How to stop weight flucations bothering me so much?
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if you're not eating 3500 calories a day, you're fine. Studies showed it takes upto 4000 calories for someone to gain fat. Your body and fat cells doesn't fully get settled until a year or 2 after weight loss. Just give it time, if you're eating the right thing then you have nothing to worry over. I agree with others, OP you are showing symptoms of anorexia. Your weight is becoming an obsession, i'd stop weighing myself until things settle down a bit. Weight does not equal fat.0
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If you weigh every day, record those weights and average them once a week. This shows overall trend and factors in the daily fluctuations. In my experience, it's more accurate than once-a-week weighing, because even if you weigh at the same time of day on the same day of the week (e.g. weight-loss group weigh-ins) you could still be catching a high or low, which can freak you out either direction.
This is what I do, and I love it! On the Check-In page here on MFP, I created a new measurement called "Daily Weight." This is what my Daily Weight graph looks like:
Every Monday, I average the last 7 days, and log that as my official weight. This is what my Weight graph looks like:
PS, this is what it looks like if I just weigh myself once a week. That bump is when one of my high weights just happened to be on a Monday, even though the overall trend shows that I was losing. I'm glad I didn't rely on this, or I might have thought I was doing something wrong.
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