Weight Fluctuations
danimalkeys
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I'm closing in on my main goal weight, and it's increasingly hard to lose that last couple pounds. I haven't lost anything for 2 weeks and have actually gone up a pound on weigh in day.
I weigh daily to trend what's happening, but my official weigh in is on Friday morning. My weight seems to fluctuate over the course of the week. Friday morning is usually my lowest weight of the week. Over the weekend I'll gain about 2lbs of water weight. Monday I do a heavy lifting session (squats, deadlifts, bench, row, press, chin-ups), so Tuesday I'm up another 2lbs or so from water weight gain to repair my muscles, which puts me 4-5lbs over what I was on Friday morning. The rest of the week my weight will gradually go down, and if I'm lucky, by Friday morning, I'll be back down to where I was the prior week and if I'm REALLY lucky, maybe I lost 1/2 a pound. Or, like the last 2 weeks, no loss or a slight gain.
I've been doing low carb since last August, count my calories, weigh everything, try to stay under 50 net carbs a day (though on weekends, I enjoy some IPA brews and my carb count will go up from that). I'm only lifting 1 day a week, and doing cardio 2 days a week. I try to hit 60% fat, 30% protein and 10% carbs daily, but sometimes my protein is higher. My fat is always at least 50% and usually close to the 60% goal.
Just getting a little frustrated that I seem to have stalled 3lbs from my goal weight. I'm not even sure if this will be my goal weight, I might decide to drop another 10-15lbs after I get this goal, and I'm not sure how I could manage that based on my current loss (or lack thereof) pattern.
Any suggestions?
I weigh daily to trend what's happening, but my official weigh in is on Friday morning. My weight seems to fluctuate over the course of the week. Friday morning is usually my lowest weight of the week. Over the weekend I'll gain about 2lbs of water weight. Monday I do a heavy lifting session (squats, deadlifts, bench, row, press, chin-ups), so Tuesday I'm up another 2lbs or so from water weight gain to repair my muscles, which puts me 4-5lbs over what I was on Friday morning. The rest of the week my weight will gradually go down, and if I'm lucky, by Friday morning, I'll be back down to where I was the prior week and if I'm REALLY lucky, maybe I lost 1/2 a pound. Or, like the last 2 weeks, no loss or a slight gain.
I've been doing low carb since last August, count my calories, weigh everything, try to stay under 50 net carbs a day (though on weekends, I enjoy some IPA brews and my carb count will go up from that). I'm only lifting 1 day a week, and doing cardio 2 days a week. I try to hit 60% fat, 30% protein and 10% carbs daily, but sometimes my protein is higher. My fat is always at least 50% and usually close to the 60% goal.
Just getting a little frustrated that I seem to have stalled 3lbs from my goal weight. I'm not even sure if this will be my goal weight, I might decide to drop another 10-15lbs after I get this goal, and I'm not sure how I could manage that based on my current loss (or lack thereof) pattern.
Any suggestions?
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What is your actual trend-line doing? If you don't have it, what are the average weights for the last 4 weeks? Is the average weight each week going down?0
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I went from 204 to 202.4, but those are always my lowest recorded weights. Right now I'm 204.1.0
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I see 6lb swing in my weight depending on my training and other factors. I don't worry about the scale and just go by BF%. It sounds like the swing is mostly water in your muscles going up and down.0
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What is your actual trend-line doing? If you don't have it, what are the average weights for the last 4 weeks? Is the average weight each week going down?
I use the trend-line constantly. It really puts things in perspective and gets you out of the "I haven't lost anything" mind-set.0 -
According to my nutritionist you can fluctuate 3 lbs a day, it depends on many factors such as salt intake, carb intake, exercise. I go up and down unless I make a very deliberate point to focus on consistenecy which she says is key to keep that number heading down. She is right too, if I put one pasta or bread in my stomach the next day its about 2-3 lbs higher than if I stick to only proteins and any carbs must be natural such as exists in fruit.
I am all the way down to a 1200 calorie 105 total carb per day diet and I have dropped 3 lbs in 10 days...guess it's working. And i'm not tired! Amazing.0 -
It sounds to me like now would be a good time to focus more on recomp than a particular number on the scale. Your profile says you used to be a powerlifter, so you probably already know the benefits of doing so on body fat.0
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Yes, I probably shouldn't worry so much about the number, but it is a pretty important goal to me.
I've never really done any kind of recomp, I'll have to look up what that entails. I definitely don't want to go on any kind of bulk. My time for lifting is really limited, 1-2 days a week is all I can squeeze in.0
