Coincidence?
AnnaBellQ14
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So for about two weeks I have been waiting for my weight to drop. Just kept going up and down. I have been consistently logging and coming in under my target net calories. Then one day I ate about 100 calories over my TDEE for that day and boom, the next day my weight dropped by 2 pounds and had stayed down the next two days. Was my weight going to drop anyway or does it have something to do with eating a bit more calories that one day?
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AnnaBellQ14 wrote: »Was my weight going to drop anyway
Most likely, yes.
Trying to tie fluctuations in scale weight exactly to specific days' caloric intake is an exercise in futility.
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yeah, 100 calories is in the realm of noise to the big picture. It was just a coincidence. Just keep sticking to the plan and it will continue to work.0
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ceoverturf wrote: »AnnaBellQ14 wrote: »Was my weight going to drop anyway
Most likely, yes.
Trying to tie fluctuations in scale weight exactly to specific days' caloric intake is an exercise in futility.
Usually when I overeat my weight goes up not down. Probably because of sodium and more carbs.0 -
You should stop weighing yourself every day too. It only leads to stress0
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I've had that happen a few times. Not sure if it is related or just coincidence but it sure is nice when it happens.0
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Untrue. It only leads to stress for those who attach an emotion to the fluctuations. I've been weighing myself daily for decades and it doesn't stress me out. In fact, I attribute the fact that I've never been overweight, regardless of my current fitness level, to weighing daily.You should stop weighing yourself every day too. It only leads to stress
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AnnaBellQ14 wrote: »So for about two weeks I have been waiting for my weight to drop. Just kept going up and down. I have been consistently logging and coming in under my target net calories. Then one day I ate about 100 calories over my TDEE for that day and boom, the next day my weight dropped by 2 pounds and had stayed down the next two days. Was my weight going to drop anyway or does it have something to do with eating a bit more calories that one day?
Yeah - it could be a matter of timing. It took me longer than I'd like to admit to recognize my own patterns. I would eat more on my TOM. A day or so later, some weight would fly off. I honestly thought eating at that higher calorie goal was what was causing the weight loss.
Nope.
It was the fact that I had just had a major water loss from my TOM ending, which is why the scale dropped. It had nothing to do with eating more a few days prior.
As far as weighing in every day, I don't think there's any harm in it unless you begin to feel discouraged by it. Personally, I love to see how my body responds to different foods and environmental circumstances. I just take it with a grain of salt as long as my average drops or remains the same.
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You should stop weighing yourself every day too. It only leads to stress
Agree with the others. Weighing every day isn't the problem. It's giving too much credence to the day to day fluctuations that's the problem.
If you can't help yourself from freaking out over fluctuations between readings, then yeah, maybe daily weighing isn't for you. But if you use it just to gather data, but analyze only over the long-term trends, then it doesn't particularly matter how often you record weigh ins.0 -
Untrue. It only leads to stress for those who attach an emotion to the fluctuations. I've been weighing myself daily for decades and it doesn't stress me out. In fact, I attribute the fact that I've never been overweight, regardless of my current fitness level, to weighing daily.You should stop weighing yourself every day too. It only leads to stress
I agree with SueInAz. While it may not be healthy for some people to weigh everyday, for some people it can be very beneficial. Weighing myself everyday helps hold me accountable to my calorie limits. I understand that a scale increase does not mean an increase in fat. It could be any multitude of things, so I do not flip out over it. It is when I do not weigh myself everyday that I get lax and are more likely to slip.0 -
GauchoMark wrote: »
Agreed. You'll notice a pattern... you will maintain for a couple weeks, then lose a bunch at once. It's very common and is called the 'whoosh' (basically your fat cells fill up with water as you burn fat, then you lose all the water at once).
That's how a lot of people have cheat days or go on vacations and are happy that they didn't gain any weight... When really, they should have lost during that time, but didn't, which is pretty much the same as gaining a couple pounds (which they might or might not end up losing 2-3 weeks later).
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hludwig980 wrote: »
Untrue. It only leads to stress for those who attach an emotion to the fluctuations. I've been weighing myself daily for decades and it doesn't stress me out. In fact, I attribute the fact that I've never been overweight, regardless of my current fitness level, to weighing daily.You should stop weighing yourself every day too. It only leads to stress
I agree with SueInAz. While it may not be healthy for some people to weigh everyday, for some people it can be very beneficial. Weighing myself everyday helps hold me accountable to my calorie limits. I understand that a scale increase does not mean an increase in fat. It could be any multitude of things, so I do not flip out over it. It is when I do not weigh myself everyday that I get lax and are more likely to slip.
Like you said, I also have to weigh myself every day otherwise I think I would become lax. When I stopped weighing myself every day, that's when I started gaining weight this last time. I like seeing the data too.0 -
I'm going with coincidence, too. It happens a lot.
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GauchoMark wrote: »
Agree. If you weigh yourself once a week, you're going to be affected by the previous day's eating decisions and hormones and your body's whims. You're not going to see that your weight drops or has stayed the same for a period--it's just a snapshot.
Anyway, my weight stalls for several days/a couple of weeks, then one pound comes off, then a second one the next day or two. It doesn't matter whether I'm 100 under or 300 over. It's been like this since I was around 26-27 BMI.0 -
Coincidence.0
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You should stop weighing yourself every day too. It only leads to stress
I weigh myself every single day. I do this to gather the data I need to know what will make my weight fluctuate.
OP - Repeat after me, Eating surplus adds surplus fat.
It is the law of nature and no amount of sheeple preaching about starvation mode will change the first law of thermodynamics. A calorie is a measure of energy and energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transferred or stored. Fat is stored energy, we must burn this energy and release it as heat to lose weight, if we eat more than we burn it is stored. This is how you and every living thing is programmed. Believe in it and use it as a guide for eating and you will find your way to a healthy balanced diet.
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Thank you everyone. My weight dropped again today, so I have a new low as well as I'm under the next 10. I'm about mid way to my goal. Nice.0
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