Help ! How can I have put on 5lb overnight ?!!

[TheEndlessArete]

Have been losing weight for the last 2.5mths, lost a stone just through not snacking and doing more exercise.
I normally weigh myself once a week but for some reason I did it yesterday and today. I always weigh myself first thing, and move the digital scales round a few times on the bathroom floor to see if there is a difference dep. on location.

So today weighed in a whole 5lbs heavier than yesterday, despite having a good day yesterday, eating well, going for a jog.

What sort of things could have made the weight increase so much ?!!! Can understand small fluctuations - but not this ! anyone had any experience of this ?

TIA

it's probably not real

a gain like that can't be! I lost 2kg in just under a week so that is real but had it been the other way, it could not would not be true!

Time of the month? I am heavier just before my period.

Stop weighing!

if you must do it, do it much much less! I do have bathroom scales and can vary by 5lbs by moving the scales around the bathroom....I do it to prove how wrong they are :o and then go and try on my jeans of truth to double check.

Sounds like a scale issue, but you really mustn't weigh yourself more than once a week, tops, otherwise you're going to get anomalies like this that will leave you disheartened.

Are you near your TOTM? I always put on 2-3lbs overnight when AF is due.

Keep your scales in the same place, and only weigh once a week! Even then, take more notice of measurements/clothes/how you feel.

could you be dehydrated and it is water retention?

oh and chin up you look slim to me

ha ha, thanks all. Yes, silly for weighing too often - it was partly because i'd made it to the stone mark and wanted to confirm it !

I've just run two packs of my pill together - can you get extra water retention because of that ?

thanks putyour, you look good to me too