How much does weight flucatations bother you?

Having read your other posts, it really sounds as if you are at a very unhealthy place, mentally. This sort of reaction to fluctuations is actually common among those with eating disorders. Maybe taking a step back and looking at your reactions objectively might be an idea.

I only weigh myself once a week, then adjust my diet accordingly. I'm in maintenance though, so I allow only up to 5 pound gain; I don't even punish myself when I do gain the 5.

Weighing myself daily keeps me in control, usually everyday I can stay on the same number, but sometimes it can go over so makes me keep thinking back, somewhere i must of gone wrong, then would aim to get back to that number, but instead I fall right under the number, now it back to eatting "a lot" a food again, well for a week anyway...

If I were you I would only weigh myself once a week at most because you're not going to lose much/gain (if anything) in one day otherwise you just become obsessed with weighing yourself and if you don't lose what you'd like to then it can ruin your whole; trust me I've been there, however I only weigh myself once every 2 weeks now and I go by how I look in the mirror and how my clothes fit.

This interests me because if I weigh myself daily I can see the figures bouncing around but get a feel for whether I'm generally heading up or down so it keeps me in control. If I weigh myself weekly and say, on the day I weigh myself, I'm holding a lot of water, it would take another week before I knew if it was water or actual weight gain. Yet lots of people say weigh yourself weekly, so can you help explain how to get around this problem?

I hate it because I forget to measure and so when I see my weight go up .. Im like ugh! but in reality its muscle -_-

If you're going to continue to weigh yourself every day you need to be a little more objective about what the scales are telling you. I weigh every day but only for info, it actually has a better impact psychologically than every week. For example. I have eaten perfect net calories this week and lost my desired pound and a half. I went to my mums yesterday and had three slices of pizza and sticky toffee pudding with ice cream. I went 600 calories over. This morning I have "gained" 3.5 pounds. Obviously I haven't as that would mean I ate over 10000 calories over yesterday. So I know it's water and is just a fluctuation. Previously when I did weight watchers and only weighed weekly that would have killed me psychologically. I have an app called weight track which I input my weight into daily. It's really interesting when you look at your progress over time. For me the line overall goes down, gradually, but does have spikes. Hope this helps

Try Trendweight (website), it removes those fluctuations for you

So, I DO monitor my weight daily. Yes, what I consider to be major fluctuations cheese me off.

I've been on a weight *gain* program since last August - but working judiciously to gain it "correctly" - mostly muscle, but recognizing that for every lb of muscle there's usually one lb of fat gain.

For my target weight, I built in a fluctuation - anywhere from 158 to 160 (small fluctuation, I know).

A couple of weeks ago I began to consistently be at my target "low weight" in the morning. That was awesome. Knowing that I've increased some of my freeweight routines up by 10-15lbs per arm as I've progressed tells me I'm hitting that muscle/fate balance I've been looking for. I put on 15 "safe" lbs since the fall.

So, now that I'm at my target range, I'm switching to the "lose those fat lbs, replace them with muscle lbs" - so real maintenance. Just started that goal this weekend with my workouts.

Yes - I was actually "sad" to see I'd dropped below my lower target weight - not by much, but it was there (a 2.6lb swing from yesterday morning). Yeah, I went well-past my target steps (as measured by Fitbit), and yeah I ratcheted up the workout yesterday morning.

Now, I recognize that I'm going to spend a little time adjusting to the new maintenance routine - that doesn't stop me from groaning a little bit when I slip outside the target range.

My weight flucuates up to 5-8 lbs a day.. in the past that would drive me bananas..

+1

I am in maintenance, so I only weigh and measure myself once a month. I workout daily and try to be under my cal goal. While I get the weight flux from daily weighing I don't like having to see the numbers go up. Weighing monthly I see very little change in my numbers.

They bother me a lot, as you can't tell the difference between fat gain or just water weight..
maintenance level.

Of course you can easily tell the difference! One is quick and one is slow. Simple really as you know you aren't under or overeating 3500 calories.

Makes me feel shameful and guilty the next day, so I eat less, then 2 days later I find out it was just water weight, the scales drops down I've lost too much weight.

This is a really unhealthy attitude towards food and your body - feeling shameful and guilty about daily fluctuations is something you need to address. If you can't address it alone then maybe seek professional help?

Due to these reasons i've lost more weight than I planned, I started maining at my goal of 167lb near 3 months, ago and now I find myself at only 156lb simply because I hate flucatations even more if theyt read past my goal, and I can never find out my maintenance level.

So you know you shouldn't react to fluctuations - the choice is stop weighing so frequently or just don't react to small fluctuations.
You will never find maintenance or peace of mind while you keep zig-zagging calories in reaction to something that is normal.

I know if I stay within my allotted calorie intake and follow my plan --IF I gain any weight it will be water weight.

My suggestion is do not weigh in every day (unless there is a medial reason for tracking water weight) make yourself weigh in once a week or every 2 weeks. This will cut down on the anxiety you experience when seeing the back-n-forth.

As for me: I am ok with a couple pounds if I jump on the scales daily. Usually by night I weight 2 or 3 pounds heavier than i will the net morning. I don't 'record' a weight until it has stayed there for a few days.

Stay healthy!

Are you guys (with all these huge fluctuations) measuring yourself always first thing in the morning?

for what it's worth I tend to obsess with the scale, jumping on a couple of times a day.. BUT I only record and accept my weekly weigh-in on friday mornings. as long as THAT number is doing what I want it to, I have to think I'm moving in the right direction, AND my body is healthy.