Your Weight Goes DOWN After Overeating? 🤯

25 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief fitness video, the speaker explains why a person’s scale weight may stay the same or even drop after a night of overeating. She attributes the effect to cortisol: during prolonged calorie deficits the body elevates cortisol, which causes short‑term water retention. When a day of higher calorie intake occurs, cortisol levels can fall, leading to loss of that water weight and a lower reading on the scale. The message reassures viewers that a single overeating episode does not automatically erase progress, urging them to resume their deficit immediately. She also directs viewers to a link in her bio for personalized guidance on setting the correct calorie deficit.

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Bitch, don't call me! Here's why your weight can go down after you eat like shit the night before. When you're in a calorie deficit for a long time, your body increases cortisol. Cortisol stores short-term water weight. So when you have a day where you eat more, your cortisol lowers, you will drop the water weight. So your scale either stays the same or goes down. This is why you don't automatically automatically ruin progress after one day of overeating. Just get right back on track. And if you need to know what your correct calorie deficit is, click this link in my bio.