How much do you see your weight go up from lifting?

ShrinkinMel

What I mean is during the week I see it go up even my morning time first thing weight. I was staying quite steady unless I had a lot of carbs and sodium and of course at my cycle time. But how many of you saw it going up say 3-3.5 lbs and falling back. I'm worried I will be up this week. I do know my eating on the weekend was not great and my tracking didn't happen much because I was out of town and my darn phone doesn't hold a charge long. My whole weekend getaway was kinda rush rush rush. BLAH Next time I want to get a hotel on the beach and just relax away. LOL

And before I hear it YES I am tracking my measurements too. I didn't record them at the first start April 22nd but the 2nd week so I may measure again but I think it may be too early to see too many changes though I do feel some in my rolls on my sides(love handles or what not). It's not going to make me stop but I'm mostly using circuit machines with higher weight low reps. I definitely feel changes in my muscles in my legs and arms though. I'm guessing because of my deficit I didn't gain muscle but I've heard about the muscles holding water and what not after training? Could my up mornings be that. It's frustrating because I'm trying to lose 2 lbs a week but retain as much muscle as possible. I'm wanting more loss because I want off my medications. I know eventually the loss will slow but with my current weight 2 lbs a weeks is a lot safer.

Sumiblue

Before I stuck to my deficit I gained and lost the same 3-5 lbs. Some was water retention and some was from hormonal fluctuations. When I did stick to deficit I might see 1-2 lb up for the above reasons but then I would hit a new low weight. I weigh daily and use Happy Scale to track so it was easy to see what and when this was going on.

canadianlbs

ShrinkinMel wrote: »

how many of you saw it going up say 3-3.5 lbs and falling back.

i see this quite frequently. same week/weekend pattern as well. for reference: i'm 5'4"ish and atm i just consider anything between the low and high ranges of 130 pounds as normal. i.e. i'd like to weigh 130 on the low days (i don't, but don't stress about it). and feel like i don't need to fret until/unless it passes the 140 line (which it hasn't). actual fluctuation from week to week is more like 5-ish pounds.

but in my case it's hard to know since i also discovered very recently that if i keep myself as aggressively hydrated as i like to be over the course of a day, that's as much as six extra pounds in itself. my body seems to like a LOT more than just 2l of water a day to keep the muscles and joints moving smoothly. so i just resign myself to that too and that's where my 140 high mark comes from. menstrual changes don't apply for me as my periods have either stopped or are still being suppressed by a hormonal iud.

personally at my current weight range, i don't think it would be feasible to try and lose two pounds a week anyway. not if i also wanted to progress with strength work. so i can't comment much there, as it's one of those personal contexts that may be different for you and the situation you're in.

tl;dr: yes, fluctuations are normal for me. and i just really haven't found that i can expect linear weight loss patterns at all, if i'm lifting with any kind of seriousness. i'm pretty inconclusive data anyway - i gauge actual progress by clutching at chunks of myself

ShrinkinMel

I was up and some dropped back on Sat morning. I'm not overly worried but when I'm trying to get 2 lbs a week loss it's frustrating. My deficit was pretty good most days under(not eating back all exercise cals) But I had two days that were sadly unknown. I was getting ready for and then traveling out of state. Sunday I managed to get it all tracked and was over for sure. I did workout out a moderate pace walk on the beach both days on our vacation away for the two days.

Keeping it up and will keep much closer to the target. Friday night is usually my cheat meal of sorts. Often pizza but afraid that needs to go. Though the first 3 weeks I did fine with it like that. Because of the larger amount I figure it was water being held from sodium and/or strength training and muscles needed it. I dunno. I know with my cycle I will see 5 or even more of water bloat. blah That will be next weeks more than likely. YIKES. Hopefully I don't get discouraged but I have my gym buddy and that has kept me more consistent on tracking than I was in years. I want off my meds and I know I will have to work for it.

canadianlbs

i'm two years in now, so i think i've kind of forgotten how hard it was in the beginning to even know if i was on the right track. it was like being on a road you don't really have any problems with, except you're trying to get to a specific place. you keep looking at everything along the way for clues because you don't know if it's the road that you're supposed to be on.

deficits do seem to end up in weight loss. and doing strength work at the same time does seem to prevent your body from taking the lost weight out of your muscle stores. there is a lot more 'churn' when you combine the two, compared with when you just carry on with your regular life while dieting. your body's juggling more factors every day and i think things do get a little bumpy by comparison. longer-term trend watching is sometimes more helpful. i know about the weigh-once-a-week idea, but tbh the only way i really notice whether i'm gaining or losing weight for real is by looking back at what i weighed last month or two months or three months ago.

also: afaik, it takes a thousand-calorie deficit every day to create a 2lb/week fat loss. that's kind of steep when you're also needing to feed yourself adequately to support the strength work. there's nothing wrong with doing it (again afaik) but a little cheating wouldnt' surprise me at all, if it were me doing it