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endlessfall16
endlessfall16 Posts: 932 Member
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How much does your weight fluctuate from day to day? Assuming your daily weighing practice is consistent. Thank you.

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  • DanaDark
    DanaDark Posts: 2,187 Member
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    About 1 pound for me.

    During the day, my weight can fluctuate 5 pounds. This is due to food intake, sodium, and water. More food means more water retention for processing. More sodium means more water retention. Alcohol dehydrates people, so after a night of drinking, the scale can drop 2.5 pounds for me, only to go back up to 'normal' the next day.

    So, I weigh in the morning first thing out of bed.
  • hiyomi
    hiyomi Posts: 906 Member
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    If I eat well through the week, it only fluctuates maybe half a pound to a pound, if I eat a lot (let's say on the weekend), it fluctuates as much as 5 lbs! Good example, I ate pizza hut last saturday and weighed 275, but Monday I weighed 272 again (my original weight) :)
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
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    DanaDark wrote: »
    About 1 pound for me.

    During the day, my weight can fluctuate 5 pounds. This is due to food intake, sodium, and water. More food means more water retention for processing. More sodium means more water retention. Alcohol dehydrates people, so after a night of drinking, the scale can drop 2.5 pounds for me, only to go back up to 'normal' the next day.

    So, I weigh in the morning first thing out of bed.

    All of this. Except for me the scale goes up after alcohol. Always.
  • wsrep
    wsrep Posts: 20 Member
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    Here's my screen shot to give you an idea. I think i missed a day though. zyq93din1vt9.png
  • rosebarnalice
    rosebarnalice Posts: 3,488 Member
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    2 - 4 lbs is not unusual at all for me.
  • endlessfall16
    endlessfall16 Posts: 932 Member
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    wow some of you control your loss well.

    Mine is like rosebarnalice's. Fluctuate a lot!!

    Frankly I am a bit concerned. My concern is ...how long and how big a loss for the body to start eating into muscles in a detrimental way. (Hope that makes sense).

    If the body can survive anything in 24 hours then I'm (my approach is) good!


    Last column is loss/gain.

    Mon 11-Apr 165.9 1.5
    Tue 12-Apr 164.1 -1.8
    Wed 13-Apr 164.1 0.0
    Thu 14-Apr 166.2 2.1
    Fri 15-Apr 163.9 -2.3
    Sat 16-Apr 163.2 -0.7
    Sun 17-Apr 162.8 -0.4 (altogether lost 1.6 / week)
    Mon 18-Apr 163.6 0.8
    Tue 19-Apr 164.9 1.3
    Wed 20-Apr 161.9 -3.0
    Thu 21-Apr 164.2 2.3


    Thanks all.
  • capaul42
    capaul42 Posts: 1,390 Member
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    If you do some strength training during your deficit, it will help minimize muscle loss. Resistance training, weights, body weight exercises all help. So does meeting your protein goals (so I've heard).
    Your fluctuations don't seem at all bad. And you seem to be losing at a good rate. Mine vary quite a bit, sometimes as much as 2lbs if I've had a new workout the night before or done a longer weight workout. But that's water weight from my muscles repairing themselves. Or if I've had a lot of sodium the day before. It always goes away in a day or two and there's usually an additional drop of at least .3-.5lbs as well.
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
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    This is from the last 3 months. As you can probably tell, it fluctuates quite a bit.
  • amyk0202
    amyk0202 Posts: 667 Member
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    I usually have around a 2 lb swing.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,464 Member
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    endlessfall16 wrote: »
    wow some of you control your loss well.

    Mine is like rosebarnalice's. Fluctuate a lot!!

    Frankly I am a bit concerned. My concern is ...how long and how big a loss for the body to start eating into muscles in a detrimental way. (Hope that makes sense).

    If the body can survive anything in 24 hours then I'm (my approach is) good!


    Last column is loss/gain.

    Mon 11-Apr 165.9 1.5
    Tue 12-Apr 164.1 -1.8
    Wed 13-Apr 164.1 0.0
    Thu 14-Apr 166.2 2.1
    Fri 15-Apr 163.9 -2.3
    Sat 16-Apr 163.2 -0.7
    Sun 17-Apr 162.8 -0.4 (altogether lost 1.6 / week)
    Mon 18-Apr 163.6 0.8
    Tue 19-Apr 164.9 1.3
    Wed 20-Apr 161.9 -3.0
    Thu 21-Apr 164.2 2.3


    Thanks all.

    My numbers right now are almost the same as yours, except I haven't gotten below 163 yet. Looks quite normal. Keep it going!
  • eyeshinebright
    eyeshinebright Posts: 51 Member
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    Fluctuates anywhere between 1 and 2 pounds. Annnd drops after a couple beers.

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