Temporary spike in weight after drinking alcohol?

revolutiontruth

Saturday night I went to a bar to see a show and drank quite a bit and when I weighed myself this morning I had gained 4 lbs since I weighed myself Friday morning. Two weekends ago I drank a large amount on Saturday night at get together for a friend's birthday and weighed in 6 lbs heavier on Monday but was back down to my pre-weekend weight the next day. Anybody else have the same experience with heavy weekend drinking and temporary weight gain?

kdz526

Yeah, its just water retention. Typically that happens after heavy drinking. So long as you keep it within maintenance calories, it will dissapear.

ValerieMartini2Olives

How many times are you going to post this?

yesimpson

I get the opposite. My weight is often lower the morning after a night out, but then swings up. It all stabilises within about 48-72 hours. Although of course, alcohol is calorific, so if your nights out weren't factored into your calorie allowance for the week, you will begin to gain weight from it (or fail to lose).

PinkPixiexox

If you weigh daily, you have to be prepared to see fluctuations regardless.

I'm a daily weigher for the time-being whilst I suss out my calorie intake to lose 0.5. The idea is to weigh each morning and then after a week - add all the totals together and divide by 7 to get my average loss for that week.

You'll probably find the following day, that 'weight' will have gone. Probably water

cwolfman13

there are all kinds of things that contribute to natural weight fluctuations.

AspenDan

I drink excessively every few weeks and always feel like crap / weigh more the next day..but hey, I always have a great time, from what I can remember =P

revolutiontruth

Thank you for the feed back. I'm thinking it's just water weight, but both times I felt like complete crap the next day and didn't meet my exercise goals. I think next time I run into this situation I will slow my rate of drinking by drinking water every other round.