I Gained 4 Pounds In My Sleep! (or else my scale needs new batteries)
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Evelyn_Gorfram
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So, I weigh myself far too often, sometimes several times a day (but that's so that I enter the data in a spreadsheet and geek out over things like whether the daily incremental change exceeds the standard deviation of my 10-day moving average (if I didn't do all that, I might have to get a life or something...)).
And I sleep like *kitten*. This morning, I woke up nice and early; and of course, immediately weighed myself. 297.8. That's 2.8 pounds lower than yesterday's weight, and a big deal since I haven't weighed below 300 for a while. This is the end of my second week of working at weight loss, so that big a drop has to be water weight (and so is nothing to worry about), but hey - I'll take it.
But I hadn't gotten to sleep until really late last night, and I was still sleepy; so, after drinking one 10 oz. glass of milk, I went back to bed for a couple of hours. And when I woke up again, I weighed myself again: 303.4.
That's 4.6 lbs more than I'd weighed four hours previously. My glass of milk could account for the 0.6 lbs (although I had peed out at least that much between weighings), but the other four pounds are something that my body must have manufactured out of thin air.
Either that, or - my scale batteries are at least two years old. It makes more sense to think that they are running low and causing erratic readings, than that pounds of matter are somehow slipping through wormholes in space to occupy my being.
TL;DR - My scale said I gained 4 more pounds than was physically possible, because its batteries are old. Other people whose weight seems to be acting weird might take comfort in this, and might want also want to check or replace their scale batteries.
And I sleep like *kitten*. This morning, I woke up nice and early; and of course, immediately weighed myself. 297.8. That's 2.8 pounds lower than yesterday's weight, and a big deal since I haven't weighed below 300 for a while. This is the end of my second week of working at weight loss, so that big a drop has to be water weight (and so is nothing to worry about), but hey - I'll take it.
But I hadn't gotten to sleep until really late last night, and I was still sleepy; so, after drinking one 10 oz. glass of milk, I went back to bed for a couple of hours. And when I woke up again, I weighed myself again: 303.4.
That's 4.6 lbs more than I'd weighed four hours previously. My glass of milk could account for the 0.6 lbs (although I had peed out at least that much between weighings), but the other four pounds are something that my body must have manufactured out of thin air.
Either that, or - my scale batteries are at least two years old. It makes more sense to think that they are running low and causing erratic readings, than that pounds of matter are somehow slipping through wormholes in space to occupy my being.
TL;DR - My scale said I gained 4 more pounds than was physically possible, because its batteries are old. Other people whose weight seems to be acting weird might take comfort in this, and might want also want to check or replace their scale batteries.
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Other people whose weight seems to be acting weird should also read this: http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/10
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My weight fluctuates an average of 4lb through the day depending on time, water and calorie intake, and activity that day. That 4lb is an average, sometimes it fluctuates more or less. This is pretty normal2
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Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »So, I weigh myself far too often, sometimes several times a day (but that's so that I enter the data in a spreadsheet and geek out over things like whether the daily incremental change exceeds the standard deviation of my 10-day moving average (if I didn't do all that, I might have to get a life or something...)).
And I sleep like *kitten*. This morning, I woke up nice and early; and of course, immediately weighed myself. 297.8. That's 2.8 pounds lower than yesterday's weight, and a big deal since I haven't weighed below 300 for a while. This is the end of my second week of working at weight loss, so that big a drop has to be water weight (and so is nothing to worry about), but hey - I'll take it.
But I hadn't gotten to sleep until really late last night, and I was still sleepy; so, after drinking one 10 oz. glass of milk, I went back to bed for a couple of hours. And when I woke up again, I weighed myself again: 303.4.
That's 4.6 lbs more than I'd weighed four hours previously. My glass of milk could account for the 0.6 lbs (although I had peed out at least that much between weighings), but the other four pounds are something that my body must have manufactured out of thin air.
