Are you weighing yourself in the morning before eating/drinking?
And yes, it is. But remember that bodyweight fluctuates a lot, so you can be like 4 pounds ABOVE your "actual" weight and 4 pounds "below", so you should take the weekly average.
I weigh myself in the morning after I pee. I want to get in the habit of tracking my progress everyday to keep it always on my mind. Why can my weight fluctuate by 4 lbs? I understand if I eat something salty and I'm bloated with water
I can't wait 30 days to make adjustments. I'll keep track, but I'll take the average loss over 2 weeks and see if I need to make adjustments. I know the first week is almost free weight loss due to water weight. Week 2 and 3 will be more impactful for determining my progress
Here's my weightloss over 4 weeks with ephedrine 2x/ day, 1500-1750 calories/ day, 3x lifting and 3x cardio/ week. The 2 weights are taken at the beginning of the day and when I arrived home from work.
dont weigh yourself every day anon your weight will fluctuate immensely throughout the week. No more than twice a week, first thing in the morning. Also you don't want to determine your pace until you've got 3-4 weeks to reflect on.
This could be natural fluctuation, I can lose a few pounds just by taking a shit. It's better to look at long term trends in your weight, like every week or something
How can I have long term progress of the year just started? But you have to track short term to have long term data. Also assuming I eat the same thing everyday (I do), the trend should be much easier to establish early since there isn't much variation in my diet
I weigh myself every Saturday morning (after I shit). If I stay the same weight for an entire month, something is wrong and I make adjustments to my diet.
That's okay. It's a marathon, not a sprint. The data being collected is more reliable due to less variation in my body composition week to week, than day to day.
This could be natural fluctuation, I can lose a few pounds just by taking a shit. It's better to look at long term trends in your weight, like every week or something
I was told it's better to cut first then I can maingain later
https://i.imgur.com/NHfMZJ7.jpg
do you honestly believe you can escape
If I keep cutting I'll at least have skelly abs right?
As others have said, weighing yourself this frequent is pointless.
I wouldn't do it more often than once a week.
And, also as others have said, weighing conditions should be the same every time, so ideally in the morning after you take a shit, but before you eat.
I have to be constantly mentally engaged in something or else I forget. My autism doesn't allow me to pick things up on a weekly basis. If I'm not constantly thinking about my weight, I end up forgetting I'm supposed to eat less. I've tried to diet before and I kept track weekly but eventually I forgot and didn't care enough to start back
We're not talking about your penis, there is almost zero reason to ever cut or bulk, just lift weights and eat like a normal person, you'll build muscle and your bf% will drop and stabilize
But the problem is I don't eat like a normal person. I eat snacks and I'll eat seconds if the food is good. By "cutting" I'm just trying to eat what's normal. I'm not trying to starve myself. If you're saying this is my stable weight. Then you're wrong.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Then stop snacking, lift weights and eat 2-4 proper meals a day depending on how active you are
5 months ago
Anonymous
That's. What I'm doing... isn't that cutting?
5 months ago
Anonymous
You should be gaining weight not losing it
5 months ago
Anonymous
But then how would I lose bodyfat? I don't care about muscle right now. I want to lose fat
5 months ago
Anonymous
By lifting and gaining muscle, smartass
5 months ago
Anonymous
I don't know... lots of anons say maintenance doesn't lose bodyfat and that a slight deficit is better
5 months ago
Anonymous
You should stop listening to morons and excercise some logical thinking
Excercise burns fat, yes? Lifting is excercise, yes? Then obviously lifting will burn fat, dumbass, you can eat like a nigget on welfare if you want to, as long as you excercise enough you'll burn away the fat until it stabilizes because any less would require you to starve your body of nutrients, just lift hard and eat well.
5 months ago
Anonymous
OK post body and let's see if your advice works then I'll follow what you say
5 months ago
Anonymous
I'm at work and don't have any cuz I aint gay
5 months ago
Anonymous
So then you don't have any credible advice to give. There's nobody who has built a good body who hasn't taken a picture of it
5 months ago
Anonymous
Keep deluding yourself then, you'll just become skinny and weak
5 months ago
Anonymous
That's fine by me. I'll just keep trying to do my best and if it doesn't work in 2024 then 2025 will be my year
5 months ago
Anonymous
Or you could start lifting right now and be jacked by 25, you fricking moron
5 months ago
Anonymous
I am lifting stupid. If I cut. I'm lifting, if i maintain, I'm still lifting. Only difference is my goal is to lose fat, so I'm eating less at a slight deficit
5 months ago
Anonymous
>stop listening to morons and listen to me instead!!
t. a moron
5 months ago
Anonymous
>Lifting is excercise, yes?
The act of weight lifting does not burn a lot of calories. Muscles require more calories to maintain, which makes it easier to eat in a deficit. This is a common trap people fall into when losing weight.
>I'll eat this and burn it off in the gym later!
No. Burning calories with exercise is extremely difficult. It is better to have never eaten the excess calories in the first place.
Stop giving shit advice. You have no idea what you're talking about.
5 months ago
Anonymous
>you have no idea what you're talking about.
