Weight Loss/Maintenance

no_hypocrisy

(51,251 posts) Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:43 AM Tuesday

Is it time to buy a new digital scale if

the numbers don't correspond to your diet and (for lack of a better word) excretion?

First thing this morning, I "gained" one pound. Two trips to the pot and now another two pounds. And this is without clothing or food or drink.

All I had yesterday was a salad with nothing but vegetables and then a turkey Salisbury steak, one beet, and 5 thin asparagus.

I couldn't change the battery because the replacement was low.

Your thoughts?

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Is it time to buy a new digital scale if (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Tuesday OP

There are a number of variables that can make your weight fluctuate True Dough Tuesday #1

Thank you. no_hypocrisy Tuesday #2

The numbers don't mean so much day to day, what matters is over time: do you weigh ... marble falls Tuesday #3

True Dough

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1. There are a number of variables that can make your weight fluctuate

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:56 AM

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throughout the day. Weighing yourself multiple times per day isn't useful, IMO.

If you step on the scale once a week or once a month and you're not seeing the corresponding change you are driving toward, then I would question the calibration of the scale.

no_hypocrisy

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2. Thank you.

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Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:59 AM

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marble falls

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3. The numbers don't mean so much day to day, what matters is over time: do you weigh ...

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2025, 09:02 AM

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... more or less in a month.

Weighing daily might make you start to lose any sense of success. Sometimes ignoring numbers without context to one's overall health is the better part of controlling weight.

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