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mayaxolson
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i’m actually so confused haha i weighed in at 118.5 yesterday and i weighed myself this morning and i’m 128? yesterday i only ate 1,100 calories( in healthy food )and i did a workout plus a 4 mile run. i’ve been eating well this whole week as well. can anyone explain this?
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Why are you eating so little?1
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Water retention? Remaining food still in your digestive system? Scale needs new batteries?1
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Probably need to poo.6
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sugaraddict4321 wrote: »Water retention? Remaining food still in your digestive system? Scale needs new batteries?
That's my guess, mine always has low readings when the battery starts dying.
The SO was thrilled until I put new ones in
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sugaraddict4321 wrote: »Water retention? Remaining food still in your digestive system? Scale needs new batteries?
That's my guess, mine always has low readings when the battery starts dying.
The SO was thrilled until I put new ones in
i tried a different scale too and it read the same lol1 -
i was wearing the same clothes as i did yesterday, when i weighed 118Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »10 pounds sounds too much for an overnight gain, even from water i dont think. are you wearing more clothes today that could of attributed to the extra weight?
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i woke up pretty late so i wasn’t very hungry hahaTavistockToad wrote: »Why are you eating so little?
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i weigh myself every morning after i use the bathroom so i don’t think that was the caseAvocado_AS5 wrote: »Probably need to poo.
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mayaxolson wrote: »i’m actually so confused haha i weighed in at 118.5 yesterday and i weighed myself this morning and i’m 128? yesterday i only ate 1,100 calories( in healthy food )and i did a workout plus a 4 mile run. i’ve been eating well this whole week as well. can anyone explain this?
update: i tried a different scale and it still read the same
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mayaxolson wrote: »
i woke up pretty late so i wasn’t very hungry hahaTavistockToad wrote: »Why are you eating so little?
How much do you normally eat?0 -
Here's a chart I was keeping some time ago. . Note the wild fluctuations in actual weight from a day to day basis. I don't pretend to fully understand this, but the point is, that if you live and die by your daily weight fluctuations, you'll lose sight of what's important and that's the overall trend.
As for your 10 lb overnight weight gain, there is an explanation other than you suddenly put on 10lbs of fat (35,000 calories). . (Unless you got up and ate 3.5 gallons of ice-cream).
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Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »mayaxolson wrote: »
i was wearing the same clothes as i did yesterday, when i weighed 118Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »10 pounds sounds too much for an overnight gain, even from water i dont think. are you wearing more clothes today that could of attributed to the extra weight?
lets just hope its water retention. either way its never accurate weighing the next day. try again next week at the same time same conditions i.e. waking up, after brushing teeth, after poo, nekkid. at 5am
Why is weighing every day not accurate? More data surely gives you a better idea about what your weight does?
OP, is your scale on a hard, level surface?0 -
Avocado_AS5 wrote: »Probably need to poo.
how big are your poos ? .... 10lbs is a 4.5kg poo ? ..... the equivalent to 4.5ltrs of water thats more than 2 large 2l bottles of coke ... thats 20 x 8oz steaks
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Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »mayaxolson wrote: »
i was wearing the same clothes as i did yesterday, when i weighed 118Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »10 pounds sounds too much for an overnight gain, even from water i dont think. are you wearing more clothes today that could of attributed to the extra weight?
lets just hope its water retention. either way its never accurate weighing the next day. try again next week at the same time same conditions i.e. waking up, after brushing teeth, after poo, nekkid. at 5am
Why is weighing every day not accurate? More data surely gives you a better idea about what your weight does?
OP, is your scale on a hard, level surface?
cause i can weigh 140 today, eat a high sodium bowl of ramen and drink 4 cups of water ending the day with only 2k calories, and tomorrow ill be 145. 3500 = 1 pound. i would of had to consume 17,500 calories on top of maintenance to gain that 5 legit pounds the next day
it takes a few days for ur weight to equalize out after meals.
u CAN weigh yourself everyday, but only if u plan to take the average of it at the end of the week
But your weekly weigh ins could be affected in exactly the same way. An average of daily weighing would be a better indicator of your weight than one number from weighing inonce a week.0 -
livingleanlivingclean wrote: »Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »livingleanlivingclean wrote: »Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »mayaxolson wrote: »
i was wearing the same clothes as i did yesterday, when i weighed 118Will_Workout_for_food wrote: »10 pounds sounds too much for an overnight gain, even from water i dont think. are you wearing more clothes today that could of attributed to the extra weight?
lets just hope its water retention. either way its never accurate weighing the next day. try again next week at the same time same conditions i.e. waking up, after brushing teeth, after poo, nekkid. at 5am
Why is weighing every day not accurate? More data surely gives you a better idea about what your weight does?
OP, is your scale on a hard, level surface?
cause i can weigh 140 today, eat a high sodium bowl of ramen and drink 4 cups of water ending the day with only 2k calories, and tomorrow ill be 145. 3500 = 1 pound. i would of had to consume 17,500 calories on top of maintenance to gain that 5 legit pounds the next day
it takes a few days for ur weight to equalize out after meals.
u CAN weigh yourself everyday, but only if u plan to take the average of it at the end of the week
But your weekly weigh ins could be affected in exactly the same way. An average of daily weighing would be a better indicator of your weight than one number from weighing inonce a week.
^^this. What if you get a low fluctuation one week, then a high fluctuation the next week?. .You aren't getting an accurate representation of your progress at all doing it this way. There's a thought process that weighing once a week is better so that the focus is taken off the weight and shifted to how we feel or look or fit in our clothes, etc. .i.e it's a psychological reason. This is a good idea for many. But it's not a scientific way of measuring weight-loss. It's to help people not lose faith when they are really disciplined and the scale still goes up. .
The diet industry has conditioned people to believe that they can gain or lose huge amounts of fat over the course of days or weeks. It's just not true. They perpetuate this myth by manipulating these fluctuations based on water and factors other than fat that drive our weight up.
If you want an accurate measure of your fat-loss progress, you need to weigh every day and monitor the trend.0 -
Avocado_AS5 wrote: »Probably need to poo.
how big are your poos ? .... 10lbs is a 4.5kg poo ? ..... the equivalent to 4.5ltrs of water thats more than 2 large 2l bottles of coke ... thats 20 x 8oz steaks
Pshhhh.....like I'm really gonna talk about my poo on here.
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Avocado_AS5 wrote: »Avocado_AS5 wrote: »Probably need to poo.
how big are your poos ? .... 10lbs is a 4.5kg poo ? ..... the equivalent to 4.5ltrs of water thats more than 2 large 2l bottles of coke ... thats 20 x 8oz steaks
Pshhhh.....like I'm really gonna talk about my poo on here.
😆💩
But that's why I...
wait for it...
wait for it...
are ya ready...
here we go...
came!1 -
CoffeeAndContour wrote: »Change your batteries in your scale, they could be dying. Also make sure to weigh yourself in the exact same spot every time for accuracy.
yeah i don’t think the scales the problem, i tried two different scales both on flat surfaces0 -
mayaxolson wrote: »CoffeeAndContour wrote: »Change your batteries in your scale, they could be dying. Also make sure to weigh yourself in the exact same spot every time for accuracy.
yeah i don’t think the scales the problem, i tried two different scales both on flat surfaces
So it's a normal water weight fluctuation. If it was fat then your clothes wouldn't fit any more.0
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