Telling where we really are

kgirlhart

donjtomasco wrote: »

kgirlhart, if I drink a gallon of water during and after stuffing myself at a buffet restaurant and eat till I am so stuffed that I might explode (think of Paul Newman's stomach in Cool Hand Luke after eating 50 hardboiled eggs) then I immediately weight myself, you are saying this would be my true weight? I think the low weight of the day would be a better indicator of a true weight then the highest after most likely eating a full meal.

At that moment in time, that would be how much you weighed. It would change pretty quickly. The point is your weight is a range, not a specific number. our true weight is not one number, it is always changing. If you weigh 8 times per day you will most likely have 8 different weights. They are all true at the time that you step on the scale. If you weigh at the roughly the same time under the same circumstances then you will have a pretty good idea of what your average weight is and you will be able to see if it is going up or down or if you are maintaining.

donjtomasco

THANK YOU PAV MFP GOD!!!!! I worship the ground you preach from and am taking a knee while I write this!

The only app I use is my walking app that tells me how far I walked and how many calories I burned. I weight in the morning, I usually weight each night before bed just because I like to see how much I lose each night (scientific curiosity, sorry GOD to throw some science at you....), and I log everything as accurately as possible in my daily log knowing it is not as accurate as it could be, ergo, if the green check mark is not beside the entry, i know someone else entered it and it might be right, might not be too right, and in some cases there are '-0-'s' in the macro columns. Still, close enough, I was a general idea to keep logged. To adjust for these differences I usually will errr to the side of having eaten more, and exercised less, and I guess I am doing it pretty close, since my numbers since October 30th seem to track pretty well. I have lost just about as much as MFP says I should have lost, or it is in an acceptable range rather, so all in all I am close. Good enough.

I particularly like your "Star Trek" sounding verbiage (the 1960's Star Trek version) that seemed to come out in your comment along with your obvious "Spiritual/Religious" reference. Nice contrast. I like your wit. GREAT COMMENT TOO! Thank you!!!!!