Real VS false weight gain

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  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    You may have eaten a lot of sodium during the holidays. Keep working out and drinking water and see what the next couple weeks bring. Then you can decide if you need to make any changes.
  • LivingtheLeanDream
    LivingtheLeanDream Posts: 13,342 Member
    Fluctuations on daily basis are completely normal ...
  • JanetMMcC
    JanetMMcC Posts: 410 Member
    its_betty wrote: »
    There is a graph so I can tell if my weight is trending up or down over time (I aim for DOWN!).
    You can get a graph here, too, and an look at a week, a month, and I think 6 months, 90 days, a year and all. Look under "reports".
  • Jacwhite22
    Jacwhite22 Posts: 7,010 Member
    bfanny wrote: »
    So I got to my lower weight of 135 right before Christmas (2 weeks) however on the 25 my weight was 137 and today 141 :( I didn't track everything but still seems like a lot! So how do I go from here? Back to losing mode? Normal maintaining?
    About how many days the weight starts to settle to know for sure how much is real? In other words when do I start to panic? LOL
    Thanks! Happy New Year

    You were probably dehydrated when you weighed 135. Just keep doing what you are doing....If you lose weight consistently then keep doing what you are doing. If you stay the same either exercise more or eat less.....Same if you gain.
  • ladybosie
    ladybosie Posts: 41 Member
    So many things can affect weight--always make sure to weigh yourself in the morning, before you've eaten/drank anything, and when you know your bowels are fairly empty. For women, don't weigh yourselves when you know your period's coming soon! Your period makes you retain water, and that lining in your uterus makes a difference too. When I'm getting close to my period, I can weigh as much as 7 lbs heavier. I also know food takes awhile to get through my system, so if I ate, say, a holiday meal(s), that's gonna throw the number off.
  • bfanny
    bfanny Posts: 440 Member
    It's been a week eating at maintainance and my weight is pretty much the same! So it IS possible to gain 5 lbs in one week???
  • bfanny
    bfanny Posts: 440 Member


    You were probably dehydrated when you weighed 135. Just keep doing what you are doing....If you lose weight consistently then keep doing what you are doing. If you stay the same either exercise more or eat less.....Same if you gain.
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    ...or this :'(

  • bfanny
    bfanny Posts: 440 Member
    ladybosie wrote: »
    So many things can affect weight--always make sure to weigh yourself in the morning, before you've eaten/drank anything, and when you know your bowels are fairly empty. For women, don't weigh yourselves when you know your period's coming soon! Your period makes you retain water, and that lining in your uterus makes a difference too. When I'm getting close to my period, I can weigh as much as 7 lbs heavier. I also know food takes awhile to get through my system, so if I ate, say, a holiday meal(s), that's gonna throw the number off.

    And then again there IS hope ;)

  • Of_Monsters_and_Meat
    Of_Monsters_and_Meat Posts: 1,022 Member
    You would weigh different on the equator and the north pole. Did you do a lot of traveling?
  • gothomson
    gothomson Posts: 215 Member
    I usually gain about 4 - 6 lb over Xmas and New Year. the first week to 10 days I "lose" 3lb, and the rest takes another week to 10 days to come off, but that varies a lot. Basically, it's probably water retention and once you go back to your normal routine things will work out ok.
  • bfanny
    bfanny Posts: 440 Member
    edited January 2016
    Of_Monsters_and_Meat wrote: »
    You would weigh different on the equator and the north pole. Did you do a lot of traveling?

    ...nope

  • bfanny
    bfanny Posts: 440 Member
    edited January 2016
    JanetMMcC wrote: »
    For what it's worth, I've set my goal at 140 to 145. If I go over, I redo my settings for a half-pound/week loss. Once I'm back in range (and it hasn't taken long), I return to maintenance. If it's under, I give myself a few extra cals by giving myself a weight gain setting. Just for grits and shins, I added up all overages and under-the-marks for December and discovered that I was, overall, under by about 2800 calories. When my New Year's Day weight was 139.5, I gave myself a pound-a-week gain for the day. :) I'm at 142 today. The next 3 days, I'm going to set the goal for a half-pound/week gain, and then re-set to maintenance. Unless I go above 145. Even if that half-pound over (my scale shows only half-pound increments) is water weight, if I reset immediately to lose, I'm not endangering myself and I feel that I'm keeping things under control. And once I get back to 145 or under, I reset to maintain.

    Have you been logging everything you ate? Holiday food can add up real fast. Three Lindt mint truffles = 240 calories. Which means 3 a day could, on top of maintenance calories, add pernear a half-pound of fat a week.
    http://www.dietbites.com/article1157.html
    http://abcnews.go.com/Health/calories-average-american-eats-christmas/story?id=27816914
    http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/12/14/christmas-weight-gain_n_4370815.html
    (Ignore the detox rubbish - a balanced diet is all anyone needs to worry about.)

    But yeah, fluctuations are normal. Here's my 30-day chart.

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    I like this!! I'm going back to "losing mode" get to 130 and have a range of 5 lbs
  • JanetMMcC
    JanetMMcC Posts: 410 Member
    Glad you found that helpful, bfanny!

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