I Regain So Many Pounds!

[Tvtyrant]

Don't worry about it too much. I went on three hard cuts this year and lost a net total of.. 3 pounds. (I dipped down 11 and then back up 8 after the cuts were done.) So out of 11lbs lost, 3 were fat and 8 were water weight.

Everyone has told me how much weight I have lost and how my face is thinner and I look so different. Water weigh fluctuates wildly based on if you have glucosamine Glycogen from eating at maintenance or not, if you have worked out recently so your body is pumping water into your sore muscles, if you take creatine, etc. Fun fact, fat weighs less then Glycogen because it has a much lower water content, so you can lose fat while gaining weight even ignoring muscle development.

Make sure your diet is at or below maintenance and don't let the scale worry you too much.

Edited because I said glucosamine instead of glycogen and it was haunting me at work.