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EOD (alternate day fasting diet)

fluffyasacat
fluffyasacat Posts: 242 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Can anyone explain to me why my scales show a weight loss after my non-fasting day and not my fasting day? I'm having 500 calories on my fasting day and about 1800-2000 on my non-fasting (NF) day.

Happy to take a weight loss however it comes, it just seems weird that the losses are not on the day I would have thought. I fast on the odd numbered days and I weigh myself first thing in the morning.

01/09/2014 91.4 NF
02/09/2014 92.4
03/09/2014 91.7 NF
04/09/2014 91.8
05/09/2014 91.7 NF
06/09/2014 90.9
07/09/2014 92.2 NF <---- this one! how do I put on 1.3kg after a 500 calorie day?
08/09/2014 90.8 (today) <---- then back down to 90.8kg? After 1716 calories?

If anyone can explain this I'd be grateful. I'm happy with the rate of loss I'm having and I'm interested in knowing my weight every day to be able to understand what my body is doing with the energy I take in, just don't quite understand the timing.

Replies

  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    I don't think our weight today is really a function of what we ate yesterday so much as what we've eaten on average over the past x weeks or months, and it varies more due to water, glycogen and food in digestion than due to fat levels day to day. Water weight alone is a huge variable. Our bodies are like 70% water and the levels of hydration seem to vary quite a bit, especially in women.
  • fluffyasacat
    fluffyasacat Posts: 242 Member
    I don't think our weight today is really a function of what we ate yesterday so much as what we've eaten on average over the past x weeks or months, and it varies more due to water, glycogen and food in digestion than due to fat levels day to day. Water weight alone is a huge variable. Our bodies are like 70% water and the levels of hydration seem to vary quite a bit, especially in women.

    Great answer, thank you. 1.3kg seems like a huge swing to have in a week, let along in one day. Being able to swing 1.3kg one way then back 1.4kg the next can't be due to fat loss/gain so water, glycogen and food in digestion are the more likely variables.

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