Sun, Jul-23-06, 11:48
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Senior Member
Posts: 791
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Plan: South Beach-esque
Stats: 194/159/140
BF:34% / 28% / 20%
Progress: 65%
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Anyone else gain weight w/in day or two of extra exercise or heat stress? Thoughts?
I've noticed over the past few years that when I have what is for me a heavy activity day (quiet a bit of aerobic exercise or other activity, to where your muscles hurt a little in the evening from greater use)... or for that matter when I've had to be out in very hot weather... that my weight will trend up two to five pounds in the next couple days... and that extra weight doesn't necessarily go away right away.
Does this happen to anyone else? Theories on why and good approaches to preventing?
For clarification, I have a good water intake and am not taking in more water than usual nor eating any differently or more than usual. I have a scale that measures, to a degree, body water and body fat percentages, and am not seeing a change in those per se.
One thing I've wondered is if my body just has a tough time disposing of cellular wastes and whether stress and extra activity create a backup of some sort. Which makes me wonder what would help besides plenty of water, something like rebounding or similar *light activity* to help lymph, etc. ... and I wonder if anything like more antioxidants would be of use.
(Another possibility is that... as I take thyroid hormone... the extra activity might raise my own thyroid activity and make my thyroid balance a bit on the hyper side temporarily... and one can gain weight with hyperthyroidism as well as hypothyroidism.. although I realize now I don't know the mechanisms by which hyperthyroidism can pack on more pounds, absent eating-related matters.)
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