Is this normal during weight loss?

WynVln

Hi everyone! I have been having issues with my weight loss in the past week. If there is anyone that has insight into what may be happening, I would be happy to hear it?

For a little over a month now, I have weighed myself everyday. The first 4 weeks I was loosing weight fairly consistently with an overall downward trend. Now I appear to be gaining it back in the past week. (It's probably worth noting that I appeared to be loosing at about 2 lbs/week when I only wanted to loose at 0.5 lbs/ week.)

I haven't changed my diet and still am under my mfp set calorie goal. It was 1510 for the first several weeks and now it is set at 1460. To make sure that I am not going over, I weigh my food. I don't eat amazingly healthy but it's not all terrible either.

I workout approximately 3 times a week, not counting any walking I do. I don't eat back my exercise calories.

It has only been two pounds or so that I have gained but I don't understand why. Normally, a two pound increase wouldn't bother me, but when I look at the chart for the past week it looks like an upward trend. I haven't been doing hardly any strength training lately so I am skeptical that this could be muscle. I have been drinking more water lately, is it possible that it is water retention?

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Overall, I am curious if anyone else has experienced this in their weight loss and if I should worry that I am eating too much. I can't tell if this is just an outlier or an indication of a new overall weight gain trend and I need to change something.

Ming1951

I'm a daily weigher...my weight fluctuates up and down 1.5-2 lbs at least once a week. It is dependent a lot on what I ate. If I eat more sodium I hold on to the water weight more. Also on young women time of month adds to your weight too. Thank goodness I'm past all that, lol but I'm sure others will add advise here.

TimothyFish

Don't stress over day-to-day changes. Keep doing what you are doing for another couple of weeks and if your weight has gone up or stayed the same then start looking for causes.

BusyRaeNOTBusty

Give it a couple more weeks before you start to worry. Could be hormonal, stress related, salt intake related, etc.

annacole94

Hormones are a beast.
You also probably lost a lot of water weight in the beginning, and you could plateau as that moves to fat loss instead.
Give it some time, and zoom out to show a month or two to find a trend. A week is too short.

Ninkyou

Totally normal. Weight loss isn't linear, afterall.

Period, ovulation, sodium, extra carbs, injury, sunburn, exercise, etc can all be attributing factors that mask weight loss or give an appearance of gains.

deannalfisher

is it that time of the month?

englishmuffinruns

This is actually why I weigh everyday. I had spaghetti last night. As a result of the sodium in the sauce, I'm up 2.6 lbs this morning from yesterday's weight. Had this been the only time I weighed for the week I might assume that I wasn't making any progress, when in fact I'm doing great.

Tacklewasher

chubbychickruns wrote: »

This is actually why I weigh everyday. I had spaghetti last night. As a result of the sodium in the sauce, I'm up 2.6 lbs this morning from yesterday's weight. Had this been the only time I weighed for the week I might assume that I wasn't making any progress, when in fact I'm doing great.

This.

I had an odd drop last Saturday to 258, which was down 2.6 from the day prior. No idea why but two times on the scale and the same number. Went up the following day and only now am I back down to that number.

Without the daily weighing, if I just weighed Saturdays I'd be kinda pissed this week to be barely down from that. But seeing it as an oddity makes things a lot clearer.

It sucks but it happens.

amusedmonkey

Oh yes! Check out this brutal last week!

The highest peak is 3 kilos higher than the lowest (6.6 lb)