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Post by APO on Dec 16, 2004 5:50:36 GMT -5
Because I ate a light meal (small bowl of rice and another small bowl of salad) and I suddenly gained 1.5 lbs.
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Post by abrannan on Dec 16, 2004 8:17:55 GMT -5
There are natural fluctuations of as much as 5 lbs over the course of a given day. If you worry about every lb you see go up or down on a scale, you'll go nuts.
Besides, how much did the food you ate weigh? Your body is a closed system, if you put 1.5 lbs of food in your stomach, and don't take out 1.5 lbs of stuff from your digestive tract (use your imaginations here), you're going to show a short term weight gain. That 1.5 lbs is not fat.
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Post by APO on Dec 16, 2004 13:33:17 GMT -5
Ah, so you're saying that the food I ate is in my stomach and the weight wont disappear until its digested. um..right?
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Post by abrannan on Dec 16, 2004 14:11:39 GMT -5
Ah, so you're saying that the food I ate is in my stomach and the weight wont disappear until its digested. um..right? Or until you get rid of an equivalent amount of previously consumed food.
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Post by nonskanse on Dec 16, 2004 20:57:12 GMT -5
Avg bottle of water: 16.9 fluid oz. This translates to about 1 pound (half a kilo, more or less) of weight gain from drinking 1 bottle of water!!!
Take into account drinks you have with meals - an 8-12 oz glass of milk or orange juice, or even water.
That's at least half a pound right there. A lot of food is mostly water, and thinking about my meals I often eat 1.5-2 pounds of food for dinner. And if you drink 8-8oz glasses of water a day as "recommended" by some, that's up to 4 pounds of fluctuation for 0 calories..
But The best time to weigh yourself for consistency is in the morning. If you do it before morning bodily waste elimination, do it that way EVERY TIME! If its after, do it after every time. I find it easiest right before my shower, before drinking any water, and after morning body waste elimination. This is also your lightest time of day though (good for my self esteem, bad if i go to the Dr's and they weigh me later in the day then I feel like I'm cheating by weighing in so early). Some people prefer to do it right before bed.
Don't weigh yourself more than once a day. Flucuations through the day are huge and you'll just freak out for no reason. That's my experience with it anyway.
-V
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Post by Laura Moncur on Dec 17, 2004 8:59:17 GMT -5
I would recommend only weighing once a week. Just as there are fluctuations during the day, there are daily fluctuations as well. Giving your body time to change shows progress much more consistently.
It's really easy to get obsessed with the scale. The number on the scale is not the goal. The goal is to have a healthy and strong body that gets you noticed and lasts a long time.
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Post by nonskanse on Dec 19, 2004 11:51:57 GMT -5
Yeah daily fluctuations are a problem too... I dunno I graph it (healthy is my goal but i have a little fat to lose so i track the weight for that), and if there's a *general* downward trend (will spike christmas eve-new years a little i'm sure) i'm cool. But then I track everything I do, I'm a data-maniac. At least I'm not OCD enough to wash my hands after every page in a comic book. Filbert (Rocco's modern life): you turn a page, you wash your hands. You turn another page, then you wash your hands. Then you turn another page... then you wash your hands. If you're checking the scale too often because you're specifically concerned about your weight day to day (like i said i care about the trend from month to month, not the day to day. every day is just another number in my data-gathering paradise), then hide the scale and only weigh weekly -V
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