Did you know that 1 pound of body fat equals 3500 calories?
This means that in order for you to gain just two pounds of body fat overnight, you’d have to eat 7000 calories over your maintenance calories for the day.
And that definitely didn’t happen, boo.
Last week, we talked about all the different things our body does with “extra” calories (spoiler: they don’t just get stored as body fat).
So, if the scale jumped a little over night, check out one of the many reasons why it could have. Remember, daily fluctuations of 2-4 pounds are pretty normal for humans so the next time you’re celebrating a 4 pound loss overnight, or beating ourself up over a 2 pound gain, check yourself.
You say you care about changing your strength, shape, or size but the scale definitely can’t measure that. So why are you using it as a tool to assess?
reasons the scale went up that have nothing to do with body fat
- July 8, 2021
