Lost 8lb in 4 days???

[FlyingWithTheDevil]

Hi

I'm a bit confused and wanted someone else's opinion on it all

Friday just gone I went to a private Dr to get a prescription for Phentermine to hell me lose weight. I was weighed at the appointment and I was 13 and a half stone.

I didn't take them until the Saturday morning and have eaten much smaller portions since and only had 2 meals a day but have drank tonnnnnnssss of water and green tea.

I went to Tesco last night and bought some scales and weighed myself and it's coming up with my weight being just over 12 and a half stone??

Am I right in thinking maybe the scales aren't right? For what it's worth I'm about 5.6 woman and aged 25?

Or is it actually possible to lose that much weight so quickly?!!!

I'm baffled

Bump

Not sure whether to be happy or disappointed?

Thats a full stone in 4 days surely thats not right?

Why bump a post less than a minute after you've initially posted?

Are the scales digital?

@Looloobettyboo that's what I thought? The scales are these ones and we're set dead on 0 to start

Was it the same time of day? Same clothes? With/without shoes? Those can both make a big difference. Big changes to your diet can achieve a big initial loss due to losing retained water, so it could be accurate but will likely slow down soon.

It’s a miss weigh. Weigh again in the morning and if the same, one of the scales are incorrect. You won’t have lost a stone in 4 days unless you cut something off!

These scales

@DebbieFiderer not a stone in 4 days though Especially not when the starting weight was relatively low anyway.

I did think that. When I got weighed at the drs I had a pair of leggings socks bra knickers and a T-shirt jumper type thing on. No shoes no coat.

I've weighed over and over and over again and now getting a bit obsessed with it. I've tried naked and in clothes and it only differs by a 1lb

Hi
It’s best to start with what your scales say, as the first bench mark and then go from there, weight can fluctuate over the course of the day so stick to the same time for your weigh ins.
I once weighed myself at the doctors and I was 4kg lighter than my home scales. So only use the scale weight as an indictor of loss or gain relative to the starting weight.

Christ did you go back in time and buy those

Check your placement of them on the floor as if they aren’t flat and stable you’ll get an incorrect read.

One of the scales is wrong. You haven’t lost a stone

@puds11 I tried in the bathroom and the living room just to check. Must be dodgy scales surely?

I'm gonna see if a friend has any

Ditch the scales and get a tape measure.

My scales can vary by 15kg depending on where I put them on the floor.

Your scales will be different to the dr's scales, the gym scales whatever.

No, I was going with the 8lbs in 4 days in the title, that's not unreasonable, especially if it was a different time of day/with clothes and shoes. Best to try and either check again on the original scales or wait a few days and check again on the new ones.

To be honest I think drs scales are dodge. I had a similar thing of being weighed at the drs then weighed myself at home a week later and had lost a large amount apparently. I was pregnant! It definitely wasn’t my scales.

I agree that it's probably the doctors scales that are the issue.

I had a set of scales that gave me a reading of a difference of a full stone at either end of my bathroom. They were electronic ones and my bathroom floor is flat tiles so I have no idea how that was happening! I bought new ones but my weight can vary by half a stone in a day.

Keep the scales in one place and weigh yourself first thing in the morning. Don’t hop back on afterwards! The number could be wrong, but it will show you if your weight is moving up or down or is stable at least.

Use the scales to show gain/ loss, they aren't necessarily accurate for absolute weight but you will be able to see if you are going up or down.

HTH.

I am weighed quite often by my doctor. His scales are almost always half a stone different to mine. I have zero idea which is right but I just go by mine to track the weekly change.

I went to hospital and lost 3kg between A&E and the ward... one set of scales was out or perhaps both were wrong by a large %

It’s possible to lose 8ilb in 4 days, I did 3 weeks ago with sickness bug, unfortunately it’s all muscle and not a great way to lose weight 🤢 🤕

Thanks for you're input everyone. I'm getting a bit obsessed with it now and have probably stood on those scales about 100 times today!!

I might put them away and just not weigh myself until my next appointment in 2 weeks

I'm More concerned that someone would prescribe a drug to help you lose weight when you're at a reasonable weight where you could sort it out yourself?!

I just googled that drugto see if I should get some and it said it was withdrawn from market in the U.K. in 2000, what country are you in? Is it even safe?