Here is a summary list of the most important points from the “Bodyweight Fluctuations 101” article.

We discuss how drugs, nervous system activation, creatine, and habitual exercise can impact your weight. Creatine is known to make you hold water. Find out where this water goes and the multitude of ways creatine increases total body water.

Estrogen and progesterone influence water retention and bloat. Find out what these hormones do and why the end of the menstrual cycle is affiliated with more bloat.

Stress can make you retain water. Find out the hormonal signaling behind stress making you hold water. The time of day also influences hormones that make you hold water. Find out when you're typically the most dehydrated and why.

Eating carbs causes you to rapidly gain weight in a few different ways. Find out how carb and salt consumption can drastically increase your bodyweight.

People have a PhD in freaking out when the scale rapidly changes. We want you to know all of the different ways your body will rapidly gain and lose weight independent of fat loss or fat gain. In the opening article we discuss weighing yourself and why this is only a piece of a very large puzzle to assess progress.