You track your calories ALL week, have one ‘bad’ meal - and all the weight goes back on!

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Is there anything more frustrating than such a huge sensitivity to food like this?

Honestly all week it’s been fruit and veg and spinach and no sugar and Greek yogurt. I lost 1kg from Sunday to Friday.

Last night I end up over my calorie target for that day by 400 due to a very nice pudding.

This morning - 0.6kg straight back on! And I’ve heard it all before about it being ‘only water’ - it isn’t and it’ll take another week to lose.

It’s so bloody frustrating not to even be able to have ONE nice pudding a week when losing weight!

It's not physically possible to actually regain fat in one day unless you ate 4000 calories that day. In your case I'd say the greater loss during the week was water loss and you've regained the water.
Or you need to track your weight over a month rather than a week. Then you'll see if you have a general downward trend or not.

I would stop weighing daily and pick a day mid week to do your one weigh in.

How much do you have to lose? It gets hard when you’re near your target.

400 calories doesn't equate to 0.4kg.

I'd stop weighing yourself so often. We naturally vary in weight and weighing too often means you're going to react to what isn't a real gain (or loss). I weigh myself once a fortnight.

I don’t know what age you are etc. but the reality for me -v. short, in my 40s and in a sedentary job is that my total calorie requirements are very low now. So even if I’m very strict and measured during the week, the reality is that I’m only creating a deficit of a couple of hundred calories a day ( if that). That can easily be offset by a nice meal, dessert and a couple of glasses of wine on a Saturday. Which means I find it almost impossible to lose weight. However if I’m not strict most of the time, I gain easily. It’s soul destroying but c’est la vie 🤷‍♀️

Water weight is a thing. I get weighed monthly and my weight goes up and down because of water. Also depends on bowel movement as well. When I was having periods, a few days before I would weigh more.

It's the weight of your conscience that does it - to me anyway.

+/- 2 kg is a normal variation with weight.

OP this happens to me, don't worry, if you go back to healthy eating today and weigh yourself tomorrow morning it will all be gone - I like to think it's just my body that hasn't had time to process all the food/heavy carbs overnight as the body was in rest mode. Don't worry and also I second what other posters have said - only weigh one day a week.

if you go back to healthy eating today and weigh yourself tomorrow morning it will all be gone

See, that's the thing, for me it doesn't all go again in a night. I would say that I will be back to yesterday's weight on perhaps Tuesday? So that one pudding has effectively stalled my weight loss for four days. It's so frustrating.

I am 80kg and really should be about 60kg, so a lot to lose.

I have the same issue. Older, sedentary job and need to live on lettuce with a sprinkling of dust permanently to lose any weight.

Also about 80 kg here.

I did about 4 weeks alternating between 1000 cals and 1200 cals. I lost nothing at all, until all of a sudden at the end I was down 8 pounds.

Big fucking deal. It just hung on and on.

Give it a few days before you weigh yourself again. I find refined carbs and lots of sodium really make the scales jump up but it's usually temporary.

Weigh daily but with an app. I use weight diary and it tracks the trend so you can see loss and gain. Because you could be weighing yourself only on your heavier days and missing the losses
If you do it daily, and just shove the number on the app, it takes away any emotion too, it just becomes habit

This happpens to me , I just cannot lose weight .. it fucks me off 🙄🙄

Exactly same for me. I guess I either have to have no treats or move more.