Cycle

flower3326 wrote: »

I have a cheat day because I needed to shock my body weight wasn't changing tomorrow I will be back on track

'Shocking our body" is not a thing - at least not a good thing.

Calories are calories. Bodies know what to do with them: Eat too many, gain weight. Eat just the right amount to lose or maintain: Lose or maintain accordingly. Eat way stupidly too few while trying to lose weight super fast: Get fatigued, retain more water weight so scale goes up, experience deprivation-triggered overeating (or maybe give up because it's too hard to continue), feel weak, maybe even get seriously sick.

I guess undereating to the point of getting sick (gallbladder attacks, immune system compromise, muscle loss, hair thinning, etc.) . . . that might be a shocked body. That, or overeating to the point of fast fat gain. Neither of those kinds of shocks are a good idea. Don't do them.

It sound like you're expecting to lose weight every single day. It doesn't work like that.

Scale weight is going to go up and down by a pound or few daily. From one month to the next, the range of weights will be different, if gaining or losing.

For example, back when I was losing weight, one week I might've been up and down through a range of 176-180 pounds: Not 176 at the beginning and 180 at the end, but those values somewhere in the middle, and the other days bouncing around between those numbers. That's normal.

A month later, maybe it was up and down in a range of 170-175 pounds, again, not the high number at the start and the low one at the end, just bouncing around in that area.

In that scenario, I lost around 5-6 pounds over the course of that month. That's how it works.

You don't see loss every single day, at least most people don't. It shows up in the trend over weeks. You need at least 4-6 weeks to see a clear trend . . . and since you're a woman who still has cycles, you want to compare your body weight at the same relative point in at least two different cycles - such as the start or end of flow - because hormonal water weight fluctuations are that weird.

Yes, it takes patience. While you're being patient, read this thread:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10683010/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-fluctuations/p1

Especially read the article linked in the first post of that thread. It will give you a better idea of how weight loss works in real life.

Best wishes!