I've post this thread because I myself is getting confused. Everytime we binge or pig out, we tend feel bloated, we look bloated and we also gain weight. Now I now that this is most probobly water weight, but then again, how can we differentiate water weight and fat? That's the first question, secondly, if we pinch water weight and fat, what are the differences? And last but not least, can somebody please explain all about water weight?

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I've post this thread because I myself is getting confused. Everytime we binge or pig out, we tend feel bloated, we look bloated and we also gain weight. Now I now that this is most probobly water weight, but then again, how can we differentiate water weight and fat? That's the first question, secondly, if we pinch water weight and fat, what are the differences? And last but not least, can somebody please explain all about water weight?

That you... :D

Well, there are different factors that make your body hold more water than normal. If you increase the amount of salt (sodium) in your diet, then your body will retain more water. If you eat more, you will be getting more sodium, and so holding more water. Also, from personal experience, if you just came off an extended period of cutting, then your muscles may be depleted of their glycogen and so eating more will replenish it, along with a bunch of water (I think it is like three grams of water for each gram of glycogen, or something like that).

The difference between water weight gain and fat gain is that if you go back to your normal routine, that extra weight that you gained should come off pretty quickly (like in a couple days to a week, depending on how much you gorged yourself). Fat gain takes time, so it would be an extended increase in calorie intake. Also, it will then take time to take off.

This is why people who get paranoid about going and having a Thanksgiving dinner, or a family dinner, and otherwise have a good, clean diet and excersize plan should not have to worry. One meal is not going to kill your progress, and actually could help. Even if you ate 10,000 calories in one sitting, you wouldn't gain almost three pounds of fat. Your body just could not handle that much! Most of that would end up just passing right through your system. Of course, it may not make you feel very good coming out, but that is the consequence you pay for eating that much.

if we pinch water weight and fat, what are the differences?
If I'm not mistaken, if you pinch water weight, it would feel smooth, whilst fat would feel like small lumps under your skin.

If you really want to see how much fat you have without water weight, you have to not consume any salt for about 4 days and drink gallons of water per day. Your system will purge the water since there is no salt.

It's a trick the body builders use for competitions to look more defined. From there you can do some cardio to help deydrate you more.

Or, just get the flu and become good friends with the toilet. I always drop about 10-15 lbs of water weight when I'm sick.

Yeah you can't really tell. In my experience one cheat day will produce water weight, and multiple cheat days will produce definite fat gain.

I went on vacation to socal for a week after cutting for about 6 months, ate total crap, cheeseburges twice a day +donuts for breakfast. Gained a solid 8 pounds that didn't come off anytime soon after I got back on my program.

So yeah, its not always water weight, but if we're talking a very short stint of cheating, it mostly is.

I heard this so take it with grain of salt heh:

Fat cells never go away and when you cheat and gain all that water weight, it fills the fat cells thinking you'll keep doing it to reserve the space for the fat to go back into its cell, or something, so pinching fat may just be water, so so what kmfisher said to do lol

If I'm not mistaken, if you pinch water weight, it would feel smooth, whilst fat would feel like small lumps under your skin.

Ok.. so if let's say I pinch the water weight, does it jiggle also? And does it seems more elastic? (I mean you can pull it further rather than fat that seems hard?)