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7 reasons why you gained weight overnight

Waking up in the morning and stepping on the scale can make your day brighter or, in some cases, darker. Have you ever been shocked by sudden weight gain that seems to come overnight?

This can be frustrating and confusing, and sometimes it makes you want to give up on your weight loss goals. But don’t lose hope because of one bad day on the scale. This article will explore the possible reasons for your overnight weight gain and reveal some tips for quick weight loss.

7 reasons you gain  weight overnight

Behind the scenes of overnight weight gain

Before discussing the specific reasons that contribute to quick weight gain, it’s crucial that you understand your own body. As women, we experience major weight and hormonal fluctuations throughout our cycle. Besides this rollercoaster, other culprits, such as higher food intake, water retention, and hormonal imbalance, can add to the unwanted number on the scale. 

Let's see which evil-doers are the most common.

1. Stress

Stress can cause many health and other unwanted complications in your life, which can stress you out even more. This is also true for sudden weight gain, which seems to happen overnight.

Short-term stress gives you adrenaline and makes you more productive, but long-term stress is the criminal here. This type of stress can increase blood sugar levels, leading to craving the foods you’ve been trying to avoid, such as cheesy fries, pizza, chocolate, and cake (all packed with trans fats and sugar). To top it off, stress can cause water retention, making you gain the water weight.

2. Crash diets

When pursuing quick weight loss, many women get caught up in the trap of over-promising diets, which cause more harm than good.

Crash diets are based on a really low-calorie intake and forbidding certain groups of food with the promise of very quick weight loss. You can recognise them by restrictive rules, such as avoiding eating fat, sugar, bread, pasta, juice, and alcohol.

After restricting and starving yourself for five days, your body is so deprived of nutrients that it forces you to eat everything in your sight, leading to eating an enormous amount of calories, which brings you right back at the start. Some more serious consequences can be seen as mood swings, hormonal imbalances, and even gallstones.

3. Too much salty food

Sprinkling salt all over your meal is commonplace, after all without salt there is little or no taste!

But, you should know that most supermarket pre-prepared meals already contain a high sodium amount, so there's often no need to add more salt. Adding too much salt to your meals can be one of the reasons for quick weight gain.

Consuming a large amount of sodium can lead to water retention, resulting in sudden weight gain. This can be a shocking discovery, especially when you step on the scale in the morning. It's a clear sign that your salt intake may be a problem that needs to be addressed.

4. Not enough sleep

If you thought staying up past midnight is cool, think again. Not getting adequate sleep (7 to 9 hours a night) can lead to accumulating those extra kilos! 

Firstly, when you stay up later than average, you get hungry later at night because your body is begging for some energy restoration (in the form of sleep or calories) – therefore, you end up having a midnight snack. 

Secondly, when you’re running on as little as five hours of sleep the next day, your body is aching for that extra energy boost. This leads you to the fridge or to the closest drive-through to feed your body and keep going to finish all the tasks on your to-do list.

Remember, lacking sleep means extra calories.

5. One glass too many

Contrary to popular belief, alcohol is really high in calories. One glass of wine can easily result in more than 200 calories, and an average gin tonic has around 200 calories as well. Sipping a piña colada on a warm afternoon might seem refreshing, but this cocktail can have a whopping 500 calories

Although this information is depressing, alcohol also causes some chemical changes in your body. 

When you’re slightly buzzed, you often crave salty and greasy foods. Also, dehydration is a common consequence that comes with drinking alcohol. When the body lacks water, it can trigger a response to hold onto whatever water it has, leading to water retention.

6. Intense workout

HIIT (high-intensity interval training), strength training, and weight lifting can cause a sudden spike in weight. 

Although it sounds contradictory, as these activities are the best way to quick weight loss, they stress your muscle fibres and cause inflammation. The next day, this can be seen as some weight gain from water retention, but don’t worry – it’s only temporary. Keep up the good work!

7. That time of the month

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is all about bloating and water weight. During this part of the cycle, your body is preparing for menstruation and giving you a balloon belly in the process.

It's not uncommon to experience cravings for greasy and sweet food around this time, which can also contribute to gaining weight.

Once menstruation begins, your hormones return to normal, and if you’re lucky, your water weight is flushed out.

Best tips for quick weight loss

We know how stressful it is when an important event is approaching, and you can’t squeeze into your favourite dress. Forget starving and other extreme strategies that do more harm than good.

Here are a few tips and tricks to achieve quick and healthy weight loss:

  • Drink lots of water. Hydration is the base of losing water weight because it speeds up your metabolism, makes you feel fuller, leads to eating less, and flushes out toxins. Drink at least two litres of water per day.
  • Daily walk. Make time every day for cardiovascular activity, such as walking, jogging, or cycling for at least 30 minutes. This way, you burn calories without putting stress on your body. You'll be amazed at how much you can lose by doing this overlooked activity daily.
  • Avoid unnecessary snacks. Have you ever checked how many calories you consume by eating a simple bag of chips or chocolate biscuits? Although we know they are irresistible in some cases (such as during PMS), avoid eating them the rest of the time..
  • Try intermittent fasting. That means you can choose the number of hours you eat in 24 hours. The most common choice is to eat during eight of the hours when you’re awake, but for the other eight hours you fast, and the rest of the time you’re asleep. Sounds pretty easy, right?
  • Swap sugary juices for draining drinks. Fruit juices sound very refreshing on warm, sunny days, but they’re also full of sugar and unnecessary calories. We know you’re not always craving plain water when you’re thirsty, so why not choose a strawberry-flavoured drink with weight-loss effects

Strawberry-flavoured draining drink:

Not a fan of drinking plain water and trying to avoid the extra calories from sodas and juices? We've got you.

3-in-1 Draining Drink from Tummy Tox contains a unique combination of natural diuretic ingredients proven to show visible results in just 1* week of use, faster than most other slimming products.  

The best part is that it also supports long-term, gradual weight loss!

It has been designed to fight water retention, extra kilos, and cellulite while flushing out the toxins and freeing you from bloating.

It has been clinically proven to:

  • Eliminate excess water weight by 27*%
  • Relieve you from bloating and swelling by 60*%
  • And a whopping 87*% of users were satisfied with the results!

And would this drink be so perfect without adding the superstar mineral - magnesium? Of course not. Magnesium takes care of your electrolyte balance, normal muscle function and even reduces the feelings of tiredness and fatigue.

The recipe for this strawberry-draining drink is a mix of high-quality extracts from CactiNea™, VinOgrape™, nettle, dandelion, java tea, and artichokes. To make the formula even better for your body, we added Fibregum™, a patented ingredient from acacia gum with a high-soluble fibre content to take care of a healthy gut.

Surprise yourself, not with a higher, but with a lower number on the scale, and bring yourself closer to your weight-loss goals in just 1* week!