I need your opinion guys about this weight glitch

whatthehellamidoing
whatthehellamidoing Posts: 22 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
Okay, so i know i shouldn't weigh daily, but I cant help it :(
So here is some background.

Its been a month and I am eating healthy around 1400 cals and i weigh everything i eat. I exercise moderately, usually walk and play badminton for half an hour.

So yesterday I weighed 95.5 kilos, the only thing different i did yesterday was i tried to run a bit :p and i ate one roti, i was over my budget by 200 cals, and today i weigh 96.5 kilos :open_mouth:

What i dont understand is how?

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  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,250 Member
    Water retention.
  • glortard
    glortard Posts: 67 Member
    You weight will fluctuate daily up and down however if you follow the plan over the long term it will decrease. I am a guy and if I do it daily I can see a 2lb increase sometimes with no real reason. Remember also woman will retain more water at their period.
  • DemoraFairy
    DemoraFairy Posts: 1,806 Member
    There's nothing wrong with weighing everyday, lots of people do. I'd hate to weigh any less often.

    Weight fluctuates, this is completely normal and happens to everyone.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    its amazing that its taken 4 weeks for your weight to fluctuate up!
  • whatthehellamidoing
    whatthehellamidoing Posts: 22 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    its amazing that its taken 4 weeks for your weight to fluctuate up!

    Actually my weight has dropped about 3-4 kilos in the past month
  • DeguelloTex
    DeguelloTex Posts: 6,652 Member
    whatthehellamidoing wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    its amazing that its taken 4 weeks for your weight to fluctuate up!

    Actually my weight has dropped about 3-4 kilos in the past month
    And then fluctuated up.

    I've "gained" up to seven pounds from one day to the next.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    whatthehellamidoing wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    its amazing that its taken 4 weeks for your weight to fluctuate up!

    Actually my weight has dropped about 3-4 kilos in the past month

    yes, of course it has, or you would have posted saying you hadn't lost weight... but weight fluctuates both up and down, that was my point.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    it is not a glitch it is water retention + daily fluctuation.

    stop weighing daily and you will not have this "glitch"…

  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    it is not a glitch it is water retention + daily fluctuation.

    stop weighing daily and you will not have this "glitch"…

    ^^ good advice :smile:
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    It wasn't the roti. This is the hazard of weighing daily. You'll blame a temporary fluctuation on the last thing you did.
  • mburgess458
    mburgess458 Posts: 480 Member
    jgnatca wrote: »
    It wasn't the roti. This is the hazard of weighing daily. You'll blame a temporary fluctuation on the last thing you did.

    I agree it wasn't the roti, the OP also said she tried running for the first time. That is probably the reason for the water retention. Whenever I add a new exercise, or do a regular one at a higher intensity, I retain water for a few days. The more intense the workout was (especially if I end up sore from it) the more water retained.
  • ruggedshutter
    ruggedshutter Posts: 389 Member
    There's nothing wrong with weighing daily. You will need to learn to ignore the small spikes if you do. Personally, I would rather see the fluctuations. This way I'm not waiting a week between weigh-ins and wondering what's going on the entire week. Perhaps when I'm maintaining I'll weigh weekly.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    edited June 2015
    ndj1979 wrote: »
    it is not a glitch it is water retention + daily fluctuation.

    stop weighing daily and you will not have this "glitch"…

    This^^

    It's normal

    I weigh most days in order to track fluctuations

    This is my normal over 3 months ...black dots are actual weigh ins...this is during eating at maintenance ...water weight!

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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    ruggedshutter wrote: »
    There's nothing wrong with weighing daily. You will need to learn to ignore the small spikes if you do. Personally, I would rather see the fluctuations. This way I'm not waiting a week between weigh-ins and wondering what's going on the entire week. Perhaps when I'm maintaining I'll weigh weekly.

    Agree...weighing daily isn't itself the problem.

    You just have to be able to not let the daily fluctuations play mind games with you and focus your analysis on the long term trend.

    If you can't get over that mental hurdle, THEN daily weighing probably isn't the best option.
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