Blow Outs

[Mr Trophy]

Hi All,

Just wonder when people have cheat days if they jump on the scales the next morning and there is a massive difference?

When I seem to have mine, it jumps a lot. For example, five pounds (!) heavier this morning.

Whilst I appreciate this is mostly water and food etc, I very much doubt I've put five pounds on.

Happen to anyone else?

[smiffy180]

I fluctuate that daily. Being a strongman no explanation needed

[944fan]

Yes it happens to me. My weight can swing around 6 pounds in a week - particularly after naughty days

It takes 3500 extra calories to make 1lb of fat so that is a serious blow out day !

[didelydoo]

Fully hydrated and full of food, I can weight 95kg... Carb depleted and dehydrated, i'll be back down at 90kg.

[Mastodon2]

It's all water weight and shoddy scales. Unless you get your scales calibrated, they can only ever be so accurate, and as mentioned it takes a lot of extra calories to make a single lb of fat. I know a lad who started some dubious hormone pills recently for weight loss, he was a big, round lad with 30%+ body fat. He claimed he lost 7.5lbs in the first week. While I don't disbelieve that is what his scale said, 7.5lbs of fat is a stload of fat to lose, but not a lot of water to lose.

[Hoofy]

A cheat day and gorging on everything are two completely different things. A cheat day means eating moderately above TDEE and eating stuff you may normally avoid. It doesn't mean going batst mental like a gambling degenerate in a bookie.