Puzzled - thinner but no weight loss

[MrsGuyOfGisbourne]

My summer dresses were too tight, so a few weeks ago decided to stop drinking as I am drinking too much (alcohol I mean) - eating more or less the same and no more exercise than ususal. And it seems to have worked, stomach noticibaly flatter (tho not by any means flat!), better defined waist, dresses no longer tight but...the scales show the same weight - how can tha be [puzzled] ( and have checked the DC have not played the merry jape tehy dd before with the calibration

I think alcohol can cause water retention and bloating, would that make sense?

Yes - that could well be it, tho must admit my stoamch did feel more like blubber than water, but maybe the water was in and under the blubber

Depends where you are in your cycle - I'm always heavier before my period. Maybe I'm odd.

But, say I weighed myself at the lightest point in my cycle and was 10 stone, lost a few pounds but weighed again at the heaviest point in my cycle I could well still come out at 10 stone despite being slimmer.

Does that make any sense at all?

Mrs Lettuce - thanks, yes