🔸 You ate a belly full of carbs and/or salty foods – in which case your body soaks up excess water and holds on to it so when you step onto the scale you weigh more than usual. This is not fat.. it’s just excess water. Get back to your usual eating habits and your weight will drop back to normal.

🔸 You ate later than usual – this isn’t some kind of trickery, it’s simply that you ate later at night, so when you weighed in you had more food in your stomach and weighed more than usual. Again, it’s not fat.. just stomach content.

🔸 You weighed yourself earlier than usual – this also means you had less time to digest the food you ate the night before so, again, you weigh more simply because of more food in your stomach.

🔸 You need to drop the kids off at the pool – which is more common than most people think. Sometimes you’re all backed up and you really just need to 💩 There is no trickery here either, but not pooing will affect what you weigh. If you’re not particularly regular, have a look at the fibre content of your diet. Try eating more fibrous veggies and fruits to help your digestive process along.

🔸 You’re stressed out/sleep deprived – and when you’re stressed your body often holds on to water weight, which can make you bloated and heavier. This is one of the reasons women often gain weight (not fat) during their period – they get bloated which affects the scale. Keep in mind.. this is not fat, it’s just water weight.

🔸 You had a heavy workout yesterday – when your muscles are ‘repairing’ they “soak up” water and a whole bunch of nutrients to recover.. they basically act like a sponge. As you know, a soaked sponge weighs more than a dry one. So, once again, weight.. not fat.

What should you take away from this? Weight does not equal fat.. and not all scale weight gain is equal!

There are so many variables to scale weight and reasons why you will see constant fluctuations.

Instead of solely relying on scale weight as a means of tracking fat loss, take body measurements (waist, hip and thigh etc), take progress photos and notice how your clothes feel.