My scale told a lie!
Well, I ate plenty yesterday, I actually ate at maintenance level of around 2600 calories. I'd planned to stay a couple hundred calories below that. But I was hungry, and also up later than was wise. You know, one of those days you are so tired that you just can't get yourself to bed and sleep! So I ate the sixth meal I was due for. At that, I still had close to my 500 calorie deficit for the day, thanks to the long workout.
Then I slept LATE. I think my body needed it after that pool workout.
But when I weighed, I had a huge scale drop! Below 225!
I think this one's a big fat fib. One, while sleeping, you are still burning calories, so extra sleep means extra burned without normal food intake. Two, you breathe out a lot of water while sleeping, it's not unusual for me to lose 3-4 pounds of water a night. So if I really sleep late, like I did today, that by itself could account for a pound or two extra in water loss. (My hydration level on the scale was at a low mark of 34.7% to confirm this.)
So we'll see how it goes tomorrow. But hey, it makes the graph on my weigh-in page look great for today!
Meanwhile, here's a great article on Why The Scale Lies!
You lose 3-4 pounds of water a night?
Never heard before....Have to Google!
(Thanks for a good website!)
lie or not lie, it's sure extra boost! :)
It isn't always 3-4 pounds a night, sometimes it's only a one or two pounds, on rare occasions, more. One does lose some water every night.
Sleeping until past noon really skewed my morning weigh-in. Oh, I may have lost some weight this week, but until I have a decent hydration reading back, I won't trust the scale any too far on this one!
Try weighing yourself before bed, then getting up and weighing first thing in the morning. I do it every once in a while just for fun.