Works for me, I was a 58kg skellington a year ago, almost zero muscle, only started lifting a month ago and I'm 75kg at 15-18% bf, literally all you have to do is lift and eat and you will gain more muscle than fat
5 months ago
Anonymous
>15 to 18% bf
You SHOULD NOT be giving people advice lol
5 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah I've only gained almost 20kg of muscle with no bf increase
5 months ago
Anonymous
But you're still fat so who cares and you won't post body so obviously you're ashamed of yourself
5 months ago
Anonymous
I told you I'm at work and have no pictures, if I want to look at myself I go to the mirror, I don't do photoshoots like a woman
5 months ago
Anonymous
>t. fat
5 months ago
Anonymous
You can wait until I get home if you want
5 months ago
Anonymous
I will wait
5 months ago
Anonymous
Literally a skinnyfat dyel. Congrats on starting the journey, but you are in no place to give advice. Come back after you've made all your newbie gains.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Eliminating snacks from your diet isn't usually what people mean by "cutting". A cut in bodybuilding terms is when you purposefully eat less than your maintenance level of calories in order to lose weight. But your case, you are already 156lbs, which is a bit on the low side for a male unless you're also very short. Anon is suggesting that instead of cutting, you should simply replace the snack foods in your diet with healthy foods and stop tracking your body weight. As long as you're eating healthy foods, eating normal amounts of food (eat when you're hungry, stop eating when you're full), and lifting weights on a regular basis, you will naturally lose fat and gain muscle.
5 months ago
Anonymous
It is cutting. Don't listen to him. "Just lift and eat healthy" is how you stop making progress.
As long as you are tracking your calories, eating less than your tdee, and lifting, you'll be fine. Don't let the demoralizers win. You're doing great OP. Stick with it, consistency is the most important aspect of weight loss.
5 months ago
Anonymous
Lose or gain weight over 6 months not one week, super fast changes are bad.
Eating seconds at dinner is great.
When I lost 40 lbs over like a year and a half I ate tons at dinner and skipped dessert, fatty snacks and drank black coffee and tea, no soda, juice or liquid calories.
Your already low weight so I dont know why you want to be skele mode though.
No muscles plus 8% bf looks shitty even if you have visible abs
>I was told it's better to cut first then I can maingain later >> get rid of those 50 grams of fat I have left and then gain muscle by losing even more fat forever
Fricking moron. Unless you're 5'1, GAIN FRICKING WEIGHT FRICKTARD
As others have said, weighing yourself this frequent is pointless.
I wouldn't do it more often than once a week.
And, also as others have said, weighing conditions should be the same every time, so ideally in the morning after you take a shit, but before you eat.
Day to day loss doesn't matter. Your water weight will change more drastically than the actual fat you're burning. Look for consistent overall decline on the level of weeks and months.
I don't have months of data, nor do I have time to make adjustments after a month of data collecting. I want to make progress now, and make adjustments now
Are you weighing yourself in the morning before eating/drinking?
And yes, it is. But remember that bodyweight fluctuates a lot, so you can be like 4 pounds ABOVE your "actual" weight and 4 pounds "below", so you should take the weekly average.
Good tracking so far. Keep it up
I weigh myself in the morning after I pee. I want to get in the habit of tracking my progress everyday to keep it always on my mind. Why can my weight fluctuate by 4 lbs? I understand if I eat something salty and I'm bloated with water
5 days isn't enough to make a judgment anon, try asking after a month or so
I can't wait 30 days to make adjustments. I'll keep track, but I'll take the average loss over 2 weeks and see if I need to make adjustments. I know the first week is almost free weight loss due to water weight. Week 2 and 3 will be more impactful for determining my progress
Here's my weightloss over 4 weeks with ephedrine 2x/ day, 1500-1750 calories/ day, 3x lifting and 3x cardio/ week. The 2 weights are taken at the beginning of the day and when I arrived home from work.
dont weigh yourself every day anon your weight will fluctuate immensely throughout the week. No more than twice a week, first thing in the morning. Also you don't want to determine your pace until you've got 3-4 weeks to reflect on.
How can I have long term progress of the year just started? But you have to track short term to have long term data. Also assuming I eat the same thing everyday (I do), the trend should be much easier to establish early since there isn't much variation in my diet
Week to week.
I weigh myself every Saturday morning (after I shit). If I stay the same weight for an entire month, something is wrong and I make adjustments to my diet.
But then now you just lost a month due to low frequency data collection.
That's okay. It's a marathon, not a sprint. The data being collected is more reliable due to less variation in my body composition week to week, than day to day.
This could be natural fluctuation, I can lose a few pounds just by taking a shit. It's better to look at long term trends in your weight, like every week or something
That's just water weight, also you're not fat, 156 lbs is fricking skelly mode, start lifting homie
I was told it's better to cut first then I can maingain later
If I keep cutting I'll at least have skelly abs right?
I have to be constantly mentally engaged in something or else I forget. My autism doesn't allow me to pick things up on a weekly basis. If I'm not constantly thinking about my weight, I end up forgetting I'm supposed to eat less. I've tried to diet before and I kept track weekly but eventually I forgot and didn't care enough to start back
>I was told it's better to cut first then I can maingain later
What do you think happens with your fat when you excercise?
