Advice needed!

kizzaii
kizzaii Posts: 52
in Health and Weight Loss
Before I even send this, I know I'll receive essays on how eating more aids weightloss yada yada. But sending it anyway!

I'm unsure of the number of calories I'm actually eating daily. I eat around 1000 excluding fruit and vegetables, purely because weighing an apple or ten grapes is not something I can be bothered doing. So add on a few hundred for those things.
Last week I went to the gym 4 times, didn't stray from eating healthily and even joined a pilates group. After a week of this, I weighed myself to find I weighed exactly the same as I did before it all. Disheartened, I rushed to the chocolate (naughty, I know). The following morning I weighed again (habit) to find I'd lost a pound.

Now is the reason for losing this pound likely to be down to eating more calories, albeit from chocolate, or is it more likely that it just took a day longer to show on the scales? Apologies if this is an infuriating post as I know most of you are sick of these questions but I'm curious! Thank you

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  • dlwyatt82
    dlwyatt82 Posts: 1,077 Member
    I don't know the reason why, but I often see a large drop in weight the morning after I eat more calories than usual, as well. That said, eating only 1000-1300 calories while also doing strenuous exercise is probably not enough. Again, I don't fully understand why, but many people find that their weight loss stalls (or at least slows down) when their calorie deficit is too large.
  • Glucocorticoid
    Glucocorticoid Posts: 867 Member
    Just like you should not jump to conclusions based on not seeing the scale drop in a short amount of time, you should also not conclude anything based on seeing the scale drop by 1 pound. There are many other things that affect the scale aside from fat gain and fat loss. Look for weight loss trends over time.
  • GauchoMark
    GauchoMark Posts: 1,804 Member
    it has nothing to do with eating a chocolate bar and losing weight overnight. It has everything to do with fluctuations in weight and water retention. Any time you see a sudden increase or decrease in weight, it is pretty much going to be water. Chances are, you really lost somewhere around a 1 lb that week, but didn't see it on the scale because of the water weight, then you lost the water weight. That is why - and I believe it is fine to weigh as often as you want, I weigh daily - numbers from the scale are only meaningful over relatively long periods of time, like a month or so.

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