#weight fluctuations

[profundis-formor]

After a week of junk and drinking, my body is holding onto water like crazy. Messing up my birth control schedule and getting a little fake period doesn't help. Feeling stupid bloated and icky but reminding myself that, no matter how I ate, it isn't actually possible to gain 4lb in a single week, and it's just other nonsense.

[mzyraj]

Me: Trying to tidy up some piles of old clothes

Me: Finds a pair of old jeans from a few years ago, that are size EIGHT (four for US people)

Me: ... I know these logically can only be mine, but I 100% cannot believe I was ever this slim. I’m not convinced these actually exist.

[greenbellala]

~ it iiiis what it iiiis ~

[beautifullychaoticworld-blog]

I'm on a new weight loss journey... I did manage to lose around 8 kilos since last year (2022)... but still got a lot more to lose to look good and to get a thigh gap which is what I really need... Ain't stopping the gym workouts anytime soon but the older I get the harder it is to starve yourself or eat diets that aren't tasty...

[lupusnews]

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[greycanbeveryattractive]

So today I had to weigh myself to fill out a form for my MRI I'm having, I don't own scales because I generally don't care about my weight. I'd noticed I'd probably put on a bit lately but I also have much broader shoulders and bigger biceps due to climbing. So my body has changed a lot this year.

However, after seeing my weight I'm now very conscience of it.... I was having a great day until this and now I'm just bummed out.

[oooooooooohbuffets]

I am the queen of weight fluctuations. My weight probably changes +/- 5 lbs in a single week and im like ??? What do i weigh?WHO THE FUCK KNOWS

[mykelwrites]

Day 82: Contemplating how often to weigh myself.

Like most “veteran dieters” (let me be clear I am retired from dieting because they don’t work), I struggled with how often I should weigh myself.  

In the past, I became so obsessed and impatient that I was weighing myself every day. The problem with frequent weighing, besides the fact that it’s like watching a pot of water while waiting for it to boil, is that it actually de-motivated me. The reason is that daily progress is tricky.

What I’ve learned is that weight fluctuates from day-to-day somewhere between 3-5 pounds and sometimes up to 7 pounds for (depending on water retention and bowel movements). On the days that I felt bloated or hadn’t had a normal bowel moment, I weight more and it was completely demoralizing and demotivating to see the higher number. But now, because I’m in it for the long haul, I don’t have the urge to weigh myself every day.  

Because I have a track-record of being able to do a lot of damage to my health and body, monthly weighing is too infrequent. Weekly weighing is too frequent, as fluctuations will also be a factor. So, I’ve settled on weighing myself on the 15th of each month and then on last day of the month (twice a calendar month / every two weeks).

I guess I should also mention that my obsession didn’t end with weight in terms of data collection. I have a diary just for fitness, where I was recording 15 data points: date, weight, waist, chest, hips, neck, biceps, upper-thighs, mid-thighs, body fat %, body fat in pounds, blood pressure, pulse, O2 level and notes. Now I have a new data point: glucose... I’ve collected enough data to know within a margin of error of 5% what my waist size is relative to my weight. I also know how my weight effects my blood pressure, how exercise effects my O2 and resting pulse. Okay, yeah, I can be a complete geek about this.

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