HELP!! Am I overreacting?? Slight weight gain

hipari wrote: »

Based on your profile picture, I’m guessing you’re female and have a menstrual cycle. You’ve been at this just under one month, so maybe you don’t know how your cycle affects weight yet. Many women gain water weight in the week leading up to their period, and often also around ovulation. In addition to cycle-related stuff, water retention and bloat often happens for a multitude of other reasons: higher carb or sodium day (both bind water into them), a heavy workout that causes muscles to swell with liquid, constipation or other digestion issues, and so on.

I ”lost” 3,5lbs on the scale from Monday to today, after spending Sun-Fri battling a heavy bloat that was worst on Monday. I also started a new sport that caused extreme muscle soreness and swelling, and had high carb high sodium meals in the beginning of the week. On Friday I got my period, and whoooosh the bloat is gone.

Comparing my trendweight from last Sunday to scale weight this Sunday I lost exactly 1 pound, so right on track. I just magically gained and lost 3,5lbs in between. Give it time, and if it has been working for you this far keep doing what you’re doing unless you hit several weeks of gaining or maintaining in a row.

If weighing in weekly works for you, there’s no reason to change it. If the fluctuations freak you out, I would recommend switching to daily weigh ins and a trendweight app (recommendations: Happy Scale for iPhone, Libra for Android) and following your trendweight instead of what the scale says on a given weigh in day. It smoothes out the ups and downs and shows what direction you’re actually going in, and gives you a nice estimation of your actual loss rate.

xxzenabxx wrote: »

foreverkudzi wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Please help me to rationalise this/explain/ I just need some other opinions.

I started tracking everything I ate, i mean everything, properly seriously on the 12th of July. Everything that went through my mouth I measured with a food scale (still am). I have also been working out on most days.. if I dont do a full on work out I just make sure I go out for a walk for at least an hour. During this pandemic I have been working from home since March so I just have to be intentional about my exercise otherwise I would be sitting down the whole day.

Anyways since the 12th of July I have managed to lose weight each week consistently on my weigh in days. Which is always on a Sunday. Today was my weigh in day and I was slightly shocked that I gained 0.5kg (1.1lbs).. it was just very disheartening because I know was eating properly as in a balanced diet but all within my calorie range (I eat back some of my exercise calories sometimes but NEVER EVER all because I know at the end of the day they are just estimates)

Is this normal that I gained this week this week? I guess I'm just confused whether to still keep going or if I need to change something. I honestly wouldn't know what I would change because I have been so so good.

Have any of you ever experienced this knowing you were being so good?

I'm going to attach my weight results below from my scale since the 12th of July.

Yes you’ve over reacting! Get used to the ups and downs. Last September when I started losing weight I didn’t see any losses for 6 weeks and then I lost 6 lbs. Recently my weight was stuck at 155 lbs for 8 weeks and it suddenly dropped down to 151 lbs. So nothing happened for 8 weeks! Patience is key and using a weight trending app has really helped me. It’s probably your menstrual cycle.
Here’s my trend over the past 6 months: