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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could be any of the above.

Also could depend on where you are in your cycle.

If you were dieting and losing fat, but the scale may not have shown it due to water retention from your cycle.  Then the water retention goes away, and whoosh.

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Yes, I'm trying to lose 10 lbs and was very pleased when I stepped on the scale, but we'll see if tomorrow i see the same thing. [/quote]

This is what I learned about luteal phases from the fitness person I follow (he's not an instagram model, he's a leading researcher in the field):

The mesntrual cycle is roughly 28 days (never) long. It has 4 phases:

Early follicular: first 7 days after menstruation
Late follicular: next 7 to ovulation
Early luteal: first 7 days after ovulation
Late luteal: PMS week

Here is the impact of those phases on a woman's bodyweight via water retention.

Early follicular: lowest
Late follicular: estrogen causes water retention due to a change in sodium handling
Early luteal: low
Late luteal: drop in progesterone (which blocks the mineral corticoid receptor) causes a rebound water weight gain also due to a change in sodium handling.

Homework assignment: consider what happens if you compare any week to any other week. Or what happens if you start a diet in the early follicular and the compare it to the second week or fourth week of the cycle. Or even the third week.

Here's a faster recommendation: do not EVER compare bodyweight (and other body comp methods can also be thrown off) on an every other week schedule type of schedule as you will always hit one of the weeks that is off from the previous.

Compare week 1 to week 1 (after the first day of menstruation)
week 2 to 2
3 to 3
4 to 4[/quote]

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