Losing weight requires effort and willpower, and varying your weight as if riding a roller coaster doesn’t help.
It turns out that today you weighed yourself, and you have lost a kilo … good! You step on the scale the next day, and you weigh two kilos more… Wow! But I haven’t eaten anything weird! You weigh yourself again in 24 hours, and you have lost half a kilo… what’s going on?
It is not that the scale is damaged, or that it is of poor quality and does not give the precise weight. The thing is our body never weighs the same from one day to the next. It can even change multiple times within the same day.
The Web Lifehacker has investigated the reasons why our body weight change, without this meaning that you gain or lose weight. It is interesting to know them, because some can be avoided.
Salty, ultra-processed foods and carbohydrates
If you eat precooked food, you are going to eat at a burger, or you have simply abused salt or carbohydrates, for example in some french fries, your weight will go up without that meaning you gain weight (although most likely also …).
The reason is that salt retains fluids, and if you don’t expel them, you gain weight… But it’s temporary.
The alcohol
Yes have you been over alcohol On a night out, it is likely that the next day you weigh up to a kilo more.
Alcohol, in addition to retaining fluids, slows down the rate of digestion and it stays in your body longer than other drinks.
After intense exercise
You beat yourself up in the gym … and the next day you weigh 1 kilo more! Why is life so cruel?
Peace of mind, that’s good: the muscles are firming up, and in the process of change they retain fluids.
Menstrual cycle
Some women retain fluids the first few days of their menstrual cycle. That can make them weigh 1 or 2 kilos more.
After sweating a lot
If you have exercised a lot or sweated a lot from the heat, you will lose water, and with it weight. Even more than 2 Kilos. But it is an unreal drop, because the body needs to replace the lost fluid, so you will regain those kilos in no time … or you will become dehydrated.
Constipation
If you are constipated, you do not evacuate food correctly, and accumulate in your body. This generates a small weight gain, which will disappear when your intestines return to normal.
From now on it checks if these causes are met every time gain or lose weight for no apparent reason …