Sudden Weight Gain, Any Cause For Concern?

Do you experience sudden weight gain like 5, 10 lbs in just matter of months?

Even when you're doing everything right - exercise regularly, eat a healthy diet, sleep well.....?

This kind of weight gain is definitely not due to lack of exercise and over-eating; we've ruled that out per above.

And you'd want to rule out illness and sickness too, as a cause.

Other than these mentioned 3 factors, there are some other factors which you might want to look deeper into.

What are these other factors?

1. Drugs And Medications

Medications used to treat arthritis, asthma, diabetes and drugs like antidepressants and mood stabilizers may contribute to your weight gain suddenly.

If you're on drugs and medications and suspect that they affect your weight big time, don't on your own stop taking them; talk to your doc first, to find out whether you can change to another drug or medication which won't cause you to put on weight.

2. Edema

Edema or swelling in your body as a result of build-up of fluids may lead to quick weight gain that occurs in just days or weeks.

P/S: Edema could be the result of heart or kidney disease

And common medications such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs can cause fluid retention too.

3. Hypothyroidism (or underactive thyroid)

It happens when your thyroid gland doesn't produce enough thyroid hormone.

Thyroid hormone regulates your metabolism and in this case, an unde

active thyroid slows down your metabolism, causing you slow in burning off calories.

4. Essential Fatty Acid Deficiency

Your body needs essential fatty acids to produce hormones, to maintain your body's metabolism system. If you're lacking in essential fatty acids, it may cause you to have craving for fatty foodstuff. As you know, foods high in fat are high in calories and if you don't have a high metabolic rate to burn them off, you pile on pounds.

5. Blood Sugar Imbalance

Eating lots of simple, refined carbohydrates can cause blood sugar levels to shoot up and then crash down.

Your body releases insulin to get the sugar to be stored away and your blood sugar levels to be lowered, which can in turn makes you crave more for sweets and sugary stuff in order to stabilize your blood sugar levels.

This can leave you feeling tired, hungry, and weak - and gives your body an easy opportunity to convert the carbohydrates to fat, causing you to gain weight.

I think the above would be good guidelines to get you dig deeper into the reasons for your sudden weight gain.

Identify the cause and deal with it appropriately.

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