Real VS false weight gain

bfanny

Of_Monsters_and_Meat wrote: »

You would weigh different on the equator and the north pole. Did you do a lot of traveling?

...nope

bfanny

JanetMMcC wrote: »

For what it's worth, I've set my goal at 140 to 145. If I go over, I redo my settings for a half-pound/week loss. Once I'm back in range (and it hasn't taken long), I return to maintenance. If it's under, I give myself a few extra cals by giving myself a weight gain setting. Just for grits and shins, I added up all overages and under-the-marks for December and discovered that I was, overall, under by about 2800 calories. When my New Year's Day weight was 139.5, I gave myself a pound-a-week gain for the day. I'm at 142 today. The next 3 days, I'm going to set the goal for a half-pound/week gain, and then re-set to maintenance. Unless I go above 145. Even if that half-pound over (my scale shows only half-pound increments) is water weight, if I reset immediately to lose, I'm not endangering myself and I feel that I'm keeping things under control. And once I get back to 145 or under, I reset to maintain.

Have you been logging everything you ate? Holiday food can add up real fast. Three Lindt mint truffles = 240 calories. Which means 3 a day could, on top of maintenance calories, add pernear a half-pound of fat a week.
http://www.dietbites.com/article1157.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/calories-average-american-eats-christmas/story?id=27816914
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/14/christmas-weight-gain_n_4370815.html
(Ignore the detox rubbish - a balanced diet is all anyone needs to worry about.)

But yeah, fluctuations are normal. Here's my 30-day chart.

I like this!! I'm going back to "losing mode" get to 130 and have a range of 5 lbs

JanetMMcC

Glad you found that helpful, bfanny!