Why I am lean in the Morning

My question is this why in the morning i'm pretty lean but by 5 at night i have water retention on my stomach and nowhere else. I had my Adrenals checked and my cortisol levels are a little low. I workout like crazy and eat real clean and still no weight off my stomach its been like this for over a year. When I do high intensety workouts I hold even more water around my stomach. I only sleep about 6 hours a night. It seems like the less I workout the leaner and better I feel but this dosen't make sence to me.
I noticed when I lifted weights I usaually feel real tired if I do it to hard cardio if I go slow and keep my heart rate down I feel fine need some help please. Thank You

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Hi there!

Every single person will always be leaner in the morning. That is the way the body works. Anyone can take their weight and body fat measurements before they sleep and when they wake. It will always be lower in the morning after sleeping.

Sleep is where most fat is metabolized. It is also where excess fluids are metabolized. It is also when muscle is built. Other than intense exercise, deep sleep is actually the MOST physically active time of the day. While you sleep there is a tremendous amount of physical activity that goes in within the cells.

It is when your body is built.

Now to your other point, about getting more water retention in the envening when you exercise intensely. This is a classic sign of over training. You either need to cut back on your workouts, or adjust it to lessen the intensity or eat more.

When your adrenals get stressed, they firs send a signal to your kidneys to prevent sodium from being released. This is what causes the water retention. When you sleep, your body relaxes and the stress is reduced.

Without knowing the specifics of what you eat, when you eat and how you eat, it is a bit hard to be more specific. But I can tell you that 6 hours is too little recovery time for someone who exercises intensely.

If you were a client and you just wanted to get leaner and I would definitely have you reduce the intensity of your workout and eat more and sleep more.

All the leanness people want, come during the rest period, not during exercise. No one has ever gone to the gym worked out and weight less or had less fat no matter how many calories they burned. The changes take place during rest and recuperation.

I hope this gives you some guidance.

Yegyan