Weight is not consistant. Loss is not linear.

BusyRaeNOTBusty
BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
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The end.

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  • SugaryLynx
    SugaryLynx Posts: 2,640 Member
    Imagine that ♡♡ Mine looks just like that on my Libra app! Thanks for sharing to those who think the scale should never show a higher number than their lowest point. Just keep chugging!
  • scsoccer1617
    scsoccer1617 Posts: 2
    How often do you weighing yourself (daily, weekly, monthly)? What time of day do you weigh yourself?
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    How often do you weighing yourself (daily, weekly, monthly)? What time of day do you weigh yourself?

    About daily. I often skip days (or even weeks).

    Also, this post was not a question or a problem. Just an illustration to show this is "normal" and should be expected. I'm fine with the daily fluctuations, and have no interest in switching to once a week or whatever.
  • lizfreakinm
    lizfreakinm Posts: 29 Member
    Love this!
  • icimani
    icimani Posts: 1,454 Member
    Yep!

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  • tanya203
    tanya203 Posts: 19 Member
    Can't blame people for going a little nutty over 3+ month plateaus.

    My body has been very "You shall not pass" with weight loss.

    True nonetheless expecting instantaneous or easy results is just silly.
  • SaltNBurnBoys
    SaltNBurnBoys Posts: 170 Member
    Yep!

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    I love this pic. Accurate.
  • savithny
    savithny Posts: 1,200 Member
    How often do you weighing yourself (daily, weekly, monthly)? What time of day do you weigh yourself?

    Are you trying to imply that if she just weighed herself properly all those numbers would majically fall onto a straight line????

    Note for women to be aware of - you can see in that chart a really common pattern - you can see a month-by-month trend. Hormones have an effect on metabolism and weight loss and they obviously run on a cyclical pattern in women.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    Thanks for the reminder.

    ...and here's a bump.
  • 1Cor1510
    1Cor1510 Posts: 413 Member
    Bump
  • 0somuchbetter0
    0somuchbetter0 Posts: 1,335 Member
    This is why I can't weigh myself every day. Those daily fluctuations make me crazy.

    When I get "stuck" on a plateau, I take a good, hard look at myself and then admit that I haven't been logging every little thing I eat. Honesty and accountability...it's a *****. :wink:
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    How often do you weighing yourself (daily, weekly, monthly)? What time of day do you weigh yourself?

    Are you trying to imply that if she just weighed herself properly all those numbers would majically fall onto a straight line????

    Note for women to be aware of - you can see in that chart a really common pattern - you can see a month-by-month trend. Hormones have an effect on metabolism and weight loss and they obviously run on a cyclical pattern in women.

    Oh, yeah, I weight in the mornings, naked, after going pee.

    I actually don't weigh more during my period. It actually looks like I weight between them. Interesting.
  • Crateria_
    Crateria_ Posts: 253 Member
    I needed this reminder. :)
  • mrsroseblack
    mrsroseblack Posts: 45 Member
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    The end.

    This is great!! What kind of app or program can I get to do this?
  • EvenThatNameIsTaken
    EvenThatNameIsTaken Posts: 164 Member
    thank you for the reality check :flowerforyou:
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member

    This is great!! What kind of app or program can I get to do this?

    I just do it in microsoft excel. List dates and weights, insert a scatter plot, click on the data series and plot a trend line.
  • Kaelitr0n
    Kaelitr0n Posts: 151 Member
    I keep a daily weight tracker in excel, too. I do a line graph instead of a scatter plot and it's absolutely crazy how many ups and downs there are. I would not be able to hack being a daily weigher without my chart. It's the only way I can look back and see how much progress I've made.
  • johnthomasmoore
    johnthomasmoore Posts: 59 Member
    I really like Trendweight.com and Hacker's Diet Online for showing trends. I use the Aria scale and have worked out some pretty cool ways to automate data collection and visualizing my data. Check out my blog: http://johntmoore.blogspot.com/
    Weight loss is not linear. Get used to variation. Every process shows variability. Need to use data smoothing to separate signal from noise.
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member

    This is great!! What kind of app or program can I get to do this?

    I just do it in microsoft excel. List dates and weights, insert a scatter plot, click on the data series and plot a trend line.

    Did the same thing and have a similar-looking graph (although I think a few more data points).

    I always tell my clients to expect that their weight will look more like a ball bouncing down the stairs than a kid going down a slide.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    :drinker:
  • stephv38
    stephv38 Posts: 203 Member
    Yep!

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    This actually almost brought tears to my eyes...
  • MarKayDee
    MarKayDee Posts: 196
    I weigh myself everyday with my wii, because if I had a normal scale I would weigh myself every time I went to the bathroom. I also love that it tracks my weight, BMI, etc for me. I give myself two shots, if I see an increase I can weigh myself one other time (center of balance can cause a slight fluctuation I have noticed) if it's still up on the second weigh I move on with my morning.
    This morning I was up 1.5lbs, because I had had a very light dinner two nights ago and a big one last night trying to make sure after a really hard day of work m body had enough of everything to repair itself. This morning I didn't poo until after my second go on the scale so I guess I will just have a prettier number to look at tomorrow.
    So long as the scale goes back down within a day or two, who cares if it goes up a little bit?
  • fat2fitdancody
    fat2fitdancody Posts: 259 Member
    I weigh myself daily, I find I'm less obsessed with the scale than I used to be - I used to look forward to the weekly weigh in and be disappointed if it was up, I also found that I felt great about a loss but then the next day I was worrying about gaining back.

    I have a new strategy now, before weighing myself I tell myself that I'll probably be 0.5 kg heavier.

    This week I'm down a kilo but definitely not linear:

    Mon: 86.3
    Tue: 86.2
    Wed: 85.6
    Thu: 84.6
    Fri: 85.1
    Sat: 85.3
  • thesimsisters
    thesimsisters Posts: 73 Member
    Wow, everyone should do one of these charts. It's really an eye opener to see the linear trendline. I weigh only on Saturday, so the weeks I'm "mysteriously" up and gained...it's hard to keep positive sometimes. Even though I know from experience it's a blip and not to pay any attention, it's still hard not to dwell. But my plot points and the trend line looks just like yours :) This is too cool! And so reassuring. I'm going to continue doing this and when I have that weird week where I've gained, I'll look at this for reassurance to just keep trudging along. :)
  • ChrysalisCove
    ChrysalisCove Posts: 975 Member
    LOVE <3
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    Here's mine, covering 50+ pounds of weight loss....

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    More importantly, here's the relationship between what I did lose, and what CICO said I should lose. This accounts for "cheat" days, holidays, etc...

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  • dacurtis29
    dacurtis29 Posts: 4
    I experience a lot of the up and down weight, but what I don't understand is how for the last 2 months I have lost less than 5 pounds but have finally lost 2 clothing sizes. It was like overnight. I went out and bought this new suit - size 12, got home tried it on, and had to take it to be altered for the leg length. When I got it back a week later, it practically falls off but I didn't lose any significant amount of weight! Is this normal?
  • avskk
    avskk Posts: 1,787 Member
    This was a really, really helpful reminder & illustration to me today. Thanks for posting it.

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