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Originally Posted by berryblondeboys
One of the advantages of weighing daily is that you start to notice your patterns. Most women have monthly patterns, but it varies for each woman. One approach is to just avoid the scale if it freaks you out, but I don't quite understand this logic. Because lets say you decide to weigh every Monday. Well, that Monday could be affected by higher sodium food. TTOM, ovulation, heavy exercise. A single weigh in is just that - a single weigh in. So, weighing in once a week even with being totally on plan could look like this: 8/1: 200, 8/8: 200, 8/15: 201, 8/22: 199, 8/29: 191. Seem odd? Well, that's how my pattern goes. It didn't mean that the last week was where I saw all my weight loss. It's just that the rest of the month gets screwed around with TTOM, and then ovulation. I whoosh for about 10 days every month and hold steady the rest.
Others see things go up around TTOM, come down for a bit, then go up with ovulation, and then it comes down. Others lose more from TTOM to ovulation and don't lose much from ovulation to TTOM. it varies. If you weigh daily, you really get to know your patterns and get less freaked out by the fluctions because you begin to know your body and how it works.
This is why I weigh daily. I'm not going to say weighing daily is the only right way, but it makes perfect sense to me. When I weigh in and I gain for no apparent reason, I look at what I did today. And I think, 'Oh, well I DID eat a lot of sodium-heavy things... gotta cut back.' So instead of wasting a week with zero progress because I didn't notice the trend until the time was gone, I catch it early!
If you choose to weigh daily, you also have to get into the mentality that a gain is not the end of the world, because your body DOES fluctuate. Remember - up does not mean horrible.
In answer to your question, yes, a gain of that much during TOM is normal. I think once I may have even gained like 8lbs! And then other times I lose. TOM can be pretty crazy.