water weight is legit throwing water on my resolve...

pawsiesluna
pawsiesluna Posts: 2 Member
in Motivation and Support
i started my journey around a week and a half ago. i lost a bit of weight like half a kg. since the past 5 days i started the gym, and i walked on the treadmill for a bit, did some incline walking, then 5 mins of elliptical, nothing tooooooooooooo extreme. i have dieted before and reached my goal weight back in 2020 and back then i only used to do slow walking and mfp, and was obsessed with checking my weight like every damn day. this time, i told myself, once a week. so i worked out from tuesday to saturday and today, on sunday, i checked my weight. last week it was 74.0 kg, today it's 74.7.......how damn demotivating. i have no idea what to do, how to make this water weight come off, and is it even water weight........

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  • Lietchi
    Lietchi Posts: 7,334 Member
    When weighing weekly, that's just a risk you run, that you might have a lower than average weigh-in one week and a higher than average one the next week, making fat loss on the scale.

    Less data points means you need a longer time to establish your progress. The only solutions I see are:
    - go back to daily weigh-ins for more data points (you'll still have fluctuations, just more data to interpret them)
    - be patient, you need more weekly weigh-ins to know what's really happening

    You talk about it being water weight yourself, so if it's not fat, why be so worried about it? It's a natural thing to have fluctuations, you don't need to do anything about them 🙂
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 38,182 Community Helper
    Totally, totally that ^^^^.

    If you've got weight to lose, it's going to take time, and there are going to be a lot of fluctuations up and down along the way, even when the overall multi-week trend is down.

    That's just how weight loss works, right? Small, gradual fat loss masked temporarily by larger-amplitude quick water retention fluctuations?

    Stressing about it is a thing you impose on yourself . . . and it could contribute to a scenario in which you'd give up in self-generated frustration.

    In a way, our brains don't like change. Stuff like this is how they trick us into avoiding difficult - though positive - change. Don't fall for it.

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