How much have you fluctuated from 1 day to the next day?

Usually within 2 pounds but my record is 6 pounds, both on days after Chinese takeout (Three year daily weigher and charter here @ 197)

If you have been restricting your calories through dieting (and therefore eating fewer carbohydrates) and then you eat a high carbohydrate meal, then you will almost always see a spike in weight on the morning following the day on which you consumed more carbohydrates. Your body tries to make up it's depleted glycogen stores. Glycogen is bound with water, so you will experience a gain in water weight.

To avoid large fluctuations in your weight, you can try to make your carbohydrate consumption more even throughout the week.

Try going back through your diary and figuring out how many grams of carbohydrate you eat for an average of X days. Then, on the day after any day in which you eat a lot more than that average, just don't weigh yourself. Or, weigh yourself, but do it with the knowledge that your weight will have spiked because of a higher than normal carbohydrate consumption.

xbowhunter wrote: »

I weigh in every Friday. This eliminates the fluctuations you see through the week.

It doesn't eliminate the fluctuations. It may mask them. It may not.

You can catch yourself at a low weight on a Friday one week. But perhaps the next Friday you catch yourself at a high weight. You can mistakenly conclude that you made no progress, or worse, that you gained, when your average weight is actually trending down.

I, personally, weigh on a daily basis and calculate a trend line using a weighted moving average.

There are apps and web sites that will do this for you, like trendweight.com or Happy Scales (app).

mine fluctuates daily up to 7 pounds

I can fluctuate several pounds a day but my record is 12 lbs. I weighed right before a several mile hike and then also weighed next morning and I was up 12lbs. It was all gone within a few days.

I only weighed myself then out of curiosity . I don't worry about few up and down daily since I know when I'm in a deficit and confident a true loss will show soon.

For me it's mid week totm. I also had a stupidly large bit if birthday cake last night.. not much sodium in it but loads of sugar lol..
I'm tracking my weight via libra although I have a slight feeling I'm not cut out for daily weighing because of my mini meltdown earlier

Usually two pounds in either direction. On a rare occasion, like right after xmas, up like four lbs.

Somebody needs to create a version of that flow chart for these weight variation emergencies... Our weight varies. Always. All day. Probably all night. Forever. Then we're compost & it doesn't matter as much. LOL!

Most I've fluctuated is around 4-5 pounds. The best thing I've done losing weight this time around is go to daily weigh-ins and tracking it with the Happy Scale app. Takes all the pressure off the once a week weigh-in and helps to see how weight can fluctuate from day to day but still be in a downward trend.

I've gone up 10lbs in two days before. Ah, those were a fun two days. Totally worth it. I was down 8lbs within a week, so it was mostly water.

7lbs because of 300 extra calories worth of pizza seems like a bit much, but it varies from person to person. When I was bulking, my sodium levels were anywhere from 3000-4500mg per day and my weight didn't fluctuate all that much, but I know some people are really sensitive to sodium so it's not uncommon.