Scale numbers stuck AGAIN
candacebattle2012
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My daily calorie intake is 1,490. I’ve been doing very well sticking to it for the past month not cheating at all even exercising. I weigh myself everyday (twice a day morning and night) I’ve lost 8lbs so far but now the numbers are not moving down anymore and even went up a pound yesterday. It’s irritating me because I have a trip coming up and I’m trying to get in the 150s before I leave...what’s going on?!?!
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How long has it been since you've lost weight?0
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Weight fluctuates. That's part of life. You've lost eight pounds in a month.4
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candacebattle2012 wrote: »My daily calorie intake is 1,490. I’ve been doing very well sticking to it for the past month not cheating at all even exercising. I weigh myself everyday (twice a day morning and night) I’ve lost 8lbs so far but now the numbers are not moving down anymore and even went up a pound yesterday. It’s irritating me because I have a trip coming up and I’m trying to get in the 150s before I leave...what’s going on?!?!
Stuck AGAIN? What did you do differently in the past to 'unstuck' the scale???
How long has it been?? How are you calculating your intake as in using a food scale? Eat back your exercise calories?
The flow chart above covers the things you need review.0 -
Your stress hormones is holding on for dare life. Trust the process, and stop weighing yourself every two hours!5
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A month . . . correlates suspiciously with premenopausal women's normal cycles. Water weight can happen at any point. If you're truly on point with your intake, odds are excellent that it's water weight, whether that's the reason or not.5
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Just to clarify I was a yo-yo dieter for a while. And I got so tired of it I was like I’m sticking to it this time! So maybe because of that my body is confused11
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It's not your body that's confused. Yes, I'm being a smart *kitten*. In actuality, this process can be confusing......if you don't really understand how fluctuations work.
Your weight is fluctuating, always has and always will fluctuate (which means both directions), whether you are attempting to gain, attempting to lose, or attempting to maintain.
Trust the process that works. Anticipate fluctuations. You can do nothing about them. Use 6-8 weeks (or longer) of data before changing anything and don't react to fluctuations. React to trends. Trends take longer. Bummer, but that's how this works.5 -
And don’t weigh yourself twice a day - you can’t get an accurate trend line that way.0
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candacebattle2012 wrote: »Just to clarify I was a yo-yo dieter for a while. And I got so tired of it I was like I’m sticking to it this time! So maybe because of that my body is confused
Your body is not confused. Maybe your expectations are too high and not understanding the process, for example weight loss is not linear, daily fluctuations, etc.
If you are 100% as accurate as you can with intake and sticking to the deficit you are losing weight. Water weight is part of our weight. We fluctuate daily and smaller losses take longer to show on the scale, being stressed is one contributor that can impact our weight loss and balance. Weighing multiple times a day will not help speed up the process or make it work better. Weigh once a day, same time same conditions, maybe download a weight trending app that can help you weed out fluctuations.
Keep going with what you are doing or make necessary changes in logging, etc. and trend another 4+ weeks (full monthly cycle).2 -
Ok thanks for the tips guys! I realize weight loss doesn’t happen overnight but takes time..I weigh 162 right now and my goal weight is 150 lbs so I’m literally right around the corner of where I wanna be so it’s very frustrating. And yes I admit I’m a lil obsessed with weighing myself0
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Good to know (since I’ve never weighed myself more than once a day) Thanks!0
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