I need advice plz

BoxingLifestyle

I was doing great losing weight and now the scale is going up and down one day. Ill lose two lbs the out of no where says i gained like 4 lbs whats going on???

pollypocket1021

Water weight and hormones.

BoxingLifestyle

Wouldnt the weight be at a normal range im the morning before any intake of anything?

Merkavar

Stop weighing your self every day. Your weights going to go up and down everyday. Weigh every week or month even.

Have you lowered the amount of calories to take into account your weight loss?

BoxingLifestyle

Oh yes i actually need more but theres only so much i can eat lol

GreenIceFloes

That's perfectly normal. As long as you are maintaining a sustainable caloric deficit, the extra weight is just water and glycogen. Weight fluctuates multiple times a day, about 5 lbs up and down for me. Even if you weigh everyday, only count the weigh-ins you do every week, or every other week, or every month, you get the idea. That's the only way you'll see a difference, and even that might not be linear.

fitnesscosplayer

I deal with this a lot, its probably like what a lot of people are saying water weight an hormones. Oh the joy of being a woman lol but I would go to weighing yourself weekly or even bi-weekly. At the same time each time you do it weighing yourself everyday will drive you crazy.

SmellyHippy

pollypocket1021 wrote: »

Water weight and hormones.

This

GreenIceFloes

BoxingLifestyle wrote: »

Wouldnt the weight be at a normal range im the morning before any intake of anything?

Not necessarily - it depends a lot on what you ate the previous day and how much water your body is holding. I've woken up weighing more in the morning than I do in the evening. There's no harm in knowing how your body reacts to food and how much your weight fluctuates etc., but don't let it get to you. It happens to everybody.

PAV8888

www.weightrgrapher.com www.trendweight.com
Both allow you to focus on the trend instead of the daily variations.

cheezels83

For me it depends on what my last meal was on how heavy I am in the morning. Especially if it was on the saltier side! I weigh myself twice a week, at the beginning and midweek. The midweek one is either an uplifting moment if it shows a slight loss I know I am doing ok. If it hasn't moved or even moved slightly up, it motivates me to keep on track for the proper once a week official weigh in.

puja25

Ditto happened to me as I like weighing myself everyday.

cheezels83 wrote: »

For me it depends on what my last meal was on how heavy I am in the morning. Especially if it was on the saltier side! I weigh myself twice a week, at the beginning and midweek. The midweek one is either an uplifting moment if it shows a slight loss I know I am doing ok. If it hasn't moved or even moved slightly up, it motivates me to keep on track for the proper once a week official weigh in.

I think I will try this , though its hard not to weigh myself everyday

puja25

Ditto happened to me as I like weighing myself everyday.

cheezels83 wrote: »

For me it depends on what my last meal was on how heavy I am in the morning. Especially if it was on the saltier side! I weigh myself twice a week, at the beginning and midweek. The midweek one is either an uplifting moment if it shows a slight loss I know I am doing ok. If it hasn't moved or even moved slightly up, it motivates me to keep on track for the proper once a week official weigh in.

I think I will try this , though its hard not to weigh myself everyday

kindrabbit

cheezels83 wrote: »

For me it depends on what my last meal was on how heavy I am in the morning. Especially if it was on the saltier side! I weigh myself twice a week, at the beginning and midweek. The midweek one is either an uplifting moment if it shows a slight loss I know I am doing ok. If it hasn't moved or even moved slightly up, it motivates me to keep on track for the proper once a week official weigh in.

I also weigh daily. You need to be logical and understand a little bit about physiology. If I gain I know it's certainly not fat as I am eating at a calorie deficit and exercising. I trust CICO. A gain will motivate rather than upset me. a loss will spur me on to further losses.
Op if weighing daily upsets your focus and upsets you, go to weekly. Otherwise accept that if you gain (providing you are 100% confident in your logging) it is just water weight and will come off when its ready.

I have been loosong and gaining the same 2lbs all week. Looking at my progress chart I expect it to be gone for good by this weekend!

DemoraFairy

Karen_libert wrote: »

cheezels83 wrote: »

For me it depends on what my last meal was on how heavy I am in the morning. Especially if it was on the saltier side! I weigh myself twice a week, at the beginning and midweek. The midweek one is either an uplifting moment if it shows a slight loss I know I am doing ok. If it hasn't moved or even moved slightly up, it motivates me to keep on track for the proper once a week official weigh in.

I also weigh daily. You need to be logical and understand a little bit about physiology. If I gain I know it's certainly not fat as I am eating at a calorie deficit and exercising. I trust CICO. A gain will motivate rather than upset me. a loss will spur me on to further losses.
Op if weighing daily upsets your focus and upsets you, go to weekly. Otherwise accept that if you gain (providing you are 100% confident in your logging) it is just water weight and will come off when its ready.

I have been loosong and gaining the same 2lbs all week. Looking at my progress chart I expect it to be gone for good by this weekend!

I agree with all this. Weighing anything less than daily would drive me mad, precisely because of the fluctuations. How can you keep track of them or know if you're fluctuating if you don't weigh daily? I'll never understand the logic of weighing weekly myself, but I know it's better for some people, so if you think that would be better for you OP then switch to that.

scrittenden

I weigh daily but now have come to expect the random weight gains.. for instance I know if I eat pasta the evening before I will have magically gained 1-3lbs lol