Weight gone on

Hallybops13

Hi, I'm a 5ft 6in female. I've got about 13 stone to loose. Since Christmas I have lost constantly every week and now I've lost 1 stone 4 pounds in total. In the last two weeks I've lost 9 pounds. This week however despite doing all the same things and even a bit better I've put on a pound. I'm currently eating 1700 Cal's a day and exercising a bit. (I struggle with movement due to an illness.) I don't understand why nothing has come off this week. Does anyone have an advice please?

glassyo

Too much sodium? Aunt Flo is visiting? Weighed yourself at a different time under different circumstances? The moon is in retrograde? Scales are mean?

*whispers* Weight loss isn't linear.

Others will come and be more scientific in their answers.

paperpudding

I almost always found if I lost more than usual one week (and sometimes even if I didnt) there would be a small self correction or adjustment the following week - so if I lost 4.5 lb per week for 2 weeks I might gain 1 lb the following week - overall amount is still 8 lb lost over 3 weeks, of course.

its just the normal fluctuations that happen in real life, that's all.

PAV8888

In 9 weeks and 2 days you lost 18lbs, i.e. an average of 2lbs a week
This actually represents a very fast rate of loss.

In the past 2 weeks you lost 9lb.
This actually represents an insane rate of loss unless it is a bit of an aberration.

This week there was a bit of a correction after that fast loss; yet you still averaged 8lbs of loss over 3 weeks, i.e. almost 3lbs a week.

While 3lbs a week may or may not be above 1% of body weight per week for you, still, it is above the max rate usually contemplated by MFP.

So not necessarily dangerously fast; but certainly not the safe and stately 1.5lbs a week rate your first 6 weeks / 9lbs would average out at!

Based on the amount of weight you are planning to lose, you can probably afford to lose a bit faster than your average MFPeop. And especially during the first 6 months it may be relatively safe for you to exceed the 2lbs a week rate.

BUT, do yourself a favour. You're not in a race. Given your starting point weight management is NOT a "fire and forget" one time and I'm done thing.

Long term compliance is much more important for you than weekly results. And you should probably be thinking in two or three year losing and two or three years of maintenance plans as opposed to how soon you will get to one-der-land! So settle into making things as long term and easy as you can for yourself. And definitely juggle and experiment with things to achieve good / optimum / better rates of loss within reason.

BUT AVOID THE TEMPTATION to keep ratcheting things and trying for faster and faster and faster results as if there is a finish point to a race.

Your weight fluctuation is normal and expected if you had a substantial increase to your deficit three weeks back. Your water weight (where water weight = all the things that are NOT fat, ranging from waste in your system to hormonal weight changes to water retained to balance sodium to water retained for muscle repairs to...) is rebalancing and this happens quite often.

You may want to get yourself a weight trend app and to consider your daily weight to be your trend as opposed to your actual scale weight.

cmriverside

Yeah. What they said ^^

This is a long-haul project and not every week is going to be a "loss."

Have you looked at the "Larger Losers" Group? Lots of great info, empathy and support there. You can read without joining but to post, you'll need to click the "Join" button at the top.

link:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/133315-larger-losers

ahoy_m8

Please read @PAV8888 again. Lots of wisdom in there.

Bridgie3

go you! you're amazing!

If I were to try to draw a graph of your bioactivity I'd have maybe 3 or 4 lines going across it, impacting on your total 'weight'.
1. Water. Exercise makes you keep water. So does auntie flo which has its own up and down cycle, and if you have recently increased your exercise, your muscles will probably be carrying water.
2. glycogen. This is the way your glucose is stored in the liver, with 4 times its own weight in water. In the first few weeks of a very low calorie diet you can lose a lot of glycogen. But as time goes by, you can lose fat and retrieve glycogen - which is a good thing; which would mean you had no change on the scales, or the change was reduced.
3. food in the gut. Depending on what you ate the last few days, and whether you've been to the loo or not before weighing, you could be carrying a pound of solid waste and 2 pounds of wees.

The laws of physics demand that if you eat fewer calories than you use, you will use up stored fat. So even when you don't see movement on the scales, it's really important to just trust the science.

I don't expect to show change on the scales more than once a week. Even though I'm consistently using up more calories than I ingest, it shows up in its own way, in its own time.

You're doing amazing, and I'm really impressed. Just keep doing what you're doing.

dzinegrl

On weeks/days where it looks like I haven’t lost any weight my Withings Body+ body composition smart scale shows I’ve lost body fat(yay), am carrying excess water or have gained muscle. Weight fluctuates depending on salt, meals, bathroom activities, etc. Weight is just one indicator, so I’d suggest a scale that will give you a more holistic look at what is actually happening. The weight is automatically added to MFP app but the rest of the info appears on their Heath Mate App. The info has evaporated a lot of my previous frustrations and has allowed me to calm down. I’m thinking of getting their Scanwatch and sleep tracking mat so I can keep biohacking my weight loss journey. For the record, I have no affiliation with them and just use their products.