Scale/ accountability
desiresdestiny
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hello
Once you hit maintenance, how often do you weigh yourself and how many pounds do you let yourself fluctuate by?
Once you hit maintenance, how often do you weigh yourself and how many pounds do you let yourself fluctuate by?
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Weigh 1-3x a week, vary by +/-1.5 lbs approx.0
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Once a week . . . twice a week. I kinda have to scale down my scale useage after I want to maintain. I'll get up as high as weighing myself 15 times a day while I'm losing weight.0
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Once a day. I know which weight is water weight and which is fat. I allow any water weight fluctuation, but if I gain a pound of fat, I'll eat at a deficit until it's gone.0
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Usually Sun, Mon, Wed, and Fri; my scale also has a fat % and I do that abt twice a week. I'm in maint (and doing recomp) and basically want my weight to stay abt the same.0
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I'm not at maintenance yet but I'm close. I intend to keep weighing and charting my weight in my phone daily. Probably for the rest of my life. It takes like 20 seconds a day and creates a trend line. I plan to give myself a variance of about 4 pounds before taking corrective action. 185-1890
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desiresdestiny wrote: »
Charting will show you this. The LINE is your true weight. A spike is water.
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desiresdestiny wrote: »
Charting will show you this. The LINE is your true weight. A spike is water.
So do you weigh everyday?0 -
I do and have for 2 1/2 years. Wake, pee, weigh (naked) record. It's not for everybody but it works for me.
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Only the week after my period, as it's usually my lowest as it's when I drop water weight... Then I compare to the month before... if it's even a pound more, I try to cut a little bit more (I can predict usually by how much I've been eating though). I'm still aiming to lose a pound a month or something.
I don't even want to deal with water weight, it's totally random, doesn't mean a thing, and just frustrates me, lol.0 -
A few times a week....my range has to stay within +/-5lbs, if I got to top end of range I'd tske action but so far so good (almost 2 yrs in maintenance)0
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I weigh myself on Friday mornings. My range is 2 lbs.0
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Thanks everyone I'm thinking maybe once a week0
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desiresdestiny wrote: »
Charting will show you this. The LINE is your true weight. A spike is water.
@257_Lag what app is this?0 -
NM, found it0
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I plan to continue to weigh everyday. I feel like if I do this I can take corrective action immediately if I see the scale go up.0
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I honestly need to stay away from the scale. It affects me waaaaaay more than it should. I got by how my other fit (one form-fitting dress and a tight pair of jeans, especially) in that sense. But mostly I focus on health gains--lifting more/heavier and improving my running times. Staying off the scale makes for a much happier me!0
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I weigh pretty much daily. My watch it weight is multiple days at 145 or above (142 is where scale should be).0
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desiresdestiny wrote: »
I know in part because I have been logging for 18 months. I am very diligent to log as accurately as possible. The calories I need for my TDEE are spot on with what MFP tells me they should be. When I was set to lose 1 pound a week, average over time I did. So I know the other fluctuations are water. When I set it to 1/2 a pound a week, and added 250 calories more per day, I lost average over time 1/2 a pound a week. And when I hit maintenance and added another 250 calories back per day, I have maintained on average over time exactly.
If I go over on my calories, I keep a tally. If I go over by 3500 calories, the scale will show 1 pound gain. So I eat at a deficit until I've made up those 3500 calories, and over time the scale goes back down.
When the scale changes quickly, I know it's water. When the scale changes and the number's I've eaten haven't, I know it's water. And I have a long track record to back it up, which gives me confidence in the numbers.
I hope that makes sense.
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