Weird metabolism/weight loss?

chresbam
chresbam Posts: 2 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi everyone,

I have been off and on trying to lose weight for a couple of years with some success, however there has always been something weird about the way I lose weight. The only way I can really describe it is that it seems like my metabolism is super sensitive. I gain and lose 1-3 pounds in a matter of one day, and it does seem to be connected to how I eat. If I eat just slightly (a few hundred calories) too much, I will gain back somewhere between 1 and three pounds which don't go away until I eat a few hundred calories under. That doesn't seem normal. I thought gaining a pound was supposed to be something like
3500 extra calories? And on the other side sometimes I can lose weight really quickly by just eating slightly under. Not starving myself by any means, but skipping out on a couple of hundred calories... Is there something that I'm missing or could something be wrong with me? It might partially be that I don't exercise at all ever because I hate it, so maybe that just makes my metabolism so slow that minor changes are magnified?

Thanks for any insights

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  • mgram2
    mgram2 Posts: 128 Member
    Your body weight naturally fluctuates between 1-5lbs a day. So that difference you are noticing is likely either normal bodily fluctuations.. or the literal amount of weight from the food and water in your system.
    When I wake up in the morning I typically weigh 127.. but later in the day I'll be 129.5.
  • mcarter99
    mcarter99 Posts: 1,666 Member
    Everyone's body does that. Most of it is water fluctuations. Ignore it and watch the long term trends.
  • orishp
    orishp Posts: 214 Member
    Get a scale that measures body fat, that is what I really want to lose.

    And don't weigh in every day, weigh in once a week, at the same time, with the same clothes, etc.

    I was driving myself nuts staring at the scale every morning.
  • jlmoses91
    jlmoses91 Posts: 87 Member
    That happens to everyone. Plus you need to see how late you are eating, if you eat a few extra calories right before you go to bed your body is basically storing it, so you are usually heavier the next day. Just try to weigh yourself once a week after a good day of eating. I try no to eat past 8 at the latest.
  • indyrunning
    indyrunning Posts: 135 Member
    That happens to everyone. Plus you need to see how late you are eating, if you eat a few extra calories right before you go to bed your body is basically storing it, so you are usually heavier the next day. Just try to weigh yourself once a week after a good day of eating. I try no to eat past 8 at the latest.

    You are so right. That "past 8" eating is killer. I know that I should have just gone to bed when the munchies hit me at 10:30! I had put on five pounds JUST by those extra 200 to 300 calories of late night snacking over the last 2 months.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,151 Member
    That happens to everyone. Plus you need to see how late you are eating, if you eat a few extra calories right before you go to bed your body is basically storing it, so you are usually heavier the next day. Just try to weigh yourself once a week after a good day of eating. I try no to eat past 8 at the latest.

    You know, your body doesn't stop metabolizing just because it's bed time.
  • chresbam
    chresbam Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks for the tips everyone. I will try the once a week thing.
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