Ok so I'd like to take a survey and see if anyone else has noticed a 1-2 lb increase before the scale drops again? (Please say yes.) Any and all observed trends are appreciated-Thanks.
Yes. Although I just started really looking at the scale not that long ago.. I have noticed that trend. I would weigh myself in the morning and I would be up 1-2lbs. Then I would weigh myself at night (I'm obsessed lol) and those lbs would be gone along with one more. That wouldn't happen everyday of course.. I wish I could loose 1-2lbs a day.. LOL
Last edited by imnotperfect24; 05-23-2012 at 11:14 PM.
Happens to me almost weekly. I'm a daily weigher so I'm pretty used to seeing the fluctuations. I will typically go up 1 or 2 pounds as soon as I drop any weight, then a couple days later I'll lose that 1 or 2 pounds plus another 1. I lose weight in a zig-zaggy way for the most part, I think most people do. If I consistently am dropping weight every single day (like .2 or .4 every day) for a while, I will then stall for a week or more, this has happened twice now.
Absolutely!! It's annoying, but expected, and if you stick with your plan you will be rewarded. It's easy to get frustrated and give up during this phase, but just trust your plan.
It happens for me around ovulation and menstruation.
I've never found this to be the case, or not exactly. If I do my day's exercise and eat well and don't do anything vaguely naughty, then each day is the same or slightly lower than the last. But I'm not perfect, so the reality is that it's up and down, with a general downwards trend. I have noticed that when I have a chip day (or fries day, as I suppose the Americans here would call it) the next morning I'm either the same or up to a pound and a half heavier; I have never had a lower weight the day after a chip day. A day or two later, I get a bigger than usual drop on the scales. So within a few days, the scales are back on track, showing the weight they would've done if they'd kept their gradual decrease. So I figure it's just water weight, or something like that, and tend not to worry about it.
If I look far enough back on the calendar, maybe. But I weigh everyday. Therefore I see the daily fluctuations. So there's really no "whoosh" to speak of.
I weigh everyday. I'm also very disciplined, when it comes to how many calories I'm eating, but it's not unusual for my body to gain up to a pound in between losses. Sometimes it depends on what I've eaten or how late in the evening I finished eating the night before...
Where is the whoosh?
