Cheated and lost 3 pounds????

[avyance]

Ok, last night I had one slice of peperroni pizza and a glass of wine. Well I woke up this morning and I am gown 3 pounds. What is up with that?

Today I went back to lo carb eating, but I thought it was weird. I am wondering if I am not getting enough carbs? Not many but maybe I need to add 10 additional carbs?

Any advice would be appreciated....

[sns112797]

Re: Cheated and lost 3 pounds????

I'm not an expert by any means, however, I've read in the past that a cheat can take up to a couple of days to register on the scale. Continue eating right and hopefully you'll see no increase ...Good Luck.

[msmagee]

Re: Cheated and lost 3 pounds????

I agree, a cheat can take awhile to show up and/or if you lose weight slowly, maybe you need to increase by 10 grams of carbs. Eat clean the next few days and then see if a gain will show up, if it doesn't then increase by 10 grams.

[Perry]

Re: Cheated and lost 3 pounds????

Alcohol is a diuretic.

[pjade1]

Re: Cheated and lost 3 pounds????

I think cheats take a while to catch up to you too. I wasn't on Atkins when I went on a camping trip and ate like a pig, including cookies, lots of candy and junk only to find out I didn't gain anything when I got back. I could have sworn I would have gained a few pounds. Oh no, I did gain a few pounds but it was later that week when I had gone back to normal eating.

[Kathi22]

Re: Cheated and lost 3 pounds????

Cheats don't take awhile to catch up, at least not in my experience. If I cheat, it shows the next AM. You were most likely visited by the whoosh and that slice of pizza didn't affect your results..however, you are no longer in ketosis so you will most likely stay the same for a while. Be careful with everything else, or that loss will be right back on in a day or 2.

You didn't cheat, by the way. You ate what you wanted to - you just didn't eat foods to keep your metabolism going and your fat burning. If you don't look at it as a cheat, and you look at what you eat as fuel for your body - I bet you won't want that pizza again!

[Sarah1341]

Re: Cheated and lost 3 pounds????

Great way of putting it Kathi!

My experience with my first time around was this (and please don't beat me up over this - to each their own): when I was stalled I would have a meal higher in carbs (taking Kathi's advice and not calling it a cheat) - it would break my stall and I would drop a couple of pounds. But, I only did this for one meal and always, always made sure to follow the rest of the time to a "t".

[schellie]

Re: Cheated and lost 3 pounds????

I read somewhere, maybe school lol, that it takes the body about 24-48 hours to actually gan weight persay from an overhaul per se on food. I think that we get the water retention and extra water weight from possiby having to digest the amount of food or different types of food. But I do remember it doesnt happen right away.

[Starmaker]

Re: Cheated and lost 3 pounds????

I've had both happen, an immediate loss and gain, its so hard to judge what could happen.