Shouldn't have weighed...

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  • sassysmom35
    sassysmom35 Posts: 130 Member
    I know exactly how you feel. This past week the scale looked like this:

    201.0
    200.8
    200.6
    200.8
    200.8
    200.4
    200.8
    and then finally today

    199.8

    Shew it drives me crazy. But weighing every day keeps me accountable and on track. I worked hard this week and in 8 days lost 1.2 lbs. It'll prob be back up tomorrow and then take me another 3-4 days to get back to today's weight. That's just how it is. It gets discouraging but I just try to focus on keeping it heading in the downward direction. We will get where we want to be. Eventually. Just got to be patient and keep plugging away at it.
  • wolfsbayne
    wolfsbayne Posts: 3,116 Member
    Here's my situation. I started heavy lifting near the end of November. I didn't lose any weight until I got sick a couple days before Christmas. My co worker told me my body looked different. When I got sick (bad bug), I lost 8 lbs over the course of 24 hours. Know what? I haven't gained any of that back. I figured I would gain it since it was just from being sick. Nope, not a pound. My measurements are only going down slightly. My clothes feel a little better, but I FEEL more fit. Would it be nice to see the scale move? Yep. It only moved 0.2 lbs this past week :grumble: But, I'm going to keep on keeping on because I feel stronger and better and one day, everything is going to click. I added some cardio in with my weight lifting, so we'll see if that works.

    Good luck on your journey!
  • Kiwi94544
    Kiwi94544 Posts: 23
    I feel you because I'm just starting out with the whole 'weight-loss' quest (began counting calories and exercising on January 2nd, 2014) and the first week = awesome. I dropped 5 lbs... but after that, despite the fact that I have been completely consistent about my counting and exercise, the scale has been somewhat all over the place for me. There are days I LOVE the scale, and days I think it is a lying piece of *kitten*! ha ha... But after reading over this website, I realized that having your weight go down AND up while trying to lose is NOT uncommon. It seem EVERYONE on here has experienced the same frustration as I have, in seeing the numbers drop, only to go up again a week later, for seemingly no proper reason at all.

    I'm not going to say "ditch the scale" - only try NOT to get discouraged about a gain or a stay-the-same week. If you're seeing several weeks of "gains" or "non-movement" in a row, only THEN would start to stress... Because chances are you're either at that point a) At a plateau (if you've been doing the same thing for a good while, this is possible...) or b) You're maybe miscalculating either your calories consumed, or your calories burned thru exercise... or perhaps both. But don't let 1 week or even 2 get you too down. Your menstrual cycle, water intake and MANY other factors can cause fluctuations.

    Just look at the overall trend over a several week period. The hardest part about this whole weight-loss journey is the patience and persistence, and not letting things like numbers on the scale make you angry enough - or discouraged enough - to give-up on yourself. Hang in there.
  • sillyvalentine
    sillyvalentine Posts: 460 Member
    This is why I don't own a scale. I weigh in once a month (or every two months) at the doctors office. Don't let numbers on a scale determine your self worth.
  • delamar18
    delamar18 Posts: 2
    I'm sad about my weigh in today but I'm gonna keep doing my workouts and eating better. Don't get discouraged and keep working out.
  • DirrtyH
    DirrtyH Posts: 664 Member
    The first week is easy as everyone loses a bunch the first week

    This is not true. I did not lose a bunch the first week. Continually reading this in the forums makes me feel like a loser. Just throwing that out there in case some of the rest of you guys feel the same way.
  • jodienock1
    jodienock1 Posts: 1
    I think it's hard to forget how much a pound actually IS. I love that "this is what a pound of fat looks like" picture, it really puts things into perspective. It's easy to think that a pound is a small amount.

    Yesterday, I bought some ankle weights. I picked them up, and thought jeeeeeez these are a little heavy! When I looked, I saw that they were 1.5lbs each, so 3lbs total. And I though, THAT's what 3lbs feels like? I just lost 10 lbs... so I just lost a LOT of weight! I hadn't realized what an achievement that was. I haven't seen any changes in my body or to how I feel health wise yet, so I've been feeling like.... meh what's the point. But it's only been four weeks!

    You have already noticed changes in your body.... and that's what really counts! It's not about what you lose every week, it's about what you gain in the grand scheme of things :)

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