On 5 déc, 11:33, "
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On 5 déc, 10:11, Doug Freyburger wrote:





" wrote:

Off the point you guys are making, but two things that may make some
people curious about weight fluctuation:

You give two examples of why it is a bad idea to get on the
scale *more than once per day. *Doing so very often tends to
be obsessive behavior with irrational motives because the time
scale for fat loss is month to month (not a single dieter in
history likes the fact but disliking a fact does not convert it
to fiction) - Getting on the scale more than once per day is
wishing for that which is physically impossible.

I often weight one pound less
between the time I go to sleep and the time I wake up even though I
did not visit the washroom.

I sweat while I sleep in addition to breathing. *Sweat is
water and therefor not fat. *Taking readings inside of a
single day can only tell me about water, food, liquid,
stuff moving through my bowels and so on. *None of that
is fat and therefore no extra readings per day can
possibily have a rational reason related to a program
aimed at fat loss. *Of course motivation to start dieting
in the first place is often an emotional decision not an
objective mecdical decision.

I brought the point a few years ago, and
someone said the water loss is in the breathing. The second thing is
that I sometimes weight one more pound after taking a shower. Did my
body really suck up a pound of water?

Does your scale really have an accuracy and repeatability
of less than a pound? *No. *Back in junior high school
science classes I remember learning about error bars and
estimating the size of data errors when doing experiments.
Is this no longer taught in schools? *Given the confusion
two presidential elections ago when the vote in Florida came
out closer than the size of the error bars I guess not. *All
instrumentation has some amount of error built into its
readings.

I understand what you're saying. But why is that when the weight
changes in those examples, it's always downwards in the case of a
night sleep and always upwards in the case of a shower? If it was just
a scale malfunction, then should not it be the way around at least
sometimes? How many *scales will I have to try until I'm convinced
that the phenomenon I'm talking about is real and not just some kind
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Or are you saying that these phenomenon are real, but there is no way
I can tell if the difference is really one pound because the scale is
not accurate enough?