My body is playing practical jokes on me

I think my body now likes to play practical jokes on me. I kid you not, I have "bursts" of weight loss. I will stay the same exact weight for 5 days, and then suddenly over the next 2 days I will lose 3 lbs!

New week begins, cycle again repeats itself.

I know they say "weigh once a week", but weighing myself is like checking my email in the morning.
I get odd gratification from it.

I know everyone "stalls", but has anyone seen this pattern of "bursts" of weight loss around the same time each week?

I can't answer your question--I'm one of those people that weighs once every couple of weeks.  (One reason is I currently don't have a home scale with the capacity to weigh me).

I plan however to be a once a week weigh-er, because I am somewhat obsessive/compulsive, and I can see myself getting on and off the scale many times a day obsessing why I did not lose.

Sorry I didn't answer your question, but I basically wanted to say hello from Sand Mountain.

Steve, My body is doing the same thing.   I weight almost every day and mine will stay the same and then boom 3 pounds gone and then the same and boom 2 pounds gone.   My thought is let it keep on playing tricks on me as long as the weight is coming off.  

Absolutely.  That is my pattern now, exactly.  I stay at the same weight for up to 5 days & then have a great run of 2-3 days where I lose about 5-6 pounds.  I weigh every morning....I wouldn't miss it....the fact that 13 weeks ago the scale said 293 pounds & when I get on now it says 217 (& dropping on its way to 145-155!) makes me so happy....even if I don't lose that day, I know that I will that week.  Plus, those stalls are great motivation for my workouts....I work extra hard on days I "stay the same" for some odd-psychological reason...just wanting to see a loss the next morning. 

So, the stalls & bursts are normal.  Even though I weigh every morning, I have a chart in the back of my Food Journal & I use it to log my weight every Tuesday morning...then I averaged my weekly weight loss because I was interested in  knowing how much I am losing each week....my average is 5.3 pounds/week....some weeks are more (and some less), but that average stays constant.....

So, don't sweat it....your body is doing it's post-WLS job!!! xo, Micheala.

Wow.. 5.3 lbs per week is incredible! Great job!!!!

 yup, same same same here too.  

I went a month with losing 9 pounds.  I was like WTH!!!  and then it just started disappearing.  I've lost about 10 pounds since the first of June.  It doesn't make sense.  Our body will do what it wants to do.  The only thing we can do is stick the what we know is right.  

I will admit that I am a daily "weigher" as well.  I like to see what it feels like.  I want to know recognize what my body is telling me.  Doing that daily helps keep me focused.  The trick is to not obsess about it, I think.  When I didn't lose at all last month (compared to the previous 4 months),  I knew something wasn't right.  It also helps me narrow down reasons (water weight, woman issues, "not enough fiber" issues, etc)