How to confirm your body is in fact hoarding water.........w/o a doubt......
 

I weighed more this MORNING when I woke up than I did when I went to sleep last nite. I did nothing overnite but drink from my water cup as usual, yet I went up a pound from sleeping!! (Normally I"m down a pound or more) And I didn't even do weights yesterday, just cardio.

Don't worry about me being obsessed -- weighing when I go to bed and as soon as I wake up. I'm just recording some data points to try to figure out what's up, and so I was able to make this conclusion. I'm conserving water. Nice.....:?: Yep, now waiting for that 3 lb in one day drop.

Oh Fran, :hug: I hear ya.
I'm really looking forward to my three pound drop too. I keep floating around the same up a pound, and back down again. It can really feel like nothing is happening in the meantime. Hang in there. I'll do a happy dance for you when you hit your three pounds drop if you'll do one when I hit mine.;)

I'm glad that you are lifting again though. Even if the scale is not cooperating, doesn't just feel good to know of all of the other good things we are doing for our bodies by moving those weights around. :^:

Yup, I feel your pain. I managed to "gain" two pounds yesterday without doing anything significantly different in terms of diet or exercise...then I looked at the calendar and I saw what's coming...ewww TOM!

2 lbs vanished this morning! Now to see if I can make it stick!

Way to go!! Good luck.

I hear ya!

I got up this morning, weighed, 148.8, went to the gym, came home, weighed, 151.0!!!

I am so glad I found this thread. I was worried that I was going crazy. Since June 2nd, I have not dropped a pound on my scale. It goes from 265 to 268,yet on the scale at the gym I have been hovering around 263. I am ready to throw my scale out of the window. I have lost 20 pounds so far and guess I have hit my first plateau and it is driving me crazy.

Nine days is not long enough to be considered a plateau, imho. :) My best advice is to choose one scale and stick to it. You'll drive yourself crazy by weighing on any available scale....

Another thing that may help, is not only did the scale finally blurp, and even though it's holding steady again, I feel more lithe and agile, and my waistline is looser, so those are all good signs that you can also try to focus on when the scale is being finicky. (And actually, probably alot more important ones bc they are truly body related ones.)

I wanna feel lithe and agile. . .Fran, what's your secret?!

Well, at still well over 200 lbs, I think it is mostly state of mind. Mostly, it's all relative to where you've been, right? So anything to me feels better than I did at 240! But my secret is, I do alot of stretching after each cardio session and wl session as well, so that probably helps.