Getting discouraged already

If you weigh every day you are going to get days when your weight goes up for no reason. Try and focus on the general pattern. Your going down so keep up the good work!

You're Doing Nothing Wrong. Weight will fluctuate daily. You're at it for a week; check back in a month, 3 months, a year and see how much you lost as you continue eating right. If you're prone to panic -- move slooowwwlly away from the scale and only weigh yourself one a week or less.

First of all don't weigh yourself everyday. Weigh yourself once a week only. You are doing great! Keep it up!

Hi, is it near that 'time' or have you had more sodium, etc? Those and a bunch of reasons (including water in your muscles when you work out) can affect water retention, etc... I agree with another person's post that try and use the one week weight (i.e. every Saturday morning) as the goal. Especially women, I noticed will fluctuate every day... one other thing I'm curious about is... did you fill out your profile on here and have come in around or just under what mfp suggests for calories per day? If so, then it's correct that all of sudden you may see like a 2 lb drop, etc... please don't get discouraged, as it happens to the best of us! Do some interval training - mix it up and you'll see results, no worries!! Keep up the hard work

Nothing wrong. Your weight is gonna fluctuate everyday and throughout the day. I have been up/down as much as 5lbs in 1 day. If weighing yourself everyday is overly frustrating then try to limit to once per week. I weigh everyday just because I am curious and want to see how certain foods and workout routines sit with me, BUT I only count weigh-ins and only take to heart weigh-ins once a week, on Thursday mornings. So many things affect the scale and our bodies do interesting things at times. If you are new to this it will take a bit for your body to adjust to new eating and exercise habits and will probably retain some water weight in the process. Don't get discouraged, just keep working at it one day at a time...don't focus on the scale...and while its fine to check the scale every day or multi times a day, only concentrate on what the scale says once a week or every other week.

Ignore that. My scale doesn't even have a .___ for the weight. Your body will fluctuate every day- sometimes by a pound or two. You've lost almost four pounds in a week...that's really, really good and any more than that would NOT be good. You have to tell yourself that you didn't gain your weight over the course of a week so you're not going to lose it all in the course of a week either.

Also.. I need to ask a silly question.. how do you get your ticker to attach at the bottom of your post? I tried and all I saw was the actual link! Not too computer savvy here I guess... thanks!!

I only weigh in about once every 10 days, as i find it way more encouraging to see those scales go down. Try and forget about scales, get yourself into a good eating routine instead, and focus on other things. Try only going on the scales once a week. If you dont have a great deal to lose, it also takes longer to lose it too. I only have about 10lbs to go now, and find my weight loss has really levelled out now, but my inch loss has increased, and i prefer this as it means my horrible old fat is changing into lean muscle. Keep at it and it will come rite in the end ;-)

I weigh myself everyday and I get frustrated, too (but I try to turn that frustration into motivation). I've found that I usually stay the same weight on the scale (or go up slightly) for a week and a half and then it FINALLY drops 2- 2 1/2 lbs. Then it stays at that weight for another week or two and then the scale moves again (finally!).

Just hang in there. Doing the right thing and not seeing the scale move right away is still better than giving up and seeing it go up even more.

It sometimes takes time for your body to finally see that you're serious about this and that what you're doing is going to be the norm. Try not to stress out too much (although I completely know how you feel!).

Good luck!

You are doing everything right. I was stuck at a certain weight for almost a whole month, then the numbers dropped. Then again in August, I was stuck at the same weight for almost the whole month, then the numbers dropped. Just keep eating right and working out and you will transform yourself into a healthier version of YOU. Keep it up! You are doing fine.

Remind yourself that this is a way of life. Eating healthy. Exercising. You are not defined by a number. You are living a healthy life. Embrace that. Sure we all want to see the losses...but when they don't come, what really would you be doing differently? Even when my weight has stayed the same for weeks, I'm not willing to give up the healthier way of eating and the exercise.

:bigsmile: I think you have it figured out...but just give yourself time....TIME.

I have been here 145 days or so (consecutively ) and have lost 27lbs. I do 1350 or 1300 cals and 9 glasses of water. At least 2 snacks a day.
Use the diary everyday...stay honest with myself. Never exercise (I hate it) and as long as I never got scale obsessive and knew that as much as 2 lbs could be up or down on any given day, it would all be good in the end.

Just try to be patient and figure this is forever. :bigsmile: