Expectations

gemzgarcia90
gemzgarcia90 Posts: 17 Member
edited November 17 in Health and Weight Loss
Is it ok to expect to lose weight everyday whether you weigh yourself 7 days a week or not. Can eating too little affect weight lost?

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  • TheRambler
    TheRambler Posts: 387 Member
    Obsessive weighing will disappoint you. Too many factors go into how much you weigh on a given day. Once a week is what I do
  • gemzgarcia90
    gemzgarcia90 Posts: 17 Member
    Weighing everyday keeps me accountable!!! At the start I weighed myself everyday and lost 2.9lbs. I believe the day of the week tells you whether going down or up.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    Is it ok to expect to lose weight everyday whether you weigh yourself 7 days a week or not. Can eating too little affect weight lost?

    That is not a realistic expectation...body weight fluctuates naturally...you're going to have natural fluctuations in water as well as varying degrees of inherent waste in your system.
  • ccsernica
    ccsernica Posts: 1,040 Member
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    Weighing everyday keeps me accountable!!! At the start I weighed myself everyday and lost 2.9lbs. I believe the day of the week tells you whether going down or up.

    Not always. With me it's quite random, and daily fluctuations can amount to 2-3 lbs or more.

    Daily weighing is fine if you understand that and won't beat yourself up over an apparent gain. Just keep under your calorie limit, and the trend in your weight will be a downhill slope. Just not necessarily from one day to the next.
  • gemzgarcia90
    gemzgarcia90 Posts: 17 Member
    Can the day of the week or month make your weigh go down or up.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    Can the day of the week or month make your weigh go down or up.

    Why would the day of the week matter? Unless for example you overeat a lot on the weekends then yes, Monday's would be higher but just the day of the week itself no.
  • ccsernica
    ccsernica Posts: 1,040 Member
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    Can the day of the week or month make your weigh go down or up.

    Day of the week? No. Day of the month? Only if you're female.
  • gemzgarcia90
    gemzgarcia90 Posts: 17 Member
    Say the 4th week of the month like Friday for me my weight goes up then after a day or two it goes down.
  • gemzgarcia90
    gemzgarcia90 Posts: 17 Member
    I am always looking for the trend then the number on the particular day.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    Say the 4th week of the month like Friday for me my weight goes up then after a day or two it goes down.

    If you have a very regular menstrual cycle you may have a pattern. Are you talking calendar months or lunar months?
  • DietPrada
    DietPrada Posts: 1,171 Member
    You will not lose weight every day, no matter how "good" you are. Use something like "happy scale" (an app) to see the trend over time.

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  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    I would say you will set you self up for disappointment if you expect to see a loss everyday it just won't happen. Weight can fluctuate daily it depends on what you've eaten the day before i.e. higher salt, if you are female time of the month, etc. I wouldn't say for example, I always see a loss on a Friday, it just doesn't work like that. There are weight trending apps you can use if you want to look at the overall trend
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    Say the 4th week of the month like Friday for me my weight goes up then after a day or two it goes down.

    If you have a very regular menstrual cycle you may have a pattern. Are you talking calendar months or lunar months?

    OP is male. I don't think he's got a regular menstrual cycle at all. :o
  • Duchy82
    Duchy82 Posts: 560 Member
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    Say the 4th week of the month like Friday for me my weight goes up then after a day or two it goes down.

    If you have a very regular menstrual cycle you may have a pattern. Are you talking calendar months or lunar months?

    OP is male. I don't think he's got a regular menstrual cycle at all. :o

    ^^this is the downside of responding on my smartphone I can't see anyone's profile oops! :#
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,230 Member
    I weigh daily, but I do not expect to lose every day. Weight loss is not linear and there are many factors at play, including water retention, hormones, different speeds of digestion etc.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    Duchy82 wrote: »
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    Say the 4th week of the month like Friday for me my weight goes up then after a day or two it goes down.

    If you have a very regular menstrual cycle you may have a pattern. Are you talking calendar months or lunar months?

    OP is male. I don't think he's got a regular menstrual cycle at all. :o

    ^^this is the downside of responding on my smartphone I can't see anyone's profile oops! :#

    Ha! Wow, yeah, I did assume female. :lol:
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    jemhh wrote: »
    Duchy82 wrote: »
    Ready2Rock206 wrote: »
    jemhh wrote: »
    gemzgarcia90 wrote: »
    Say the 4th week of the month like Friday for me my weight goes up then after a day or two it goes down.

    If you have a very regular menstrual cycle you may have a pattern. Are you talking calendar months or lunar months?

    OP is male. I don't think he's got a regular menstrual cycle at all. :o

    ^^this is the downside of responding on my smartphone I can't see anyone's profile oops! :#

    Ha! Wow, yeah, I did assume female. :lol:

    I confess - I remember OP from his last profile. He always has a lot of interesting theories about weight loss.
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