For the people that weigh themselves daily.

Weight can fluctuate a lot in a week plus the added water weight we women gain each month. I think I heard if you strength train, you do gain a little weight at first as its your body's side effect of repairing the muscle tissue that allows you to get strong. I really woudn't worry about a pound or two here and there. You're doing great!

I weigh every day. A half pound 'increase' is nothing. Sometimes my Sunday weight (after my big, salty Saturday) is 2 or 3 pounds more than my Friday or Saturday weigh in. It tends to go down over the course of the week.

There are a lot of factors, including hydration, glycol levels, solid and liquid waste currently in your system, etc. I would expect a dietician would know that. She probably said to call her in a week because by then, you'll probably see it go back down.

Or not. Weight loss isn't linear. I had a 2 week run last month where I didn't lose anything, and then saw 3 or 4 pounds come off the scale in 2 days. I am currently on a 13 day run where I am 1 pound up. But I am expecting that 'woosh' any time. My calorie intake and exercise is in line, so the weight loss will follow.

BTW, I weigh every day because I like looking for that 'new low'. It's because I know weight can fluctuate that I do that. I don't want to miss that low.

If you look at my page I have a screen shot of a 3 month trend and a 30 day trend. The body's weight fluctuates. Sodium, stress, sleep cycle, menstrual cycle all have effects. But the overall trend is downward.

No worries.

I weigh every day. A half pound 'increase' is nothing. Sometimes my Sunday weight (after my big, salty Saturday) is 2 or 3 pounds more than my Friday or Saturday weigh in. It tends to go down over the course of the week.

There are a lot of factors, including hydration, glycol levels, solid and liquid waste currently in your system, etc. I would expect a dietician would know that. She probably said to call her in a week because by then, you'll probably see it go back down.

Or not. Weight loss isn't linear. I had a 2 week run last month where I didn't lose anything, and then saw 3 or 4 pounds come off the scale in 2 days. I am currently on a 13 day run where I am 1 pound up. But I am expecting that 'woosh' any time. My calorie intake and exercise is in line, so the weight loss will follow.

BTW, I weigh every day because I like looking for that 'new low'. It's because I know weight can fluctuate that I do that. I don't want to miss that low.

This is why I weigh every day and why I don't worry about it if I see a spike. As long as the overall trend is down, I'm good. I tend to be more active on the weekends and can usually post my lowest weight on Saturday afternoons.

I've been weighing myself daily for well over a year now. I keep a spreadsheet where I do rolling averages, 7-day, 15-day, and 31-day. I don't worry about day-to-day fluctuations, but I keep an eye on the rolling average trends.

However, I do have rather a *lot* of data on day-to-day and rolling average fluctuations:
Over my ~173 lb to ~145 lb weight loss journey:
My biggest single day swing (relative to the underlying modeled trend) was 8.3 lbs. Std. Deviation: 1.51 lbs.
7-Day average biggest swing: 5 lbs. Std. Deviation: 0.996 lbs
15-Day average biggest swing: 3.7 lbs Std. Deviation: 0.782 lbs.

I have estimated my Glycogen (and water) storage to be 8.8 lbs based on my estimated LBM, so these statistics seem quite reasonable to me, especially considering I frequently cycle my calorie deficit.

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TL;DR:
*Daily* weight fluctuations of a few pounds (or even more) are expected and do not indicate calorie surplus or deficit. If you're seeing a consistent weight loss/gain after a *few weeks*, that will tell you if you need to adjust your calories.

I weigh every day as well, and I see the pattern you're describing. I'll gain for several days in a row - small amounts like 0.4 lb or 0.6 lb - and then after a few days I'll drop it all and then some in just one or two days. My weigh-in today shows that I lost 1.8 lbs since yesterday. But if I compare that to my weight 3 days ago, I've only lost 0.4 lbs. It's just weight fluctuations. I don't understand why it does that, but I don't let it worry me either.

