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Originally Posted by SunLit
I know it's not necessary or helpful to weigh oneself every day, but since I'm no longer allowed buckets of ice cream, I require some sort of gratification.
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SunLit, I like the way you think, girl!
That's my frame of mind too!
Morning is the best time, because, like H-Ko says, it gives you the most accurate (as accurate as you can get with a scale, which isn't much...) picture of what
you weigh, not your food or your water retention, etc.
That said, anyone worth their salt will tell you that weighing is a pretty much innaccurate and unscientific gauge of weight loss.
Your best bet is to rely on measuring yourself with a tape measure (about the easiest thing you can do on your own) and getting your fat percentage measured by someone using calipers who is trained and knows what they are doing. That will give you the best picture. Of course, how your clothes fit can be a good indicator too, but if you lose quickly, you tend to move out of a set of clothes pretty fast and it's hard to use them as indicators.
Like you, I require the instant gratification of the scale, but
I take it with a grain of salt. I don't let a high number stress me out nor do I have a huge party over a big drop. I know it can switch around by the next day.
I keep a log of my weight using a great excel worksheet that someone on here gave me...not only does it tell me my BMI, but it also predicts when I'll make goal by looking at my last three weekly weigh ins. There are tons of things like that online too, though I'm sure that whoever shared this with me would be glad to share with you too, if they're around. (Barb, was it you?
) Try to look at your weight as a weekly thing rather than a daily one...keep in mind that your water retention, period, uhm, 'regularity'
, and other factors can considerably influence the number on the scale, even if you weigh in the morning in the same place with no clothes on while doing the Mountain pose and humming "Ohmmmmmmmm".
to a fellow 'scale ho' (Jenn's great term!)!