How come my weight changes like this?
justinkimcentral
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So what happened to my body? I felt like nothing was happening despite a caloric deficit and weight lifting 1.5 hours monday-Friday for months and i still ate big meals because of a OMAD diet and i didnt poop for like more than a week... well i did but they were small. And then yesterday before i went to school i had a massive poop and then after i went to the gym which is after school, i weighed myself and i had lost around 7-8 pounds!! Usually after i go to the gym and all that i am 160ish but yesterday i was 156! The reason i say 7-8 pounds is because after my postworkout meals and all that im usually 164-166 for a really long time around 3 months or so but then after my postworkout meal and all that i was just only 158ish!! But then today i did a home workout and ate and ate but then now im 163-164ish... I am really confused because I was really looking aesthetic compared to me daily(while still being on a caloric deficit). Im really confused on what is happening. Any help or advice?
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Digestive system contents have weight. It isn't fat, and it can be temporary (if above your typical average digestive system contents). To put it another way, poop and you lose weight. Poop big, lose more weight. Don't poop, hold onto weight and even gain as the poop builds up in your intestines.
Water has weight. Weigh yourself, drink two cups of water, weigh yourself again, you'll weigh a pound more (if your scale is accurate). The water is sitting inside you, as if you were a water bottle. It has weight, but it's not fat, and you shouldn't worry about it.
Sometimes your body stores water in more complicated ways: You need extra water in order for your body to process carbs or sodium (salt). Therefore, if you eat more salt or carbs than normal - even if it's a totally healthy amount - your body will retain some extra water weight to help with metabolizing the salt or carbs, and you'll weigh more. It isn't fat, and it doesn't matter. It's just how healthy bodies work.
If you work out, your body can need to hold onto extra water to aid in muscle repair. Same is true if you're sick, injured, have surgery, or otherwise have healing going on. Inflammation is involved, and your body holds onto a little extra water weight. It isn't fat, it's just how a healthy body works, and you shouldn't worry about it. (You may have heard that inflammation is bad. It isn't. Chronic inflammation - inflammation that goes on and on for no useful reason - can be bad. Temporary inflammation is part of how your body heals. and it's fine.)
Different scales will show different weights. Breathing (which involves CO2 and water leaving your body) and sweating cause your weight to go down a little. Wearing different clothes when you weigh yourself will result in different weights.
Bottom line: Body weight fluctuates. Some weight changes are fat gain or loss. Some are not. Don't stress over the ones that are not - it's a waste of time.14 -
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justinkimcentral wrote: »Digestive system contents have weight. It isn't fat, and it can be temporary (if above your typical average digestive system contents). To put it another way, poop and you lose weight. Poop big, lose more weight. Don't poop, hold onto weight and even gain as the poop builds up in your intestines.
Water has weight. Weigh yourself, drink two cups of water, weigh yourself again, you'll weigh a pound more (if your scale is accurate). The water is sitting inside you, as if you were a water bottle. It has weight, but it's not fat, and you shouldn't worry about it.
Sometimes your body stores water in more complicated ways: You need extra water in order for your body to process carbs or sodium (salt). Therefore, if you eat more salt or carbs than normal - even if it's a totally healthy amount - your body will retain some extra water weight to help with metabolizing the salt or carbs, and you'll weigh more. It isn't fat, and it doesn't matter. It's just how healthy bodies work.
If you work out, your body can need to hold onto extra water to aid in muscle repair. Same is true if you're sick, injured, have surgery, or otherwise have healing going on. Inflammation is involved, and your body holds onto a little extra water weight. It isn't fat, it's just how a healthy body works, and you shouldn't worry about it. (You may have heard that inflammation is bad. It isn't. Chronic inflammation - inflammation that goes on and on for no useful reason - can be bad. Temporary inflammation is part of how your body heals. and it's fine.)
Different scales will show different weights. Breathing (which involves CO2 and water leaving your body) and sweating cause your weight to go down a little. Wearing different clothes when you weigh yourself will result in different weights.
Bottom line: Body weight fluctuates. Some weight changes are fat gain or loss. Some are not. Don't stress over the ones that are not - it's a waste of time.
So what should i consider as my "Real weight" persay
Personally, I don't think I have a "real weight".
I have a short-term weight range, and a long term weight trend.
Over the course of a day or a few days, my scale weight will fluctuate up and down through a range of a few pounds, for the reasons I mentioned (among others). That's my short-term weight range. (How many pounds are in that range varies by person.)
Over the course of a few weeks to months and beyond, my weight range is moving up, down, or staying kind of level. If I'm gaining fat (which I can do fast) or gaining muscle (which is slow under the best conditions) my weight range will move upward. If I'm losing fat (which I might want to do) or losing muscle or other lean tissue (which is mostly something I want to avoid), my weight range will move downward. If I'm maintaining fat and lean tissue at a more or less constant amount, my weight range will be steady (ups and downs around the same level).
Scale weight is always a jagged line of ups and downs, even if I weigh myself at the same time under the same conditions every day. That's totally normal. If I want to lose weight, I want those jagged ups and downs to gradually trend downward, like bumps on a downhill slope. If I want to gain weight, I want the jagged ups and downs to trend upward, like bumps on an uphill slope. If I want to maintain weight, I want the jagged ups and downs to stay roughly around the same range, like bumps on basically level ground.
That's how I think about weight. I don't have a single "real weight" per se, just a current range, and a long-term trend.9 -
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This may help show what Ann is describing:
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For me my real weight is usually a range, often times +/- 5lbs. Try to be consistent with when you weigh yourself and try logging it in a weigh trending app. I weigh every morning on an empty stomach after I go to the bathroom.1
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another new user name OP? that's got to be at least number 3?5
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TavistockToad wrote: »another new user name OP? that's got to be at least number 3?
SugarAndSugar?0 -
Redordeadhead wrote: »TavistockToad wrote: »another new user name OP? that's got to be at least number 3?
SugarAndSugar?
yep0 -
You keep asking the same questions under a different user name no doubt and you get answers to your questions, but you are not liking the advice you get?1
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CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »
And that surely no one will ever remember who they are.
Sock accounts are periodically fun like this because the creator never remembers that unless you change your syntax, you're pretty dang easy to spot.2 -
CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »
Several of us have been posting on his threads for a couple of months. Maybe its some kind of game, but he bumps his own threads, so he definitely does not like the answers he gets.
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collectingblues wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »
And that surely no one will ever remember who they are.
Sock accounts are periodically fun like this because the creator never remembers that unless you change your syntax, you're pretty dang easy to spot.
The average person has no idea that syntax and diction aren't just noticeable in speech, but also in written text.
It's certainly possible to learn to write in a different voice or tone, but it takes practice and is a learned skill. Most admin assistants, and tech writers learn fairly quickly to write in the Boss' or Corporation's particular voice, and change that voice as they get to different organizations or companies.
It's easy to pick up on when someone has a shared background or experience, because there are subtle cues that even come out in written text unless specific effort is made to mask them.3 -
stanmann571 wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »
And that surely no one will ever remember who they are.
Sock accounts are periodically fun like this because the creator never remembers that unless you change your syntax, you're pretty dang easy to spot.
The average person has no idea that syntax and diction aren't just noticeable in speech, but also in written text.
It's certainly possible to learn to write in a different voice or tone, but it takes practice and is a learned skill. Most admin assistants, and tech writers learn fairly quickly to write in the Boss' or Corporation's particular voice, and change that voice as they get to different organizations or companies.
It's easy to pick up on when someone has a shared background or experience, because there are subtle cues that even come out in written text unless specific effort is made to mask them.
It's also fascinating when you belong to a related board, and you see someone post over there, and then they post here about a related topic, but leaving out the details, and there's that moment of "OH, you! You're not telling the full story!"
Language is fun.
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Forget the scale, use measurements, how clothes fit, how you feel and look. Numbers on the scale change to often and due to very many factors.1
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stanmann571 wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »CharlieBeansmomTracey wrote: »
And that surely no one will ever remember who they are.
Sock accounts are periodically fun like this because the creator never remembers that unless you change your syntax, you're pretty dang easy to spot.
The average person has no idea that syntax and diction aren't just noticeable in speech, but also in written text.
It's certainly possible to learn to write in a different voice or tone, but it takes practice and is a learned skill. Most admin assistants, and tech writers learn fairly quickly to write in the Boss' or Corporation's particular voice, and change that voice as they get to different organizations or companies.
It's easy to pick up on when someone has a shared background or experience, because there are subtle cues that even come out in written text unless specific effort is made to mask them.
I think it would hard to keep up with so many names and so on and not try to repeat the same things as well. so yeah they would have to be good at faking who they are . to me it would be too much work and time to do all that. aint nobody got time for that(well clearly that person does) lol2
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