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seanr456
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Every morning I wake up at a different weight. I sometimes wake up at a weight of 177.4. Other times like today I wake up at 180. Why is that? Could it just be the amount of water and food I take in before I do to bed?
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you shouldn't really take too much notice when weighing yourself daily, it fluctuates too much. concentrate on a weekly weigh in otherwise you'll confuse yourself.0
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Every morning I wake up at a different weight. I sometimes wake up at a weight of 177.4. Other times like today I wake up at 180. Why is that? Could it just be the amount of water and food I take in before I do to bed?
Water retention and... poop.
Weigh yourself once a week, same day after visiting the restroom. This is my ritual for weighing myself. Hope it helps:I weigh myself about once a month. Sometimes 2 or on a rare occasions, after 6 months. So when I do, I gotta make it count. I have to have a ritual.
It all begins days before. I must conquer the water weight demon. What do I do. Drown myself in water. I drink so much water that if I was in Titanic, Leo would be alive. I drink and drink till Kate remembers “oh Leo… theres room for 2 on this piece of wood that I selfishly have been hogging”.
Next, its fiber. Prunes. Fruits. Placenta. I don’t know, I just wanna poop. I eat anything and everything! Eat more carrots than at KY jewelers.
I need to get on the good side of the God. I know what to do. I shouldn’t, but I must. Its for the greater glory of my weight. I must conquer the creepy bro at the gym.
We know this bro. He’s the one that spends 2 hours doing nothing but checking out the girls and working his upper body. And anytime a girl makes the mistake of looking in his general direction, he walks up to them. Creeping them. I must make the sacrifice of creeping the creeper. It must be done. When he walks up to the girl, I grab the weights he’s been lifting and sweating over and start licking them and start rubbing his Olympic bar between my thighs and making eye contact with him. I do it until he leaves the poor girl alone. Small sacrifice to make the weigh scale God happy.
Then the day before the weigh in arrives. The big day. D day. This is the night we conquer all. This is the night we don’t even goto gym in worry of sore muscles retaining water weight. This is the night we pray!
“Dear God in heaven, who pwns the weight scales. You rock. May all the proteins someday belong to you and the curvy girls realize the difference between curvy and chubby. May you pwn our weight scales like Paula Deen pwns butter. Give us this day a number that saves us from water retention, starvation mode and the bulk. And cut me some slack when I act all nub and do the happy dance. You dig it though that its only because I love your help right? Please don’t make me big headed with all the success and make lame posts on the forums when I’m too pissed off at somebody for disagreeing with me. Give me the strength to know the right from wrong and the ability to mock the haters till they send me hate PMs. And if you could keep NSA from spying on my creeper posts, that would be great too.
Amen
PS. Did anyone ever told the Backstreet Boy Why?”
And then I rest. I know what is tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day we dine in hell!
Morning time. 3 years old nephew wakes me up “I want some ice cream!”
“No, not till I fight the battle with scale demon, my boy. Now, step aside as Uncle needs to take a dump!”
With fear and envy in his eyes, the child steps aside and puts on cartoons. I walk into the restroom. Screams of a battle comes from the bathroom, shaking the very foundation of my home.
“HNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!! OH GOD THE FIBER! IT HURTS! HHHNNNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!!”
With the toilet now clogged, I take on the next challenge. I scrub myself in the shower. I scrub so hard that my brown skin magically turns into that pale white girl from Twilight. I need to wash off anything that could add to the weight.
Then the shave. I shave my manly beard and stach. Then the hair. All hair. I’m bald like Michael Phelps now.
Then I get out of the batroom. No towel. Don’t need it. Lay naked and turn on the fan. Air dry myself. Because towel drying might add some weight to me.
Then finally comes the part of weighing myself
“oh God this is it. This is the big dragon boss. Oh God help me!”
2 lbs lost.
source: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1030215-and-on-the-7th-day-he-said-thou-shall-weigh-yourself6 -
that just made my day.0
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Every morning I wake up at a different weight. I sometimes wake up at a weight of 177.4. Other times like today I wake up at 180. Why is that? Could it just be the amount of water and food I take in before I do to bed?
Pretty much.
I have noticed that if I don't drink enough water, I can "gain" up to 6 pounds overnight. If I drink a minimum of a gallon of water during the day, I will be closer to my lowest weight the next morning. If you are going to be a daily weigh in kind of person, don't freak out unless the weight stays high for like a week.
I am a daily weigh in kinda girl, and I have been fluctuating within the same 6 pound range for most of 8 months even though I have 60 pounds left to lose. I'm not worried, I know that my body is composition is changing. Eventually the scale will move in the right direction.1 -
I enjoyed the post very much. Weighing yourself everyday is just too much stress. Once a week should do it.0
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Well I love this, not my weigh in ritual but have taken up creeping the creeper...it is a worthy cause.Every morning I wake up at a different weight. I sometimes wake up at a weight of 177.4. Other times like today I wake up at 180. Why is that? Could it just be the amount of water and food I take in before I do to bed?
