The truth is ... Sometimes when we diet, our weight goes up from one day to the next. Sometimes when one goes off program (esp if it's not too much of a deviation for too long of a period) your weight might fall from one day to the next. There are a lot of reasons, but mostly (probably) it depends on the hydration level of your body when you weigh in. Your body is mostly water and water is heavy (1.5 liters weights 3.5 pounds). I wouldn't draw much conclusion from either transient short term event. You need to look at long term trend lines.
Now if you cheated every day for a month and lost 1/2 a pound every day and were down 15 pounds in a month, I would say you might have found something that works for you and keep doing it (at least until it stops working) ... but what you are posting about is just statistical "noise" in the scheme of things.
This might be a good thread to use as an example of why it's not that helpful to weigh yourself every day. Or at least it's not that helpful to make a big deal about the scale direction from a few (or one) daily weigh ins.
Weigh yourself once a week and watch the long term trend -- only when you do that are you dealing with numbers that carry some significance. If you must weigh yourself every day out of curiosity, try not to get too excited or upset about little wiggles in the line (either up or down). They mean very little.
I have been 100% on program for 4 months and my AVERAGE DAILY weight loss over those 120+ days has been 0.57 pounds lost per day. I eat and drink practically the same thing each day, exercise the same amount each day ... and given all that, I have had some morning weigh ins where I was up 0.5 to 0.75 pounds from the previous day ... and other morning weigh ins where I was down as much as 1.5 pounds. That's a 2.25 pound daily weigh in swing! So even I ... who has been like a machine in sticking to the Phase 1 IP diet and 100% completely on program with no cheats in 4 months ... have some crazy little "wiggles" in my long term trend line. Still my primary direction has been down ... dropping an average of 17 pounds a month and 70 pounds over 4 months. You cannot argue with that long term trend line! The daily wiggles (over a 1 or 2 day period) on the other hand, are pretty meaningless.
Last edited by Avalon1957; 11-30-2013 at 07:46 AM.
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