This silly rabbit has found her magic number

Hitmecaffeine323

I did it ! I lost 6oz after 3 months of reducing my calories increasing work outs I finally found my magic number. I went from 1800, 1500 to 1200 calories with no change on the scale. I’m super excited about the weight loss, but I’m terrified at the number I had to hit in calories to achieve this. I’ll try it again today just to make sure it wasn’t a fluke. If I come back another 6oz lighter I’ll post my magic number. Still getting hot flashes but I think I may have found something. Thanks everyone for all the support!

kommodevaran

You mean number as in calorie intake? What is it? 6 ounces is indiscernible on a body weight scale and not possible to establish whether it's fat or water/waste.

FYI, you lose weight by being in a consistent calorie deficit over time. The deficit doesn't have to be any specific number, it's impossible to log 100% correctly, you don't need any of that, just eat less than you burn.

ceiswyn

Did you pay any attention to any of the advice that was given on your other thread? About natural weight fluctuations, accurate logging, anything at all?

SuzySunshine99

I think that you are going to need to understand that body weight is not a constant, exact number. If you are obsessing about ounces, you are going to drive yourself crazy. Fluids, waste, food and beverages that you consume, all contribute to your current body weight at any given time, and that number will fluctuate throughout a day, sometimes by a couple of pounds. You can easily "gain" 6oz by drinking a glass of water, and "lose" 6oz by going to the bathroom.

Any successful weight loss is going to happen over a longer period of time, and it will NOT happen in a linear fashion. In other words, you will never lose an exact amount of weight every day. Some weeks you may lose weight, other weeks you may not. You need to pay attention to the overall trend, not the day-to-day.

This takes time and patience. You can't base any success or failure based on one day, one week, or even one month. You need to give it time.

born_of_fire74

ceiswyn wrote: »

Did you pay any attention to any of the advice that was given on your other thread? About natural weight fluctuations, accurate logging, anything at all?

Sometimes talking to dieters is like talking to teenagers. What do you know as a person who has successfully lost weight over a period of months or years and kept it off? What do you know as a person who went through everything OP is going through and figuring out how to remedy it? Pfft, no more than any of those fool adults knew about school being worthwhile when you were a kid, that's for sure.

Some things people just need to figure out on their own. When OP is truly through with yo-yo'ing and constantly stressing over meaningless things, then they may stop yo-yo'ing and constantly stressing over meaningless things. Until then, until OP is ready to stop looking for the easy, magic solution and until OP is ready to stop making excuses, it's unlikely any of us can say much that will make a difference.

pinuplove

That 6 ounces could be a BM, slight shift in water weight, less food in your digestive system, stood slightly differently on the scale...any number of things. There is no magic number, and you won't lose weight every day. The only thing reacting to short-term fluctuations on the scale will do is frustrate you. When you're willing to give accurate logging and calorie counting along with consistency over the course of weeks and months, then you'll see real results.

workinonit1956

OP, are you being serious here?

apullum

Six ounces is less than half a pound. This is well within normal daily body weight fluctuation. A six ounce difference could be accounted for by having slightly less undigested food than usual in your digestive tract, for example, or being slightly less hydrated. To illustrate the point further, I routinely weigh up to a pound less immediately after a run than I did immediately before the run, simply due to sweating.

Seeing a six ounce decrease on the scale does not mean anything at all about your current calorie intake. Honestly, a six ounce decrease doesn't mean anything at all, period.

AnvilHead

http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/

NovusDies

Apparently that silly rabbit has deactivated his/her account.