Gaining Weight After Over Eating 😅

24 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube segment, the speaker explains that gaining weight over a short period—especially after a carb‑heavy binge—is primarily due to the body storing extra glycogen in muscles, which pulls in water, and the physical presence of more food in the stomach. This results in a temporary increase in water weight and a less‑lean appearance, but it does not represent a loss of fat‑loss progress. Once normal eating resumes, the excess glycogen and associated water are shed, and the stomach empties, returning the body to its prior state.

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Mmm. Mmm. Mmm. He didn't lose progress in 7 days. When you eat more food, especially carbs, your muscles store something called glycogen, which makes you store more water weight. Plus, you'll just have more food in your stomach. So you won't look as lean. But that doesn't mean you ruined progress, because when you get back to normal eating, your body would lose the extra water weight and your stomach wouldn't have as much food in it, so you would go back to normal.