Why did I get body fat back?

Question

I don't understand this

When I was in the hospital I basically didn;t eat for a few days, and I looked at myself and I could see that I had lost weight, like when i bend my arm theres not as much fat on the sides, and theres not as much fat on the side of my leg, but its wierd like the minute i started eating food again I noticed all the little flab came back in like 2 seconds, I noticed it as soon as I looked as myself after I ate my first meal,

I'm not overweight but its just wierd that this happens could you explain it? I was hoping to keep all that weight off

Answer 1

I would imagine you weren't very active while you were in the hospital? You likely lost some water weight, and probably a little muscle tone, depending on how long you were there. Water weight isn't true weight loss, and comes back very quickly. By building up muscle, you'll boost your metabolism and be able to burn calories faster, even at a resting rate. When you lose muscle and/or starve yourself, your metabolism will slow down.

Answer 2

Yes, while you were in the Hospital your body might have gone into a catabolic state depending on why you were in. This forced your body to eat it's fat and muscle but also it caused you to flush out any excess fluid you may have had. What you see coming back so fast is not any actual fat or muscle loss, but fluid that you lost coming back into your system. Even if you had IV Therapy while you were in, you were taking in less fluid than you are normally used to. the almost spontaneous weight gain is rehydration.

Answer 3

you probebly stopped working out or ate alot of fats try to eat some fruti and do so crunches or jog a little then you should definetly loose some of that body fat

Answer 4

you can drop weight, mostly water, when in hospital, the body will strive to replace anything lost quickly, so when you started eating again, the body instantly stored it.

Answer 5

Im guessing that you didn't actually gain weight, you just were tierd so everything was droopy.