Not understanding something

StevenC987
StevenC987 Posts: 5 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Hi folks so I am a little confused, last week in the morning i weighed in at s 5lbs I woke up in the middle of the night before at around 4 am and had a snack to help me get back to sleep, this weeks however I decided to have the same snack around 12:30 am so I could just sleep through the night woke up this morning and somehow I am 2lbs heavier than I was at last weeks weigh in. I havent gone over 2000 calories when eating this whole week and when factoring in daily exercise I was bellow that.

Any ideas whats going on?

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,846 Member
    edited October 2021
    Weight fluctuates, that's just the way it is. Could be varying levels of water retention (from exercise, or other reasons) or of food waste in your system.
    You're not seeing it if you only weigh weekly, but your weight fluctuates daily.
    You might find this interesting:
    https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    Weight loss has wide swings. It depends on how much sodium you've had and , if you've started exercise, muscle repair. If you are correctly logging your food and drink--on a digital food scale, and within your daily calorie goal, things should even out after a few weeks. If a month passes and you're still not losing then you need to re-evaluate and change a few things. This is all normal, and takes patience.

    Read the "Most useful threads" and check out a few of the Success threads. You'll find that your problem has been addressed many times.

    Good luck and just keep going--never give up and you'll reach your goal.
  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
    Weight loss seems to make no sense sometimes. A big thing for me is checking my sodium intake. Lots of sodium? Lots of water weight
  • StevenC987
    StevenC987 Posts: 5 Member
    It was just kind of a shock this morning I will still keep pushing through thanks for the support folks
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,421 Member
    edited October 2021
    I would also ask how you came up with that 2000 daily calorie goal and how accurate and consistent you are with your food logging. This is a great flow chart:


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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 6,846 Member
    2 lbs is pretty normal.

    Just look at my graph for mid July (I weigh daily and use the trend app Libra) - the dots are the weigh-ins, the line is the trend:
    c4vijy2o13ez.jpg

    I went up more than 2.5kg (more than 5 lbs) in a week, because of my period and some high sodium meals. But long term I was still losing fat, it was just masked on the scale temporarily.

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