs and I can
hardly fit into my pants anymore. They're really tight as if I
gained 25 lbs! I just don't understand why they're so tight. I
do an intense cardio workout *everyday* for 40 mins. I never
skip a day of exercise. The other day I decided to cut out the
salty foods for a while, and am basically trying to restart
induction again. I'm on my second day of induction, and I can
tell a difference in my face (no more bloating). However, my
pants are still tight. I've been drinking water like crazy
too. How can you tell if these 10 lbs is just water weight or
is really fat? If it is indeed water weight, how many days
would it usually take to lose the 10 lbs of it?

Thanks

Sounds like fat gain.

I'm not clear on your "bloating." Ideally, one would eat just enough to
stop hunger, not until one if full. Being bloated sounds like a step beyond
being full, where your body is saying that you ate too much.

"Scott" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I gained about 10 lbs during the course of this year, but I'm
suspecting it's only water weight. I've been eating a *lot* of
salty low-carb foods (mostly pork). These foods really make me
feel bloated, but by drinking water, it somewhat reduces the
bloating. By following a low carb diet for over 3 years, I
managed to get down from 270 lbs to 150 lbs. I was really
happy. But now with my recent gain, I weigh 160 lbs and I can
hardly fit into my pants anymore. They're really tight as if I
gained 25 lbs! I just don't understand why they're so tight. I
do an intense cardio workout *everyday* for 40 mins. I never
skip a day of exercise. The other day I decided to cut out the
salty foods for a while, and am basically trying to restart
induction again. I'm on my second day of induction, and I can
tell a difference in my face (no more bloating). However, my
pants are still tight. I've been drinking water like crazy
too. How can you tell if these 10 lbs is just water weight or
is really fat? If it is indeed water weight, how many days
would it usually take to lose the 10 lbs of it?

Thanks

Scott wrote:
|| I gained about 10 lbs during the course of this year,

<snip>
If it is indeed water weight, how many days
|| would it usually take to lose the 10 lbs of it?
||
|| Thanks

You've really answered your own question.

"Water weight" is short-term, caused by various factors. If you gained ten
pounds over a period of a year, it ain't water weight no matter how you spin
it.
--
Peter

Scott said:

I gained about 10 lbs during the course of this year, but I'm
suspecting it's only water weight. I've been eating a *lot* of
salty low-carb foods (mostly pork). These foods really make me
feel bloated, but by drinking water, it somewhat reduces the
bloating. By following a low carb diet for over 3 years, I
managed to get down from 270 lbs to 150 lbs. I was really
happy. But now with my recent gain, I weigh 160 lbs and I can
hardly fit into my pants anymore. They're really tight as if I
gained 25 lbs! I just don't understand why they're so tight. I
do an intense cardio workout *everyday* for 40 mins. I never
skip a day of exercise. The other day I decided to cut out the
salty foods for a while, and am basically trying to restart
induction again. I'm on my second day of induction, and I can
tell a difference in my face (no more bloating). However, my
pants are still tight. I've been drinking water like crazy
too. How can you tell if these 10 lbs is just water weight or
is really fat? If it is indeed water weight, how many days
would it usually take to lose the 10 lbs of it?

Thanks

What's with all the water? Are you thirsty? Maybe you should have
your blood glucose checked. You may be diabetic.

After you do that, try fasting one day a week (24 hour fast) and no
intense cardio that day. You will be pleasantly surprised that the
bloating will completely disappear and you will feel great.

jbuch <jbuch@CUT_HERE.revealed.net> wrote:
:> 10 pounds of water weight for a man seems a lot.

It depends on the man in particular, but 10 lbs of water weight due to
refilling of glycogen due to eating carbs is not atypical.

:>
:> But recently, I went through a weight surge of a 7 pound gain. It
:> came off in a few days in which I paid a lot more attention to what
:> I age, and how much.
:>
:> It started with a bicycle trip... which I canceled at the end of the
:> first day. But, because of the exercise, I was much more freely
:> consuming carbs for energy. Maybe I comsumed too much and loaded up
:> with the glucose-water thing. And then over the next few days, the
:> glucose-water dissipated.

There is no question about it, if you were LCing before and you consumed
carbs for exercise, then you "carbed up" and gained some water weight. Just
to be picky...the weight dissipated as you deleted glucose over the next few
days (which brought the water weight loss).

