Gain a pound????

michellehasty1
michellehasty1 Posts: 7 Member
edited November 23 in Health and Weight Loss
i just started back on my diet n for some reason I have gain a pound but I haven't been eating all my calories n been exercising everyday but today cuz I have a ear ache n can't wear my hearing aid n don't like to be without it around people or outside. Why would I gain a pound when I should have lost one??

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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,030 Member
    Water retention. Weight loss is not linear and weight fluctuates daily.

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  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Water retention. Weight loss is not linear and weight fluctuates daily.

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    QFT.
  • michellehasty1
    michellehasty1 Posts: 7 Member
    Huh what is qft. Thanks guys weight myself today n I was 175.4 instead of 177.4 that made me happy.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    QFT is quoted for truth.

    I was up a pound the other day because I had a lot of salt. I ate cheesecake yesterday. That pound was gone this morning.

    Water weight fluctuates, hormones do their thing. Exercise can have effects.

    I weigh daily, but I read the boards and learned all the things that could cause water/glycogen issues. I no longer worry about scale wobbles.

  • michellehasty1
    michellehasty1 Posts: 7 Member
    So is it better to maybe only check the scale 1 a week it only made me for sure get a morning walk in when I normal only walk in the evening n do a workout video.
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    You can weigh whenever you'd like. I'd miss my lowest weight if I only checked weekly, so I weigh daily. For someone else, weighing daily and seeing the ups and downs is a freak out thing.

    You know yourself best and what's going to work best for you.
  • yesimpson
    yesimpson Posts: 1,372 Member
    My weight varies wildly day by day based on how much food and water I've had that day, whether I've had a lot of alcohol or sodium, how much I've exercised lately, where I am in my cycle, whether I've been to the loo recently or not. It's the trend you want to look at, and you need to be patient and track your weight over a period of a few weeks to see if it's going in the right direction really. But if you're keeping active, logging your food accurately and keeping to your calorie goal, you are doing the right things
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    michellehasty1 wrote: »
    So is it better to maybe only check the scale 1 a week it only made me for sure get a morning walk in when I normal only walk in the evening n do a workout video.

    if you're weighing in daily you are going to see all kinds of fluctuations...these are natural and normal...body weight isn't static...the scale simply measures weight...there is more that goes into your weight than just fat..you will always have varying degrees of waste in your system...water retention/release, etc.

    because body weight isn't static, weight loss (or gain) for that matter is not a linear function. you don't lose exactly X ounces per day or even exactly X Lbs per week...you need to track trends and look at the averages over time (i.e. weeks, not a few days). over time, your average rate of loss should be roughly equivalent to what you have established as your goal..of course, this is also highly dependent on your accuracy as well as consistency. one of the biggest reasons people fail is that they get frustrated by the day to day which leads to inconsistency...inconsistency will equate to NOT achieving the goals you've set forth.
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