Gained 4 pounds overnight on 1200 calories?!

My reco, if you must, weigh yourself once a week, same time, same day. But stay away from the daily weigh-ins. Know that your scale isn’t perfect either. You can weight yourself 10 times in a row and I’m pretty sure the weight won’t be the same all 10 times.

And clothes matter too. Along with water weight, menstrual cycle and a whole host of other variables. As others said, your goal is to lose fat. And just like losing it, you can’t gain 4lbs that fast as well. You will be okay. Continue to work on your caloric deficit, and stay off the scale but once a week. You will feel much better!

I do weigh myself every day, but I only track it on Monday mornings right before I hop in the shower to get ready for work. And I don't let my daily weigh-ins bother me anymore - if anything it proves that you can fluctuate a LOT from day to day. I'm pretty faithful about keeping to my calorie limit and macros, but there are just some weeks you won't show progress. And that's OKAY. It doesn't mean you are failing - it just means your body is making adjustments and is taking a while to catch up.

Below is a graphic of my own personal spreadsheet I keep that shows my weekly progress over the past two months. The cells in GREEN are a loss (YAY!). The cells in RED are gains (BOO!). Each one of those weeks I met my nutrition goals (a range of 1300-1500 calories daily, and a range of 50-100 carbs daily). Despite this, two weeks out of the eight I had a gain. But I didn't let that stop me - I kept going, and the result is that OVERALL I have lost 16.8 pounds in 8 weeks. That's a WIN regardless of those two weeks in red. And so I continue.



And yes, as someone else said, eating too few calories is not good. 1200 is likely too low. I'm a bit heavier than you, and sticking to 1300-1500 is working well for me.

And also, that 10 pounds you lost in the first week was likely almost all water weight. You can't expect to have big losses like that every week. 1.5-2 pounds a week is a great goal. 3-4 pounds weekly is rare and typical only for REALLY large people (at 226, I would not categorize you as REALLY large).

Keep up the good work, add a few calories back into your diet, and BE PATIENT! It'll happen!

Start with a read of the articles about how to determine your calorie needs at the rate you want to lose. most advice recommends .5-1.5 pounds a week. More per week loss is risky to health, and more difficult to sustain.

after 2 months on 1200 calories a day, I read up on the information that I just recommended you to find and read, and decided to increase my daily calories to 1500.

It has done exactly what I hoped - instead of losing at a risky rate of 2 lbs per week, it's looking like i'll come in at 1 to 1.5 pounds per week, (still need a few more weeks to log and take the average).

It was REALLY helpful for me to accept that weight loss is not a straight line. There are just too many factors at play that will alter my weight from one day to the next.

I also remind myself regularly that it is unreasonable to expect to lose in 3 months or 6 months all the weight that I spent 10 years packing on, and, to sustain that loss at my target weight I need to establish a habit of eating that I can count on doing all the time forever.

In all of life, there is this truism that can be applied to a challenging prospect: Different results come from different actions. In other words, keep on doing the same things and there is no reason to expect a different result.

Short quick weight loss programs that are overly restrictive are a prime reason behind many who suffer from the yo-yo or serial-starter diet syndrome.

I suggest eat more and be patient.
Here's my weight loss line graph for the last 2+ months to illustrate what a steady calorie diet looks like on the weigh-in chart.

good luck to you.

going below 1200 is potentially going to compromise your health - is that worth it?

also look at ways you can increase your LISS (walking steps etc) that will give you some additional calories to eat

Getting less than 1200 calories can put getting required nutrition at risk...the. Minimum for any female is 1200 and 1500 for men

I can gain 3 lbs between 8am and noon.

tcunbeliever wrote: »

When it's close to lucifer's waterfall I can put on 9 lbs in a day...female and hormones and water retention, great mix...no, just no.

Keep up what you are doing and don't worry about the scale swings.

Lucifer’s waterfall 😂