Early morning weigh-in after big protein dinner
standout00
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Hi everyone!
If I had a big protein dinner by 18:20 is it best that I don't eat anything else so that I don't sabotage tomorrow's early morning weigh-in and cancel out any incidental activity/exercise I've done earlier today?
If I had a big protein dinner by 18:20 is it best that I don't eat anything else so that I don't sabotage tomorrow's early morning weigh-in and cancel out any incidental activity/exercise I've done earlier today?
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I agree with others: Frankly, you're overthinking. Your fat gain/loss isn't what shows on the scale from one day to the next. Mostly, those day to day fluctuations are water retention shifts, or waste in the digestive tract on the way to the toilet.
Even fast fat loss (like 2 pounds or 1 kg per week) is only about 4.5 ounces or maybe 143 grams respectively per day on average. Everything else beyond the calorie-driven body fat changes is water/waste shifts, part of how a healthy body weight stays healthy, so not worth worrying about.
It's the multi-week average that gives the best indication of body fat gain/loss.
I'd suggest this as a good read (especially the article linked in the first post), if you haven't read it already:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1
My opinion: If you assume your daily weight is the fat gain/loss outcome of the previous day's behavior, you may drive yourself batty. Look at the trend over 4-6 weeks, or a whole menstrual cycle if you have those.
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Chil! It's a single day and a single data point. No need to try and trick the scale after a bigger dinner. Your body does what it does, and if it means it's a big more weight on the scale due to more food waste in your intestines then so what? Learn that it's not bodyfat. If you had more carbs than usual you might be a bit heavier due to glycogen binding to water. It's also not bodyfat but normal, healthy water. If you had more salt then the same was true. Learn that those fluctuations happen and are totally normal. If you didn't have them I'd be more worried about you not being alive anymore 😅4
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On that note, if you only weigh once per week, then why not weigh every day for a while to get a better grasp on these fluctuations. Use a free weight trending app like Libra (android) or happy scale (iOS), ignore the day to day fluctuation and look at the overall trend.3
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Don't waste mental energy on trying to game single weigh-ins. It's your weight trend over weeks that matters, not one single day.5
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Maybe a small carb breakfast will balance everything out.1
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Chil! It's a single day and a single data point. No need to try and trick the scale after a bigger dinner. Your body does what it does, and if it means it's a big more weight on the scale due to more food waste in your intestines then so what? Learn that it's not bodyfat. If you had more carbs than usual you might be a bit heavier due to glycogen binding to water. It's also not bodyfat but normal, healthy water. If you had more salt then the same was true. Learn that those fluctuations happen and are totally normal. If you didn't have them I'd be more worried about you not being alive anymore 😅
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If daily weigh ins are that stressful then don’t do it or only weigh the days after having a low calorie dinner or when you get on the scale when you know you ate lot the night before just be prepared for a higher reading and don’t let it bother you.1
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You shouldn't let the noise of water retention and food processing disrupt your diet like that, just to try and make a snapshot scale reading look better. Use a running daily average if weighing daily, problem solved. If weighing weekly, log it anyway, then check again a couple of days later if you want, to make sure things are on track and to put your mind at ease.1
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Did you see our replies about the noise of ordinary, expected fluctuations on your other thread?
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10919317/why-is-it-bad-to-weigh-in-on-a-daily-basis/p10 -
Skip the weigh in. Eating a big meal once in a while is good for your metabolism.0
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