For those of you who have "gained" weight suddenly

I am 6 years out and my weight is quite stable, usually varying only a pound or so (both up and down) but almost always sitting right around 145.  I usually only weigh myself on Saturday mornings.  I was 143 pounds on Saturday.  Yesterday, I splurged during football and had some tortilla chips with spinach queso dip and some pretzels (both high sodium snacks) and then I had Unjury chicken soup which is also high in sodium.  I noticed my rings were tight this morning, so I weighed myself out of curiosity (realizing how much salt I had yesterday).  Today, just two days after, the scale said 150! A "gain" of 7 pounds in 48 hours.

I ate very typically on Saturday and I adjusted my intake yesterday to account for the calories in the snacks (hence the protein soup for one meal) so not even a pound of that is fat.  It is ALL water.

So, if you are in the losing phase and see a "gain" on the scale, rest assured tha****er retention CAN cause a significant increase in your weight.  Also remember that you have to ingest about 3500 extra calories to gain an actual pound of fat... So unless you are eating a LOT more than you should be, you are NOT gaining.

Lora

But... but.... what if all that diet soda stretched your pouch and your broke your RNY?

OMG... You may be right, because I had two and a half cans of Cherry Diet Pepsi on Sunday!!  

Lora

Lora, how are you responding to posts?  Didn't your pouch explode if you drank diet soda????

LOL - Good one, Kelly! But, I don't think it's possible to stretch the pouch with soda unless you drank it through a straw...*runs and hides*

Good point.  Unless maybe she chewed some gum, too?

Kelly,

First of all, thank you for all your posts, and all your answers, even though some of them I don't like to hear...lol

Second on this post  "stretched your pouch and your broke your RNY?" what does that mean exactly, is there o possibility of what she ate, it actually busted her pouch as in tore it open?  I would think that would be almost deadly, has that ever happened to anyine that you know of and does it just close up own it's own?

D

I was joking.  You can't stretch your pouch with liquids, carbonated or not.  And I do not know of anyone that actually ate so much it tore open their pouch, no.  I would think that would be extremely unlikely.

Thank you and Thank God

D