No. That weight on the scale is mathematically impossible

Are you weighing yourself same day, same time. You can fluctuate up to 5 pounds or more in 1 day.

1. I like you.
2. If you just started a new workout routine, you may see a gain due to water and glycogen stores, which will go away soon. That isn't to say your scale isn't a no-good filthy liar. That *kitten*'s days are numbered and he will get his comeuppance.

Keep going! It's probably just water. Like previously stated, if you started a new workout routine your body will sometimes plateau/look like it gains for a week but then it will drop back down. If you gain another 2 lbs next week, then maybe take a second look at your math

Are you weighing yourself same day, same time. You can fluctuate up to 5 pounds or more in 1 day.

I weighed myself on Sunday and I was 237. Then weight myself yesterday at the exact same time of the day and was 237-238. Then I weighed myself today and I'm 239! Ahhhh! I'm going in reverse here. And I have been weighing the same time everyday. This is weird as hell. The scale must have something against me

Lol... are you weighing right in the morning after the bathroom? Otherwise you could have all this random junk in you weighing you down differently

Happens to me too. Darn math just doesn't work sometimes. I'll lose two pounds after a day when I was in a surplus and gain 5 after a day when I was in a deficit. For me, most of the time, it's the sodium, but other times it's inexplicable. You just have to step back and take a longer view of things. As long as you're trending downwards, you're fine.

Remeber the scale is just a number. Keep at it, it'll go down as long as you eat at a HEALTHY deficit. Plus if you're weightlifting your body stores water to hydrate and heal.

It's normal. Weight loss graph is a lot like the stock market. There are going to be ups and downs. Over time you just want a downward trend. You will be fine. Just keep at it.

I don't even use the scale really anymore. I just go by my measurements and my body fat percentage, as well as how my clothes fit. I have lost 3 sizes and almost no scale weight in the last year. I lost a bunch of scale weight and then plateaued but I have had major body recomp.

Get a tape measure!! It'll keep you sane, promise.

I weigh in on Wednesday mornings, before eating and after *ahem* potty time. I find that Wednesdays are a good middle ground day for me because I tend to be lightest on Friday morning after eating clean all week long and heaviest on Mondays after a weekend of eating out a few times so by Wednesday any extra sodium I ate over the weekend will have flushed out of me but I don't get too excited (and promptly disappointed) by the lovely Friday number.

Also I try on my skinny jeans about every other week on Friday mornings, because my weight does crazy freakish maddening things depending on what I eat (regardless of the total calories) and how strenuous my workout is but the skinny jeans don't lie (unless I try them on on a Sunday night in which case they are vicious lying *kitten* and should be cut up and used for rags... but that might just be the beer & french fries from Saturday talking...)

I'm really trying to get better at just weighing in once a month so I don't make myself crazy if the number doesn't move quick enough but I'm not very good at that.

If you are working out daily & are watching what you eat then it may be due to muscle weight. (Depending on your workout you may be burning fat but building muscle). Otherwise it may be due to stress. Sounds like you may be stressing yourself out because the scale may not be showing you immediate results (I had the same problem a while back). Continue your workouts and try not to weigh yourself everyday. I read that stress triggers a biochemical process where our bodies go into survival mode. As a result our bodies store fuel, slow down metabolism, and release chemicals which are more likely to cause the weight gain.
As others have already mentioned, your body weight will fluctuate throughout the day. So, what I would suggest is to try and weigh yourself no more than 2 times a week and make sure you weigh yourself as soon as you wake up in the morning. (Also make sure you don't eat anything late night because you may end up weighing more that next morning). Hope this helps and good luck! (:

I used to never weigh myself. Like for 25 years. I ignored everything and blamed cheap foreign clothes and my dryer for tight clothes. When I finally started to pay attention I became a scale fanatic. I weighed myself after any event, like lunch. Or peeing. Or after a shower. I wanted to know when I lost weight. The exact moment it happened. I even learned how much each piece of my clothing weighs. Doing this did increase my exercise, going to and from the scale. Now I weigh once a day, in the morning while the coffee is brewing and after I pee. Had I been so dedicated to the scale years ago, I wouldn't have had to learn this at such an embarrassing weight.

Sadly you don't get immediate feedback. The data you have are worthless, at least with respect to knowing if what you're doing is working. It isn't fat retention or fat loss. It isn't muscle gain or muscle loss.

You have to stay on the horse for a little while. Your weight will fluctuate.

So true. Every time I lose weight it looks like that.

I would like a wifi scale that has no display. I stand on it daily or weekly and it tells me nothing but transmits the number to an app. The app alerts me ONLY when my x-week average is over y. I bet the Withings wifi scales do that, don't they? Well, if you tape over the display.

I do my measurements very half assedly... I finally gave up and went with the skinny-jeans-as-measurements method. I attempted to do:
the widest part of my waist,
the widest point on my thighs,
my bulging bicep (<-- check it out! that didnt used to be there... I'm pretty proud of it)
and the widest part of my hips/butt

I'm just apparently not that good at sticking to the same spot because after 6 months and dropping several sizes and replacing my skinny jeans twice I somehow had the same measurements if not higher in most of the stuff I measured. makes not one bit of sense.