“Two kilos in one weekend? That can’t be possible!” Can you really gain that much?

“Two kilos in one weekend? That can’t be possible!” The article asks whether people can really gain that much weight in such a short time.

It says body weight can fluctuate by several kilos from day to day. Experts explain where those changes come from and how people should respond to them.

The bathroom scale, the article adds, can feel like both a person’s greatest enemy and best friend, as changeable as American politics and global financial markets after a tweet from Elon Musk.