is this daily weight fluctuations normal?

trulyhealy

this week i’ve tried weighing myself everyday so i can see the fluctuations and so that i stop feeling so much pressure the day before weigh in day

is the fluctuations shown in the image normal? is this a sign i should change something like maybe eat less or move more? kinda sad that there hasn’t been any progress

trulyhealy

and i understand that fluctuations are normal but i’m sad that it hasn’t gone down but i’m thinking it’s bc i haven’t had a bowel movement in a few days?? (tmi sorry)

SeanD2407

Here is mine over the course of a month set at a .5lb deficit.


Yes fluctuates are normal. Though in the last month i've barely lost over a lb, but i'm at the point where the simplest logging error can hinder it. Typically I have more spikes, I guess this month I was lucky to only have 2 days where i was about 4-5lbs heavier than normal. Maybe ate a lot of sodium the day before.

My lowest point was actually about 2 weeks ago and I have not hit that again, but I assume I will eventually. Probably the same for you, with your lowest being earlier in the month.

hipari

trulyhealy wrote: »

and i understand that fluctuations are normal but i’m sad that it hasn’t gone down but i’m thinking it’s bc i haven’t had a bowel movement in a few days?? (tmi sorry)

If you think your weight hasn’t gone down, you’re looking at the wrong column. Ignore the recorded weight column and focus on the moving average. It shows you have lost 0.3 (whatever that is, I’m really unfamiliar with stones) in a week.

Your screenshot looks like Happy Scale, so I’d recommend focusing on the summary tab and your weight chart there. For reference, here’s mine. The blue line is my trend weight, showing clearly that I had good loss first couple of weeks and then slowed down a little. The dots are individual weigh-in recordings, which are all over the place. The green basically draws what my weight trend was in the previous 30-day time period, to further drive home that I have actually lost weight.

PAV8888

Anything you carry inside or outside you, that gets on a scale, has weight.

Your scale is too consistent actually. Unless you're on an absolutely level utterly unyielding floor, it is officially a fake consistency suspect.

Most scales these days show the same value when they detect small changes and continue to do so until they detect a larger change

Grab a heavy bottle, weigh yourself, then get off, drop the bottle and weigh yourself again. (Anything that's a lb or two).

If both scale and moving average are not moving the same way, some interpretation is required!

Causes of water retention are many--and even more so for females. Some of my MFP friends only see their lowest weight for only a few days every month!!

AnnPT77

Looks normal to me.

This (below) is my last few days, in a context where I've been trying to lose weight ultra-slowly, and overall dropping roughly a pound a month for the last few months. I've been weighing myself daily for literally years. My scale weight went up the last couple of days (salt and carb fest ), but I'm on track to keep losing very, very slowly over the long term.

Within the span of a few days, anything can happen. Bigger quick changes are water weight or digestive contents (<= the bowel movement is relevant to that part). Fat changes are more gradual, and hide behind the water fluctuations over days to even up to a few weeks.

Bodies are weird. Don't worry! :flowerforyou: