Water Weight after cheat day

scottyg354
scottyg354 Posts: 13
in Food and Nutrition
I can guarantee I didn't gain 12 lbs in
One day. Is it really possible to gain 12 lbs in water after one cheat day. Kind of disgusted this morning.

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  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Some of it could be the food that hasn't made it through your system yet, too.
  • bpotts44
    bpotts44 Posts: 1,066 Member
    If cheat days make you feel disgusted, then don't take them.
  • Illona88
    Illona88 Posts: 903 Member
    Eat like you usually do for a while and then weigh again in about two days.

    It could just be food that hasn't passed through your system yet.
  • scottyg354
    scottyg354 Posts: 13
    If cheat days make you feel disgusted, then don't take them.

    They don't make me feel disgusted the day I have them. LOL. I really only ate some chinese and had a few beers. Other than that it really wasn't bad. I had a steak. and Some pasta.
  • taylor5877
    taylor5877 Posts: 1,792 Member
    If you eat a very low carb diet and then have a "cheat" day and eat a bunch of carbs, a lot of weight can be gained this way because the muscles/body will absorb water due to storing glycogen.

    IIRC this is a trick bodybuilders use to look more cut on stage: cutting carbs, then replacing the carbs before the competition and dehydrating themselves so the muscles look larger while they don't have any bloating elsewhere.

    I think I read that on the interweb somewhere.

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