Broken scale? Or am I not losing weight?

[Anonymous]

This isn’t really a post about vanity but rather a scale question.

It’s only been 9 days since I started Noom. I’ve cut my food intake by a lot, yet the scale is all over the place. I use the same scale and weight myself first thing. According to the scale, I have gained two pounds this week.

Is this how weight loss goes in the beginning? Do I need to cut MORE calories? I’m a nursing mom, so I can’t drop much more!

[Anonymous]

You’re nursing. Your body isn’t giving up calories and fat it needs to produce milk and sustain you. Your scale didn’t break, come on.

[Anonymous]

There’s no need to be rude. I’ve cut out a lot of calories this past week. I’m wouldn’t have thought I’d GAIN two pounds this week.

[Anonymous]

I am the "sandwich calories" poster. I stepped on a scale at home after my road trip and thought I would be 6lbs heavier. I was not. I ate like crap and way too many calories on that road trip. On the scale on my vacation place, it showed around 4lbs more than three days before than my regular weight.
At home, I was 5lbs less, three days after!
I think constipation might be the cause of these fluctuations and eating salty foods and being bloated and retaining water.

[Anonymous]

It’s normal for it to take 2-3 weeks to see a difference on the scale when you first start. Your body will hold water, which in turn affects your bowels, plus your hormones are fluctuating.

I’ve been a daily weigh-er for 20 years and my lightest day of the month is the second day of my period. 2 weeks after that, I’m typically up 5-8 pounds, then I get the scale loss again like clockwork.

Most important thing is to trust the process and stick with it. If you were working with a nutrition coach rather than an app, they wouldn’t make any adjustments until week 3-4.

[Anonymous]

Weigh only once a week
The number on the scale also includes water retention and poop weight. It’s not an accurate portrayal of health.
Muscle weighs more than fat but takes up less room.
Don’t cut calories too far when nursing
Weight loss isn’t always linear. Your “good” week of eating may show up on your body weeks from now. Don’t give up.
Sleep affects weight loss, so if you have a baby you’re probably not getting ideal sleep.
Be kind to yourself like you would to a friend doing this same program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s normal for it to take 2-3 weeks to see a difference on the scale when you first start. Your body will hold water, which in turn affects your bowels, plus your hormones are fluctuating.

I’ve been a daily weigh-er for 20 years and my lightest day of the month is the second day of my period. 2 weeks after that, I’m typically up 5-8 pounds, then I get the scale loss again like clockwork.

Most important thing is to trust the process and stick with it. If you were working with a nutrition coach rather than an app, they wouldn’t make any adjustments until week 3-4.

+1 Water weight can effect alot as will hormones. Look at progress month over month, not day over day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s normal for it to take 2-3 weeks to see a difference on the scale when you first start. Your body will hold water, which in turn affects your bowels, plus your hormones are fluctuating.

I’ve been a daily weigh-er for 20 years and my lightest day of the month is the second day of my period. 2 weeks after that, I’m typically up 5-8 pounds, then I get the scale loss again like clockwork.

Most important thing is to trust the process and stick with it. If you were working with a nutrition coach rather than an app, they wouldn’t make any adjustments until week 3-4.

+1 Water weight can effect alot as will hormones. Look at progress month over month, not day over day.

+1 Agree that weight changes through out the day and across the month. My weight always fluctuates within a 5 lb range, so I measure weight loss by clothing size (roughly 10 lbs between sizes), and from the loss or gain from the peak or valley.

[Anonymous]

it is absolutely normal for weight to fluctuate. If you weigh yourself every day you will quickly see that your weight can easily fluctuate 2 lbs in a day. The important thing is the trend over time and by time i mean more than a week. Do not change calories based on one week of weight fluctuations; you haven't give anything time to work. My understanding it that noom is pretty low calorie to begin with.

I prefer weighting daily and tracking the trend line either in an excel file or the happy scale app.

[Anonymous]

I lost about 45 pounds between September and May and didn't weigh myself at all between September and December because I didn't want to drive myself crazy with weight fluctuations or slow progress. I knew I was doing what I needed to do to drop the weight. I didn't use Noom though.

After that, I got on the scale every few weeks. I'm actually weighing myself more now as I try to figure out maintenance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Weigh only once a week
The number on the scale also includes water retention and poop weight. It’s not an accurate portrayal of health.
Muscle weighs more than fat but takes up less room.
Don’t cut calories too far when nursing
Weight loss isn’t always linear. Your “good” week of eating may show up on your body weeks from now. Don’t give up.
Sleep affects weight loss, so if you have a baby you’re probably not getting ideal sleep.
Be kind to yourself like you would to a friend doing this same program.

Good post, PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Weigh only once a week
The number on the scale also includes water retention and poop weight. It’s not an accurate portrayal of health.
Muscle weighs more than fat but takes up less room.
Don’t cut calories too far when nursing
Weight loss isn’t always linear. Your “good” week of eating may show up on your body weeks from now. Don’t give up.
Sleep affects weight loss, so if you have a baby you’re probably not getting ideal sleep.
Be kind to yourself like you would to a friend doing this same program.

Good post, PP.

Disagree. Noom (which OP is using) wants you to weigh in daily. I weighed in every morning on Noom and it was helpful.

OP, don't be discouraged. I lost weight when I was done breastfeeding. You may want to wait also.

[Anonymous]

Hormones, water, humidity, constipation, the decible level of the cicadas - and MORE! - all can affect your weight, OP. Continue on. You can do this, although I know it is hard not to fret.

[Anonymous]

If you are wondering about the accuracy of the scale, choose something like a bag of rice, flour, sugar, cat litter, etc, or a few cans of something -- anything with a marked weight on it. Then double that by adding another bag or the same number of cans.

Was it accurate the first time? Did it go up by the right amount? Then she scale is good.

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I agree that there are so many regular fluctuations that it is best to measure weekly.

[Anonymous]

^^the scale