im freeeakin ouuut!

[SonnyBlack]

since november of last year i have pretty much been doing a straight high protein, low carb, moderate fat diet....and had done ok with it. I also did a couple of dnp cycles during that time and i managed to get down to 180. Well after having stalled for quite some time on my weight loss and hearing so much about the benefits of a carb up...i decided to have my first carb up ever on Sunday. I ate high carbs...low protein and low fat. Well today, Tuesday, i got on the scale and i found out that i went up 10 whole pds on it!!! Man im freakin out....does this mean that i gained that much fat during the carb up...or wat???im freakin out cuz i thought that the carb up would help me out...but i didnt think i was gonna get fat from it!!! Please let me know wat you all think is goin on bros...or wat i am doing wrong....!!

 

[Riker29]

Relax.

First off, don’t confuse total body weight with fat.

What is more important is body composition - the amount of fat and the amount of lean body mass - which added together add up to your weight.

Now, no one can gain 10 lbs of anything in like a week unless you are on some INSANE cycle from HELL, you cant even get CLOSE to that. Well, to be more factual, you cannot increase TISSUE, wither fat or muscle, by that much in that time period.

So - what’s the 10 lbs?

Water.

Now in the case of dudes who load up on D-Bol, the water they carry is sort of "above normal". That’s why they get that "bloat" look. And you hear guys saying "man I gained like 10 lbs in a week! Cool!

Yeah, the scale shows that, but if and when they stop the DBol, chances are that almost all of that gets pissed away when their held water drops. (Yes, they will increase their lean mass some, but not THAT much).

This is also why in many cases guys whine about not keeping gains. Depending upon the regimen of gear and supplements, they will in many cases NEVER keep on all of the "weight" because some of it is NOT tissue - its water.

Now in your case, you were in the opposite direction.

Now I am not a biological chemistry god or anything, but my understand is that if you are carb-depleted, then your muscles are not able to hold onto as much water as they normally would.

So, if you are on a low-carb diet, you will weigh LESS to some extent just because your body cannot hold the amount of water that it did.

Yes, on low carb diets, you will start to lose and burn some fat. That’s true. Especially if its a very very low carb diet, and you get into Ketosis.

But even without the carbs being low enough to get into a ketogenic state, if you are carb-depleted, you will not be able to hold as much water.

So - what happened to you?

You have been low on carbs. You were not able to hold as much water as you normally would. And in that state you also burned some fat. Cool.

You carbed up. Your muscles can now hold more of a "normal" amount of water, and that’s what they did - about 10 lbs worth.

Its not fat. Its water.

And since we are talking about a situation of your being carb depleted, and then more "normal", this 10 lbs of water is actually like a ":normal" level for you, and for the most part you can keep it.

 

[Yellowbomber]

Good pòst Riker,
By the way you can buy a TANITA to see what's happening although Tanitas show water weight as fat

 

[SonnyBlack]

thanx alot for clearing that riker...very informative bro...thanx again

 

[BigGuns2]

Hey YellowBomber

You own a tanita to? I can take a massive piss and my body fat will drop 2 points!

 

[Riker29]

Tanita? Is that one of those BS - bodyfat measurement scales?

Man if it is, I have NEVER found one to be accurate.

They rely way too much on standrd height/weight tables, and they will say that I have like 20%+ bodyfat - and that is VERY high (I am like at about 8-9 now, was like 12 then).