how does your weight come off?

leahcollett1

hi everyone just looking for people's experiences on dropping their weight do you find it a gradual thing everyday a little more comes off or is us tends to be a over night thing?

melonaulait

For me, there can be a bunch of weeks where nothing happens and the scale even goes up a little bit, but then at the end of that I've lost some lbs.

CharlotteALC93

I will lose say 7lbs, gain a couple, reach a plateau, lose a few more, its a very up and down journey with an overall downward trend. Hard to keep the faith sometimes but our bodies are strange things.

choppie70

I weigh myself daily and graph the trends. Most Wednesdays I will lose about .4 of a lb.Then on Thursday, I lose about .6 of a lb. more. Friday I am up a few ounces and the rest of the week (until the next Wed. morning) I am slowly getting back down to the Thursday weight. Then on Wednesday, I am down .4 again.

This has been a fairly consistent thing since I reached the 20 lb lost weight and I went from losing almost 2 lbs a week to losing 1 lb a week.

GillianSmith2

I am only on day 20. The first 2 weeks i lost 6lbs (probably mostly water weight) but this week no change.I have just got to keep going

leahcollett1

im asking because i stupid;y weighed myself today ( my official weigh in is tomorrow) so im a day early. and it says ive gained 0.4lbs... i was really wishing that by some miracle people can lose over night as ive been so good this week and really thought id lose something.. i gained last week and stayed the same the week before so i really knuckled down this week

mydade

It's very individual thing. Losing weight can be a hard and long process for some people. Others, on the other hand, have no problem with losing weight at all. Different organism, digestion, stress level as well as hormones can really influence on weight loss. Some people believe that they are thinner and weight less in the morning than in the evening. That's wrong. It's not "over night" process at all. The weight you lose during the night is simply water, nothing more. But in general, losing 1 kg a week is the healthiest way to naturally lose weight.

tahn1000

Down down up down ... I call it saw-toothing. Weighing yourself daily can be a challenge. I counter that by entering my weekly weight in my calendar diary. my weekly goal is a modest 0.5kg a week.

PinkPixiexox

If you break your weekly weigh-in routine, you are likely to see a completely different result than what you see on your normal 'weigh day'. Your weight fluctuate's daily - up, down, up, down. This is one of the reasons why I don't weigh every day because I'm not a fan of visibly seeing the fluctuations despite knowing it is simply water or my body doing what my body needs to do. If you have been eating at a calorie deficit, there is no way you have gained 0.4lbs of fat. Just totally impossible.

If I were you, I'd stick with your allocated 'weigh day'.
If you *do* choose to weigh every day (or even every other day) - prepare to see those ups and downs
You're doing great.

leahcollett1

thanks hun - i had this little person on my shoulder scream at me not to do it do not weigh today leave it till tomorrow... i didnt listen

PinkPixiexox

leahcollett1 wrote: »

thanks hun - i had this little person on my shoulder scream at me not to do it do not weigh today leave it till tomorrow... i didnt listen

It can be so tempting to have a sneaky peak, I totally get that - but you've simply sneaked a peek on a higher water day, it'll be gone tomorrow

TasnimEz

My weight loss is just fluctuations. It can be frustrating but at least now with experience I know it's ok.

suzan06

Mine is all over the place. I was at 167.4 on Sunday. 170.0 on Monday. 169 on Tuesday, 168 on Wednesday, and 167.4 today. And I know exactly why: I ate restaurant pizza on Sunday with a ton of sodium and god knows what else in it- I didn't really gain 3 lbs from it, buts it is taking a few days for my body to shed the water weight.

I weigh most mornings, and it is always bouncing around. Like others have said, its the overall trend that matters.

amberlyda1

i started adding weights into my workout again so my weight went up; but I can tell im loosing because im firming up and my pants almost fell off my butt while i was walking upstairs. I also retain water like a sponge (super sensitive to sodium) In general ill be stagnant for a few weeks, then all of a sudden a few pounds will fall off. Its just harder to loose the weight as I get older. So Slow and steady and hopefully next Christmas Ill fit into my jeans

Need2Exerc1se

Slowly - but that's how I planned it. I lose inches more steadily than lbs.

missblondi2u

My body likes the whooshes. I'll hover around the same weight for a few days, then go up slightly, then drop a pound or more overnight.

amandabama22

I started August 2nd, I've lost 44lbs.
1st Month 13lbs
2nd Month 13lbs
3rd Month 11lbs
This Month I've lost 7lb already, but I changed my diet my big meal now
is breakfast, I'm trying to stick to no carbs after lunch.

scyian

Apart from the initial water weight I have been fairly slow and steady. I do weigh myself daily. I do find I can have a bit of a wooosh. I won't lose for a week and then I lose 2lbs the next then gain back 1 the following week and repeat.

kshama2001

Apparently my body really likes to hold on to water when I exercise. I'm sick, and haven't walked since Tuesday or gone to the gym since Saturday and lost 4 pounds overnight.

