Is a 1 -2 pound weight fluctuation normal?

Totally normal. Water weight, hormones, food in your system all fluctuate. Look at the trend over weeks.

The sky is not the limit for the daily UP or morning down and evening UP. From 1-5 lbs in a day's time it can be all over the place. It's only one data point so try not to overthink the daily changes. Think long term waaaaay down the road for overall weight stability. That's where the rubber meets the road.

That's definitely normal. It's best to have a maintenance range as your weight will always fluctuate. A five pound range seems to be good for most people, but some have larger fluctuations and some not as large. About 2 pounds is pretty normal for me.

My usual fluctuation is +/- 3 pounds. It's been consistent for years. If the bottom part of that range begins to creep up - which can happen slowly over a month's time - then I make adjustments with calories-in.

I can gain 7lbs overnight. But one slip and I gain so some would be water weight. Have to either go very low carb or 800 cals to lose half a pound a week. And weight shoots back on if not really strict. Two days of maintenance cals, 1200, and back to weight I was 4 weeks ago. Very frustrating.

Jmoney711 wrote: »

So before beginning my calorie maintaining intake of around 2500 - 3000 calories while being very active as a cyclist who rides 6 times a week. I am 5 foot 10 150 pounds, I woke up this morning weighing 152.2, yesterday I weighed 151.4. Is this normal or am I eating to much?

Normal...body weight isn't a static number. You will always have varying levels of water and inherent waste in your system.

Yep normal, I'm a shortie, at goal weight and can still fluctuate up to 2lbs day to day.

Normal. I fluctuate 3-4 lbs throughout the day due to eating volumes of veggies every day which are loaded with water. I actually "lose" about 2-3 pounds from night to morning from middle of the night bathroom breaks. That's the one con from so many vegetables and drinks (I'm vegetarian).

Nothing to worry about. If you're trying to gain or lose weight you need to judge your progress on a trend rather than a day-to-day value. My fluctuations are generally 2lbs, but I've had bigger ones. Below is what my weight looks like in my preferred trending application. The diamond symbols are my scale readings for a particular day while the solid reddish line is my weight trend. I try to ignore the diamonds (daily scale readings) and focus on the trend when making decisions about my diet.

Jmoney711 wrote: »

@AnnPT77 do you think I’m at a normal weight and calorie intake level? It just feels weird eating so much food now.

I can't answer that for you. It doesn't sound crazy, on the surface of it. Monitoring your intake, exercise, and bodyweight will tell you. If you haven't read it, this thread might help you think about how to find maintenance calories:

http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10638211/how-to-find-your-maintenance-calorie-level/p1

"Normal body weight" is very, very individual. There's a range of weights that could be close to (statistically) similarly healthy for any given individual. Frame size/shape, muscularity, personal aesthetic preferences, cultural values, and maintainability really do enter into it, in finding where in that healthy range to end up . . . or even, whether to end up a little outside it, if there's some other factor that outbalances a truly tiny increase in health risk. If you don't have a distorted body image, you can have confidence in your judgement. If in doubt, talk with your doctor (in person, where s/he can look at you, run tests, etc.).

Many people have a distortedly low idea of how many calories regular people can eat. There are a lot of average-height women thinking anything over 1200 calories is a lot, that eating like a tiny little bird is a good thing, somehow kind of extra feminine and delicate, seemingly. I assume men do similar stuff (but I'm not one, so I don't know). 2500-3000 to maintain, for a 5'10 man, doesn't seem crazy to me.

This does seem a little crazy to me, but it's nonetheless true: I maintain in the low-to-mid 2000s (gross calories), even as a 5'5" 129-pound 64-year-old, sedentary (outside of exercise) hypothyroid woman. I'm lucky in that, it's unusually high, but nearly 5 years now of careful logging says it's 100% true. (At first, I was kind of psychologically looking over my shoulder, thinking I shouldn't talk about it, in case I jinxed it. ).

You can find your "true". Follow the data. Believe the data. Trust yourself (in consultation with your doctor) about how you want to look and feel. It'll be fine.

Totally expected. This is why WW has the Target weight and then maintenance range because fluctuations happen...food weight, salt, exercise, carbs, etc all make the scale move a little. So take a breath...if you're still +/- 5 pounds, then consider yourself at GOAL.