The Weird and Highly Annoying World of Scale Fluctuations

Yep, my scale isn't being nice this week. I should be under 203, getting awfully close to 200, but the scale keeps hovering and bouncing between 204-206. I was 202.8 a couple of weeks ago. Part of it is a little constipation, where I'm just not clearing out as much as I probably should be. I'm retaining water too and I just went from two days if strength training a week to three days.

But my measurements are still going down. My waist had a big jump this week, hips are down, just not as much. I can feel slight differences with my clothes as usual. I see changes in my body. So the scale can just shove it. Pretty sure I'll finally see the scale catch up to where it should be in a week or so.

It can be very frustrating. I ate one week at maintenance (1700-1900 calories) because I went on vacation but I was also very active getting sometimes 20,000 steps a day and still came back 5 pounds heavier. One week later, the scale still shows me 3 lbs heavier. I thought if it was just water weight that it would have dropped by now. We'll see next week.

Could use a bump.

I remember weighting myself for 3 months and no change but losing inches then one day there it was 15lbs. less. I couldn't believe it.

Yep, I can be in a serious calorie deficit after a weekend of riding my bicycle, and weigh more on Monday morning.

Gained some water due to repairing muscle after riding.

I did that this weekend. I rode a total of 45 miles, consumed 5200 calories Saturday and Sunday, but allegedly burned 9075. Even if half my recorded cycling calories didn't really happen, I'd still have burnt about 7000 calories over that same time.

Yet I weighed 3 pounds more than I did Friday when I weighed this AM.

I didn't eat enough calories, over 10k OVER what I burnt to gain fat.

So something else is in play.

I'll probably weigh 2-4 pounds less tomorrow as things get sorted out.

I did eat more carbs, but not an insane amount.

My diabetes coach and dietitian has me on 225g carbs/day and I had 227g on Saturday and 252g on Sunday. I ate some fruit and a muffin with my breakfast.

Yet my fasting BG this AM was in the normal range, so I couldn't have done too poorly. I didn't eat so many carbs that I threw my blood glucose out of the normal range.

Of course, as I approach dinner today, I've consumed on 96g of carbs, so balance in my universe

But weight and fat are not the same which is what this article is saying.

I have been at the same weight within 5 pounds for the past month, but my pants are getting looser.

I'll probably start losing weight again as things get sorted out. The body is doing its thing and the fat is coming off, as evidenced by the looser clothes. But weight remains in the same pretty narrow range, for now.

It cannot stay here, and fat will have to be consumed as I maintain a 500-800 calorie/day deficit on average.

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I'll just leave this here.



The fluctuations were so bad this week that Trendweight now thinks I'm gaining over half a pound per week.

That's amazing, where can I go to build this chart?

Trendweight.com
You need a (free) Fitbit account, but you don't need a Fitbit. Just enter your weight manually into the account, and Trendweight will pull the data from there. It generates a weighted 10-day moving average graph of your weight, which allows you to see that you're still losing every day, even those days when the scale jumps a pound and a half. It's been a godsend for me.

Here's a good example of weight fluctuations,this was from my last cut. Nothing is linear in my chart lol

I'm well acquainted with scale fluctuations, but I'd go bat *kitten* crazy if my graph looked like the one in that article