Weight Loss Going Up And Down

I e the amount of fat contained in body compartments like belly thighs and back etc.

Weight loss going up and down. Weight going up down day to day. Thing is daily weight fluctuation is normal. It s very normal for your weight to go up and down says michelle may m d founder of the am i hungry.

If you re taking on a new weight loss goal your instinct might be to hop on the scale twice a day and hope for a consistently lower number each time. Expending energy by burning calories can result in weight loss. So as you lose weight your metabolism declines causing you to burn fewer calories than you did at your heavier weight.

Muscle helps keep the rate at which you burn calories metabolism up. Your slower metabolism will slow your weight loss even if you eat the same number of calories that helped you lose weight. It s unlikely the op is going to remember this thread.

Weight loss is an objective to decrease in and is the total weight of your body fat bones organs muscles etc. As long as we re alive our cells tissues and organs are. When you consider that a sensible weight loss target is maybe 0 25 lbs 110 grams per day you can see how on most days that s just going to be swallowed up in the noise the best way to weigh yourself then especially if you re the kind who s going to be at all emotional about it which is probably most of us is to stand on.

Yup you ve hit the dreaded weight loss. Friday march 19 2010 10 05 am pp this thread is amazingly old. But now you re stuck.

Just because you see that number go up or down from one day to the next doesn t mean you aren t on track to weight loss or gain over the long term. Diet plays a major part in daily weight fluctuation but other factors can also contribute to the scale moving up and down. Fat loss means a goal to lower the percentage of body fat.