Yo-yo weight. Up a lb, down a lb.

GrandmaEricka

Where do I start? Have another 2+ stone to loose. Want to get back into the routine but struggling. Help please. 🙏🌟😬

Xellercin

It's totally normal for your weight to go up and down, even if your fat levels aren't changing, even if you are losing fat.

The scale never just stays the same, there's a lot more than changes in your body than just fat, and that's what shows on the scale.

You have to look at the results on the scale over a long period, ~6 weeks, to get any sense of what's actually happening.

csplatt

Not every pound is fat. If we weigh ourselves five days in a row we may get five different numbers. That doesn’t mean our fat levels have gone up randomly throughout the week. Our body is full of stuff that weighs something and fluctuates! Keep that in mind.

AnnPT77

Here's a good read:

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

And an MFP Community discussion of it, with personal experiences:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1

Up a pound (or few), down a pound (or few) is normal in the short run, and if losing slowly, it can appear that way for literally several weeks. If losing (in theory) faster, stress-related water retention can be a confounding factor, in someone who's either been at reduced calories for a long time, or had a very aggressively low calorie goal (possibly for a shorter time). More about that here:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10604863/of-refeeds-and-diet-breaks/p1

Water retention isn't fat, so not worth worrying over, but it can mask fat loss on the scale and frustrate us.

To give you more nuanced, personalized advice, we'd need to know about how long your weight has been cycling through the same range, what your calorie goal is, your demographic info (age, height, weight, activity level), whether you include "cheat days" or are having trouble sticking with your calorie goal, etc.

cwolfman13

GrandmaEricka wrote: »

Where do I start? Have another 2+ stone to loose. Want to get back into the routine but struggling. Help please. 🙏🌟😬

You need to be looking at the trend over time. Bodyweight fluctuates and losing weight isn't a linear process. This is what it looks like over time plotted on a graph.



Now, if you're just up and down 2 Lbs over a long period of time, that means you aren't consistently in a calorie deficit to lose weight and you're overall eating maintenance calories.