On Dec 4, 7:30*pm, "
wrote:
On 4 déc, 18:11, James G wrote:



On Dec 4, 11:02*am, Doug Freyburger wrote:

It's a conundrum - Folks should only get on the scale at a
frequency they can handle emotionally, but folks need to know
their random water retnetion swing to know how to set their
maintenance swing range. *It means weighings need to be
done in a way as to gradually build emotional ability to handle
them.

Good point. *I always forget that other people don't like to weigh
themselves daily.

Personally, I find myself lucky to never swing more than a pound or
two, weighing myself in the morning like this.

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

Between transpiration (sweating) and whatever moisture happens to
leave via your breath, sure. Personally, I find my acetone breath the
worst in the morning. If you saw this phenomenon between meals and
visits to the washroom during the day, you probably wouldn't think
twice about it. Your body is still running, so you're burning up
energy.

Now, a pound I'm not so sure about; If I weigh myself before/after
sleep, I usually see something on the order of a tenth of a pound
(usually around 0.4 lbs). Doug makes good points, and it's generally
inadvisable to get on the scale more than once a day. In fact, most
people advocate only weighing yourself every 3 days, or once a week.
As Yogi Berra said, "90% of this game is half-mental." If you let
yourself get caught up on the numbers too much, you get distracted
from your goal, and that leads to screwing up.


But the point about scales and precision is an important one. If your
scale isn't consistent, throw it away.