We’ve talked about why our weight may fluctuate from day to day and how this does not reflect fat loss.
- A high-salt meal (or hormonal swings) can lead to water retention
- A high fiber meal (or slow digestion) can increase waste in the system
- Strenuous exercise (or other issues) may lead to inflammation
All of these can cause your weight to fluctuate from day to day, or even week to week.
And here’s the truth: Becoming someone who weighs less doesn’t necessarily mean that we won’t continue to experience these fluctuations. If your weight fluctuates a good deal now, it will likely continue to.. And that’s OK.
As you practice more weighless behaviors, your entire range will slowly slide down. So instead of your weekly checkpoints fluctuating from 175 to 180, they start fluctuating between 170 and 175 and then between 165 and 170, and so on.
So, we may expect that if we’re doing this “right,” our graph will look like this:
But often, they look more like this:
Both have lost approximately the same amount of weight.
The point here is that fluctuation is not a problem–unless we allow it to throw us off our game. Unless we make it an excuse to give up. So if you’re a high flux individual, try to take those weekly ups and downs in stride. As long as that bumpy curve is trending bumpily down. you’re doing fine.
And if it’s not, let’s figure out where your most impactful wins and missed opportunities are lurking.