so i took my weight friday and i was down 4lbs.. then sunday it told me i had gained 6!!! i just dont get it. so i broke down in tears to my hubby. i know i been at this only a week but seriously, i am getting sooooo fusterated..
so i took my weight friday and i was down 4lbs.. then sunday it told me i had gained 6!!! i just dont get it. so i broke down in tears to my hubby. i know i been at this only a week but seriously, i am getting sooooo fusterated..
Either weigh yourself once a week, or weigh yourself daily (at the same time) and just track and notice the fluctuations. If you are working your plan, the lows will get lower and the highs will too. You'll learn what big meals or salty foods do to the scale the next day, and you'll see what sloppy-counting weeks do to the scale, too. You'll see blips and drops and gains and losses. And it will stop driving you crazy. Sort of.
i know how you feel my scales do exactly the same and i duno whether im coming or going.
ive had 3 sets of scales so if put it down to ts just ME. I tend to retain water quite alot so if im not drinking alot it shows on the scales as my body holds the water , and i can lose 6lbs of water in a day. get your self some water tables and make sure ya always hydrted and im sure ull get a more real reading nxt time thats what i do GOOD LUck
i had my husband hide the scale and only to bring it out sunday mornings! why couldnt dieting be one of the easy things in life!? but i know nothing is easy, i just wish it didnt take so long to lose weight.. ugh trying to stay motivated and commited to my diet!
i know how you feel my scales do exactly the same and i duno whether im coming or going.
ive had 3 sets of scales so if put it down to ts just ME. I tend to retain water quite alot so if im not drinking alot it shows on the scales as my body holds the water , and i can lose 6lbs of water in a day. get your self some water tables and make sure ya always hydrted and im sure ull get a more real reading nxt time thats what i do GOOD LUck
i didnt even think about the water factor i didnt drink very much on sunday!!!
I would weigh every day if I were you until you know what your body is doing. That way you aren't surprised. But here's the one thing you can be sure of, there's probably no way you ate 21000 calories which is what it would take to gain 6 pounds that quickly. You say you've been at this a week. Your S/C/G says you're down 12 pounds. Is that all in just one week?
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Originally Posted by Moshi1982
i didnt even think about the water factor i didnt drink very much on sunday!!!
The less you drink the more your body will hold on to it.
Last edited by Jesse Taylor; 01-10-2011 at 12:22 PM.
Honestly, weighing every day helped me tremendously. The first time I made goal I went on a very short vacation and came back nine pounds up. I rarely weighed myself and thus didn't understand about water weight, about the fact that the weight would come back off very quickly. I just saw that number, got discouraged, and careened off track. I ended up turning those nine pounds of mostly water weight into 16 pounds of mostly fat.
Since I started weighing every day (and actually several times a day) I have learned so much about how my body works. It keeps me level-headed when the scale is way up. I have no doubt that it has had a huge part to play in my keeping the weight off this time for more than a year.
It also helps to remind myself that 3,500 calories equals one pound. But what has helped me more is seeing the truth of that by weighing every day.
Last edited by Petite Powerhouse; 01-10-2011 at 12:28 PM.
I like weighing everyday and it helps me too. Weighing everyday really adds to me be accountable to myself and what I eat and how I treat my body. Some things I have learned:
1. I need to drink over 64 ounces of water or crystal light or I go up a pound or two in water retention.
2. If I eat carbs in the evening I go up a pound or two. Not sure if it is the carbs themselves or if they make me retain water... so I try to not eat any carbs after lunch. I just started reintroducing carbs anyway.
3. My clothes weigh 3-4 pounds as that is the difference between the other scales I weigh. My work out clothes are probably 3 b/c the gym is always 3 pounds heavier. My Street clothes are 4 as the doctor scale is always 4 pounds heavier.
4. By the end of the day I am usually 2-3 pounds heavier then in the morning. If I am 2 pounds heavier then I will weigh the same weight as that morning. If I am 3 pounds heavier I will usually be up a pound. If at the end of the day I don't see myself up by that much then I might register a loss the next morning... but evening weigh ins are not my norm... just for my information.
5. Before I get on the scale I can usually guess what the scale is going to say and I am usually 90% correct.
Perhaps I am crazy- but I feel like having this knowledge is giving me just a bit of power where in the past I felt as though I had no power at all.
Gotta go... just worked out really hard and poo'd... want to see if the scale is different then this morning!!!LOL
Another daily weigher here, for the very reasons listed above. I know my body very well now and daily blips mean nothing to me. I weigh several times a day just to amuse myself.
Weighing weekly, I am convinced, is why I couldn't lose weight in the past. I didn't understand that like you just noticed you could be down one day and up the next. What if I was always up on weigh day? I just thought I was stalled all the time. I much prefer weighing daily!!
But if you choose weekly weighing, please stick with it and chart it and allow yourself to be ok with "not losing" anything for a few weeks in a row. Aim for a 4-8 pound loss per month rather than a 1-2 pound loss per week. Most of us do not lose as linearly as 1-2 every single week.
Add me to the daily weigher track. It took all the power away from the scale, for all the reasons listed above. Food, sleep, hormones, and digestion all affect my weight in the morning. By paying a little attention to all these factors, I can quickly discern if my eating was the problem or if it is just a daily fluctuation.
I am a once a week girl. Weighing more drives me nuts and I had to force myself to stop doing it. I know when I get on the scale once a week that it may say I didn't accomplish anything or that my weight even went up. I remind myself that it fluctuates and not to get bent out of shape. I also try not to use the scale as the only indicator of progress. That is what works for me but it may not work for others.
I went from weighing weekly to weighing daily. I prefer weighing daily because it has already showed me how drinking water and other factors affect my weight.
Definitely put the scale away! Scales are totally useless as they are measuring weight not mass. Water weight in your body fuctuates. Oddly enough too, eating good healthy foods can cause a weight gain before weight loss. The body is a strange machine, but it has its own intelligent reasons. As long as you know you are working at getting healthier, then the scale isn't a measure that is necessary at least for now. If you or anyone reading this is interested in a book recommendation about losing weight with lapband surgery, it's called Teenage Waistland . Read this instead of stepping on that scale. It will be much better for your mood and outlook!
I don't think surgery is the right thing for anyone. Of course, that is my opinion. I've just seen so many people get surgery and end up gaining everything back because they didn't learn to eat right. I'll take the scale and calorie counting and right life choices over surgery. Even if I had all the money in the world, I'd still do this "the hard way" and save the surgery money for a tummy tuck for all my flabby skin.
I hate the scale
