No weight loss then all of the sudden lose 5 lbs? Does this happen to anyone else?

My body is so stinking weird! I try to weigh myself once a week but very consistently I gain 4-5 lbs of water weight between weigh-ins. I will give it a day or so (after I can tell I've dropped the water weigh) and I will have lost the water weight plus a few pounds. The first 2 times it happened, I was really upset. Now I realize that, weird as it is, its the way my body works.

same here, I weigh myself daily because this works best for me personally. In Oct I went 2 almost 3 weeks with nothing them the scale started moving again and I am down 4 lbs.

Happens to me all the time! I weigh weekly but I can still go 4 weeks with nothing then I have a woosh! this is where a lot of people give up, before the woosh!

I just read an article on DOMS, and it fits with my pattern. I actually gain a pound or so before the whoosh. I think it has to do with the muscles retaining water after a weight lifting workout. I don't like to log those gains because it is discouraging. http://www.livestrong.com/article/393797-water-retention-after-resistance-training/

This happens to me regularly. Especially during my time of the month. I know if I keep eating at a deficit during those few days, at the end of all the bloating and what not, I come out way lighter. Usually even gain a few pounds of water weight as it nears my time of the month too.

This thread is not very new, but I thought I could chip in, so bumping this.

I've been losing weight on and off for a few years now. Generally I can see improvements almost daily. Sometimes I've had plateaus for 3-7 days then a drop, but that's rare.

I also had a period of about 40 days when I lost 100 grams every single day, it was like a clockwork.

Last week I had a rather large whoosh. So, I was 79.2 one day, the next day I was 78.0, and the day after I was 76.8 kg. That's 174.6, 172 and 169.3 in lbs.

That's 2.4kg or 5.3lbs loss in two days.

From the experience I've had, after each whoosh it climbed back in one or two days, not necessarily back to where it was, but it always jumped up. In other words, I've never had a plateau after a whoosh.

This time I was so excited about my big whoosh, that I had to go a bit crazy for several days, just so I could retain that number. So for 8 days already I've been very close to that weight right after the woosh.

From what I've read women are more prone to whooshes, but I'm a male. So it is a mystery to me why it happens, but it does. I witnessed a 5.3lbs whoosh, so don't worry about whooshes and plateaus, just stick to the plan that works in the long run.

Yep! Its called a whoosh ! our weight can stall for a few weeks and then bam/whoosh overnight we lose a few pounds in one go. If you have quite a lot of weight to lose your expected whoosh can be higher

Yup. I lost about 6 lbs in a month and I was feeling proud of myself, then I gained 4 of it back and it stayed there. I swear my body defies the laws of physics sometimes.

But it is recommended to drink 64 oz. of water a day, that by itself weighs 4.2 lbs. So it makes sense that my weight can fluctuate by about 4 lbs on any given day. Also most of our body is water, some days we'll retain more water than others. There are a lot of things that cause water retention; sodium, hormones, medications, lifestyle, etc. I've noticed alcohol does some weird things to my weight also. Days when my weight is really low I'll actually worry that I am dehydrated instead of being happy that I "lost" weight.

Me too. I find that those weeks when the scales aren't going down, my waist often is. For motivation, I try on my favourite clothes that haven't fit me for a while to see if anything can be moved into my regular wardrobe. I'm very 'clothes motivated'.