I Don't Know What to do Anymore

Your weight will be different on different scales, at different times of day, and at different days of the month. Chill the fruck out.

I'm always 2-3 pounds heavier in the afternoon. Add a towel and wet hair to that, and you have another couple pounds.

Scales weigh lighter on carpet, so moving it to the tile was a good idea, but don't weigh yourself in the afternoon after a shower again. Weigh yourself first thing in the morning after you use the bathroom but before you take a shower.

When do you normally weigh yourself? What scale do you usually use.

Your weight can vary 5 or more pounds through the day, even using the same scale. You'll generally weigh the least first thing in the morning after going to the bathroom because there's little food in your digestive tract and your bladder is empty. Through the day you eat and drink, which adds weight (but not fat or muscle). Clothes also can make a big difference. And scales can be vastly different (carpeting underneath may also contribute).

Other factors, if you've done everything else consistently, could be water retention from excess sodium or from muscle training (they can retain water as they heal sometimes), TOM (again, mostly water), etc. I would keep going forward and wait a few days to weigh yourself. It's unlikely that you gained (or lost) 7-8 lbs of fat or muscle in just a few days. And even with a temporary setback, it's better for your body to be active and exercising and eating the right amounts of the right foods.

You need to pick one set of scales and a time of day when you weigh yourself, anything else is going to fluctuate like crazy. My suggestion is weigh yourself before breakfast in the morning after you've used the toilet but before you have a shower, you'll still see fluctuations but they'll be far less that way.

I've seen sudden unexplained rises even doing that of five or six pounds that disappear a couple of days later (I don't weigh every day). If you're not starving yourself and counting your calories properly you'll see slow but steady weight loss.

Water weighs an incredible amount, 1 litre (just over 2 pints) weighs a kilo (just over two pounds) so if you had a large drink and then didn't dry yourself particularly well after the shower you'll be heavier.

I agree with previous post. Noone can fluxuate that much so quickly. Weigh yourself the first thing in the morning wearing the same clothes or nothing, on the same scale on a hard floor. Try not to move the scale around a lot. Ive noticed that can mess mine up. Also watch your sodium because tnat can add a pound or so for a couple of days. Good luck! Hang in there! You can acheive your goals.

What was your starting weight? It looks like you joined earlier this month - if you were around 150 before, it would seem unlikely that you dropped to 135 in just a couple of weeks.

The good news is that it is also just as unlikely (if you started lower) that you GAINED up to 150. The body does weird things when we start messing with its food supply. Other posters have great ideas about the scale, you'll do fine!

Chill the fruck out.

:huh: :noway: Little harsh?

No way. I use it as a term of endearment - it means I care!

All the good stuff has already been said. Good luck!

another thing to pay attention to:

how, when the weight on the scale is low, we feel like the best person in the world, love ourselves, strut with head held high.

then, when the number is higher, we hate ourselves, want to give up, but what has changed, really?

aren't we the same person? why do we make our worth so dependent on that number.

love the idea of measuring tape over scale...might try that sometime!

Then again, I'm feeling really overwhelmed with the whole process of losing weight. I just want to be able to do what will make me FEEL the best and be done with it.
Does that make sense?

Yes it makes sense. And that IMO should be your goal anyway: to find a way of eating and moving that will keep you in good health AND keep you happy for the rest of your life.

If you don't, and you just suffer through 'losing weight' by eating stuff you don't like in portions you don't like and doing exercises you don't like, afterward you will just go back to what you've been doing... then you're going to gain back all the weight and once again be at the same point where you started or like many people, higher than before. The cycle is what people call yo-yo dieting.

It sounds overwhelming at first but you've got plenty of time to figure it out and make little changes here and there to stay in (but slowly adjust) your comfort zone the entire time, until your comfort zone happens to be what also keeps you in great health.

There is no benefit to starving or depriving yourself, now or in the future. If you try to focus on eliminating everything that might possibly be "bad" and do stuff like "I can never eat ___ again" then you aren't going to have much fun with it. Just log everything, and then look at your log and see if there are things you can substitute or new things you can try to make improvements here and there, and find what works for you.

I always take my "real" weight in the morning. But I do weigh myself from time to time throughout the day and I always fluxuate. I drink 2 liters of water at work ~5lbs, plus food, you don't get rid of it all at once.