Help! The Scale Was Mean

Kvanstrom

ok so weighed myself this morning, and the number was WAY off. INSANELY off. i am fitting back into my small(er) clothes again and looking good, but my weight was insanely skewed. this is why i don't weigh myself. ive also been lifting heavy weights and building muscle, so that could have increased it. (i lift on average 60 pounds for arms and 75 pounds for legs) i also used a package delivery scale, not a scale meant for humans. could this have made a difference? i know for a fact my measurements have gotten smaller, so I am not discouraged.

Anyone else experienced this?

NatsukoG

ALL the time. Don't sweat it. Sometimes when it's really cold in the mornings my scales are out of wack and sometimes I just fluctuate. this week for instance I've worked my butt off, ate really well but gained a lb. Possibly water, possibly muscle. The thing is that I've had ups and downs all year and still lost a ton of weight so I'll just keep pushing onward.

that's not to say the scales don't upset me - I've been tempted to throw them out of the bathroom window many times and have uttered many, many rude words to them. :grumble:

Keep up the good works and the scales will get less mean

musiclady420

Muscle can weigh a lot more than fat because it has a denser fiber. Your muscles are kind of built like an orange where you have multiple layers (I am a massage therapist with over 720Credit hours in anatomy and everything else to do with the body). So, these guys have a big job to do because everyday they are competing against gravity therefore they must have more cells than a fat cell which is just there for storage. So, think of a balloon in comparison to a support beam in a building. Which would have to be stronger and which one is heavier. This kind of goes back to basic physics. You have probably now entered into a healthy fat content and because you are feeding you body a bunch of good muscle building stuff combined with muscle building exercise. So, of course your muscles are going to get bigger and so is the weight. I would try another scale or two, take the numbers from those weights taken, and divide them to get a more acurate weight. There is a probability that the scale is broken or got off somehow.

Good Luck:happy:

Kvanstrom

I did just look it up, and it says that if a scale sits in a colder temperature for a long time, it will be incredibly inaccurate. I used my scale at work, and it probably gets 40-50 degrees in here at night.

Panic mode ending....

yoovie

Yeah - especially after an amazing week at the gym - i feel extra small but i have a little extra weight while my muscles are in recovery

cebreisch

Scales are EVIL. THere are a lot of things that can dramatically affect your weight from week to week: salt intake, water intake, if you travel, hormone activity, etc. etc. etc.

Wait a week, and see what happens.

beckyboop712

I weighed myself 2 days after I ran a half marathon and weighed 4 lbs more than the day before. Water weight and just still swollen, I was back down to that weight 3 days later. Scales are really mean. Sometimes they tease you with a number you haven't seen in a long time and other times they do just the opposite. I'm usually cussing at mine because it hasn't moved but my measurements have changed.

sun1000000shine

Weigh in at the same time & place every morning, and whatever the number, it will still let you know how much you gained or lost