Sun, Apr-14-02, 10:02
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,514
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Plan: TSP/PPLP/low-cal/My own
Stats: 250/209/150
BF:
Progress: 41%
Location: Sacramento, CA
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To weigh or not to weigh
I've seen a lot of posts about when and how often we weigh. I've been wondering when and why people weigh.
I said in my introduction when I started on this forum that I was going to throw my scales away when I got to 200, but I have begun to rethink that. I also weigh every day. I tried to weigh once a week, but that didn't work for me. Now I find the scales kind of comforting, even when they don't move or they move up instead of down.
I have found that weighing daily works for me because my weight doesn't fluctuate regularly (i.e. one week my weight would be at its lowest on weigh-day, the next week it would be lower the day before or the day after and actually up on weigh-day). When I weighed once a week, my progress was actually very scewed. So I weigh every day now and "record" the days my scale drops.
What I have noticed is that, usually the day after my scale drops, it goes back up to where it was or even a little higher, then a couple or three days later it goes back to the low or sometimes lower. I have begun to kind of depend on this type of progress.
Before I started LCing, I maintained my weight for about 15 years. I weighed every day then and got used to my "normal" fluctuations. I always weighed within about a 5 pound range. Maybe this is why I don't get freaked when the scale goes up a little bit.
So what works for you?
;-Deb
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