Not seeing the scale change

warrenpillay
warrenpillay Posts: 39 Member
edited May 2019 in Motivation and Support
Hitting your deficit is most important. If you've calculated that you've lost a pound/kg a week but the scale doesn't move don't worry about it

You've lost a pound/kg it's just that your body is keeping more water to compensate for its loss of equilibrium in body weight. The scale can drop 2 pound the next day

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  • Porkieyorkie28
    Porkieyorkie28 Posts: 17 Member
    Happemed to me this week. Been on it everyday. Scales not budge tjen weigh day morning came and boom 3lbs off! Its torture sometimes. Makes itnhard tonkeep going bit you gotta keep going! 💪
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    warrenpillay wrote: »
    Hitting your deficit is most important. If you've calculated that you've lost a pound/kg a week but the scale doesn't move don't worry about it

    You've lost a pound/kg it's just that your body is keeping more water to compensate for its loss of equilibrium in body weight.     The scale can drop 2 pound the next day

    Say, what? Loss of equilibrium (whatever you mean by that) has nothing to do with why a person might be temporarily retaining water, and therefore, the weight associated with it.

    Some common reasons for this to occur are, however, an increase in exercise, a meal that was high in sodium, or, for women, temporary water weight gain associated with their menstrual cycle.

    Tl;dr? Weight loss isn't linear. It's the weight trend measured over a significant period of time that is the true indicator.
  • tinkerbellang83
    tinkerbellang83 Posts: 9,127 Member
    warrenpillay wrote: »
    Hitting your deficit is most important. If you've calculated that you've lost a pound/kg a week but the scale doesn't move don't worry about it

    You've lost a pound/kg it's just that your body is keeping more water to compensate for its loss of equilibrium in body weight. The scale can drop 2 pound the next day

    Water weight really has little to do with your fat loss and more to do with the body responding to other factors such as increased carb or sodium intake, menstrual cycles, intense exercise, sickness/injury, medication, etc.

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