Could my scale be broken?

lindacooke1963
lindacooke1963 Posts: 1 Member
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I feel like I did everything right this first week and I GAINED 2 lbs?!! WTF?!
Trying not to be discouraged - it's a long term proposition, forming healthy habits, etc.
Still, I thought the scales would be moving the OTHER direction.

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  • freakhazerd2424
    freakhazerd2424 Posts: 611 Member
    It could be water weight. Did you eat a lot of salt or go over your calories yesterday. Did you just start a work out program. Your muscles could be retaining water. Don't worry about it. Maybe it's the scale to. My scale has been weighing me way higher or lower lately than I think I should be. Don't even look at the scale it's hard at first but with progress you won't care anymore
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    It could be water weight. Did you eat a lot of salt or go over your calories yesterday. Did you just start a work out program. Your muscles could be retaining water. Don't worry about it. Maybe it's the scale to. My scale has been weighing me way higher or lower lately than I think I should be. Don't even look at the scale it's hard at first but with progress you won't care anymore

    I have nothing to add but throw away the scale and keep staring in the mirror. You will see results. I notice that for me if I have a high sodium intake like within three days of weigh in the scale will be higher.
  • _Josee_
    _Josee_ Posts: 625 Member
    I feel like I did everything right this first week and I GAINED 2 lbs?!! WTF?!
    Trying not to be discouraged - it's a long term proposition, forming healthy habits, etc.
    Still, I thought the scales would be moving the OTHER direction.

    You've been at it a week, and are already saying that your scale is broken ?!?
    What is: ''I did everything right'' exactly ?
  • TheBrolympus
    TheBrolympus Posts: 586 Member
    I feel like I did everything right this first week and I GAINED 2 lbs?!! WTF?!
    Trying not to be discouraged - it's a long term proposition, forming healthy habits, etc.
    Still, I thought the scales would be moving the OTHER direction.
    I sneak into your house at night and adjust your scale. Muhahahahahaha.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    It's all muscle probably
  • xcalygrl
    xcalygrl Posts: 1,897 Member
    -If you started working out as well, it could be water weight. Your muscles do hold onto extra water to repair themselves.
    -Are you weighing everything? If you aren't, you could have overeaten.
    -Are you accurately logging everything? Make sure you are using correct foods (i.e. have the correct calories, macros, and micros in the entry).
    -Are you following the MFP calculation of eating back your exercise calories? MFP and cardio machines overestimate calories burned, so if you ate back all of your exercise calories you could have overeaten.
  • jofjltncb6
    jofjltncb6 Posts: 34,415 Member
    One week delta is remarkably inconsequential. It could be any of at least a dozen totally irrelevant factors. Just keep doing what you're doing (assuming you're working with a reasonable calorie deficit and tracking consistently) and have patience that the process will work...and that 4-6ish weeks from now, it may be necessary to make some tweaks to your plan, but now is not that time.

    (I've seen 24 hour swings in scale weight as much as 6 pounds...and 2-3 pounds is not that unusual.)
  • karenj_m
    karenj_m Posts: 215
    I feel like I did everything right this first week and I GAINED 2 lbs?!! WTF?!
    Trying not to be discouraged - it's a long term proposition, forming healthy habits, etc.
    Still, I thought the scales would be moving the OTHER direction.
    I sneak into your house at night and adjust your scale. Muhahahahahaha.


    ^^^^^^^^
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    HAHAHAHA!
  • AsaThorsWoman
    AsaThorsWoman Posts: 2,303 Member
    :noway:
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    My wife wants her scale back. Clearly you stole ours.
  • gary241069
    gary241069 Posts: 255 Member
    You will not get a satisfactory answer to this question until you share how much weight you are trying to lose.
    I don't accept water weight as an excuse.
    If you follow MFP program, then you should only be weighing yourself once every 5 weeks to avoid disappointment.
    Your weight will go up and down until the body gets used to the new balance you are trying to create.
    So don't weigh yourself so much...
  • JosieRawr
    JosieRawr Posts: 788 Member
    To test out your scale... Weigh an object... Then weigh yourself... Then weigh yourself while holding the object, if this adds up then it's highly unlikely that it's recording a gain when you're losing.

    One week is a very small amount of time in a weight loss journey. While many people experience a woosh of water weight loss in the first week, that generally if they altered their diet to a lower sodium one...
    If you started a new work out routine or had a sodium filled day within the last few days, or even just weighed in at a different part of the day 2lbs is negligible unless you ate approximately 7000 calories over maintenance you didn't gain 2 lbs of fat...

    I admit that I weigh daily(excluding tom), but that's just so that I have more data points to track the trend. I don't judge the day to day.
  • JosieRawr
    JosieRawr Posts: 788 Member
    It's all muscle probably

    No : /
  • itsbasschick
    itsbasschick Posts: 1,584 Member
    you said that you feel you did "everything" right. can you tell us what you did? hopefully you're logging every calorie and at least doing some walking.

    a week is just too soon to be gaining muscle, btw.
  • Sirinya55
    Sirinya55 Posts: 79 Member
    Did you poop yet?

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