Who's lying?

Silentpadna

sanderds wrote: »

I deal with, calibrate, modify, spec out, industrial and laboratory precision measurement equipment all day, every day. I am "The guy" you go to if you have problems reading Temps, Mass Flow, Pressure or Weight. I'm also the guy that programs the systems that make use of that data. I could list credentials... No two bodies are the same...YOUR body differs on a min. by min. basis. The algorithms any piece of equipment (your scales) uses only has a few, very limited, inputs. Your weight, and resistance to electrical current at different frequencies. Even the best algorithms, (and I've written some whoppers) can't factor in everything.. For instance, your salt intake has a disproportional effect on your body's resistance (impedance) because it's concentrated in your blood after a meal. How full is your lymphatic system? anything undigested is a big ???? to that device. the very MEAL itself would vary based on how much you chewed it, and whether your drinks mix was diet, or had caffeine, SOOO Many variables for that poor little thing... The scale was wrong.

I can't compliment this post enough.

We all want things simple. They are......but they are not at the same time. They are simple in the long term. There is just no way to isolate a multi-variable problem in the short term accurately assess what happened to the OP in one day.

All we have is the process of elimination.

1. We know it wasn't 6 pounds of fat.
2. It therefore must be something else.
3. Why does it matter what that something else is in the short term if it's not fat?


Long term trend is simple. Day to day fluctuations, other than points of a significantly large enough data set, are a waste of time to analyze alone....