I gained HOW much in one day???

So....i've been doing pretty well with my diet. Yesterday I drank A LOT of water, which was good, but then i cheated a little bt within my diet (i'm pretty sure i was still within the 1600 though. This morning i woke up and found i had gained three pounds. I'm also on my period....does that have an effect? Please tell me it's all water weight.

it definitely affects it so don't worry!

I'm 100% certain you did NOT gain 3 pounds (or even ONE pound) overnight.  Please don't get discouraged whatsoever over this.  How often do you weigh yourself now?  I'd advise once a week, so you have more of an average.  Daily fluctuations happen to us all - especially us women.  In fact, if you weighed yourself 5 times a day, it's likely all 5 times will display a different weight. 

You're doing great - trust that! :)

My weight fluctuates all of the time!  I am constantly "gaining pounds" - but not really!  I still look at the scale weight every morning, but only Fridays count for me.  If you pick a certain day and if you only keep track of that weight, it will help.  I have been told not to weigh diruing that time of the month!

I have heard that you're only supposed to weigh yourself once a week... but my thought has always been this: What if that one day you choose is the day you're fluctuating up 3 lbs? How are you supposed to get any accurate weight then? That's why I usually prefer to weigh myself more than once a week, if I am at a stage where I'm weighing myself.

I  N E V E R  weigh myself the day before I start, during my period OR the day I finish my period.  ALL water weight bloating crap. :)

 

I've been losing weight (mostly successfully, with a few plateaus) for a year and a half.  What I've found the most helpful is to weight EVERY day, the same time.  And record it.  (Excel spreadsheet or just graph paper.)  For me, in the AM, just before I hop in the shower.  I use a digital scale with .2 pound increments.  Your weight DOES fluctuate constantly all day, especially if you can see it at the .2 level.  Think about it: if you drink 20 ounces of water, you've just "gained" more than a pound.  If you drank that in conjunction with eating a 14 oz ribeye steak, that's literally transfering more than 2 lbs of weight from outside your body to inside your body.  Have you "gained" 2 pounds?  Of course not.  Most, if not all ofi it is going to be burned in energy or eliminated in waste.  

But if you do weigh in at the same time every day, you'll see the most interesting fluctuations.  You can tell when you ate too late in the PM.  Say, you had a late dinner out on Friday night.  There's more "stuff" in there than usual, because it's earlier than usual in the digestion process.  You'll see that you haven't worked out for a couple days, because you're not burning as much as before.  It's very helpful in identifying and modifying unhelpful patterns.  My pattern is that my lowest weight of the week is Friday morning.  The highest is usually Monday morning.  But if I look at successive Fridays and successive Mondays, I can see the pattern of overall weight loss very clearly. 

What you gain by weighing every day in the AM, is that you are seeing something closer to your true weight after your body has completed its digestion from the prior day.  But the most useful thing I've found for a "true" weight, is the average of that day and the previous six days.  That smooths out the little bumps and valleys from eating too late, or skipping dinner altogether, for example. 

As for periods ... I just don't weigh on those days.  It accomplishes nothing, IMO.  I eat the same healthy way, and wait to weigh until I'm done. 

 

 

 

 

Weigh yourself once a week! Other than that use a mirror as your scale.

When ever im on my menstrual it show that i gain 2 to 3 pnds, but i dont pay no attention to it because i know that it's because of your my cycle. we tend to retain a lot water weight around that time of the month. So dont worried it will all go back to normal once is over. I take Midol when im on it and it helps me a lot.

Thanks so much everyone! that helped a lot!