Why do you regain the weight lost after being ill?

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Let’s say you have the flu and you lose 10 lbs over a week or so due to not being able to eat much. Why do you regain it, especially if you’re eating under maintenance/in a deficit normally?

It can’t all be water if you don’t eat for a week right? That’s a huge deficit.

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The majority of it will be water and stored glycogen, these rapidly replenish when you start eating properly again

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