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Water loss VS fat loss
On 5 déc, 11:33, "
wrote: 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 of scale malfunction?- Masquer le texte des messages précédents - - Afficher le texte des messages précédents - 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? |
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