Weigh in days? LOL sounds stupid i know. But I think this week was a slightly bad week for me and Im afraid to see what the scale says. I am just praying I didnt gain any weight. I just started the WW thing and I just dont wanna get discouraged. So how does everyone stay calm if they gain weight one week? Really im not obsessed about the long range # I just wanna lose weight every week.

Having done WW a couple times now, I can tell you that I consistantly either have a small gain, or stay the same, the week before TOM. This is followed by a loss the week after.

I also keep track of how much I have lost total. Why should I dwell over a 2lb gain if my weight loss over the last 2 months is 20 or 30 lbs.

For example.
lose 3.2 lbs
lose 2 lbs
lose .8 lbs
gain 1 lb

Don't freak out over the 1 lb gain when in the last 4 weeks the total is a 5 lb loss. That is 5 lbs off, keep that rate up for 20 weeks and you have a 25 lb loss. Who wouldn't want to lose 25 lbs, even if it doesn't come in the 10 lbs per month increments that many of us would like.

And as for weighing in - I still freak out about it. I eat nothing before morning weigh in. I will leave work to a make the morning meeting to avoid evening weigh in. I make sure that before I get there I have shoes that slip off easily, I dress like it is 95 degrees out even on 10 degree days. I go to the bathroom when I get there. I remove anything heavy on my person (pearls, belt, etc...). I am sure this is some kind of a nuerosis.

I always start off with the intention of weighing in wearing the same clothes and wearing shoes each week. But if I think I had a bad week I shed them, and then it is a viscious cylcle because if I put them all back on, it will make me look like I gained.

You gotta remain calm honey. Believe me, I am dreading the upcoming weigh in. But if I gained, I gained. I'm not gonna stop with my quest. Life is full of obstacles. Don't let a lb gain discourage you. Just do better next time.

I dread weigh-in days too, but I know its a feedback from my body on what I've been doing during the week. I totally agree with morrigan, just keep it up and you'll lose

I will tell you most of the weeks that I have dreaded weigh in are the weeks I have lost in fact all of them have been then way no matter how big or small, a loss is a loss and the week that I didn't get worked up I gained...so don't let you emotions get the best of you just remember the scale is a form of feedback not punishment it is guide to let you know if you need to change something in your plan..stop fretting and goodluck!

Don't be a slave to the scale. Use some NSV (aka NonScale Victories). Take measurements (once I was on a 6 month plateau where my weight didn't chang by I dropped from size 16 jeans to size 12 jeans).

Weight loss isn't an exact science and sometimes our body will show a gain for no apparent reason. This is why you don't get discouraged. YOu just have to remember that you did everything right and keep going.

Thanks ladies. Glad to see Im not the only one that gets scared about weigh ins. And Morrigan I know how ya feel with the dressing thing. Lots of people at my meetings do the same thing. In fact i do it too. Wear the same jeans no belt no evening weigh ins and not while my hairs wet thats extra weight.
well today is my weigh in. Does anyone ever wake up and feel like bloated? lol I dont appreciate it at all lol

The first few weeks I lost every week. Even on weeks I felt I did bad. Then when I started working the program again I gained a whole pound back. I was so upset. I couldn't understand it. I followed the program that week better than I did the two weeks prior. I was really upset until I called my mother. She told me to look at the big picture. 1 pound wasn't a big deal. After all I had lost 15+ pounds and I didn't gain it all back, just 1 pound. That really put things back into perspective for me. Yes, I gained 1 whole pound however I had lost 15+. Whenever I have a bad week and/or a weight in I try to remember that. Even if I gain back some of what I’ve lost I’m still better off then I was before I’d lost any thing.

Well the scales didnt win today. I lost .8 pounds. i figure its better then nothing. Although I do beleive its crazy how men can just drop the weight. This guy in my meeting has lost 12 pds in 2 weeks. Another .6 pds and I get my book mark. LOL Im just thankful that I lost weight this week and not gained. I was afraid of that.

It also depends on their starting weight and then the other factor is that we women have an extra layer of fat...remember fat doesn't burn calories...so our muscle to fat ratio is higher. Muscle burns fat even at rest.

So get on the 'stick' and do those resistance/strength training exercise to build your muscle.

Yeah Hes not a real big guy probably maybe 30-35 pds heavier then me. But whats funny is my friend goes to WW meeting at another time and hes always loosing like 4-7 pds each time. And the group gets kinda pissy at him cause hes always losing a lot of pounds each week. At least my group isnt like that.

HA I despise weigh in day. I wear the lightest clothes, no jewrley, no hair clip and lightest cotton bra lol..... imagine.. so afraid of a scale..... brrrrrrrr

Congrats sweetie! See, we told you.

Thanks ladies. I still think weigh in day is scarrry LOL Plus its always nice when the scale at WW is always less then the ones i have at home

well my weigh in days are over till sept but, I tell you ever tuesday morning stepping on that scale was nerve racking i watched everything so closely on monday making sure i didnt eat anything salty that might make me retain water the ladies that weighed you in at the meetings were very nice but, let me tell you when you stepped on the scale they would say quite loudly whether you lost or gained and how much but, i tell you those weigh ins helped keep me on track