Candy6900's Journal, 19 Feb 16

Have a look at your average over the week and you will see that you are still on course. One of my buddies gave me that tip. I find it helps keep things in perspective on the slip up days. 

Oh that's so helpful, thanks so much. It's all my own fault, went on dates, drank wine, too much. If you remove the wine calories, I'd be under my target calories. 

you and me both!  

Glitches are not bad, as long as you have the will to carry on :) 

That's the great thing about being here; support and advice, and the way to monitor calories and the very informative weight graph. I definitely have the will to continue, and every little transgression is so easily recognised and can be avoided in future 

I went up a whopping 2.1kgs just from Valentine's day....but was back to my previous weight yesterday. You just have to get back on track and it all evens out. Remember to gain 1kg you would have to eat 7000 calories over your RDI - which is a huge amount that you would definitely notice! 

Yes, I'm sure it will all reverse, and I'm dissapointed but not concerned as it's clearly all come from wine. I would however be perplexed if it wasn't so easily explicable as just being drinking to much calorie laden wine, so it s obvious what I have to do; not drink! 

Well done for staying on track. Yes, I agree with checking your weekly average. More so, I'd suggest weighing yourself only once a week, on Wednesday. It's the best day for the most accurate weight. Few days after weekend slip ups. In addition, I'd suggest to take the body measurements and track them alongside weight. Measure your wrist, upper arm, chest, waist, hips and thighs circumference and monitor those. Losing inches/cm off your body is much more important and more accurate prove of your fat loss. 

Daily weigh ins are supportive and morale boosting when things are going well, and offer an informative and prompt alert when things aren't, such as today's glitch. I regularly take comprehensive body measurements, and have done for many years, as these are very informative of the bloating and inflammation that can be caused by gluten, refined carbs and dairy etc. Weight is important; the fact remains that I am more than 10 kgs overweight over what I weighed last year. 

Magic word "if"...the daily weigh ins are positive ones. As you know, anthropometric measurements such as inches on your body are much more accurate when it comes to fat loss. The scales might not move because perhaps you've gained muscle. The scale might move up because perhaps you've retained too much water in your body. I'm sorry I haven't tracked your annual progress, therefore I'm not sure what to suggest for your weight loss. But there's one rule: calorific deficit and gaining lean mass to speed up metabolism and fat loss. 

I don't think I used the word 'if' at all, negative weighs ins are a morale boost, and positive readings highly informative when they indicate gain. There are no bad weigh ins. I'm aiming to lose the 10 kgs of fat that I acquired over Xmas, not build muscle, and I think that the scales will adequately reflect any loss of flab quite accurately. Since I have always drunk masses of water, don't consume any modified starches or corn syrup or any highly processed food at all really, I think that the water content of my body is fairly constant, so I remain a fan and remain 'addicted to scales!' 

I am also a fan of weighing every day. It helped me to realise that fluctuations are just normal and more often than not, do not indicate a long term weight gain. I think it would be worse if you weighed every week on a bloat day and thought you weren’t getting anywhere! I also agree that sometimes when the scales don’t budge and I am following my plan, I can see a difference in my body and feel a loss when it comes to my clothes….so it’s knowing your body and trusting that if the majority of the time you are following a sensible eating and exercise plan….the weight/volume will go. 

Yes exactly, and I think it's important not to become too demoralised when the weight does go up in the short term, but rather to investigate why it's going up, by reference to food consumption. That's why I love this site, it's so easy to record everything and see where any eating errors may have occurred. I always weigh myself at the same time each morning with no clothes, so the results are consistent. Both my GP's very accurate scales show that the home scales consistently overread 0.7 kg, but I record these over weights here for consistency. There are no bad weigh ins! 

I weigh most days but only record once a week ish. I like to keep an eye on the general trend and can almost predict what I will weigh in at if I continue eating (well, drinking Candy lol) at the same level. It is good to be aware.  

Candy nowhere did I say it was you who used word "if". I used it :]. Wishing you all the best on your journey. Happy weighing :)  

Candy nowhere did I say it was you who used word "if". I used it :]. Wishing you all the best on your journey. Happy weighing :)  

Trending down is the goal, not the instantaneous results. It matters little if it is a linear, exponential or a stepped dropped, it is the overall effect that matters.  

It is however very informative to review eating that has produced subsequent spikes in the graph, in order to modify diet accordingly. The three spikes in my graph are as a result of alcohol imbibation. That's the great thing about this site, the ability to review, moderate and modify diet. That's the great think about daily weighings informing future habits, reinforcing the good ones and prompting a change in any bad ones. It therefore matters a lot what causes any spikes.