The reason I weigh myself every day is to desensitize myself to these fluctuations. If my weight goes up a little one day, I know that it will go down again if I just stay the course. But if I was only weighing myself every week and these fluctuations showed up on one of my weekly weigh-ins, I would panic because I wouldn't know what's happening in between weigh-ins; I wouldn't recognize that it's normal.

Weight loss isn't linear. If I could figure out how to add a pic to my post I would show you my weight-loss graph, there are a dozen little peaks, but the general trend is downwards. My greatest scare was my last period. Over 2 days I gained almost 4 lbs, held it steady for 3 days, and then dropped it all in one day.

But doing some math: You said you've been doing it for 46 days and you've lost 14 lbs. That's about 2.1 lbs/week. That's excellent loss rate! I don't think you have anything to worry about.

Another thing I've realized is that weighing every day seems to make every pound lost more exciting. I mean, I reached 214 3 days ago and then watched it go up again. So seeing it drop just below 214 this morning was really exciting. And now I'm looking forward to seeing it drop below 213 in a few days. Every day that my weight reaches a new low is a good day. But if that happened every day, I don't think it would make me quite as happy.

Not sure I'm making any sense here, but I thought I'd share that.

I haven't seen a pattern for how long my weight will go up before going down again. But I've seen it happen enough times that when it does, I consider it a reminder to just stay the course.

A weeks worth of small daily fluctuations really isn't enough to know if you are eating too much or not. An accurate food log will generally tell you if that is the case.

I weigh daily and my weight is all over the place. The variables that most affect it are the amount of carbs I've eaten the day before, my amount of activity, my hydration and where I am in my cycle. My weight went up every day this week even though I did nothing "wrong" but I'm fully expecting a drop within the next two days because that's what always happens at this time of the month.

I've been weighing myself daily for well over a year now. I keep a spreadsheet where I do rolling averages, 7-day, 15-day, and 31-day. I don't worry about day-to-day fluctuations, but I keep an eye on the rolling average trends.

However, I do have rather a *lot* of data on day-to-day and rolling average fluctuations:
Over my ~173 lb to ~145 lb weight loss journey:
My biggest single day swing (relative to the underlying modeled trend) was 8.3 lbs. Std. Deviation: 1.51 lbs.
7-Day average biggest swing: 5 lbs. Std. Deviation: 0.996 lbs
15-Day average biggest swing: 3.7 lbs Std. Deviation: 0.782 lbs.

I have estimated my Glycogen (and water) storage to be 8.8 lbs based on my estimated LBM, so these statistics seem quite reasonable to me, especially considering I frequently cycle my calorie deficit.

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TL;DR:
*Daily* weight fluctuations of a few pounds (or even more) are expected and do not indicate calorie surplus or deficit. If you're seeing a consistent weight loss/gain after a *few weeks*, that will tell you if you need to adjust your calories.

Wow!!! What is LBM?

I weigh myself every morning. One morning I woke up 2 hours early and weighted myself. I was able to get back to sleep and when I weight myself a second time I had lost 2 pounds in 2 hours. Last night my husband got overseas phone calls all night. I woke up 2 pounds heavier than yesterday. I anticipate after a good night's sleep, those 2 pounds will disappear plus some because I've been under calories.

Hey OP do you have all your data and access to a spreadsheet? If so, do this:

In the spreadsheet put the date in one column (or just Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 etc) and then your scale weight in a second column and graph that. It will most likely be a line that bounces all over the place but has a somewhat downward trend.

Like this:




If you look close you can see my weight would sometimes spike 4 pounds in a day.

Now, average all the weight values for 7 days (Day 1 - 7) and put that value in a third column next to day 7. Now average all the weight values for 7 days (day 2-8) and put that value in the third column next to day 8. Repeat through all the recorded days.

Now graph that. Chances are taking a 7 day average (called a moving average) will smooth out any fluctuations and you will see a nice clean downward trend.

Like this:




If after months of recording your moving average doesn't show a downward trend then yes you aren't losing fat weight. If it does though you are and you can get an idea of how quickly you are losing. In my example I am losing a pretty steady 1.3 pounds a week which if that trend continues will put me at my goal weight in September.