I have always said that one will look leaner at the same bodyweight on the way down than on the way up. It's essentially due to water weight. Ex.Originally Posted by TT Eric
Dieting for a show, say at 10% and 180, you are eating so clean, and doing everything right that your water level (under skin) are pretty low. You then get to 170, get off the diet, and go back up. By the time you get to 180 again, your water under the skin is higher than it was 'on the way down'. What's funny about this, is that your true body fat level would be lower than it was before, but the water under skin is higher. And water can look much worse than fat if stored this way.
That's my semi-theory anyway. There are more factors than that of course, ie - the time it takes to reach that weight again post diet (in your case quite long) as well as other minor changes is metabolism, muscle, etc. But in a nutshell, I always look leaner on the way down than on the way up at a given bodyweight - and that takes months and months to normalize.
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