Meganthedogmom

It fluctuates constantly. I've been anywhere from 165 to 170.1 this week alone - always weighing in the morning.

ettaterrell

Mine can go up and down all in a day. I like yo way daily because I learn what causes the ups and it helps me to not stress over them because I know they are coming back down in a few days if I'm eating right

cnbbnc

Mine was steady loss at first, but then the scale started jumping all over the place. It would go up a pound, then down a pound, then up three pounds, then down four pounds! It flipped me out at first, but after it happens a couple times you start chalking it up to just being your body... As long as it's going down overall then you know you're on the right track. You can't let yourself get caught up in the fluctuations because they happen to everyone.

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newyorkcitymom

I weigh daily and use trend weight. I also like to look at the week over week average weights in my Fitbit and judge if my averages are dropping. My day to day weight bounces all over the place but my overall pattern is a pretty steady gradual decline - shown visually in my trend weight trend line. Even given that, the averages also move unevenly. Some weeks I lost less than a pound and other weeks 2 or 3. Part of this really is differences in my eating and activity habits, which usually I can identify, and some is just body fluctuations and the way it seems to process weight losses. After 10 weeks of this, I'm at a point where I can have confidence in my ability to assess whether I am doing what I need to lose and, if not, why. I've also stopped stressing if there are days or weeks where I'm not meeting my targets. I accept that some weeks I'm hungrier or go out more or am more lazy and other weeks I'm really able to kill it. I shoot for an average 2lb weight loss/week, or 1,000 cal deficit, knowing that would be the ideal and is not going to happen every day. Pretty much as long as I'm somewhere between maintenance (or even a couple hundred over) and the 1,000 (or even a couple hundred over) deficit, I know I WILL lose weight. Faster or slower depending on other life factors, but it's going down consistently and that's what matters. And it doesn't feel hard. In fact, 10 weeks has flown by the same way it flew by when my weight was going up without me really noticing. I know I can keep doing this and that's the key. I also know that the next step for me to keep/get better at losing, is higher fitness and a more consistent and higher intensity exercise routine. That will only get easier as I lose weight and gain fitness. Trying to keep/accelerate losing by eating less is a losing proposition for me. It's diminishing returns as you weigh less and your body needs less to maintain and the difficulty of it will make it hard to sustain. I really can't way less than 1,600 calories other than occasionally and tend to average much closer to 2,000. Works for me.

mbaker566

I weigh every day and just look at the trends.
I will get stuck for a month or so and then lose a couple of pounds. but there is a lot of zig zagging.

brb2008

leahcollett1 wrote: »

im asking because i stupid;y weighed myself today ( my official weigh in is tomorrow) so im a day early. and it says ive gained 0.4lbs... i was really wishing that by some miracle people can lose over night as ive been so good this week and really thought id lose something.. i gained last week and stayed the same the week before so i really knuckled down this week

I wish I could tell you that you will see what you want to tomorrow, but you might not! I expected to have dropped or at least stayed the same today, yet Im up 2lbs!! I almost threw in the towel for the day but I remembered this isnt a race, and my body knows more than me! Im guessing its retained water from a more intense workout yesterday. Just dont give up.

MarcyKirkton

My weight came off consistently until i hit normal bmi. I have gone up and down on 2lbs. for 3 weeks. Yuck!

cwolfman13

weight loss is a trend, not a linear function. you will have weeks with bigger losses and weeks with smaller losses and weeks with no losses and even gains...you have to look at the overall trend over time. this goes for maintenance as well...body weight isn't static and thus weight loss or gain cannot be linear.

you should also read up and gain an understanding of natural weight fluctuations...you're always going to have fluctuations due to water retention/release, more/less waste in your system at weigh in, etc.

nobody puts on weight overnight and nobody just drops the Lbs overnight...this is a long process so you'd be best to wrap your head around reality.