Round 1 - Day 5

The weigh-ins were back-to-back because it was a new scale and I was testing it. I decided the problem was that I had it on carpet. I moved the scale to a tile floor, and it seemed to work itself out.

But on the topic of binge days, I had one last night. And I'm not happy about my weight results. T_T Hopefully everything will go back down soon.

Were the weigh-ins back to back, or spread out over the day?

If I'm hydrating really good, and then working out hard, I can see a 5-8 pound change in water weight over the course of the day. You can cut salt, if your salt intake isn't already restricted, and that will help stabilize water weight fluctuations.

Also, weigh in first thing in the morning, after you go to the bathroom, but before you eat or drink anything to get the most consistent readings.

If you have a binge day and drink a lot of alcohol and eat a bunch of sugary and starchy food, your weight could jump up 9 pounds; mostly water and undigested crap. Over two to three days your weight will go back down, as long as you clean up your act.

If the readings were back to back, though, could be a problematic piece of technology you have there...

(Back when I was using an analog scale, I always made three weigh-ins and averaged them because it was so inconsistent.)

I often see a loss on the scale before I notice a change in the way my clothes fit. Sometimes there is as much as a two-week lag before I really notice that my clothes are looser.