TOM and Scale?
 

Just wondering . . .

For all of you who do a weekly weigh in, do you weigh yourself during your TOM? I know I did very well staying on plan last week, but the scale reflected a gain due to TOM and even though I knew why there was a gain, I was disapointed. A few days later, my true weight loss was reveiled.

So my question is, do you weigh yourself during your TOM or save the disapointment?

I weigh myself pretty much every day at home, but I take the number with a grain of salt - my "official" weigh in is on Monday nights at WW. That being said, I've never really noticed a weight gain around TOM. The WW scale has usually shown a slight gain 2 weeks after TOM is over, but it's gone the next week. So probably hormonal, but I'm luck that I don't see the 5-10 pound gains some others report. I wonder if it's a bonus from being a hormonal birth control.

I didn't know there were women out there who didn't gain at TOM! Im so jealous!

A lot of people don't weigh during TOM for the reasons you describe. I'd rather just know. Everyone's different.

I weigh during my TOM, but definitely not as much as I usually do. And if I start to gain a lot because I bloat real bad, I stop. I just can't stand watching it go up that much, and it makes me that much happier when I finally lose all the water weight. A lot of times I lose the water and then some!

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who struggles with this...I weigh too. I'm try to up the water intake to flush.

I weigh during TOM. Sometimes I gain a pound or two, and sometimes I don't. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. :shrug: I do get a little disappointed whenever I see a gain, but as long as I know I've been on plan, I try not to get too bent out of shape.

My weight can fluctuate by 3 pounds throughout the week anyway, but the overall trend is down, so that's okay.

I weigh myself every morning but I only record my weight on my weigh in day which is Thursday. I have had gains in the past during TOM but lately I have not. I drink way more water than I used to though so maybe I am just being flushed out???

I know what you mean though by being dissapointed when the scale goes up even when you have been on plan. If you find it is frustrating for you then I would just skip the weigh in that week and record the next one.

I've been wondering this too since my first weigh in would be monday and it is currently my TOM. I ALWAYS have a lot of water retention right around now, so I think I am going to wait a few days and record any loss next week.

I ALWAYS go up 2-3 lbs about 5 or 6 days before my period shows... then it drops back down the closer to my period it gets... then it holds steady while I have it and on the fourth day it WHOOSHES off and I lose like 4-6 lbs.

I lose about 2 weeks out of the month - during PMS and my period. The rest of the month is a crazy whirlwind roller coaster, particularly mid-cycle when I ovulate. So contrary.

I too only lose about two weeks a month but it's the two weeks after TOM. After that my weight usually fluctuates up and down 3-5 lbs until during TOM. I do still weight everyday (it's how I stay accountable). I just try not to obsess about it during the time right before TOM.