I weighed myself every day for 30+ days

new_arc87

http://imgur.com/jKvimGe

I ate at a consistent calorie deficit every day, but as you can see, the scale varied by up to two pounds in just 24 hours (due to water weight, etc).

My point is not to get discouraged if you're taking just two relatively recent data points. As it may not accurately reflect your true fat loss.

bigmuneymfp

I've weighed myself every day for 500+ days and the scale varied up to 8lbs

AnvilHead

Fluctuations, sometimes very significant ones, are common and completely to be expected. And weight loss isn't a linear process.

Here's a screenshot of my daily weights for the last 3 months (I've weighed daily for over 21 months now):

AmyOutOfControl

I use the Happy Scale app. It takes a "moving average" - helps with the fluctuations.

Geocitiesuser

Here's my last 180 of daily weigh ins. Definitely varies by sometimes as much as 8 lbs. in a day.



I've found that the weight and volume of food will typically have a bigger impact on weight than things like high sodium foods. So if I eat an extra two pounds of fruit and veggies, it will most likely show on the scale the next day, where as an equal amount of calories of peanut butter won't even make it budge in either direction.

I've learned to think in terms of months, not weeks. So I try to compare monthly weights. Weekly weigh ins are still too close to always see the real trend for me. You can see towards the end as I get closer to my goal weight the chart isn't quite moving like it used to

thewindandthework

I weigh daily, too. Here is my last 3 months. Lots of ups and downs, perfectly nice downward trend. I don't get hung up on daily fluctuations.

xsmilexforxmex

AnvilHead wrote: »

Fluctuations, sometimes very significant ones, are common and completely to be expected. And weight loss isn't a linear process.

Here's a screenshot of my daily weights for the last 3 months (I've weighed daily for over 21 months now):

I'm actually really happy to see this because mine changes like that as well - I'll have a few days at a good down slope, then suddenly I'm up 3 lbs from the line. -_-

sgt1372

I've weighed myself daily for over a year.

I enter all of the data on Excel and calculate a 7 day moving ave each day, which smooths out the variations.

ijsantos2005

thewindandthework wrote: »

I weigh daily, too. Here is my last 3 months. Lots of ups and downs, perfectly nice downward trend. I don't get hung up on daily fluctuations.

That's a really smooth line!

SusanMFindlay

Just a few minor fluctuations...

Started calorie counting around Day 1300...

acopeland321

This is so true. Especially for women around different times in their cycles.

Luna3386

ijsantos2005 wrote: »

thewindandthework wrote: »

I weigh daily, too. Here is my last 3 months. Lots of ups and downs, perfectly nice downward trend. I don't get hung up on daily fluctuations.

That's a really smooth line!

I agree. Your upwards spikes don't even seem to be up!

thewindandthework

Pretty much the point of TrendWeight is to see the general trend without getting sidetracked by peaks and valleys. So yeah, the image I posted does look pretty smooth if you look at the line, but the individual dots are my actual weight. So if you look at it in MFP's graph, the same three months look like this:

Definitely a downward trend, and so far I've only had one week where I really didn't get anywhere, but there are very visible ups and downs every week.

GrumpyHeadmistress

Spot the cycles!

Christine_72

Luna3386 wrote: »

ijsantos2005 wrote: »

thewindandthework wrote: »

I weigh daily, too. Here is my last 3 months. Lots of ups and downs, perfectly nice downward trend. I don't get hung up on daily fluctuations.

That's a really smooth line!

I agree. Your upwards spikes don't even seem to be up!

I was thinking the same thing! I don't see even one dot above the line in the whole 3mths. My chart is most definitely not as perfect.

amusedmonkey

Oh yes! Here are my days on the exact same deficit: