saved_post post_updated firing before custom fields are updated, what function fires after custom fields are updated? wordpress

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I have a problem, I want to update a custom user meta data field using another custom post field. It has to happen AFTER the whole post INCLUDING CUSTOM FIELDS saves / updates. But all the calls I find: update the basic post data, then call the action, THEN update the custom fields.

saved_post & post_updated cause this code to be delayed by 1 saved. ie, if I were to make a new post and set the $my_value to 5, first time I saved it would come back with 0, then the next time it would come back with 5. ect ect.

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Does anyone know of an action hook that runs after custom post data has been saved? or how to make save_post or post_updated to fire after the custom post data? 

    function zhu_li_do_the_thing( $post_id ) {

//get post data, extract author-ID and post-Type 

$post = get_post( $post_id );
$post_type = $post->post_type;
$userid = $post->post_author;

//if your my custom post type, then get the custom field value i want. 

if( 'my_custom_post_type' == $post_type ){
  $post_custom_fields = get_post_custom($post_id);
  $my_custom_field = $custom_fields['im_a_field'];
  foreach($im_a_field as $key ){
        $my_value = $key;
        }

// if the value starts with a “+” or “-” do math with it against authors-custom-metadata, if it’s null ignore it, if it’s anything else, make the metadata = the value. 

  if(substr($my_value, 0,1)=='+' || substr($my_value, 0,1)=='-'){
        $my_int = intval($my_value);
        $author_int = intval(get_user_meta($userid, 'the_objective, true)); 
        $result = ($author_int + $str);
        update_user_meta( $userid, 'the_objective', $result );

  }elseif($my_value == null ){
        return;
  }else{ 
        update_user_meta( $userid, 'the_objective', $my_value )
  }}};

add_action( 'save_post, 'zhu_li_do_the_thing' );
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  1. You should use pre_post_update to check the post meta before and use post_updated to check the updated post meta.

    The following is a snippet of code from a class that checks the stock status of a woocomerce product.

    function __construct()
{   
    add_action( 'post_updated', array( $this, 'post_updated' ), 1, 1 );
    add_action( 'pre_post_update', array( $this, 'pre_post_update' ), 1, 1 );
}

function pre_post_update( $post_ID )
{       
    global $post_type;

    if( $post_type == 'product' )
        define( 'stock_status_previous', get_post_meta( $post_ID, '_stock_status', 1 ) );
}

function post_updated( $post_ID )
{
    if( defined( 'stock_status_previous' ) )
    {
        $stock_status = get_post_meta( $post_ID, '_stock_status', 1 );

        if( $stock_status == stock_status_check )
            return;

        // post meta is different - sp do something

}