Water retention and... poop.
Weigh yourself once a week, same day after visiting the restroom. This is my ritual for weighing myself. Hope it helps:I weigh myself about once a month. Sometimes 2 or on a rare occasions, after 6 months. So when I do, I gotta make it count. I have to have a ritual.
It all begins days before. I must conquer the water weight demon. What do I do. Drown myself in water. I drink so much water that if I was in Titanic, Leo would be alive. I drink and drink till Kate remembers “oh Leo… theres room for 2 on this piece of wood that I selfishly have been hogging”.
Next, its fiber. Prunes. Fruits. Placenta. I don’t know, I just wanna poop. I eat anything and everything! Eat more carrots than at KY jewelers.
I need to get on the good side of the God. I know what to do. I shouldn’t, but I must. Its for the greater glory of my weight. I must conquer the creepy bro at the gym.
We know this bro. He’s the one that spends 2 hours doing nothing but checking out the girls and working his upper body. And anytime a girl makes the mistake of looking in his general direction, he walks up to them. Creeping them. I must make the sacrifice of creeping the creeper. It must be done. When he walks up to the girl, I grab the weights he’s been lifting and sweating over and start licking them and start rubbing his Olympic bar between my thighs and making eye contact with him. I do it until he leaves the poor girl alone. Small sacrifice to make the weigh scale God happy.
Then the day before the weigh in arrives. The big day. D day. This is the night we conquer all. This is the night we don’t even goto gym in worry of sore muscles retaining water weight. This is the night we pray!
“Dear God in heaven, who pwns the weight scales. You rock. May all the proteins someday belong to you and the curvy girls realize the difference between curvy and chubby. May you pwn our weight scales like Paula Deen pwns butter. Give us this day a number that saves us from water retention, starvation mode and the bulk. And cut me some slack when I act all nub and do the happy dance. You dig it though that its only because I love your help right? Please don’t make me big headed with all the success and make lame posts on the forums when I’m too pissed off at somebody for disagreeing with me. Give me the strength to know the right from wrong and the ability to mock the haters till they send me hate PMs. And if you could keep NSA from spying on my creeper posts, that would be great too.
Amen
PS. Did anyone ever told the Backstreet Boy Why?”
And then I rest. I know what is tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day we dine in hell!
Morning time. 3 years old nephew wakes me up “I want some ice cream!”
“No, not till I fight the battle with scale demon, my boy. Now, step aside as Uncle needs to take a dump!”
With fear and envy in his eyes, the child steps aside and puts on cartoons. I walk into the restroom. Screams of a battle comes from the bathroom, shaking the very foundation of my home.
“HNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!! OH GOD THE FIBER! IT HURTS! HHHNNNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!!”
With the toilet now clogged, I take on the next challenge. I scrub myself in the shower. I scrub so hard that my brown skin magically turns into that pale white girl from Twilight. I need to wash off anything that could add to the weight.
Then the shave. I shave my manly beard and stach. Then the hair. All hair. I’m bald like Michael Phelps now.
Then I get out of the batroom. No towel. Don’t need it. Lay naked and turn on the fan. Air dry myself. Because towel drying might add some weight to me.
Then finally comes the part of weighing myself
“oh God this is it. This is the big dragon boss. Oh God help me!”
2 lbs lost.
source: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1030215-and-on-the-7th-day-he-said-thou-shall-weigh-yourself0 -
This has just made my day :')0
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That or dodgy scales. I was three pounds heavier than yesterday. Must be the scales but so disheartening.1
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Every morning I wake up at a different weight. I sometimes wake up at a weight of 177.4. Other times like today I wake up at 180. Why is that? Could it just be the amount of water and food I take in before I do to bed?
Water retention and... poop.
Weigh yourself once a week, same day after visiting the restroom. This is my ritual for weighing myself. Hope it helps:I weigh myself about once a month. Sometimes 2 or on a rare occasions, after 6 months. So when I do, I gotta make it count. I have to have a ritual.
It all begins days before. I must conquer the water weight demon. What do I do. Drown myself in water. I drink so much water that if I was in Titanic, Leo would be alive. I drink and drink till Kate remembers “oh Leo… theres room for 2 on this piece of wood that I selfishly have been hogging”.
Next, its fiber. Prunes. Fruits. Placenta. I don’t know, I just wanna poop. I eat anything and everything! Eat more carrots than at KY jewelers.
