Any body else wake up 2 lbs heavier??!

i also weighed myself early this week and it says i have gained 2lbs but a lot of people have told me that your weight can fluxuate
throught -out the week. also if you are exercising 5 times a week dont forget that muscle weighs more than fat so it might not actually be that you are gaining weight because of what you eat it may be that you are gaining muscle too.

also as i read in this post sodium can take a while to pass through the body and this can affect weight change especially if you are weighing so often.

my advice is to weigh the same day every week usually before breakfast and around the same time you should hopefully get a more accurate reading of how much you have lost.

i know how discouraging looking at the scales can be when it says you have gained weight i felt the same way yesterday i thought whats the point in doing this if its not working.

but im staying strong pushed on stayed within my 1200 calorie limit and exercised for 60 mins keeping my fingers crossed for when i step on that scale on wednesday.

good luck with the weight loss you can do it stay strong and stay positive

It's been said before, stop weighing daily, it will drive you mad. The best way to weightloss is to watch what you eat and get regular exercise but to make it a part of daily life.

As a trainer myself, I find many clients spend all their time equating exercise with food. "I did 300 calories on the bike, so I can eat 300 calories more".

This will set you back further as you are not changing your mind set to weightloss and healthy living, but are actually creating a mindset that is looking to eat MORE!

Calories in vs Calories out is right but not an exact science. If you burnt 600 calories last thing at night, do not expect to see a huge weighloss in the next 12 hours or so, it's a gradual process over time.

Also, to lose 1lb you need to burn 3,500 calories, hence the 500 a day for a week. So even burning 600 calories extra in a day you might only expect to see a 0.15 lb loss, which many scales won't pick up.

Depending on water levels, loo visits, food in stomach, time of month, salt levels etc you can change weight throughout the day.

I used to weigh myself before and after long runs during marathon training to see how much water to replace. I have got up before at 4am and weighed 13st 9, run 20miles, got back weighed 12st 12lb !! at 7am. And by 3pm been 13st 8lb and 13st 9lb by 6pm.

Thats a overall change in weight of 22lb up and down in 14 hours.

Once a week max weigh yourself.

Does muscle weigh more than fat? This is that question that is mis-quoted time and time again. The true answer is more of a language issue than a maths one.

People often dispute the statement using "a lb of muscle weighs the same as a lb of fat", well obviously.

Then again 10cm of a giraffes neck, is the same length as 10cm of a Swans neck. But i hope most people agree that a Giraffe has a longer neck.

When people say muscle weighs more than fat they really mean, the same amount of muscle IN VOLUME, weighs more than the same amount of FAT IN VOLUME.

So, a litre of Muscle I believe weighs about 1.06kg and a litre of fat about 0.9kg so the statement is true.

Whether this accounts for lack of weightloss is questionable though. It is highly unlikely that through starting an exercise programme you are going to lose a litre of fat and put on a litre of muscle.

TO put significant muscle ON you need to be eating plenty of protein and enough calories to have a surplus not a deficit. And also to be putting significant work in the gym. This is why most bodybuilders and boxers etc periodise their diets. They will spend a number of weeks in the hypertrophy stage building muscle with hard gym work and high calorie diets. These diets are usually high in protein and relatively low in fat/carbs.

They will then change exercise and diet regimes to strip away the resulting fat layers to reveal the new bigger stronger muscles.

I noticed the same thing too. I understand that weight is a terrible indicator of fat loss and that weighing yourself more than twice a month is pointless but it is still a guilty pleasure of mine. But I am more curious than anything why this happens. I mean I understand your body losses weight at night from water loss and even weight loss from the carbon you breath off. However I don't understand how the body can gain weight in sleep without manually adding something to it but it still does and the internet is absolutely no help.

All the time. Totally normal.

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.

From what what I thought, when MFP told me I need 1200 to lose a pound a week, it was because I burned 1600+ sedentary. So you eat the calories you burned UP to a net of 1200 so you are still at a 400+ calorie deficit for your body.