What. The. Kitten?

bluesheeponahill

I'd been steadily losing about 0.5kilos a week had a couple of up and down blips, but down 6kilos in 12 weeks and happy with this. Granted i'd like it to be more, but hey, thats how it's going to work for my body. I'm averaging about 1300-1400 calories a day. maybe once a week I do 1500-1600 calories. That tends to be we eat out. I was 80.6Kilos. am 162cm tall

Until yesterday. Balloned 1.7kilos in one week! now 82.3! What on earth? it's not T.O.M, and no where near it.

I get weight isn't liner, most of my fluctuations used to be only 100-200grams up but far out, this is rubbish, and demoralising.

There's been no crazy eating. its just frustrating. feels like weeks of hard work undone thats all. I know, I obviously miscalculated calories for something somewhere just gah.

apullum

You didn't gain that much fat in a week unless you went WAY over your calorie goal. It would take a lot more than one calorie miscalculation. Weight fluctuations can happen for all sorts of reasons, from eating salty food to working out harder than usual to being a little constipated.

kimny72

It's water weight, it happens. Or maybe youre digesting something a little slower than usual. Sometimes it's a little weight, sometimes it's a lot.

MikePTY

A fluctuation of a few pounds is normal for me. There is no real way to predict when water weight decides to do its thing. It will drop off soon. Just stay the course.

Silentpadna

1.7kg in a week? If I weighed myself multiple times in a day, I would probably see that type of swing most days at some point. I absolutely see that kind of swing in a week from time to time. And I don't have a cycle....

That happened when I was in weight loss mode and it happens now in maintenance too.

For me (or most of us) to gain about ~4 pounds of fat in a week would require me to overeat by 2000 calories every day - in other words, I'd have to eat about 4700 calories per day to do that.

OP, I would not sweat this. It's a pretty typical fluctuation most likely.

rianneonamission

Sodium, alcohol, sugar, not enough water intake, if not ToM then perhaps ovulation...plenty of reasons. Unless you ate an additional 10500 cals on top of maintenance calories it would be fat, and I highly doubt you ate that much more in a week.

Relax

tinkerbellang83

neugebauer52

I don't like those weight fluctuations - so I only weigh myself once a week at the gym. Always the same scale.

kshama2001

bluesheeponahill wrote: »

I'd been steadily losing about 0.5kilos a week had a couple of up and down blips, but down 6kilos in 12 weeks and happy with this. Granted i'd like it to be more, but hey, thats how it's going to work for my body. I'm averaging about 1300-1400 calories a day. maybe once a week I do 1500-1600 calories. That tends to be we eat out. I was 80.6Kilos. am 162cm tall

Until yesterday. Balloned 1.7kilos in one week! now 82.3! What on earth? it's not T.O.M, and no where near it.

I get weight isn't liner, most of my fluctuations used to be only 100-200grams up but far out, this is rubbish, and demoralising.

There's been no crazy eating. its just frustrating. feels like weeks of hard work undone thats all. I know, I obviously miscalculated calories for something somewhere just gah.

Are you two weeks from TOM? I gain at ovulation and right before my TOM. Because of this (and because Lyle McDonald said to) I compare myself to last month, not last week.

AnnPT77

Minor injury or illness can also involve enough inflammation, thus water weight, to temporarily affect scale weight. So many possible reasons!

If you didn't dramatically increase calorie intake, or dramatically reduce activity level, it isn't fat, and will disappear in it's own time.

Hang in there!

bluesheeponahill

thanks everyone! within a week the weight all dropped off. Id done a intense workout the day before and It probably contributed to it. I was sore for days afterwards.

AnnPT77

bluesheeponahill wrote: »

thanks everyone! within a week the weight all dropped off. Id done a intense workout the day before and It probably contributed to it. I was sore for days afterwards.

Good news!

(Water weight can be weird. ).

Thanks for coming back with an update: It's always nice to know how things turned out!

bluesheeponahill

Yes, I'm nw less than I was prior to the sudden weight gain, so back to dropping weight off, still slow, but that's how i roll

Silentpadna

bluesheeponahill wrote: »

Yes, I'm nw less than I was prior to the sudden weight gain, so back to dropping weight off, still slow, but that's how i roll

Checking back in and confirming is cool. Glad to see you see it firsthand.

Now...going forward, you'll have an idea not if, but when it happens again.

It's interesting to me how tied up we get with this stuff. What I've learned about the fluctuation thing is that for the years I didn't care about weight (even when I was young and a normal weight) I'm now positive that these same fluctuations have always been there. I know this because when I decided to lose, I saw the fluctuations. And when I maintained, I saw the same fluctuations - usually correlating with similar eating patterns or activities.

I've also realized that the body self-regulates those fluctuations - and that's a good thing.

AnnPT77

Silentpadna wrote: »

bluesheeponahill wrote: »

Yes, I'm nw less than I was prior to the sudden weight gain, so back to dropping weight off, still slow, but that's how i roll

Checking back in and confirming is cool. Glad to see you see it firsthand.

Now...going forward, you'll have an idea not if, but when it happens again.

It's interesting to me how tied up we get with this stuff. What I've learned about the fluctuation thing is that for the years I didn't care about weight (even when I was young and a normal weight) I'm now positive that these same fluctuations have always been there. I know this because when I decided to lose, I saw the fluctuations. And when I maintained, I saw the same fluctuations - usually correlating with similar eating patterns or activities.

I've also realized that the body self-regulates those fluctuations - and that's a good thing.

To the bolded (by me) part: 100%. Being an oddball data geek, I weighed myself daily for years, and recorded the results on graph paper (!) before Libra, even before seriously trying to lose weight. At stable(ish) overall weight, i.e., maintaining a fat/obese weight, the fluctuations were definitely there.

When I started losing, knowing about that (and even intuitively understanding what kinds of things tended to cause ups/downs) was a great help during the weight loss process, psychologically speaking.

ExistingFish

I get a bigger weight spike at ovulation than I do at that TOM, which is midcycle. Glad it went back to normal for you