Posts by jess14ibe

Original Post by lalabanana:

You're probably retaining water in your muscles. Give it time and keep hydrated.

It is normal for a person to fluctuate up to and sometimes greater than 5lbs in a day for any reason. Sodium, food weight, excess caffeine, whether or not you’ve had a bowel movement… so many silly and small thinks make your weight fluctuate day to day that it is better to take a trend of weight loss from a week to week weigh in with the same conditions each time.

It takes 3500 calories in EXCESS of your burn to gain just one. Thus, it's much smarter to weigh in once a week under the same conditions and take your progress based on that, instead of every morning or multiple times a day.

Why The Scale Lies - by Renee Cloe, ACE Certified Personal Trainer

wow that link is really good info, I check the scale everytime I go to the gym...which is usually once a day...and I always look at the scale after I excercise.. I have actually been getting bummed out by the numbers I have been seeing, but now I understand whats going and I feel alot better.