Subway salad - put on weight.

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I've been trying to lose a bit of weight recently for my holiday, nothing major, just cutting out treats and trying to be sensible.

Yesterday, with last minute running round with one thing and another - shopping, kids, car, pets vaccinations, pils and DH - I grabbed a salad from subway and that's all I ate.

I've put on a pound this morning! Aibu to think this just isn't fair?

I'm always heaviest on a Thursday. Not sure what it is about Thursday that offends my body so much but it's true, even when the general weight trend is down the scales jump up on a Thursday and then "woosh" down on a Sunday.

If you weigh yourself at the same time every day you'll learn to spot these patterns. Or just don't get too hung up on it - if you're in a calorie deficit the weight has to come off.

Thanks for the advice. Just to clarify, the salad wasnt full of fat/salt/sauce and I only drank water (which is what I've been doing to cut excess calories for a few weeks). I know starving yourself isnt the way to go and it wasn't deliberate, just didn't get chance to eat, ate at the wrong time and then didn't want tea too close to bed.

As I say, what I've been eating leading up to yesterday is just sensible. Smaller portions of healthy foods, without treats or sugary drinks.

Maybe I'm wrong for weighing myself each day, but it was slowly coming down and yesterday morning was less than today! Just annoyed I resisted all the usual fast food choices and still feel like I've made no progress!

You haven't put on a pound from eating a salad. Your weight fluctuates daily with fluid.
Agree with this. If your overall diet is good and your calories are lower than your BMR you will lose weight, but it's not always a straight line.

Do not weigh yourself every day! You'll get disheartened and it's an unreliable indicator of whether you are losing weight.

To genuinely lose or gain a pound of fat, you need a deficit or surplus of 3500 calories. So in order for your salad to have genuinely caused you to gain a pound, you'd need to have eaten 3500 calories ABOVE what you needed on a daily basis to maintain your current weight. Which means that unless you ate a 5000+ calorie salad then it's probably just water weight, normal fluctuation, or your scales not being consistently accurate.

On another note, if you're serious about weight loss, start tracking calories. Get an app like myfitnesspal, calculate a daily goal based on your current weight and height, set a sustainable goal and log exactly what you're eating.

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Yeah it's not fair. Just stop eating

I was being sarcastic in case some you get all flustered

Honestly stop weighing yourself. Weight fluctuates regularly for various reasons. When I used to weigh myself I could be 5lb heavier in the evening but back to normal the morning after. Go off how your clothes fit. How you feel. Keep at it and I’m sure you’ll see progress soon. Ditch the scales today!

If you weigh yourself every day you should expect gains some of the time. I've done it before and it depends if you find it keeps you on track or the gains/stalls demotivate you. Last time I lost weight I was focusing more on inches and fat:muscle ratios so barely weighed at all, used a body composition scale every couple of months.

You actually think a salad made you out in 1lb overnight? Go for a shit and the lb will be gone 🤣🤣

Daily weighing is absolutely fine if you understand the concept of fluctuation and can look at overall trends.
If you believe that you can put weight on overnight after eating what is clearly a calorie deficit the previous day and yet somehow attribute weight gain to one particular meal then you shouldn't weigh daily and should also educate yourself about weight loss.

This post demonstrated everything that is wrong with the dieting industry and societies uneducated obsession with weight loss in general.

No OP the salad was not the cause of the 1lb gain. That 1lb is a totally normal healthy lb that will come and go as you live your life. It concerns me more that you think a salad from a fast food outlet would be a healthy option though. Salads aren’t automatically ‘heathy’, especially ones from a place like Subway.

If you’re serious about losing weight and becoming fitter, you need to do some serious research into what is going to help you achieve this in a safe way with realistic goals because if you don’t you're just going to end up exactly how you started but more miserable. Agnes has said it perfectly, use her post as a guide to make an informed plan.

You're probably constipated but salads won't help you lose weight, they'll probably just keep you the same size. If you want to lose weight you need to cut carbs.

As other people have said, weight fluctuates. Those salads can be high in calories too depending on the dressings, not that it put a pound on you but in future - macdonalds grilled chicken and bacon is a good alternative and if you need dressing just use half the pack (it's usually enough).

I usually loose 2-3.5lbs per week on the diet I do (with no exercise lol). Basically use the slimming world one and stick to 6 syns or less per day. Ideally some days with no syns but meh..

So stop starving yourself, try to stick to home cooked meals so that you know what you have put in it and don't make yourself paranoid with continual weighing. And treat your body better! Starving it is not going to help you!

so many things wrong with your post.
the fact your thinking a salad can make you gain.or any meal an make you gain in one day.
that you have this kind of thinking which is very disrodered.
that your obsessing this much
that you want to lose weight for holiday
that you only ate that in the day
becasue actualy your starving yoruself so your body will be now going into fight or flight mode and will hang on to anything you give it.so it will cause bloating,holding onto fats where it wouldnt etc etc.
also your mood will be shit and might lead you to illogical thinking such as this post.

Not eating is not a way to lose weight, it teaches the body that food may not be coming any time soon so it slows the burn of fats.

Oh lord, sorry but NO NO NO. I thought this old myth had died a death.

Weighing daily is generally viewed as demotivating for this reason - so many things out of our control from water weight and hormones, to how long it takes food to transit through our guts, to how much glycogen is stored in our muscles affects weight.

Fat loss is easier to measure with photographs and measurements with a tape measure in the same clothes and position. Doing these monthly (typically recommended to do in the same part of the cycle if menstruating), with or without weighing, will show your progress better and probably be more motivating than weighing daily and making assumptions to the cause of what is most likely natural fluctuations.

To genuinely lose or gain a pound of fat, you need a deficit or surplus of 3500 calories

Hasn’t this been debunked now?

oh your post suggest you wighed yoruself every day.so wrong and the road to misery.

your body will be now going into fight or flight mode and will hang on to anything you give it.so it will cause bloating,holding onto fats where it wouldnt etc etc.

Incorrect.

Not eating is not a way to lose weight, it teaches the body that food may not be coming any time soon so it slows the burn of fats.

Oh lord, sorry but NO NO NO. I thought this old myth had died a death.

I’m shocked these phrases haven’t been used yet

• Your body is going into starvation mode and holding on to fat
• Muscle weighs more than fat

In fact, intermittent fasting improves the body's ability to burn fat for energy, rather than glycogen/muscle.

So well done on your (almost) fasting day OP and don't worry about minor day-to-day scale fluctuations. Water weight can cause daily fluctuations of +/– 5lb or more!

Hasn’t this been debunked now?

No?

Starvation mode!