Okay I'm pretty new to this i've only lost 22 lbs so far. and i'm new to this site so I'm not even sure if i'm even in the right post. but I'm a little obsessive and I weigh myself everyday. ( i know it sounds crazy .. but it works for me) well i've noticed that I have been the same weigh for a week now. I've fluctuated a little but nothing good. (it's not that time of the month either) and when I first started I weighted my self at night and in the am, more for fun than anything but I noticed that at night I would lose 2-3 lbs. Well I weight myself the past few nights and i'm the same weigh in the am. I have changed nothing if anything i've added to my work outs. and I'm still eating the same as i was.. what is going on .

Phase of the moon?

Seriously, who knows. It could be anything. A little too much sodium. An extra hard workout. You didn't drink enough water. You drank more water than normal. You are ovulating. You're stressed. The barometric pressure is dropping.

I know it sounds like I'm joking, and while I am a little, I'm kind of not, either. Sometimes that's just the way it happens. If you know you've been perfectly on plan, not eating too many calories, and doing your regular workouts, then just give it some time. If it goes back up more than a couple of pounds or if the stall lasts more than 3-4 weeks, then you can start thinking about tweaking what you're doing.

Otherwise, a week is really nothing in the grand scheme of things. Even when I'm eating perfectly only plan, some weeks I'll lose 2-3 lbs and some weeks, nothing. Then suddenly I'll drop 4 lbs after a week of seemingly nothing.

Our bodies sometimes just decide to do what they're going to do and we just have to wait them out.

Absolutely - I agree with Kara completely. Sometimes our weight just does as it wants to.

Kara and I both weigh daily - so it isnt as unusual as you may think.

If you havent already done so - you may want to join the weigh every day club. I used to do that when I was doing the bulk of my weight loss - and it really helped me to appreciate that weight loss is not an even downward progression the way that you may imagine if you know that you are being consistently good. In fact if you dive back to more or less any page between Sept 2007 and Sept 2008 you will probably see a rolling fortnight of my weights on the way down. I can assure you that I was consistently good and I did get a good rate of weight loss - but you will see that my weight wiggled around all the time.

The fact is that our weight is the weight of all of us and not just our fat. There is our food and drink in there for a start - so meals, drinks, toilet activity all have an impact. On top of that things like water retention due to sodium or TOM for instance. People can complain about swollen ankles in the summer which is another sign of water retention. That is without even thinking of the activity we may get as our muscles develop.

If you are not doing so already - check to make sure that you are keeping your sodium to less than 2400mg a day. You can do this in fitday. Too much sodium makes many people retain water. Drinking sufficient water (1 oz for every two pounds of weight) helps to stop us retaining too much.

I try to weigh my self once a week. I will even have my wife hide the scale so I will not try to weigh my self every day. Its self defeating. Also try to be consistent on when you weigh in, I always weigh my self in the morning right after I get up.

I agree with KaraCooks about the sodium thing. That can really kick you in the but if your not careful. The first couple weeks of a diet you lose ALOT of weight, usually most of it is water weight from lack of sodium. You can easily put it right back on from a large sodium intake. Like eating out Mexican one night.

Not sure if any of that helped, cheers!

ahh, have you thought about ghost food? These are the little things we put in our mouths which do not have calories - or at least not calories that count, right? If I ate it standing up, in front of the fridge, nibbled it out of the container, drank it in the form of a shee-shee coffee. I have not only had the experience as a trainer and health advisor, but as a dieter myself, that when I increase my exercise, my body defends itself by getting my appetite all revved up. Then I hardly notice, yet can't resist, tucking little bits of things in my mouth. In my ever increasing exprience this is the root of the problem 9 times out of 10. I hate food diaries, but you might try keeping one for a week - and be sure to write everything you put in your mouth, even if it's a piece of cerlery you ate while standing in front of the fridge drinking your non-fat latte. I'll bet that either the problem clears up (because you're paying more attention) or you discover that you really are eating more than you thought.

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Ah I like the "ghost food" name.

Yes, that kind of eating is a problem for a lot of people (it was for me - and still can be). For example, this evening I was cleaning up the kitchen. Earlier I made chocolate candies to take to work and there were 4 or 5 chocolate chips stil sitting on the cutting board. So instead of sweep them up and put them back in the bag, or throw them away, I popped the chocolate chips into my mouth. Now there were only 4 or 5 of them - so maybe 25 calories? But by the time you combine that with the taste of rice while you're cooking dinner, and the bite of cheese your husband offered you earlier in the evening, and the 3 sips of orange juice you drank from your kid's cup ... and and and and ....

Suddenly you've consumed 100 or 200 or even 300 calories in "ghost food" (gosh I love that - I'm adopting it).

Right? I've been cooking a lot of pumpkin lately because of the season. The pumpkin is 30 calories per cup - so I can make a whole dinner out of it for like 200 (and it's scrumptious), but the seeds I keep wanting to pop into my mouth are like 800/ cup. I have had to put them in a cup size container so I'm aware of how many I'm eating.
I've also found if I just don't eat standing up, in front of the fridge, or drink beverages that taste sweet, I get rid of most if not all the ghost food right there.
Glad to pass on something useful from all the copious stuff I've gathered in my head. I've got so much swirling around in there I think It probably just needs to get out sometimes.
Have a lot more on my non-hunger eating focused blog. Check it out if you get a chance.

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