Still feeling really discouraged...

lml852014
lml852014 Posts: 243 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Since the beginning of November I was weighing in about 133.6 lbs I try and weigh myself about once or twice a week. So for 3 weeks I was literally staying the exact same weight. No fluctuations idk if it could be my scale or what. But for the past two weeks I've been weighing in at like 135.2-135.8 and I'm not sure why. I did eat and drink a little more over the thanksgiving week but it just doesn't add up! For me to have gained almost 2 lbs in a span of a week. Everyone's said oh its just water weight probably will come off in a week. And it still hasn't :( it just really bums me out that I'm back up and its almost the holidays. I typically don't gain but if I gained this easily from thanksgiving I definitely will then.

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Are you trying to lose weight or are you trying to maintain your weight?

    Two pounds is well within the range of normal weight fluctuations.
  • Cherimoose
    Cherimoose Posts: 5,208 Member
    First world problems. :) See this post on plateaus:
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10179969/weight-loss-flow-chart-2-0/p1
  • lml852014
    lml852014 Posts: 243 Member
    lose .5 a week. I guess whats discouraging is bc my weight wasn't fluctuating at all for like 3 weeks it was staying between 133.4-133.6 and even if I would weigh in the evening it would stay the same. Now this week it has been fluctuating to 137 :/
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    This seems like a trivial amount of weight & a short amount of time. The fact it coincides with daylight savings time & entering the holiday season makes me think food or work out routines may have changed subtly, you're now eating at maintenance without intending to & the natural restoration of glycogen stores that go with that slightly nudged up the scale. Just my hypothesis.
  • scolaris
    scolaris Posts: 2,145 Member
    And I'm NOT being snarky or dismissive! It's a curiosity for sure. Puzzle it over. Try not to get emotionally invested.
  • blambo61
    blambo61 Posts: 4,372 Member
    If you've increased exercise that usually temporarily causes a weight increase or plateaus.
  • nordlead2005
    nordlead2005 Posts: 1,303 Member
    You're complaining about 2lb? 2lb is in the noise range and pretty much no one will know. I can gain 2lb within 10 minutes by drinking a 32oz container of water if I wanted to. You could have been partially dehydrated 2 weeks ago and are now slightly over hydrated.

    Read this if you want to put a 2lb fluctuation into perspective - https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/rubberbag.html
  • SuggaD
    SuggaD Posts: 1,369 Member
    If that makes you discouraged, don't weigh in. It's normal fluctuation.
  • cafeaulait7
    cafeaulait7 Posts: 2,459 Member
    Do the math on how much your extra eating on Thanksgiving would have changed your weight, and then make sure to include your deficits since then. You'll see that you probably didn't really gain fat. You might be a few days behind in your weightloss schedule is all. What's a few days? It's no problem :)

    It should settle out on its own soon. Otherwise, maybe you will have to double-check your logging skills, but it won't be just Thanksgiving day that was the problem unless you managed to have one enormous binge.

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