nicetry

So I have been losing weight consistently since February, and have watched my numbers on the scale daily. Recently I went on a 5 day fast, because every night I was worn out, simply wasn't hungry and didn't feel like cooking after work and bicycling, and just went to sleep.

During this time I only drank tea, occasionally black coffee and water.

Before the fast, I weighed 178 after sweating out a lot of water from a bike ride, and after eating my meal and drinking water, I'd go up to around 181 - 182 or so.

After the 5 days of fasting with nothing but water and tea, I weighed 174 with some water in my system.

I do intermittent fasting normally, and only eat one meal a day around 7pm.

Once I got back to eating dinner, I didn't gorge, over eat, cheat the diet, or eat more than 15 net carbs carbs (I'm on keto)

Here are my calorie counts over the past few days after the fast. I normally keep it at 1500 to 1800 calories per day, but I decided to eat 2000+ to replenish my body after the fast.

2375

2465

2210

Then 1600 last night.

Over the past few days, after a meal and water I have been weighing 188.

If my basal metabolic rate is 2000 calories, I'd only be over base by around 1000 calories.

Even if my basal metabolic rate went to zero because of the fast, and my body didn't burn any of the calories I consumed over the past few days, I'd still have only gained 2.5 pounds of fat - 3500 cals over base equals 1 pound of pure fat...

So I don't understand where all the extra weight is coming from?


Any ideas?

Crazy water retention? But why would I be retaining so much water?