Hi Cathe!!!! I have a question regarding weight gain. I know its bad to weigh yourself everyday but i do. WHen i do that it keeps in line with what i eat. Well everyday i get on the scale one day and its says im down 2 pounds and the next day up like 3-4 pounds. i cant maintain a weight it seems. i eat 5 times a day mini meals. I usually eat in the morning, oatmeal then 3 hours later i wil eat a fruit, lunch usually chicken salad, and then i eat another snack plus dinner. What am i doing wrong???
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MadnNatsmom
Cathlete
If you know weighing yourself every day is bad, why do you do it?
I don't mean to chastise you, but weighing yourself so often is not an accurate way of gauging your weight loss and can become a very unhealthy, obsessive habit. You don't really believe you can lose 2 lbs in one day and then gain 3 or 4 the next, do you?
What are your goals? To weigh a certain amount or lose fat and gain muscle?
If you are doing challenging strength tapes, you will most definitely gain muscle weight. But, you will also lose inches as you lose fat.
You may also want to keep a food journal and calculate how much you're actually eating. I was very surprised by how many extra calories I was eating.
Good luck and really, trust me on this - you'd be doing yourself a great favor if you didn't weigh yourself so often.
I don't mean to chastise you, but weighing yourself so often is not an accurate way of gauging your weight loss and can become a very unhealthy, obsessive habit. You don't really believe you can lose 2 lbs in one day and then gain 3 or 4 the next, do you?
What are your goals? To weigh a certain amount or lose fat and gain muscle?
If you are doing challenging strength tapes, you will most definitely gain muscle weight. But, you will also lose inches as you lose fat.
You may also want to keep a food journal and calculate how much you're actually eating. I was very surprised by how many extra calories I was eating.
Good luck and really, trust me on this - you'd be doing yourself a great favor if you didn't weigh yourself so often.
competition bound
Cathlete
I used to weig myself everyday also. It's a hard habit to break!! Now, I do it once a week. What you are seeing in the down 2lbs/up 3-4 lbs is nothing more than water. I read that depending on the time of month a woman's water can increase by as much as 5lbs. So don't sweat it honey;-)! Te he he!
Just watch your sodium intake(do you add table salt to your foods?), and understand that a woman's hormones are constantly changing causing us to fluctuate. Take it with a grain of salt;-)! And don't weigh yourself any more than once a week!! Okey Dokey?
Aimee
Just watch your sodium intake(do you add table salt to your foods?), and understand that a woman's hormones are constantly changing causing us to fluctuate. Take it with a grain of salt;-)! And don't weigh yourself any more than once a week!! Okey Dokey?
Aimee
Aquajock
Cathlete
Have to say "ditto" to the earlier responses - in fact, I only weigh myself once every six months, and after my birthday next week I'm going to go for a once-a-year weigh-in. I truly believe scale weight is the least important, and least accurate, measurement of health and fitness progress.
We all want and need progress and status markers. Use your performance capabilities as markers - track the amount of weight you can lift, and focus on increasing that; track the number of workouts you do per week and record those; pay attention to how well you're sleeping, and check out how your clothes hang on you. Those are far better posts to go for than the needle on the scale.
There have been a few threads on this forum recently from women recovering, or recovered, from anorexia or bulimia nervosa - and I would predict the bathroom scale figures prominently in any disordered behavior pattern that involves body image dysmorphia.
THROW THE SCALE AWAY! JUST BUY AND DO MORE CATHE TAPES SAFELY AND JUDICIOUSLY!
Annette
We all want and need progress and status markers. Use your performance capabilities as markers - track the amount of weight you can lift, and focus on increasing that; track the number of workouts you do per week and record those; pay attention to how well you're sleeping, and check out how your clothes hang on you. Those are far better posts to go for than the needle on the scale.
There have been a few threads on this forum recently from women recovering, or recovered, from anorexia or bulimia nervosa - and I would predict the bathroom scale figures prominently in any disordered behavior pattern that involves body image dysmorphia.
THROW THE SCALE AWAY! JUST BUY AND DO MORE CATHE TAPES SAFELY AND JUDICIOUSLY!
Annette
Bobbi
Cathlete
Remember this, our bodies store water along with the glucose our muscles need for energy. It's is natural to flucuate by several pounds on a daily basis. That is why weighing oneself is not an accurate way to guage fitness. You are doing yourself a disservice by weighing in too often. Eat a clean diet and exercise regularly. Forget the scale! Scales lie!
Bobbi
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I just replied to another question re: weight gain, and, again, I must admit I was (well, still am) so addicted to the scale and then starve myself in frustration, only to have no energy to work-out. So now my scale is pushed out of the way in the bathroom and I feel so much better not being "judged" every day and my moods aren't depending on what those #'s say on the scale. My clothes are loose, that is all that matters! I'm going to plaster on my mirror & refrigerator "MUSCLE WEIGHS MORE THAN FAT!"
I agree with all that's been posted so far. I was a nurse for 9 years & just want to add that water weight can fluxuate as much a 6 pounds during any 24 hour period. If you just can't get away from the scale, don't worry about small changes unless they continually creep up steadily over a couple of weeks. Chances are you'll know why...cheating, or increasing portions, or whatever.
Remember, the scale is NOT your friend.
Deanna
Remember, the scale is NOT your friend.
Deanna