I need to get on the good side of the God. I know what to do. I shouldn’t, but I must. Its for the greater glory of my weight. I must conquer the creepy bro at the gym.
We know this bro. He’s the one that spends 2 hours doing nothing but checking out the girls and working his upper body. And anytime a girl makes the mistake of looking in his general direction, he walks up to them. Creeping them. I must make the sacrifice of creeping the creeper. It must be done. When he walks up to the girl, I grab the weights he’s been lifting and sweating over and start licking them and start rubbing his Olympic bar between my thighs and making eye contact with him. I do it until he leaves the poor girl alone. Small sacrifice to make the weigh scale God happy.
Then the day before the weigh in arrives. The big day. D day. This is the night we conquer all. This is the night we don’t even goto gym in worry of sore muscles retaining water weight. This is the night we pray!
“Dear God in heaven, who pwns the weight scales. You rock. May all the proteins someday belong to you and the curvy girls realize the difference between curvy and chubby. May you pwn our weight scales like Paula Deen pwns butter. Give us this day a number that saves us from water retention, starvation mode and the bulk. And cut me some slack when I act all nub and do the happy dance. You dig it though that its only because I love your help right? Please don’t make me big headed with all the success and make lame posts on the forums when I’m too pissed off at somebody for disagreeing with me. Give me the strength to know the right from wrong and the ability to mock the haters till they send me hate PMs. And if you could keep NSA from spying on my creeper posts, that would be great too.
Amen
PS. Did anyone ever told the Backstreet Boy Why?”
And then I rest. I know what is tomorrow. Tomorrow is the day we dine in hell!
Morning time. 3 years old nephew wakes me up “I want some ice cream!”
“No, not till I fight the battle with scale demon, my boy. Now, step aside as Uncle needs to take a dump!”
With fear and envy in his eyes, the child steps aside and puts on cartoons. I walk into the restroom. Screams of a battle comes from the bathroom, shaking the very foundation of my home.
“HNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGG!!!!! OH GOD THE FIBER! IT HURTS! HHHNNNNNNNNNGGGGG!!!!”
With the toilet now clogged, I take on the next challenge. I scrub myself in the shower. I scrub so hard that my brown skin magically turns into that pale white girl from Twilight. I need to wash off anything that could add to the weight.
Then the shave. I shave my manly beard and stach. Then the hair. All hair. I’m bald like Michael Phelps now.
Then I get out of the batroom. No towel. Don’t need it. Lay naked and turn on the fan. Air dry myself. Because towel drying might add some weight to me.
Then finally comes the part of weighing myself
“oh God this is it. This is the big dragon boss. Oh God help me!”
2 lbs lost.
source: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1030215-and-on-the-7th-day-he-said-thou-shall-weigh-yourself
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Lol enjoyed your post with a pinch of humour to start the day, all is well.0
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According to John Walker's The Hacker's Diet which is an interesting perspective on "diet" page 54 you take in 13.5 lbs of food/water/oxygen a day but depending on how efficient everything processes we don't operate on a perfect 24 hour cycle to use all that so you get those fluctuations. I think that is semi comforting to keep in mind we are not robots and CICO doesn't operate at perfect 24 hour scale either.1
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Every morning I wake up at a different weight. I sometimes wake up at a weight of 177.4. Other times like today I wake up at 180. Why is that? Could it just be the amount of water and food I take in before I do to bed?
Congratulations: You have a human body! That's how healthy human bodies work.
Here's my way of looking at it: We don't have a "true weight".
Rather, we have a current weight range of a few pounds, and a long-term weight trend (up, down or level).
When I weigh myself on any given day, I'll see some random value in my current range, the exact number depending on whether I just drank 2 cups of water (a pound); or went for a sweaty bike ride and forgot my water bottle so I'm dehydrated; or ate something with lots of carbs or sodium last night so held water weight; or ate something with a bunch of fiber that's still vacationing in my digestive system; or variations on those themes.
The long term trend shows up when I compare those individual weigh-ins over a long period (weeks to months). Then I know whether I'm gaining, losing, or staying the same.
I suggest you read this very informative thread:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10084670/it-is-unlikely-that-you-will-lose-weight-consistently-i-e-weight-loss-is-not-linear4 -
Fluctuations are completely normal, once you get a handle on that then the scale number doesn't matter so much. The main thing is the overall trend is either going downwards if your aim is to lose.0
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I suggest entering your weight into a trending app like Libra (Android) or Happy Scale (iPhone). As it accumulates more data, it will smooth out those fluctuations and help you see your actual weight loss trend, instead of getting thrown by the (totally normal) daily fluctuations.
Also, weigh yourself at the same time daily (preferably right away in the morning), in the same (or no) clothes, right after going to the bathroom.0 -
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