:>
:> There is a hint that you might have done something similar, and a few
:> days of close attention to eating will get rid of most of it.
:>
:> Seeing less facial bloat so soon sounds like a good sign.
:>
:>
:>
:>
:> --
:> 1) Eat Till SATISFIED, Not STUFFED... Atkins repeated 9 times in the
:> book 2) Exercise: It's Non-Negotiable..... Chapter 22 title, Atkins
:> book 3) Don't Diet Without Supplimental Nutrients... Chapter 23
:> title, Atkins book
:> 4) A sensible eating plan, and follow it. (Atkins, Self Made or
:> Other)

Cubit <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> Sounds like fat gain.
:>
:> I'm not clear on your "bloating." Ideally, one would eat just
:> enough to stop hunger, not until one if full. Being bloated sounds
:> like a step beyond being full, where your body is saying that you
:> ate too much.

It sounds like fat gain to me too.

:>
:>
:>
:>
:>
:> "Scott" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:> news:KqNWe.808$GQ4.745@fed1read05...
:>> I gained about 10 lbs during the course of this year, but I'm
:>> suspecting it's only water weight. I've been eating a *lot* of
:>> salty low-carb foods (mostly pork). These foods really make me
:>> feel bloated, but by drinking water, it somewhat reduces the
:>> bloating. By following a low carb diet for over 3 years, I
:>> managed to get down from 270 lbs to 150 lbs. I was really
:>> happy. But now with my recent gain, I weigh 160 lbs and I can
:>> hardly fit into my pants anymore. They're really tight as if I
:>> gained 25 lbs! I just don't understand why they're so tight. I
:>> do an intense cardio workout *everyday* for 40 mins. I never
:>> skip a day of exercise. The other day I decided to cut out the
:>> salty foods for a while, and am basically trying to restart
:>> induction again. I'm on my second day of induction, and I can
:>> tell a difference in my face (no more bloating). However, my
:>> pants are still tight. I've been drinking water like crazy
:>> too. How can you tell if these 10 lbs is just water weight or
:>> is really fat? If it is indeed water weight, how many days
:>> would it usually take to lose the 10 lbs of it?
:>>
:>> Thanks

Scott <[email hidden]> wrote:
:>I gained about 10 lbs during the course of this year, but I'm
:> suspecting it's only water weight. I've been eating a *lot* of
:> salty low-carb foods (mostly pork). These foods really make me
:> feel bloated, but by drinking water, it somewhat reduces the
:> bloating. By following a low carb diet for over 3 years, I
:> managed to get down from 270 lbs to 150 lbs. I was really
:> happy. But now with my recent gain, I weigh 160 lbs and I can
:> hardly fit into my pants anymore. They're really tight as if I
:> gained 25 lbs! I just don't understand why they're so tight. I
:> do an intense cardio workout *everyday* for 40 mins. I never
:> skip a day of exercise. The other day I decided to cut out the
:> salty foods for a while, and am basically trying to restart
:> induction again. I'm on my second day of induction, and I can
:> tell a difference in my face (no more bloating). However, my
:> pants are still tight. I've been drinking water like crazy
:> too. How can you tell if these 10 lbs is just water weight or
:> is really fat? If it is indeed water weight, how many days
:> would it usually take to lose the 10 lbs of it?
:>

If you've been faithfully LCing, then this is fat gain, not water weight.

Marengo <[email hidden]> wrote:
:> Scott wrote:
:> || I gained about 10 lbs during the course of this year,
:>
:> <snip>
:> If it is indeed water weight, how many days
:> || would it usually take to lose the 10 lbs of it?
:> ||
:> || Thanks
:>
:> You've really answered your own question.
:>
:> "Water weight" is short-term, caused by various factors. If you
:> gained ten pounds over a period of a year, it ain't water weight no
:> matter how you spin it.

Correct.

Marengo said:

Scott wrote:

|| I gained about 10 lbs during the course of this year,
...
| | If it is indeed water weight, how many days
|| would it usually take to lose the 10 lbs of it?

Water retention would be gone by the end of re-Induction.

Quoted message said:

"Water weight" is short-term, caused by various factors. If you gained ten
pounds over a period of a year, it ain't water weight no matter how you spin
it.

This also depends on how frequent the weighings have been.
Context is everything - The newer someone is to LC the less
often I suggest they weigh, the older someone os to LC the
more often I suggest they. Daily weighings often put
newbies through an emotional roller coaster but at least at
the beginning of maintenance daily weighings teach what your
water retention swing is. Well into maintenance weekly is
enough again.

So how often were the weighings done? If they were daily
then the OP should know his water swing. If they were
monthly then those 10 pounds could be a mixture of some
newly stored fat, some retained water. Doing re-Induction
will drain off whatever water it was so the OP will know
in 14 days.