Ate more and lost

yoplait311
yoplait311 Posts: 56 Member
edited June 2016 in Health and Weight Loss
I had a huge meal last night- pizza! (Which is loaded with sodium). I was so ready to see the scale go up this morning, but I was down .4 lbs!
Has this happened to anyone else- occasionally eating more than your calorie allotment yet losing weight? I'm curious for other stories.
Thanks!

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  • st476
    st476 Posts: 357 Member
    I'm not sure if I went down on the scale, since I don't weigh myself too often, but once I had a 2 day long binge (consisting of just about anything and everything I could find in my kitchen) and I ended up looking skinnier than I did prior. It was surprising!
  • Intentional_Me
    Intentional_Me Posts: 336 Member
    This happens to me after cheat days. I always laugh, like what?! I think its because big carby meals make me poop :D
  • mecoconleche
    mecoconleche Posts: 86 Member
    It happens sometimes to me too, I will see tomorrow since I ate pizza, poutine, gilato, Hershey's bar, cake and some chips today lol
  • 85Cardinals
    85Cardinals Posts: 733 Member
    edited June 2016
    This doesn't seem like earth-shattering news to me. You ate pizza and whatever happened on the scale. You'll make yourself crazy micromanaging like this. What happens when you have a salad and you weigh half a pound more.
  • EttaMaeMartin
    EttaMaeMartin Posts: 303 Member
    it has not caught up with you yet. give it a day and drinks lots of water to flush out sodium! it will show up, but it will stabilize as soon as you are back to routine.
  • Francl27
    Francl27 Posts: 26,371 Member
    Weight loss isn't linear. It can take a few days (or weeks) for the weight loss to actually show up on the scale. Had nothing to do with your pizza.
  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    EttaMaeMartin wrote: »
    it has not caught up with you yet. give it a day and drinks lots of water to flush out sodium! it will show up, but it will stabilize as soon as you are back to routine.

    This is true for me sometimes. I'll have a week of going over my goals sometimes or being under, and the net result shows up the next week. There *are* days that the results do appear to show up the next morning though.
  • snowflake930
    snowflake930 Posts: 2,188 Member
    Francl27 wrote: »
    Weight loss isn't linear. It can take a few days (or weeks) for the weight loss to actually show up on the scale. Had nothing to do with your pizza.

    ^This.
    One day does not make much of a difference.
    It is overeating consistently that will result in gaining weight.
    If you go back to eating at a calorie deficit, you will continue to lose.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    umm you might see that as a (temporary) gain tomorrow, I find extra sodium hits me 2 days later....
  • ogtmama
    ogtmama Posts: 1,403 Member
    I'm with the poop theory :wink:
  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    You might actually see more of a loss in a day or so because the extra sodium is masking what you would have lost.

    The extra large meal in itself doesn't have anything to do with it. Your fat cells were probably getting ready to whoosh anyway.

    All in all, its just the over all numbers in versus the numbers out.
  • yoplait311
    yoplait311 Posts: 56 Member
    edited June 2016
    I didn't eat over my calorie goal (never said that) just a large meal at night.
    Great feedback here... I didn't consider the "whoosh" possibility.
  • emdeesea
    emdeesea Posts: 1,823 Member
    yoplait311 wrote: »
    I didn't eat over my calorie goal (never said that) just a large meal at night.
    Great feedback here... I didn't consider the "whoosh" possibility.

    Sorry I misunderstood your original post when you said "a huge meal last night." My apologies.
  • Dove0804
    Dove0804 Posts: 213 Member
    snickerscharlie wrote: »
    You'll always get the weight you deserve. Only not just when you deserve it. :)

    I love this!!!!!
  • trigden1991
    trigden1991 Posts: 4,658 Member
    You are a miracle of science or you have discovered the secret fat burner that is pizza. But probably it was just a "whoosh".
  • ziggy2006
    ziggy2006 Posts: 255 Member
    Your logical fallacy is Post hoc, ergo proter hoc.

    You have assumed that the consumption of the huge meal of pizza which exceeded your calorie allotment caused the weight loss without considering that the two events might only share a temporal relationship. Just because eating the pizza preceded the weight loss does not mean it caused the weight loss.

    It is important to be aware of when your thinking about food might be distorted as it can cause difficulty in achieving and maintaining a healthy weight.
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,267 Member
    edited June 2016
    yoplait311 wrote: »
    I didn't eat over my calorie goal (never said that) just a large meal at night.
    Great feedback here... I didn't consider the "whoosh" possibility.

    Okay so you didn't over eat that night nor any of the other nights previous to that and you lost weight....*thumbs up*

    Welcome to CICO for weight loss 101.
    yoplait311 wrote: »
    I didn't eat over my calorie goal (never said that) just a large meal at night.
    Great feedback here... I didn't consider the "whoosh" possibility.

    NO what you said was

    " had a huge meal last night-<snip>occasionally eating more than your calorie allotment yet losing weight?

    so you kind of led people to believe you did go over your calories.

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