Ladies - do you log your period weight gain?

laurie62ann
laurie62ann Posts: 433 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
So each month I gain 2-5 pounds the week before my period and then it goes away (this is very frustrating!!). Should I log that as a gain. My weigh-in days are Fridays. I hate to see my pounds lost number go down. What does everybody else do?
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  • squindles
    squindles Posts: 350 Member
    Myself I just weigh and record even my period gains. frustrating but hey ho :grumble:
  • lamby284
    lamby284 Posts: 167 Member
    Never
  • Ivey05131980
    Ivey05131980 Posts: 1,118 Member
    Nope, I don't log it....I only record weight when I lose. :)
  • auddii
    auddii Posts: 15,357 Member
    Unfortunately. Always nice to see it drop off the next week though.
  • xxnellie146xx
    xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
    I don't. My body fluctuates so much day to day that I would drive myself crazy. I weigh myself each day and only record losses. If I went of track for a while and gained actual fat and not water weight, I would add it.
  • deanabailey
    deanabailey Posts: 124 Member
    No. If after a week the scale hasn't gone down then I would because then it's not period/water retention anymore.
  • Cambiovida
    Cambiovida Posts: 13 Member
    I was pondering this same question this morning. I have been doing everything as usual...eating right, exercising and this morning when i weighed in I noticed a 2 pound gain... then I thought my monthly is about to start like in the next day or so... so do I record this weight or give it a week? I decided to skip recording my weight this week and just resume when my monthly has gone. I will stay on point with eating and exercising and it will show on the scale again in a week or so :-)

    Congrats on the weight loss so far!! You have done a great job!
  • hifromjamers1984
    hifromjamers1984 Posts: 300 Member
    Nope I don't
  • Lisah8969
    Lisah8969 Posts: 1,247 Member
    Funny you mention that today...every week until now, I just record as normal every Thursday morning and those gains and losses are just part of it.

    Today however, I made an exception to that rule. I hit Onederland last week at 199.2. I am NOT going to record a weigh in back over 200 today even though I know 2 or 3 of it is due to TOM. It may be cheating, but my ego needs it!! LOL!
  • irenematilda
    irenematilda Posts: 45 Member
    Funnily enough, I was just talking about this on another thread, and yes, I've decided to. I weigh every day though, and I'm not sure my confidence could handle looking at the gain (or even just lack of progress) that I would be virtually guaranteed to see twenty-five percent of the time if I were to weigh weekly.
  • Feed_the_Bears
    Feed_the_Bears Posts: 275 Member
    LOL NO. I only weigh once a month right after the TOM. There are too many fluctuations. Take your measurements in inches/cm :)
  • icmuse
    icmuse Posts: 263 Member
    Hell NO! :devil:
  • Lifting_Knitter
    Lifting_Knitter Posts: 1,025
    No. If after a week the scale hasn't gone down then I would because then it's not period/water retention anymore.

    ^^^ agreed.
  • jeawashko
    jeawashko Posts: 40
    hell no. like someone else said, after a week, maybe. but definitely not during.
  • FitBeto
    FitBeto Posts: 2,121 Member
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  • april1445
    april1445 Posts: 334
    I try to keep it at my lowest "true" weight. I kind of know when it's just a water thing, and I try to keep it real. If I put every gain and loss on there, I would drive myself crazy. Loss is so much more motivating, and that's the goal at this point.
  • amanda_catherine
    amanda_catherine Posts: 101
    no but i log the chocolate i ate while pmsing :D
  • jennaworksout
    jennaworksout Posts: 1,739 Member
    No, I weigh myself once a month, and its 2 weeks after my period starts , so mid month.
  • aynhagenbarth
    aynhagenbarth Posts: 75 Member
    no! I just wait until the next week. no way. It's silly when you know what's going on. :)
  • ademiter
    ademiter Posts: 176 Member
    Nooooooooooooooooooo. :)
  • mariposa224
    mariposa224 Posts: 1,241 Member
    I do weekly weigh ins and, yes, I still weigh in that week. It's not that big a deal to me, as I know it's going to be gone by my next weekly weigh in. shrug...
  • mumreeder
    mumreeder Posts: 222 Member
    I only log my weight when it goes down. I weigh myself every week, but only log the date and weight if gone down. As I am losing about 1/4lb per week it takes ages for it to show on the scale anyway - measurements are better for me.
  • BamaBreezeNSaltAire
    BamaBreezeNSaltAire Posts: 966 Member
    Nope. It's not fat I'm gaining so I do not log it.
  • stephcampbell77
    stephcampbell77 Posts: 112
    NOOOOOO!!!!!! lol Sometimes it's a 5 lb difference for me. I avoid the scale at all cost that week :)
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    I record my weight Sundays-up, down, or otherwise. If it's TOM or I went out with friends or anything else, whatever-I'm looking at trending over a year (same for if I was sick and it was artificially low). That's me though-I just look at all that stuff as life and it all evens out in the end. I'm not going to be so much a slave to the scale that I only record a weight if it meets certain criteria-but hey, different strokes for different folks.
  • aakokopelli7
    aakokopelli7 Posts: 196 Member
    No, That's water weight, not fat. Skip the weekly weigh in that week, it will be OK.
  • noscrubbs78
    noscrubbs78 Posts: 8
    I don't log it either, I already know it will be gone as soon as the PMS is lol. No worries, do what is best or works best for you.
  • Guamybear
    Guamybear Posts: 1,061 Member
    Nope..if I know it isn't true gain, I don't log it..if you are usually in the deficit and exercise regularly you know it isn't fat.
  • KenosFeoh
    KenosFeoh Posts: 1,837 Member
    I've stopped logging gains period. I don't need to see that.
  • SoozeE512
    SoozeE512 Posts: 439 Member
    If I'm certain that's the reason for the gain, I don't log it.

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