is it bad to eat heavy meals?

I have no idea but I need to know...
Bump.

You had a big dinner that was heavy in salt, it's just your body holding extra water, and the food that is still in digestive tract. Tomorrow or the day after it will be gone, just drink some extra water, take it easy with the salt and have a good poop.

Measuring several times a day isn't effective. Our weight fluctuates during the day.

Weigh yourself at the same hour every time.

My weight fluctuates a by +\- 3lbs, every day. It's all about water retention/dehydration. What I do is wait until my weight has been consistent for about a week, then I use the lowest weight to weigh in.
Careful with your sodium intake, I love Ramen too!

This! I would say I only weigh in first thing in the morning. After I go to the bathroom, before I have coffee.

i just had a big dinner (ramen!) and gained and decided to check out the scale when i got home. i gained FOUR lbs. woah. according to my calorie counter i stayed within my limits for the day and i'm pretty sure those lbs will be gone soon enough... maybe not by tomorrow morning, but they'll go away. i'm just curious though... 4 lbs is huge and is it normal to go up and down that much lbs, when it takes me a week to lose 2 lbs?

You do understand that the food and liquids you consume have a weight to them right? That weight doesn't magically dissapear when you ingest food...

Srsly....do you not realize that foods and liquid and waste, etc all have weight...wouldn't it make sense that that weight would show up on the scale? FYI, most people do not weigh themselves multiple times per day and don't weigh themselves right after a meal...I mean c'mon...common sense here.

Also, you do realize that 3,500 calories over your maintenance calories (not your deficit calorie goal calories) is 1 Lb of fat roughly right? So you would have to eat 14,000 calories over your maintenance calories to gain 4 Lbs of fat...even then, it just doesn't happen like that.

whatever you ate is sitting in your stomach. it goes on the scale too. its like if you were holding a 5 lb weight in your hand, and stepped on the scale, youd be up 5 lbs. if you ate 4 lbs of food that day, there it is,on the scale. dont worry about it.

As long as it's within your goal calories, there's no problem. As others have pointed out, the food you eat has weight. A pound of celery has about 60 calories of energy, equivalent to only 0.33 ounces of fat. But if you weigh yourself, eat a pound of celery, then weigh yourself again, you'll be a pound heavier. Almost all of that weight will be gone in a couple of days, though, as your digestive tract extracts the nutrients and then eliminates the waste solids and water.

If you drink a pound of olive oil, on the other hand (NOT RECOMMENDED, by the way), your scale weight will go up by a pound, but you will have ingested 4000 calories, equal to more than a pound of fat (since human body fat isn't 100% pure lipid). If those calories are excess, they'll be stored, and you'll end up with a long-term weight gain of more than a pound.

Actually, I suspect that your digestive system couldn't actually absorb a pound of olive oil (about a pint's worth), and that a lot of it would run through you—if you could keep it down in the first place.

Celery and olive oil are two extremes. Most food is somewhere in between. And then, of course, there's a tendency to retain water if you eat a lot of salt.