The weight scale is a BIG FAT LIAR!

takinchi

Hello everyone.
everyone is obsessed with their weight nowadays and just one number on the scale could mean having a bad day or a good one. it is so frustrating. and here he is standing on the bathroom floor looking at us judging and scaring us. it is time to put him to the stand and expose him.he is not very accurate as you think, and here are a few reasons why :
1.Water :Your daily intake of water, and output of sweat can affect your weight. so after a sweaty hour of exercising you will be down a few pounds, you didn't lose fat it is just water
2.Muscles: Stronger people may weigh the same or more than fatter and weaker people.and the extra weight is actually a good thing, they have more lean muscle so they are healthier
3.Salt :When you put a lot of salt into your body, more water will be retained to balance the excess sodium. The excess water will add to your scale weight
4.Motility: how frequently you poop and it depends on what you ate too and how is your rate of digestion and this could add extra pounds too

in conclusion
we trust in the scale so much that it blinds us from success and can lead us to endless frustration.
In fact, when it comes to being an indication of our health, the scale is oftentimes a BIG FAT LIAR.

Nony_Mouse

Yeah, most of us know this, and we pass it on to those that don't, but thanks.

Mycophilia

It's actually a great tool if you use it to track trends and averages over time. A single point of data isn't worth much.

PaulaWallaDingDong

Mine told me I've been celebrating too much the last couple of weeks, especially since I've been sick and getting significantly less exercise. Took the scale to the Maury Povich show. Wound up eating crow.

sgt1372

IMO, people who anthropomorphize and/or talk to their scales have bigger problems than just trying to lose some weight.

LOL!

CarvedTones

If I am eating at a deficit every day, and I am, I ignore everything except numbers lower than I have seen recently. The rest is just noise.

kommodevaran

"We" is okay, but not "everybody". Your assumption does not include me.

sijomial

My bathroom scales truthfully tell me how I weigh at the time I step on them.
I want data and they give me that data, that's all I expect of them and they deliver.

"Everyone" doesn't mean what you think it means!