Overnight 200 g gain!

standout00

I didn't binge on the previous day, ate healthily and even didn't have dinner too late but somehow still managed to gain 200g overnight! Maybe it was the excess fluid that I might've had on that day
maybe?? I even exercised!!

Any ideas why I might've gained that extra weight overnight??

NorthCascades

Your weight is going to bounce around at random. Better to use a trending app to smooth out the noise and reveal the pattern.

missysippy930

Normal weight fluctuation. In the scheme of things nothing to be concerned about.
Weight isn’t static and can fluctuate greatly throughout the day, as well as day to day. As NorthCascades said, use a weight trending app to get a clearer picture.

springlering62

200 grams is seven ounces. Not to denigrate your worry, but that’s nothing. There’s going to be days when you gain a kilo (or more), and the next day it’s gone.

Your body isn’t a computer. It’s a living breathing thing, and they are never perfect. One day it may decide to hang on to water for whatever reason (to repair muscle soreness, too much salt that day, etc) and a few days - or even hours- later, whatever it is has resolved itself.

By the same token, some days you’ll wake up and have a sudden, unexplainable (but very happy!) loss of two, three or more pounds.

I’ve had days where I’ve been up four pounds. It’s horrifying and frustrating, but stay the course and you’ll see a steady downward trend.

Sometimes it feels like it’s the weight gods’ own little personal challenge to see if you’re really serious.

Panini911

read this
http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

plus 200grams must be within the margin of error and then some of scales. they are not correct to the gram...

Hannahwalksfar

Probably a poop

RelCanonical

Fluctuations up and down are extremely common, especially in women. Here are a bunch of reasons that we can retain weight despite fat decreasing:

Excess salt intake (water weight)
Excess food volume (eating low-calorie foods in bulk)
Excess intestinal food volume (constipation)
Excess water weight (literally just drinking a lot of water without having urinated yet. Water is heavy)
Ovulation (hormonal water weight gain)
Periods (hormonal water weigh gain. Can happen prior and/or during period)
Moving your scale around too much (inaccuracies)
Inflammation (causing water weight gain, often from illness)
Increase in exercise (water weight gain from added tissue repair)
Change in medication (some medications can cause water retention)

That's just off the top of my head, lol. This is why watching trends downward and not the day-to-day weigh-ins is so important.

kimny72

I weighed myself before and after peeing this morning and lost 2 lbs (that's like 900 grams). It wasn't even an unusually long pee.

Just agreeing with everyone else. If you are going to live and die over every half lb movement of the scale, you will drive yourself crazy long before you make any measurable progress. You are looking for long term trends, day to day fluctuations up and down is just real life, it's how your body works.

Terytha

Your scale doesn't just measure fat weight. It also measures water, poop, glycogen, muscle, the food you recently ate and are digesting, etc.

Even if your scale didn't measure those things you'd still see fluctuations because your body is not a perfect machine, it will work to varying degrees of efficiency. And your calorie/macro counts are only a best guess anyway unless you're running everything you eat through some kind of high end laboratory equipment. You are definitely eating more or less than the number you come up with, to some degree.

Since it's all just approximation and your body is not a perfectly predictable machine, chill out about tiny weight fluctuations. Weight loss is a slow process measured in weeks and months, not days.

apullum

200 grams is literally less than the difference between going to the bathroom or not. If your bladder wasn’t completely empty, that could easily be 200 grams.

If you’re in a weight loss plan for the long haul, you cannot panic over every little weight fluctuation, especially fluctuations that truly are as tiny as this. You have to become comfortable with normal weight fluctuations. Read the article that @Panini911 linked.

nooboots

200g???

AnnPT77

I like to think that we don't even have one true current weight. (Weigh yourself, drink a couple of cups of water, weigh again: Poof, you gained a pound in seconds.)

Instead, what we have is a short-term weight range, and a long-term weight trend.

So, in some random week, my weight might be up and down around (picking an arbitrary set of numbers) 135-139 pounds. That'd be current weight range. Three weeks later, maybe the range is 133-136 pounds. The range has moved downward, which (in this example) would tell me I'm losing weight. That's the longer-term trend, and it's what the weight-trending apps** help us visualize.

In my weight-trending app (Libra), one chunk of my weight loss looked like the graph below. (The connected down-hill-ish line is the trend; the little upright bars connect each daily weight to the trend. You can see that the daily weights bounce all over: That's the fluctuation. (And that's while in menopause: It'd be more extreme for pre-menopausal women!). But the downhill trend shows that I was losing fat (mostly), over the longer term.)



Expect that sort of thing: It's normal.

P.S. I accidentally lost weight too fast for a while during the time period shown in the graph above. Don't do that: It's a Really Bad Plan.

Best wishes!

** Libra is a weight-trending app for Android. Happy Scale is a common one for iOS/Apple. There are also others like Trendweight and Weightgrapher.

psychod787

I drop that much everytime I.... uhhh.. well anyways..... fluctuation... carry on soldier.

springlering62

@AnnPT77 that there graph looks like a hairy kudzu vine hanging off a South Georgia telephone pole.

Straight line weight loss, indeed. 😂

cwolfman13

standout00 wrote: »

I didn't binge on the previous day, ate healthily and even didn't have dinner too late but somehow still managed to gain 200g overnight! Maybe it was the excess fluid that I might've had on that day
maybe?? I even exercised!!

Any ideas why I might've gained that extra weight overnight??

That's like 7 ounces...you're really going to need to wrap your head around completely natural and normal weight fluctuations. That's like the difference between having taken a pee or not.

solieco1

Worrying to this level will make you nuts Relax and stay the course, the trend is all that matters.

PositivelyFlawed

To be completely frank, worrying about 200g seems like unhealthy thinking. I, of course, know nothing of you or your trials and challenges. If you've just hit maintenance or are near your goal I can see how you don't want to see even 1 microgram. However, as many have said, weight is not static.

If you feel you are becoming obsessive about any part of your weight loss journey, it may be a nice idea to step away, talk to a friend or trusted colleague or even a professional to avoid falling down the rabbit hole of disordered eating or body dismorphia.

From your pic, you are looking fantastic, so you are obviously doing things right. Keep on your path. Focus on how your clothes look and feel on you and dont put too much stock into the scale!!

Best of luck!

/soapbox

LyndaBSS

cwolfman13 wrote: »

standout00 wrote: »

I didn't binge on the previous day, ate healthily and even didn't have dinner too late but somehow still managed to gain 200g overnight! Maybe it was the excess fluid that I might've had on that day
maybe?? I even exercised!!

Any ideas why I might've gained that extra weight overnight??

That's like 7 ounces...you're really going to need to wrap your head around completely natural and normal weight fluctuations. That's like the difference between having taken a pee or not.

Glad you wrote this. I was having trouble with wording it correctly.

I will stick with with my rule of thumb regarding scales.

If a weight fluctuation is going to result in you starting an OMG thread about it, weigh yourself less often.

hixa30

standout00 wrote: »

I didn't binge on the previous day, ate healthily and even didn't have dinner too late but somehow still managed to gain 200g overnight! Maybe it was the excess fluid that I might've had on that day
maybe?? I even exercised!!

Any ideas why I might've gained that extra weight overnight??

Scale error. A while ago I was able to measure scale error, you'd be surprised how much it is for a typical bathroom scale. It was up to plus or minus 500 grams, with smaller variations more likely than large variations. Gym scales are much, much more accurate.

Go and see the 100 days of weighing in https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10742389/100-days-of-weighing-in/p1 and see what a typical daily variation is for comparison for your own situation.