It shrinks?
We're not talking about your penis, there is almost zero reason to ever cut or bulk, just lift weights and eat like a normal person, you'll build muscle and your bf% will drop and stabilize
But the problem is I don't eat like a normal person. I eat snacks and I'll eat seconds if the food is good. By "cutting" I'm just trying to eat what's normal. I'm not trying to starve myself. If you're saying this is my stable weight. Then you're wrong.
Then stop snacking, lift weights and eat 2-4 proper meals a day depending on how active you are
That's. What I'm doing... isn't that cutting?
You should be gaining weight not losing it
But then how would I lose bodyfat? I don't care about muscle right now. I want to lose fat
By lifting and gaining muscle, smartass
I don't know... lots of anons say maintenance doesn't lose bodyfat and that a slight deficit is better
You should stop listening to morons and excercise some logical thinking
Excercise burns fat, yes? Lifting is excercise, yes? Then obviously lifting will burn fat, dumbass, you can eat like a nigget on welfare if you want to, as long as you excercise enough you'll burn away the fat until it stabilizes because any less would require you to starve your body of nutrients, just lift hard and eat well.
OK post body and let's see if your advice works then I'll follow what you say
I'm at work and don't have any cuz I aint gay
So then you don't have any credible advice to give. There's nobody who has built a good body who hasn't taken a picture of it
Keep deluding yourself then, you'll just become skinny and weak
That's fine by me. I'll just keep trying to do my best and if it doesn't work in 2024 then 2025 will be my year
Or you could start lifting right now and be jacked by 25, you fricking moron
I am lifting stupid. If I cut. I'm lifting, if i maintain, I'm still lifting. Only difference is my goal is to lose fat, so I'm eating less at a slight deficit
>stop listening to morons and listen to me instead!!
t. a moron
>Lifting is excercise, yes?
The act of weight lifting does not burn a lot of calories. Muscles require more calories to maintain, which makes it easier to eat in a deficit. This is a common trap people fall into when losing weight.
>I'll eat this and burn it off in the gym later!
No. Burning calories with exercise is extremely difficult. It is better to have never eaten the excess calories in the first place.
Stop giving shit advice. You have no idea what you're talking about.
>you have no idea what you're talking about.
Works for me, I was a 58kg skellington a year ago, almost zero muscle, only started lifting a month ago and I'm 75kg at 15-18% bf, literally all you have to do is lift and eat and you will gain more muscle than fat
>15 to 18% bf
You SHOULD NOT be giving people advice lol
Yeah I've only gained almost 20kg of muscle with no bf increase
But you're still fat so who cares and you won't post body so obviously you're ashamed of yourself
I told you I'm at work and have no pictures, if I want to look at myself I go to the mirror, I don't do photoshoots like a woman
>t. fat
You can wait until I get home if you want
I will wait
Literally a skinnyfat dyel. Congrats on starting the journey, but you are in no place to give advice. Come back after you've made all your newbie gains.
Eliminating snacks from your diet isn't usually what people mean by "cutting". A cut in bodybuilding terms is when you purposefully eat less than your maintenance level of calories in order to lose weight. But your case, you are already 156lbs, which is a bit on the low side for a male unless you're also very short. Anon is suggesting that instead of cutting, you should simply replace the snack foods in your diet with healthy foods and stop tracking your body weight. As long as you're eating healthy foods, eating normal amounts of food (eat when you're hungry, stop eating when you're full), and lifting weights on a regular basis, you will naturally lose fat and gain muscle.
It is cutting. Don't listen to him. "Just lift and eat healthy" is how you stop making progress.
As long as you are tracking your calories, eating less than your tdee, and lifting, you'll be fine. Don't let the demoralizers win. You're doing great OP. Stick with it, consistency is the most important aspect of weight loss.
Lose or gain weight over 6 months not one week, super fast changes are bad.
Eating seconds at dinner is great.
When I lost 40 lbs over like a year and a half I ate tons at dinner and skipped dessert, fatty snacks and drank black coffee and tea, no soda, juice or liquid calories.
Your already low weight so I dont know why you want to be skele mode though.
No muscles plus 8% bf looks shitty even if you have visible abs
>I was told it's better to cut first then I can maingain later
>> get rid of those 50 grams of fat I have left and then gain muscle by losing even more fat forever
Fricking moron. Unless you're 5'1, GAIN FRICKING WEIGHT FRICKTARD
80% of the weight you lose at the beginning is water weight
do you honestly believe you can escape
As others have said, weighing yourself this frequent is pointless.
I wouldn't do it more often than once a week.
And, also as others have said, weighing conditions should be the same every time, so ideally in the morning after you take a shit, but before you eat.
Day to day loss doesn't matter. Your water weight will change more drastically than the actual fat you're burning. Look for consistent overall decline on the level of weeks and months.
I don't have months of data, nor do I have time to make adjustments after a month of data collecting. I want to make progress now, and make adjustments now
Don't worry about the day to day. Just make sure things are still progressing on a weekly/biweekly basis and you'll be alright
It's water weight mostly.