Fasting is a long game. Some people don’t even weight themselves at all, but go by how their clothes fit, body measurements, lab work, etc. Try to weigh yourself only once a month, or no more than once every couple of weeks…
You weighed yourself AFTER your refeed. Your body stored all of the carbs you ate as glycogen in your liver and muscles. Glycogen is stored along with water. Most of what you’ve put on is water weight and not fat. It’ll even out in a few days. Don’t stress.
of course you weigh more. you ate and now your body is retaining water. this is normal and why weighing yourself isn’t always the best measure of progress. but also, keep expectations realistic. you should expect to lose about .5 lbs/day of fasting. the rest is water and waste that will be retained again once you’re eating.
What were your expectations exactly? Your post doesn’t share starting weight.
Fasting has two weight loss deceptions. The first is ketosis induced loss of glycogen water storage. The second is the emptying of the bowels. Once you record what those are for your body, then you can know what to expect to come back post fast.
Probably like everyone is saying, it’s water weight. Remember 1 Liter of water weighs 2.2 lbs. So if you consume the equivalent of 2L and you’ve just gained 4.4 lbs. Add food to the mix and you’ve got a lot of weight you’ve just consumed. But it’s not fat or muscle weight you’ve gained, for sure.
(I think 1L of water = 1kg of water.)
Sounds like you’re not changing how you eat - what did you eat? You can’t expect change if you use fasting as a band-aid to an unhealthy lifestyle.
If you were eating healthy, then your body must have a lot of carbs/sugar to get through.
Slow and steady wins the race keep at it. Speaking of my own experience I do a 2 day 2 day 3 day fast with 1 meal those 3 days and I found it much easier to maintain and to be able to keep at it. I personally have a hard times with 7 day fasts and seems like loss was not as great. You have to find what works for you. And above all never give up.
People need to remember that water weight is very likely stored in the muscles, and the more water you have in your muscles the bigger they are. And whether you are male or female or neither, having big muscles looks good. So please try to take a breath.
Water and food weight is a thing, it’s normal to “gain” quite a bit back in water weight after a fast because while fasting a lot of the weight you lose is water and your digestive system empties out. It doesn’t mean you’ve regained fat. Actual fat lost while fasting is generally around half a pound a day.
You should have weighed before the refeed. The body is now holding on to extra water weight and the food because it thinks it is starving / dying. That’s why it went up. Always weigh on an empty stomach and first thing in the forming.
Soooooo a 7 day is mostly water wgt and maybe one lbs of fat. The second you feed the water comes back.. so this is what you do.. figure out total lbs you want to lose. So if you weight 200lbs and you want to weight 180lbs you’ll need to loose 30lbs Bc you carry about 5 lbs of water wgt per one hundred lbs apx… ok you need to lose 30lbs multiple by 3500 which is the apx caloric value for a lbs of fat. So 105,000 now divide that by your daily caloric burn. Mine is about 2200 calories. So 105,000 divided by 2200 is almost 48. So you’d need fast 48 days in total past the 3-4 days it takes to Obtain ketosis and drop water wgt. My advice?? Go 14 days at a time keeping up with your electrolytes.
This is why I suggest weighing every single day, especially before, during, and after a fast. Of course when you feed yourself you’ll “gain” back a bunch, continue to weigh yourself for the next week and you’ll fluctuate back down to an expected loss. You have to take the net loss, not a single day weight.