I was 110.6 last morning. I ate around 1500 calories yesterday, but I normally stay under 1000. My in-laws were celebrating my birthday, and I had a breadstick and a few bits of cake. There’s no way I ate enough to gain 5 pounds, but I weighed myself this morning and was 115.6. I am distraught. I feel as if I can’t appreciate anything since the scale will go up the next day.
I just gained four, and you beat me!
I’m not surprised, however I did feel afraid when I saw the numbers. I ate a lot over the weekend, so the extra stomach content may be a couple of pounds, as could the abnormally high carbohydrate intake (greater water retention). I might gain some fat as well, but that doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time for the body to turn it to fat and store it somewhere. In my situation, I overate by roughly 3k calories, so the worst-case scenario is +1 pound of fat when it’s done.
As a rule of thumb, if you can’t drop 5 pounds overnight, you can’t gain them either. Period!
Normal fluctuations. You did not gain five pounds of fat overnight. It will go back down.
It’s just water weight, and you’ll drop some when you poop. It will come back down; weigh yourself once a week rather than every day, and you will not be dismayed by the scale’s fluctuation.
It will come back down. You ate something your body was not used to, and it is now holding on to water, glycogen, or something.
Check the scale on a weekly basis. Try to think about your weight on a monthly basis, rather than a daily basis. You’re a small person, so sp fluctuations will strike you harder, but if you obsess about it all the time, you won’t enjoy life. Balance is essential.
Not in pure fat or muscle. However, it is feasible to stand on a scale one day and have it indicate X, followed by X+3.
The explanation can be found in your body’s fluid contents, as well as the weight of the food you’ve eaten and how far it has progressed through the digestion process.
If you sweated a lot one day and didn’t drink much, you’ll weigh significantly less than you would on a cool day when you’re fully hydrated. Even if your actual weight (muscles, fat, bones, organs, etc.) is identical on both days.
Nooo.
If you worked your ass off and sweated a lot, you may drop up to 5 pounds in a single day.
But adding 5 pounds is just not doable. Even if you lost 5 pounds sweating, you won’t be able to regain it all by drinking 5 pounds of water. It will take a few days to reabsorb that much water.
5 pounds overnight sounds like a random fluctuation rather than fat gain, so I don’t see why not.
Expect it to drop in the coming days, though.
Science has established that humans grow in height overnight but did not mention expanding in size, most likely due to intake or your growth paused for a moment before exploding.
It’s probably water weight. There are numerous factors that can induce sudden weight gain owing to water. High sodium intake could have contributed to your weight gain. It’s because when there is salt, water follows. This is how oedema develops, and the underlying process is known as osmosis.