For over the past week I have been carrying around so much water weight. I went from 126 to about 131 and stayed around 130 for the past week. I knew it was from bad eating one day and drinking a lot on my 21st birthday. Although it was frustrating I kept trying to stay OP, drink a LOT of water and exercise regularly like always.

Anywho, yesterday morning I weighed myself at I was 129. Since, I have a dial scale I put one of my 5lb hand weights on it to make sure it was accurate, which it was. THIS morning I weighed myself again just out of habit and I was 126 again! I even put my hand weight on again to check accuracy.
I'm just curious how the heck 3 pounds of whatever fell off in a day.

Oh well, I guess I should be pretty stoked.

has this happened to anyone else?

This happens to me all the time. Actually, I seem to lose in fits and starts with two and three pound drops from one day to the next, and then staying even for a few days, even a week or two, and then BAM three pounds down. I keep thinking it has to have something to do with the sensitivity of my digital scale because I am VERY consistent with my exercise and eating, but I have put myself on my mother's old fashion scale from time to time, and it seems to correlate pretty well to what my digital one tells me in the morning. I just don't know what to make of it, but since I still 'average' about two pounds a week over a month period, I just have decided it is one of life's mysteries...

it's water weight.... you should be able to after time KNOW when you'll weigh lighter... you run to the bathroom the day before like every 20 minutes.

I got this thread confused with the Does It Work forum and thought this was some new weightloss plan oops.

I agree with nessa- I know I'm dropping water weight (especially after TOM) when I'm running to the bathroom all the time. And I do the hand weight thing too because sometimes it's really kind of freaky!