HELP ~ I have gained 10lbs in a week

[Gypsymom07]

I tore my hamstring and I have been on crutches....but I have NOT been eating naughty. I have been eating protein protein protein and water and I am gaining weight like crazy....please help...I have gone from 310- 320 in one week!!

I am not retaining any fluid...I am swinging around on crutches and I am not on my behind all the time....why oh why I am I gaining weight?????

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I am so concerned as to why I am gaining weight...it makes me not want to eat anything now.....

for the past week I have been eating CHICKEN SALAD with a few melba toasts but a lot of green salad....

please help me

[Calianna]

Oww oww oww! That looks painful! What kind of recovery time are you looking at?


I'm sorry don't really feel qualified to make much in the way of suggestions, but...

You're on Atkins? I didn't think melba toast was an allowable food, but I could be wrong.

Is what you're eating now any different from what you had been eating?

I hope you feel better soon though - surely someone who knows more about this than I do will be along soon to advise you.

[j13]

That injury looks grizzly; hope you feel better! That's rough!

Toast of any sort, melba or otherwise, is of course not allowable on most any low carb plan. One serving, according to a site I found on the internet, has 23 carbs. That's more than many people eat in a day. You should cut it out, and consider taking a closer look at the labels of anything else you're eating to try and cut the carbs out further still. Salad dressings, ingredients in the chicken salad and non-green vegetables are very possible culprits.

If you haven't, try reading (or re-reading, for good measure) DANDR, if Atkins is what you're interested in. I've read (well, listened - I've got it in audiobook form) it probably 8 times in the past year. Always good to keep it at the front of your mind.

Feel better!

-j.

[HerbNurse]

Are you on any meds for pain? Prescriptions, even OTC Ibuprofen can make you retain water. Also your body is holding onto all of the fluid to maximize your bodies recovery capabilities. Trying drinking more water.....1 oz. for every lb. of weight is usually a good start.

Hope you feel better soon.
HN

[cs_carver]

Unless you ate 36,000 excess calories, over and above what it takes to maintain a restricted life, you have not "gained" weight. Your leg is swollen--that's water weight. As noted, painkillers will add weight. Mine raised my BP too, by the way, because the affect how my kidneys work. Not matter how active I think I am post-op, I simply am not as active as I will be when I get all the way better, so my basal rate has dropped.

Carbs tie up water on the way out of the body. I'm not sure of the exact units, but I've heard it's a 1:6 ratio--one molecule of carb needs six molecules of water for processing. (BTW, salt clears at a rate of one POUND of water for every 1/4 TSP of salt....)

In other words, it's water. Do what you can, and no more, and be patient. Your leg will heal and your life will return to some form of normal and the water will go away in its own time.

Good luck.

[Citruskiss]

I thought I read somewhere around these parts (maybe the fitness section) about how people who start weight training retain water at first. Just for a short while.

With all the shenanigans on the crutches, it's possible you're using muscles in a new way, and doing some resistance training without intending to. That, plus the injury itself (water retention), and any medications - well it's definitely a temporary 'water weight' thing.

Hang in there, hope you feel better soon.