Time for a new scale?
JenM76
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I am so utterly frustrated this morning. I have a digital scale that usually seems fine. But, I got on this morning, and according to it I have gained 4 pounds overnight! Ok, I have been super good for awhile now. I am measuring everything I eat. If I eat out, I do my research before going to ensure I don't go overboard. I workout everyday like religion. Lots of water. I was seeing the weight slowly coming off, and I was fine. I weighed in yesterday and was down to 182 and almost passed out from happiness. So, of course I was curious (like an idiot), and got on this morning only to see I am up to 186.5. How is that even possible? I am nowhere near my time of the month, so I am not going with hormones or water weight. But, 4 pounds overnight? Or, was the 182 wrong to begin with? It is just so frustrating to work as hard as I have, see the weight go down, then *boom* overnight I'm back up to where I was before. Seriously, is it a scale issue? The thing is at least 10 years old. I don't think it has been that long since a battery change, but I guess I could try that. I don't want to pass it off on the scale, but I honestly can't see how I had a flux like that.
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My weight vaires like that up to 5 pounds and is always heavier in the mornings. You didn't gain 4 pounds of fat overnight unless you sat there and ate pizza and ice cream for like 12 straight hours and then it still isn't possible. I would change the battery and not worry about it. I use to stress when mine did that but I would stay strict on my diet plan and workout really well for a couple days and would be right back down to where I was or even below.0
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My weight vaires like that up to 5 pounds and is always heavier in the mornings. You didn't gain 4 pounds of fat overnight unless you sat there and ate pizza and ice cream for like 12 straight hours and then it still isn't possible. I would change the battery and not worry about it. I use to stress when mine did that but I would stay strict on my diet plan and workout really well for a couple days and would be right back down to where I was or even below.
Thanks. Yeah, I should just take a breath. No, I didn't spiral and eat a whole pizza or anything. I did have a string cheese, big whoop. It is just very frustrating. I'll change the battery and only weigh myself at most twice a week.0 -
My weight vaires like that up to 5 pounds and is always heavier in the mornings. You didn't gain 4 pounds of fat overnight unless you sat there and ate pizza and ice cream for like 12 straight hours and then it still isn't possible. I would change the battery and not worry about it. I use to stress when mine did that but I would stay strict on my diet plan and workout really well for a couple days and would be right back down to where I was or even below.
Thanks. Yeah, I should just take a breath. No, I didn't spiral and eat a whole pizza or anything. I did have a string cheese, big whoop. It is just very frustrating. I'll change the battery and only weigh myself at most twice a week.
take measurements too. I went a while without losing a pound but I moved 2 belts notches down during that time also. Like I said, you can't gain 5 pounds of fat in a day and you can't lose it in a day. Weight fluctuates, just want to make sure it goes back down and keeps falling off slowly. Try to weigh at the same time of day also.0 -
I have digital scales which, on many many occasions, I have hoped were faulty ......... they never were of course - it was just my weight fluctuating 'normally'. It has happened to me constantly over the past year - at first I'd beat myself up about it but, after several months, I realised it's just the way my body seems to work. I lose something (a lb or 2) then I go back up to my previous weight (& feel so depressed) and it takes another week or two to go back to the lower number. But I've always made it. The key is to NEVER give up - just keep doing what you're doing and eventually the scales come right too.
Now (& this has taken me half a year to accept) I tell myself that any time I'm doing catch-up, or plateauing, it's my body trying to prevent the saggy baggy skin effect and working to keep me in some sort of shape to match the weight loss.0 -
It doesn't take a hormonal flux to create water weight. Living, eating, drinking, exercising all create weight fluxes. Go with the lower weight, and just breathe.0
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My weight fluctuates around 4-5 lbs in any given day, depending on time of day, what I ate, how much water I drank...even though I stick very closely to my calories!
I wouldn't worry too much about it! And I wouldn't weigh daily either- because it can be fairly discouraging!
Just stay off the scale for another week, and it should even out!0 -
Thanks everyone for the feedback and support. I will try to take a breath. I know better than to get hung up on that stupid scale. So, I will do my best to mix scale weight with measurements.0
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I just bought a digital scale. I have learned that I must weight myself 3 times - 30 seconds apart. The first weigh-in is too often wrong. When I get three identical readings, I accept it. But if I go to the bathroom right after weighing myself, I re-weight because I will often lose a pound or more just doing that.
Also - you look young enough to have hormone-caused weight shifts - where water is retained. The longer you are on the diet, the more clear any such pattern will become, and the more assured you will be that it is merely water, that will come off very quickly in a week or so - so you can begin to disregard them or not weight yourself during these water-gain tiimes.0
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