Do you update your ticker when you gain weight?

BeautyFromPain

Do you update your ticker when you gain weight?

mangirl

i dont gain weight

wbgolden

I do. Thankfully, the shame isn't posted for all to see. :P

anbegley

yep. it happens. don't like it, but it happens. need to be brutally honest if this is going to work. : )

KierstyPants

well mangirl... that's interesting.

on ther other hand, it depends on how much i've gained.
if it's a pound or two i leave it.
if it's more i change it.
so, yea

hail87666

Nope. I know I should but I generally resolve to weigh again in a few days and it's usually gone

MFPfriend

I took a one-year hiatus from MFP (I was a foreign exchange student in Germany and wanted to enjoy my year there, so I made the decision to not count calories). I lost a lot of weight in the beginning, but gained some back later. I did update my ticker when I gained weight, just because it sort of kept me accountable, and it let my friends know how I was doing.

111408

i dont gain weight

You were born this size then?

jan169

I just recently gained three pounds. I'm assuming it's from water retention or muscle gain. However, I didn't add it to my ticker. Instead, I just work out harder and eat better and remind myself how far I've already come and where I want to be, so that when I lose more weight, I can update my ticker!

BioQueen

If I know it is due to water retention I don't (or if I ate extra carbs the day before). This past week I had pasta and went over sodium so I gained 2 pounds. Two days later it was back to normal. However, I changed my ticker when I gained back 5 pounds this past spring... so sad, but it woke me up!

1_up

If the "gain" remains a gain for over a week. I update. Otherwise I don't because most likely I"ll lose it in a few days and it will post on my wall that I "lost" a lb and everyone will be happy for me for no reason at all

bode702

i don't. i feel like it helps me get back on track faster if i keep the ticker where it was and have the goal of my lowest weight to come back to. it helps me not to give in to the higher weight.

mangirl

no but i am not going to gain weight after this and haven't yet.
my weight fluctuates within 3 pounds. If for some reason I did gain weight i would track it. :P all about dat honesty.

anubis609

i dont gain weight

Weight gains me.

Justcallmejenny

I just recently gained three pounds. I'm assuming it's from water retention or muscle gain. However, I didn't add it to my ticker. Instead, I just work out harder and eat better and remind myself how far I've already come and where I want to be, so that when I lose more weight, I can update my ticker!

What she said

BeautyFromPain

i dont gain weight

Yeah you know what everyone is different. I have had some issues in my life lately causing me to gain which is actually none of your business. And what, you have never gained weight in your life? HAHA sounds kinds funny to me.

ANeWcRe8N

I don't.. its usually just a water gain and goes back down in a couple days. Other than the normal water weight gain I have not gained any weight so far since starting this new lifestyle.

taso42_DELETED

i dont gain weight

Weight gains me.

in soviet russia?

megz4987

If I know I messed up that week and that it's not just water weight/TOM, then yea I log it.

mangirl

i dont gain weight

Yeah you know what everyone is different. I have had some issues in my life lately causing me to gain which is actually none of your business. And what, you have never gained weight in your life? HAHA sounds kinds funny to me.

Things happen and I wasn't trying to make a personal attack, just being a little silly. =P

HilarieXcore

I update it every week no matter what.
If it's just a little water gain, it'll make a really nice loss the next week.

baisleac

No... between monthly cycles and sodium, my weight gains have never proven to be "true" gains.

bjshooter

Nope, normally it would be a 1lb or 2lb and its gone in a week.
Having said that I have been totally stuck before, going up and down the same few lb. I added it on my ticker and lost it for good Maybe it helped.

Normally its TOM or sodium and gone pretty fast

taso42_DELETED

For a more serious answer...

When I was in weight-loss mode, I would update my ticker for every new low, and occasionally for a gain. My main aversion to documenting the gain was that I didn't want to receive kudos for re-losing the same 1 or 2 lbs a second time over. On average, I think i would record it about once a week, gain or lose.

Now that I'm in a weight-gain mode, I'm actually having a harder time trying to decide when to count it. Maybe around once a month I'll just record it for posterity.

bjshooter

For a more serious answer...

When I was in weight-loss mode, I would update my ticker for every new low, and occasionally for a gain. My main aversion to documenting the gain was that I didn't want to receive kudos for re-losing the same 1 or 2 lbs a second time over. On average, I think i would record it about once a week, gain or lose.

Now that I'm in a weight-gain mode, I'm actually having a harder time trying to decide when to count it. Maybe around once a month I'll just record it for posterity.

That is exactly why I don't note a gain. People telling me how well I did losing the same 1lb over and over, would actually make me feel guilty lol

FairyMiss

i used to with every up and down but then when i would go up a pound then back down, i felt the 1 pound lost announcement was dishonest.
now i only do it if i am am tying a new method wether it be a tweak on diet, or change in fitness routine

healthyjen342

yes. If I didnt, I would not be honest with myself.

velix

I only recorded a gain once - recently I made it to my lowest weight yet - and subsequently put 5lbs on that lasted for two weeks. I felt that I was cheating somehow - while I understand the not wanting new kudos for the re-weight loss, I received a message from another mfp friend who said in a way, it was oddly inspirational - knowing that we all miss a step sometimes, and the re-losing of the weight reminded her that it was all sometimes part of the process.

Otherwise, I do not track small weight gains that come and go every day ( up to 4lbs sometimes!)

marquesajen

Well I weighed myself a week or so ago and it said I lost 5.5 lbs which I thought was nuts, then a couple days later it said I had only lost a pound. I erased the big loss and put in the more accurate. Something like that usually means I was dehydrated or the scale messed up. I didn't want to change it, but I did because I wanted to be correct.

If I gained I would post it. I want to see the numbers to keep me going.

Huffdogg

I don't. I keep my lowest weight as a marker of how far I've come. even if I stumble back once in awhile, it keeps me in the headspace that the low weight is where I *should* and *need to* be. For me, it helps me amp up my motivation to get back to where I've already been.

JStarnes

No, but I should. :embarassed: