What the flip up with my SCALE!!

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  • briscogun
    briscogun Posts: 1,138 Member
    Sounds like you have an unhealthy relationship with the scale. First of all, weigh yourself once a day ONLY, at the same time of day EVERY TIME, and always make sure the scale is on the same spot on the floor every time. If you were really wise you'd stop weighing yourself daily and go to once a week since you are kind of over-obsessing about what the scale is telling you.

    Re-evaluate your goals and make sure your diet and exercise activities are supporting them. Focus on other goals besides your results on the scale, like new fitness goals in the meantime. Walk or run a mile (or more), # of push ups, pull ups, etc. Completing a workout routine/video plan. Lots of other healthy ways to express and measure your success than just fractions of pounds every day.

    And not eating for a day is NEVER the right answer. You know that.

    Good luck!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,587 Member
    I'm morbidly curious - did it move? Or was the mind lost?
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,066 Member
    rileysowner wrote: »
    tinaalisa15 wrote: »
    Tiny_Dancer_in_Pink wrote: »
    Food in your stomach has weight, so does the fluid you drink.

    But doesn't it suppose to digest

    Yes, but that takes time, 8 or more hours, and it still adds weight until you poop out the waste. Stop weighing at night it serves no purpose.

    Digestive transit time varies, but can be up to 50+ hours in healthy people.
  • babysaffy
    babysaffy Posts: 232 Member
    My goodness I hope the scale moved or OP took advice and is waiting to weigh.
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    Waiting on an update with bated breath
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Can someone post their weight loss chart showing the fluctuations?
  • DamienAngelica
    DamienAngelica Posts: 281 Member
    tinaalisa15 wrote: »
    Hey everyone I am down 26 pounds. I got on the scale early sunday morning and was 314! However I had a cheat meal and today I am 320! LIKE WTF! THE SCALE IS NOT FAIR

    The scale didn't eat the cheat meal. It's an inanimate object, incapable of being fair or not.

    You ate the cheat meal. The extra food/calories/sodium caused the spike in weight.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    tinaalisa15 wrote: »
    Hey everyone I am down 26 pounds. I got on the scale early sunday morning and was 314! However I had a cheat meal and today I am 320! LIKE WTF! THE SCALE IS NOT FAIR

    I said this in your other thread on the subject, but I see others have covered it all already:

    It sounds like a bump in the amount of water your body is holding due to the meal rather than a gain of 6 pounds of fat. That's pretty common. You'll see big bumps in the scale like that around cheat meals, high sodium days, and for many around ovulation and your period. It doesn't mean that you can't have them (although it's certainly fair to avoid them for a little while if the body's normal scale fluctuations stress you out), but just be aware that this is a thing the body does when it needs a little extra water to help process what you ate. It should disappear on its own by the end of the week once you get back to your regular routine.
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    kimny72 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Can someone post their weight loss chart showing the fluctuations?

    OP is not reading replies, it seems we've all been roped into listening to her complain. Unless maybe someone can find a way to fit useful info in between a bunch of OMG!!!s and WTF!!!s after telling her she is correct that her scale is so totally unfair. :neutral:

    Yeah. I thought maybe a picture would catch her attention. ;)
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Can someone post their weight loss chart showing the fluctuations?

  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Just gonna re-drop that, @nutmegoreo, so people don't have to click on it.


    Not that you're listening, @tinaalisa15, but this is what real weight loss looks like. Not a straight line down.
    ceo9rulkrdau.png

    Thanks! I don't know what the eff with my techno-fleas today! :laugh:
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Just gonna re-drop that, @nutmegoreo, so people don't have to click on it.


    Not that you're listening, @tinaalisa15, but this is what real weight loss looks like. Not a straight line down.
    ceo9rulkrdau.png

    Thanks! I don't know what the eff with my techno-fleas today! :laugh:

    I have to drag and drop off my desktop, or my photos do that. Can't load them from my phone at all without them being thumbnails.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Just gonna re-drop that, @nutmegoreo, so people don't have to click on it.


    Not that you're listening, @tinaalisa15, but this is what real weight loss looks like. Not a straight line down.
    ceo9rulkrdau.png

    Thanks! I don't know what the eff with my techno-fleas today! :laugh:

    I have to drag and drop off my desktop, or my photos do that. Can't load them from my phone at all without them being thumbnails.

    I can usually get them to work, I'm just going to give up for today. It's not like this is going to be helpful anyways.
  • Mellykay88
    Mellykay88 Posts: 307 Member
    Someone may have suggested this already, but it could me due to time of the month. 1 - 2 weeks before my period I can count on weight loss slowing or stalling out completely. When I start my period or shortly after I lose A LOT very rapidly. Keep doing what you are doing and consider taking a break from the scale if it is going to derail you.
  • TeachergirlCeleste
    TeachergirlCeleste Posts: 66 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Just gonna re-drop that, @nutmegoreo, so people don't have to click on it.


    Not that you're listening, @tinaalisa15, but this is what real weight loss looks like. Not a straight line down.
    ceo9rulkrdau.png

    I don't understand it's constantly dropping
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    tinaalisa15 wrote: »
    And to make matters worse we are having a valentine day party on Wednesday and there will be so much sweets and foods. I HATE TEACHING KIDS DURING THE HOLIDAYS.
    I also tossed my scale in the trash. it's incompetent

    You don't have to eat the food.

    Your scale is pretty accurate if you ask me. You just need to understand how it works.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    tinaalisa15 wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Just gonna re-drop that, @nutmegoreo, so people don't have to click on it.


    Not that you're listening, @tinaalisa15, but this is what real weight loss looks like. Not a straight line down.
    ceo9rulkrdau.png

    I don't understand it's constantly dropping

    There's ups and downs over a FIVE MONTH time period.
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