Question for Daily Weighers

endlessfall16

How much does your weight fluctuate from day to day? Assuming your daily weighing practice is consistent. Thank you.

DanaDark

About 1 pound for me.

During the day, my weight can fluctuate 5 pounds. This is due to food intake, sodium, and water. More food means more water retention for processing. More sodium means more water retention. Alcohol dehydrates people, so after a night of drinking, the scale can drop 2.5 pounds for me, only to go back up to 'normal' the next day.

So, I weigh in the morning first thing out of bed.

hiyomi

If I eat well through the week, it only fluctuates maybe half a pound to a pound, if I eat a lot (let's say on the weekend), it fluctuates as much as 5 lbs! Good example, I ate pizza hut last saturday and weighed 275, but Monday I weighed 272 again (my original weight)

Sabine_Stroehm

DanaDark wrote: »

About 1 pound for me.

During the day, my weight can fluctuate 5 pounds. This is due to food intake, sodium, and water. More food means more water retention for processing. More sodium means more water retention. Alcohol dehydrates people, so after a night of drinking, the scale can drop 2.5 pounds for me, only to go back up to 'normal' the next day.

So, I weigh in the morning first thing out of bed.

All of this. Except for me the scale goes up after alcohol. Always.

wsrep

Here's my screen shot to give you an idea. I think i missed a day though.

rosebarnalice

2 - 4 lbs is not unusual at all for me.

endlessfall16

wow some of you control your loss well.

Mine is like rosebarnalice's. Fluctuate a lot!!

Frankly I am a bit concerned. My concern is ...how long and how big a loss for the body to start eating into muscles in a detrimental way. (Hope that makes sense).

If the body can survive anything in 24 hours then I'm (my approach is) good!


Last column is loss/gain.

Mon 11-Apr 165.9 1.5
Tue 12-Apr 164.1 -1.8
Wed 13-Apr 164.1 0.0
Thu 14-Apr 166.2 2.1
Fri 15-Apr 163.9 -2.3
Sat 16-Apr 163.2 -0.7
Sun 17-Apr 162.8 -0.4 (altogether lost 1.6 / week)
Mon 18-Apr 163.6 0.8
Tue 19-Apr 164.9 1.3
Wed 20-Apr 161.9 -3.0
Thu 21-Apr 164.2 2.3


Thanks all.

capaul42

If you do some strength training during your deficit, it will help minimize muscle loss. Resistance training, weights, body weight exercises all help. So does meeting your protein goals (so I've heard).
Your fluctuations don't seem at all bad. And you seem to be losing at a good rate. Mine vary quite a bit, sometimes as much as 2lbs if I've had a new workout the night before or done a longer weight workout. But that's water weight from my muscles repairing themselves. Or if I've had a lot of sodium the day before. It always goes away in a day or two and there's usually an additional drop of at least .3-.5lbs as well.

Mycophilia

This is from the last 3 months. As you can probably tell, it fluctuates quite a bit.

amyk0202

I usually have around a 2 lb swing.

lorrpb

endlessfall16 wrote: »

wow some of you control your loss well.

Mine is like rosebarnalice's. Fluctuate a lot!!

Frankly I am a bit concerned. My concern is ...how long and how big a loss for the body to start eating into muscles in a detrimental way. (Hope that makes sense).

If the body can survive anything in 24 hours then I'm (my approach is) good!


Last column is loss/gain.

Mon 11-Apr 165.9 1.5
Tue 12-Apr 164.1 -1.8
Wed 13-Apr 164.1 0.0
Thu 14-Apr 166.2 2.1
Fri 15-Apr 163.9 -2.3
Sat 16-Apr 163.2 -0.7
Sun 17-Apr 162.8 -0.4 (altogether lost 1.6 / week)
Mon 18-Apr 163.6 0.8
Tue 19-Apr 164.9 1.3
Wed 20-Apr 161.9 -3.0
Thu 21-Apr 164.2 2.3


Thanks all.

My numbers right now are almost the same as yours, except I haven't gotten below 163 yet. Looks quite normal. Keep it going!

eyeshinebright

Fluctuates anywhere between 1 and 2 pounds. Annnd drops after a couple beers.