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Tracking Weight Fluctuations

AuthenticallyAmanda
Posts: 39 Member
Hey All 👋🏼. Do you track your fluctuations every week? For example I weigh every Monday, last week was 243lbs. Today was 244.9(because I didn’t watch what I ate).
Thank you!! 💖
Thank you!! 💖
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I weigh daily and track my weight in a trending app (Libra).3
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I dont but I've come to understand them on my own, for others its helpful to see because sometimes they second guess the process and seeing the trends is reassuring1
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I weigh every day. I've learned a lot about my body that way. I've also learned not to freak out about the fluctuations so much that way. I used to use the HappyScale app to enter my weight every day. Now I just use this site.
Spaghetti for dinner? Up 2-3 pounds the next day, every time! Ovulating, up 2-3 pounds, same with a couple days before my period. It's all water weight, so I don't freak out about it.4 -
I'm another who tracks weight daily, using Libra (for Android).
(That and other free weight trending apps can be useful. There's Happy Scale for the Apple environment, Trendweight with a free Fitbit account (don't need a Fitbit device), Weightgrapher, and more. They use statistical techniques to try to visualize fat loss through the confusing fluctuations in water weight that are normal: Not a magic crystal ball, but a help.)
This is a really good read, especially for someone newly working toward weight loss:
https://physiqonomics.com/the-weird-and-highly-annoying-world-of-scale-weight-and-fluctuations2
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