kill me now!!

I weigh once a week,because your weight fluctuates so much in a day that i also get discouraged.cant be obsessive

don't worry, this is week two for me and my first weigh in was actually above my start weight, too. it was so not what i expected. i am now 2.4lbs down and hoping the trend continues! i weigh in every three days, same time every day so that i get a better idea of the weight. like the previous poster mentioned, weight fluctuates all day long. my advice is drink more water and make sure to eat your calorie allotment.

kristy

totally with you, this week i put on a lb,...... but still had an inch off my hips, i dont know how it works, but something is.
kay

i read in a joy bauer article this....(paraphrasing)

if you weigh and a slight gain from the day before will motivate you to strive harder, weigh daily.

if you weigh and a slight gain from the day before sends you into a tailspin, thow your hands up in the air attitude, weigh weekly.

I would love to say weigh once a week..... but that would be so hypocritical of me I cant bring myself to do it!
Any diet, using MFP included, is a marathon it is not a sprint, your weight is going to fluctuate daily but there is one thing that is absolutely certain IF YOU EAT HEALTHILY AT YOUR DESIGNATED CALORIES AND YOU EXERCISE TO TONE AND BURN OFF CALORIES YOUR WEIGHT WILL GO IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

If you are in a hurry, do a fad diet and risk putting it back on or preferably, adjust your eating habits little by little, adjust your exercise routine and your habits generally and you will get a sustainable loss and a different life. (This is a little hypocritical of me too coz I am doing a diet at the mo - after months of adapting as I just described...... so apologies for that!)

Measurements are as important as the weigh scale (more actually coz they reflect how you look and what you can wear) so do measure yourself and remember that the less you have to lose the longer it takes............. good luck and be patient

Weigh once a week at the most. The rest of the time put the scale away somewhere you won't think about it.

This is a journey. You won't always lose the same amount every week, or even lose at all. That's just the way it is.

It doesn't seem like it right now, but you're sweating the small stuff. I can remember how freaked out I would get over over a pound up or not quite taking off as much as I want to. I would literally sulk around all day and let it affect how I functioned and interacted with people. Now that I'm almost to my goal and more fit than I've been in my life, I look back and realize I was being impatient and unfairly hard on myself. You've got a great workout schedule, you're eating within your calories, you're sticking to it 90% of the time.... you've grabbed the bull by the horns and you are managing everything you have control of. Now, you have to wait. It will happen. You will get there. Just hold tight and don't let it stress you out!

I do try and monitor my weight 4 - 5 times a week. Usually first thing in the morning. I find I am at my lowest point usually Thursday Morning and the highest Sunday Morning and my weight fluctuates throughout the week. That's just me and it's what I have noticed.

MFP allows you to tailor your calorific intake according to age/height/weight etc and if you eat/drink LESS than the total amount advised/allowed you will lose weight overall (but not necessarily by the next day!) You have no idea how much water & not-fully-digested-yet food is contributing to the figure arriving on the scales. If you were to Monitor the scales say 3 times a week (at least one of those times being first thing) and generate a report after two weeks you will see the graphs trend generally going down over this time, which will encourage you. If you are able to add some excercise and be down on average 300 calories a day (including the extra calories allowed by excercising) you'd see your weight drop. The excercise bit helps me as if i do 400 calories of exercise then my calorie allowance becomes 1850 + 400 or 2250 - so if i undereat by say 300 calories I don't personal feel i am sacrificing much at all. I do realise its not easy to fit 400 Calories of excercise every day. I probably Manage 1200 Calories worth of excercise in a week (dancing)!

It will fluctuate - the time to be dissappointed is if you drop nothing in 2 weeks and sacrifice 300 Calories a day doing so (assuming it's safe for you to drop this much?) In which case I'd assess honestly if there's any hollow calories you are forgettign to add, and possibly consider cutting another 100 cal's off the target (again assuming your not starving yourself and devoid of energy already??)

Hardest thing for me is cutting the carbs. They are so lovely and so calorific.

Also bear in mind you should probably consult a physician/ Dietition rather than take my figures above as 'safe' for you. All I can say is it works from me but my actual weight does fluctuate day to day.

Hope this helps?

I was only weighing once a week for a while. But a lot of members weigh daily so I thought I would try it....:noway:
My weight goes up and down so much from day to day and I developed a mild scale obsession to go with my calorie content obsession. Now I try now to weigh so much and only consider it a real gain or loss if it stays the same for more than one day.
Good luck sweetness.:flowerforyou: You can do it!
P.S. Take your measurements if you want a true indicator of progress. I can lose a lot of inches in just a few pounds.

well done for doing so wel and doing alot of exercise maybe ur just gaining muscle and im sure muscle weighs moe than fat !x

Muscle is just more dense....but you are right.

I weigh once a week,because your weight fluctuates so much in a day that i also get discouraged.cant be obsessive

Exactly!


I weight twice a week, mostly so that I don't forget to do it! It's often enough that I can make sure i'm still on track (because I give myself "days off") but it's infrequent enough that it doesn't really pick up on the normal daily fluctuations.

Even weighing myself once a week has caused panic on the scale. I've actually gained up to 6 pounds in one week and then lost all that and then a couple extra the following. I always weigh on the same scale at the same time each week. I found that these huge gains were usually after I worked out heavily for an entire week. Lots of weight training and cardio. I don't quite understand it yet but I'm being told it could be anything from water retention to sugar being stored in the muscles for readily available fuel due to your body prepping itself to have to be put under that kind of "strain" again.

Moral is, don't fret. If you're doing what you're suppose to be doing to get yourself healthy then ignore the scale for a while because it can deceive you.

So....tomorrow will be one week since I joined! I have logged on dilligently every day and for the most part have followed the recommendations. On Saturday i weighed myself to see if I had lost and I was down 1.2 pounds or so. great right>???? So I continued to follow. I have been working out so hard (Monday- step class and circuit class at lunch; Tue-off; Wed- circuit class; Thur-45 min walk and 1 hr of yoga; friday circuit class; Sat- step class). anyyyhooooooooo...today I got on scale and was sad to see i had gained 2 lbs...so i am now 1 lb above start weight. My official weigh in day is tomorrow but every time i weigh i get so discouraged/ Should i stop weighing.....should i weigh myself daily and just record once week....growllllll

Weigh once a week ... and yes, track your sodium. If you aren't you are doing yourself a disservice. Most of all ... PATIENCE. You didn't put this weight on in a week, it ain't comin' off in a week, no matter how much you want it to. I have been on here for almost 3 months and have dropped 24 lbs. I did it by watching what I ate, tracked the sodium and EXERCISED and ate back most of my exercise calories ... I didn't starve myself. You must have patience with this.

Also, regarding water ... you should be drinking at least 1/2 your body weight in water per day .. no caffeine doesn't count.

Stick with it. Don't be frustrated, it's only been a week