Either that, or - my scale batteries are at least two years old. It makes more sense to think that they are running low and causing erratic readings, than that pounds of matter are somehow slipping through wormholes in space to occupy my being.
TL;DR - My scale said I gained 4 more pounds than was physically possible, because its batteries are old. Other people whose weight seems to be acting weird might take comfort in this, and might want also want to check or replace their scale batteries.
Imma gonna go with this. Aliens doing weird things to you while you sleep.
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Completely normal, I can get huge fluctuations from one day to the next. Look at the overall trend not day by day difference.
Also, I'd suggest you stop weighing yourself more than once a day. Once a day is fine, I do first thing in the morning, post toilet stop, pre-breakfast.6 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »So, I weigh myself far too often, sometimes several times a day (but that's so that I enter the data in a spreadsheet and geek out over things like whether the daily incremental change exceeds the standard deviation of my 10-day moving average (if I didn't do all that, I might have to get a life or something...)).
And I sleep like *kitten*. This morning, I woke up nice and early; and of course, immediately weighed myself. 297.8. That's 2.8 pounds lower than yesterday's weight, and a big deal since I haven't weighed below 300 for a while. This is the end of my second week of working at weight loss, so that big a drop has to be water weight (and so is nothing to worry about), but hey - I'll take it.
But I hadn't gotten to sleep until really late last night, and I was still sleepy; so, after drinking one 10 oz. glass of milk, I went back to bed for a couple of hours. And when I woke up again, I weighed myself again: 303.4.
That's 4.6 lbs more than I'd weighed four hours previously. My glass of milk could account for the 0.6 lbs (although I had peed out at least that much between weighings), but the other four pounds are something that my body must have manufactured out of thin air.
Either that, or - my scale batteries are at least two years old. It makes more sense to think that they are running low and causing erratic readings, than that pounds of matter are somehow slipping through wormholes in space to occupy my being.
TL;DR - My scale said I gained 4 more pounds than was physically possible, because its batteries are old. Other people whose weight seems to be acting weird might take comfort in this, and might want also want to check or replace their scale batteries.
Imma gonna go with this. Aliens doing weird things to you while you sleep.
^^ The most likely explanation. Or the cat is sneaking up behind you and "helping".3 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »So, I weigh myself far too often, sometimes several times a day (but that's so that I enter the data in a spreadsheet and geek out over things like whether the daily incremental change exceeds the standard deviation of my 10-day moving average (if I didn't do all that, I might have to get a life or something...)).
And I sleep like *kitten*. This morning, I woke up nice and early; and of course, immediately weighed myself. 297.8. That's 2.8 pounds lower than yesterday's weight, and a big deal since I haven't weighed below 300 for a while. This is the end of my second week of working at weight loss, so that big a drop has to be water weight (and so is nothing to worry about), but hey - I'll take it.
But I hadn't gotten to sleep until really late last night, and I was still sleepy; so, after drinking one 10 oz. glass of milk, I went back to bed for a couple of hours. And when I woke up again, I weighed myself again: 303.4.
That's 4.6 lbs more than I'd weighed four hours previously. My glass of milk could account for the 0.6 lbs (although I had peed out at least that much between weighings), but the other four pounds are something that my body must have manufactured out of thin air.
Either that, or - my scale batteries are at least two years old. It makes more sense to think that they are running low and causing erratic readings, than that pounds of matter are somehow slipping through wormholes in space to occupy my being.
TL;DR - My scale said I gained 4 more pounds than was physically possible, because its batteries are old. Other people whose weight seems to be acting weird might take comfort in this, and might want also want to check or replace their scale batteries.
Imma gonna go with this. Aliens doing weird things to you while you sleep.
^^ The most likely explanation. Or the cat is sneaking up behind you and "helping".
My husband does that to me. Lol He thinks he is being funny.2 -
Local space-time gravitational anomaly.5
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Good article, and cool site. Thanks!Other people whose weight seems to be acting weird should also read this: http://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations/
Right. My point being that this is an anomaly,* presumably caused by wonky scale batteries, and not to be taken seriously in terms of my weight loss progress. Sorry not to have made that clear.TrishSeren wrote: »Completely normal, I can get huge fluctuations from one day to the next. Look at the overall trend not day by day difference.
