 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
| HomeDiscussion GroupsGeneral TopicsLow CarbWeightWatchers WeightAdviser.com Contact UsLink To UsSearch & Site Map |
Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / January 2004Weight Gain
I went to Curves today. I did 40 minutes of training (went around 4 times). So when I am done I think to myself, I'll just check my weight while I am here. I am a pound heavier then I was two days ago. I am thinking, how can that be? I am following Atkins, punching my numbers into fitday, eating the right amount of calories. What's going on? Angel (she works there) says "did you just weigh yourself?" "yea" I says "Well do you know you weigh more just after exercising hard than you do normally" I learn something new everyday. -Patty >Angel (she works there) says "did you just weigh yourself?" > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >I learn something new everyday. Ask her to explain why. Come back with the answer. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031122.html Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long. > >Angel (she works there) says "did you just weigh yourself?" > > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031122.html > Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long. For the first time and possibly the last time, I agree with Mu. I'd like to see that too. >>Angel (she works there) says "did you just weigh yourself?" >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Ask her to explain why. Come back with the answer. I don't know "why" either, but it seems to be true. Saw it all the time when working there, and "offical" weigh/measures were only done before. Muscle expansion or some such thing. Who knows? > >>Angel (she works there) says "did you just weigh yourself?" > >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > working there, and "offical" weigh/measures were only done before. Muscle > expansion or some such thing. Who knows? Yep. I find that after a hard workout, I weight about .5 lbs more. I drink alot of water when I work out, so that likely factors into it. > >Angel (she works there) says "did you just weigh yourself?" > > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031122.html > Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long. It has something to do with the muscles swelling. I'm sorry that's all I can tell you if it's worth anything. >> >Angel (she works there) says "did you just weigh yourself?" >> > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >It has something to do with the muscles swelling. I'm sorry that's all I >can tell you if it's worth anything. Swelling does not increase weight, it is expansion. Think about what you're saying here. If you trip and sprain your ankles and it swells up you've gained weight...where did the weight come from? Physics teaches us that there is no create/destroy merely transformations. If some transforms and has less mass (wood burning), the difference is expelled in flying ash, smoke and fire/heat. Add them up and you get the original mass. Our bodies don't break the law of physics. If we increase weight is must be because we are taking something in (food, water) You will certainly retain some of that weight as your muscles repair theselves over the next 48 hours--which is when you build muscle tissue-after exercise. Unless food is being sucked from the air through osmosis, you can't be gaining weight. Most people are probably thinking the water they drank during exercise is insignificant. They're wrong. One cup, 8 fluid ounces of water weighs..... tada... 8 weight ounces or 1/2 pound. So a typical tall water bottle is a pound or more of water. Assuming you drank nothing else but that one bottle. DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) >"Well do you know you weigh more just after exercising hard than you do >normally" I find that extremely hard to believe--at least exercise isn't causing it! (which seems to have been inferred) The body is a relatively closed system, we all know there are a limited ways of things to go in and out of the body. IN: Eating, drinking, injecting(needles), breathing... OUT: body heat, body chemistry, water & solid waste, sweating, puking... It's not like by exercising you are going to absorb stuff from the air around you. And anything metabolized in the body would have to come from what is in the body and would produce byprodcuts and heat. If people weigh heavier after a workout I would assume it were due to the water that they drink while exercising exceeding how much was sweated. I've been weighing myself at different times and found whether you weigh yourself before or after going to the bathroom can vary your weight by 3 pound. Clothes can vary it by 3 pounds as well. Food that you eat can vary it by 1-3 pounds, shoes more. Weighing myself each morning immediately after first trip to the bathroom I've had very steady weight loss patterns, typically around 1/2 pound or less a day (although I had two big days, 1.5-2.0-probably water whoosh). DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) > >"Well do you know you weigh more just after exercising hard than you do > >normally" [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) I weigh the same after exercising, but sometimes my measurements are larger. I have heard that weightlifting can temporarily "pump up" muscles.  SignatureMichelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. >I weigh the same after exercising, but sometimes my measurements are >larger. I have heard that weightlifting can temporarily "pump up" muscles. Think blood flow. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031122.html Lift well, Eat less, Walk fast, Live long. > >"Well do you know you weigh more just after exercising hard than you do > >normally" [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) That makes sense. I tend to drink as much water as I can before a workout and drink during as well. so it is probably water. I guess I was having a blond moment for even entertaining the idea. Of course now that I have thought about it, I couldn't have gain just from exercising alone Patty >That makes sense. I tend to drink as much water as I can before a workout >and drink during as well. so it is probably water. > >I guess I was having a blond moment for even entertaining the idea. Of >course now that I have thought about it, I couldn't have gain just from >exercising alone If you want to feel better think about the exercise person that told you it in the first place. They still believe it! DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) > >That makes sense. I tend to drink as much water as I can before a workout > >and drink during as well. so it is probably water. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > you it in the first place. They still believe it! > DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) I do know that we weigh heavier because our muscles swell, how or why I'm not sure. It's been explained to me before, but that's all I can tell you for now. Monica > > >That makes sense. I tend to drink as much water as I can before a workout > > >and drink during as well. so it is probably water. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > for now. > Monica The only possibility I can think of for weighing more after working out is if you drink more water than you sweat off while exercising. The logic for weighing and measuring you before working out at Curves is that your muscles can temporarily expand, and they like to weigh and measure you at the same time so they don't have to get your records out, then measure you, then put them back, then get them out again later to weigh you. SignatureMichelle Levin http://www.mindspring.com/~lunachick I have only 3 flaws. My first flaw is thinking that I only have 3 flaws. > I am a pound heavier then I was two days ago. I am thinking, how can > that be? *A* pound? The subject line is weight gain. That doesn't even count as water swing. My water swing is 6 pounds for comparison. You're getting on the scale far too often and driving yourself nuts for no good reason. Get off the scale if you're going to do this garbage toyourself. > Angel (she works there) says "did you just weigh yourself?" > "yea" I says > "Well do you know you weigh more just after exercising hard than you do > normally" Starting a new exercise plan will cause your muscle to hoard carbs for a while, dissolved in water. It is standard. But you teeny tiny one pound is too small get get on the radar screen of water retention caused by exercise. > > I am a pound heavier then I was two days ago. I am thinking, how can > > that be? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > good reason. Get off the scale if you're going to do this garbage > toyourself. I don't even own a scale just because of that reason. I was just at the gym and was like Why not? Seeing the scale up one pound was just a "Huh?" moment. I thought it kinda humorous, not a serious thing. I know this WOE works. It worked two years ago when i did it, it will work again. Especially now that I am exerciseing. I didn't exersice the first time and it still worked real well. -Patty > > Angel (she works there) says "did you just weigh yourself?" > > "yea" I says [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > one pound is too small get get on the radar screen of water retention > caused by exercise. > Starting a new exercise plan will cause your muscle to hoard carbs > for a while, dissolved in water. It is standard. But you teeny tiny > one pound is too small get get on the radar screen of water retention > caused by exercise. I didn't know that. Thanks. Makes my work on the torture machine easier. Marsha/Ohio |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2012 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.