I was 9st3 on 23rd of December, then 9st7 on Boxing day. Back to 9st2 on Saturday morning, but I had a nausea bug/stomach flu thing on Sunday and yesterday (but I wasn't sick) - I took medicine for that. Today, I am probably one or two days away from starting my period and I weighed 9st8 just before my tea (7pmish) 😭 I workout a lot, and I don't look any fatter, just a tad bloated from my bug and probably PMS. Do you think it's real weight/fat gain or just temporary due to the aforementioned?? I'm fixated on numbers 😭
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My question is why weigh at the end of the day? And being fixated on numbers can drive a person crazy, especially when you already know what is going on with your body.
Why are you weighing yourself at different times of the day? If you do that you're guaranteed to get a different weight on the scales.
Should I stop weighing myself?
Your body weight isn't a static number...it fluctuates constantly. You need to remove yourself from the scale if you do not understand normal and natural weight fluctuations or it's just going to jack with your head. You have to look at trends over time.
Should I stop weighing myself?
If it's causing you such anxiety, then yes.
I don't know, can you look at natural body weight variances without freaking out and obsessing over numbers? You tell me.
Did you eat enough of a calorie surplus to add a few pounds of fat?
Nothing wrong with weighing daily, but there's a lot wrong in misunderstanding and stressing over what your normal weight fluctuations actually mean.
I eat maintenance amounts usually, unless I'm dramatically underestimating..
So logically how could it be fat gain without a substantial calorie surplus?
I'm just paranoid..
I see you are recovering/recovered? from an eating disorder. Please try to realize how illogical these thoughts are and how it is not worth it to be paranoid if your weight isn't exactly the same every single day. You know you didn't gain if you didn't eat a caloric surplus.
I classify myself as recovered from my eating disorder, but I am still hyper-aware of my weight and I tend to fixate on numbers (not just in terms of weight, but in all aspects of life), and I lack body confidence.. I know numbers don't matter, especially as I don't think I look fatter anc my fitness hasn't decreased, bug for some reason I hate seeing the scale read above 9st4 🙄
Maybe reading the book The Chimp Paradox would help?
You are having an emotional (a.k.a. chimp) response to a piece of data that should be processed by the logical part of the brain instead.
The numbers on your bathrooms scales and in your food logging are all about data and that's how you should really be processing them, just data not emotion.
Thank you, I might try that
What is important to me now is I recognized why gained & it's up to me to scale it back to get back to my normal weight range.
Anytime one goes through a hormonal change your cells take on extracellular water to defend against change - water weight. This goes away after 5-7 days just as a high salt meal will.
You didn't gain any fat. Don't look at the daily details and instead focus on months/years over hours/days.