Any body else wake up 2 lbs heavier??!

Stop weighing so often. Try weighing once a month and pull out the tapes to perform measurements. When you do weighing and measurements do as many as you can during the day so that you get a good sample size. Then you can see if you are really losing weight or not. Variant weight can be up to 20 lbs. This is why a fighter that weighs 200lbs fights as a middleweight at 185lbs. He cuts the variant weight before his weigh in and then builds it back up for the fight. IOTW you could drop 15 to 20lbs of weight in 24hrs if you knew what you were doing. You couldn't keep it off and live very long though. Best thing to do is to take pictures once a month and see areas where you have improved and use that to motivate you to keep working. Unfortunately getting healthy takes as much time as it did to get where you are now. Also make sure you don't have a calorie deficit over 700. 1200 seems a tad bit low to me. Your body will fight shut down it's metabolism if you aren't getting enough to eat. have you noticed yourself being less active outside of exercise?

I'm guessing this was already ruled out, but I will state them anyway. Did you consume ANYTHING between times? This includes water, as 16 oz of water is 1 lb. Were you wearing the same thing? If the answer is still no, this can easily be attributed to scale error, especially if it is digital. I stopped using my digital scale because it could change as much as 10-20 lbs just by me getting off the scale and then getting back on.

I know you want to see progress, but you will not see it on the scale if you weigh every day. If you are trying to lose 1 lb a week, that is only .14 lbs a day, there is plenty of room for error there! I prefer to weigh myself once a week and that is probably the maximum number of times in a month you should do so without driving yourself mad. Some people prefer 1 - 2 times a month, but it is up to you.

Nicoledc - I'm clueless as to why when you workout or exercise that you get "extra" calories BUT I do know from many hours of research that to successfully lose weight you are supposed to put out more calories than you take in. So if you eat 1200 calories a day, you need to put out over 1200 calories. I could be wrong, of course but that's what I've read and it makes sense. Your best bet is to TRY to stay under your allowed calories .. But by all means, if you're hungry then eat rather than be miserable and starve. Also, to help keep the calories down but feel satisfied you need to find foods where you can eat a reasonable amount, feel full, but not take in lots of calories. Foods high in protein, fiber, etc will do the trick.

yeah I woke up 3lb heavier than yesterday. and yesterday I burned 600 cal riding bike for over an hour. I was shoked. but when I looked at what I ate yesterday, I'm assuming thats it. We had cheese steaks and fries for lunch. and the for dinner we went to wendy's on the run, and had a cheeseburger and fries. the calories were nuts. one meal was like 1000 calories. So all that work riding bike, was for nothing, all because I ate poorly.

here's my 2 cents throw away your scale stop weighting yourself why be a slave to a number eat right and workout as hard as you can and you'll start feeling better.
I'm in the Navy and we have to weigh-in every 6 months so once every 6 months I step on the scale because I have too other then that I stay away from the scale.

Scales are the root of all evil...lol :devil:

Dont get disheartened hun, your weight fluctuates all the time which is why most people have back up measures like tape and jeans. If you're doing everything right, it'll be back down in a couple of days.

Bear in mind that your body is 55 - 70% water, so it is never an accurate measurement and like someone said, can vary as much as 20lbs on the scale.

Goodluck :flowerforyou:

Yeah - That's discouraging, but you wouldn't know you were 2 lbs up if you didn't weigh each day!! Max 1 x per week - or every other week. My trainer hates the scale, when I do that, I end up eating more because I am so discouraged! My mental SUX...addicted to food!