Why can I lose AND gain weight easily?!


Question: Why can I lose AND gain weight easily?
I can weigh myself one day and be 2 lb less or more than the previous day, but I always seem to have a set weight I fluctuate back to. If I try, I can easily lose 10 lb, but if I try to gain weight I can easily gain 5 lb or so. Is my metabolism slow, medium, or fast? I am 120 lb, 5'3" and 17 yrs old.

Answers:

The 2 lb change from day to day is water weight, not fat changes...most people experience that, and females moreso than males...my weight might fluctuate 3 or so lbs from day to day, but it's not fat changes, it's water (bloat from my period or from too much sodium)...

As for ease of fat loss, it would indicate a fast metabolism or very diligent eating/exercise when you decide to drop some pounds...

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Gosh! Your body is not a yoyo toy. Stop playing with it.
“I can easily lose 10lbs and I can easily gain 5lbs”...what do you have to prove?

If you weigh yourself every day, look at the data on a monthly basis so the “set weight you fluctuate back to” will be your normal weight.
You obviously are very sensitive to sodium and diuretics (I am too). I eat a slice of ham, I gain 2 pounds on the scale, I eat broccoli and I lose 2 pounds.
God forbid you eat something salty, then miss a BM, then get your periods and you blow up like a balloon.
Then a few days later, you lose all that weight, hopefully not in the middle of the night or you’d have to wake up to pee.


Information Entered
Age: 17 years
Sex: Girl
Height: 5 feet 3 inches
Weight: 120 pounds

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Based on the height and weight entered, the BMI is 21.3, placing the BMI-for-age at the 54th percentile for girls aged 17 years. This teen has a healthy weight.


I would say that you’re short (at 5’3) and chubby (at 120lbs above the 50th percentile) for a 17 years old but you still have a couple of years to grow taller. Right now, eat A LOT and exercise A LOT so you’ll surf your next growth spurt and gain a couple of inches in height. Unless you want to be short for the rest of your life just because you can dehydrate with diuretics.

Diuretics are drinks like alcohol, tea, cranberry juice, and food like cucumbers, watermelons, fresh tomatoes, asparagus, artichokes, beets, carrots, lettuce, raw onions, oats, melon, celery, parsley and any veggie from the cabbage family...cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, Chinese broccoli (kay-lan), Chinese cabbage (bok choy), cress, cauliflower, turnips, kale, collard greens, mustard , canola (rapeseed), radish, horseradish, rutabaga, and hybrids like broccoflower (broccoli/cauliflower...green cauliflower and also Romanesco broccoli) or broccolini (broccoli/kay-lan) and 15 others...

I usually eat diuretics with salty food as to not have to fight dehydration by having to drink too much water and also be bothered by having to pee a lot. You’re not peeing more because you drink more water but because of the effect of the diuretics and drinking more water just helps you not dehydrate (to avoid chapped lips and dry skin...).
This is why some recipes have ingredients that complete one another. For example, cabbage is a diuretic so you have to eat it with something very salty in order to not dehydrate, like the “corned beef and cabbage” recipe I cook for St. Patrick’s Day...or sauerkraut/sausage combination, cauliflower/ham casserole, adding ham/bacon to your lettuce, tomato, onion sandwich, crunchy celery in your tuna salad, salty vinaigrette with artichokes or asparagus. If you eat a fresh tomato like an apple, biting into it (a good organic one, not tasteless commercial ones), it will taste much better with some salt, same with radishes, as your body knows that those are powerful diuretics.
If you eat/drink sodium separately from your diuretics (as you don’t add salt to your tea!), try to do it before and not after. I cannot drink tea without having something containing sodium beforehand (anything salty or things like V8, cheese, any canned veggies like carrots, peas or green beans, tomato juice...).




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