Also, I'd suggest you stop weighing yourself more than once a day. Once a day is fine, I do first thing in the morning, post toilet stop, pre-breakfast.
(*I can even statistically prove that it's an anomaly, since it exceeds the current 2.9 lb. standard deviation of my 10-day moving average.
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Also, yeah, more than once a day is indeed excessive. It's just that, when my sleep cycles as this messed up, I just never know which attempt at "first thing in the morning" is not going to result in me just falling back asleep; and then I'm curious the next time it's "first thing in the morning." Usually I just discard the earlier numbers, but I thought this particular set of circumstances might be interesting to others.
(ETA, FWIW: With my fresh new scale batteries, today's last "first thing in the morning" weight was 300.0. That makes a respectable but not alarming drop from Friday's 300.6, and still gives me my "making the 300-lb threshhold" jolt of happiness.
(Even more FWIW: 0.3 lb/day works out to 2.1 lb/week, which is just about my current 0.75% body-mass/week goal.)) 2 -
L1zardQueen wrote: »snickerscharlie wrote: »Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »So, I weigh myself far too often, sometimes several times a day (but that's so that I enter the data in a spreadsheet and geek out over things like whether the daily incremental change exceeds the standard deviation of my 10-day moving average (if I didn't do all that, I might have to get a life or something...)).
And I sleep like *kitten*. This morning, I woke up nice and early; and of course, immediately weighed myself. 297.8. That's 2.8 pounds lower than yesterday's weight, and a big deal since I haven't weighed below 300 for a while. This is the end of my second week of working at weight loss, so that big a drop has to be water weight (and so is nothing to worry about), but hey - I'll take it.
But I hadn't gotten to sleep until really late last night, and I was still sleepy; so, after drinking one 10 oz. glass of milk, I went back to bed for a couple of hours. And when I woke up again, I weighed myself again: 303.4.
That's 4.6 lbs more than I'd weighed four hours previously. My glass of milk could account for the 0.6 lbs (although I had peed out at least that much between weighings), but the other four pounds are something that my body must have manufactured out of thin air.
Either that, or - my scale batteries are at least two years old. It makes more sense to think that they are running low and causing erratic readings, than that pounds of matter are somehow slipping through wormholes in space to occupy my being.
TL;DR - My scale said I gained 4 more pounds than was physically possible, because its batteries are old. Other people whose weight seems to be acting weird might take comfort in this, and might want also want to check or replace their scale batteries.
Imma gonna go with this. Aliens doing weird things to you while you sleep.
^^ The most likely explanation. Or the cat is sneaking up behind you and "helping".
My husband does that to me. Lol He thinks he is being funny.
My cat in cahoots with incorporeal interdimensional entities to influence the degree to which the planet and I are attracted to each other? Now that makes sense!Local space-time gravitational anomaly.
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Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »(*I can even statistically prove that it's an anomaly, since it exceeds the current 2.9 lb. standard deviation of my 10-day moving average. )
Can I have you run my spreadsheets for me? Cause I can barely manage averages!
Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »--> nice --> (Even more FWIW: 0.3 lb/day works out to 2.1 lb/week, which is just about my current 0.75% body-mass/week goal.))
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Sure. Just PM me with your product requirement specs and I'll put a quote together for you.Evelyn_Gorfram wrote: »(*I can even statistically prove that it's an anomaly, since it exceeds the current 2.9 lb. standard deviation of my 10-day moving average. )
Can I have you run my spreadsheets for me? Cause I can barely manage averages!
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Fluctuations are normal. Even in maintenance I can see 4lbs +/- on the scale from day to day.
Stick to once a day to weigh in at same time. You can use a trending weight app which will help you see the overall trends and that its going in the direction you want it to in general.0
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