How much do I eat if I don't know what I weigh?
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You could maybe enter your goal weight, and then choose "Maintain". You could either eat that or eat 10% less than that.0
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That's strange, how so? "Shameful"? Hmmm, not really seeing it, personally.
Shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
Do you not think that asking "how do I weigh myself?" is foolish?0 -
keep one new battery flat surface and a 5lb bag of sugar0
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PlugInBabyx wrote: »I own three scales. Two of them are digital and one isn't and all three of them say my weight varies by about 30lbs. I have no idea which scale I should use or if I should just average them? Additionally, if I don't know how much I weigh then how should I go about setting my daily calorie intake?
OP: do you go to school? First thing, go in to the nurse/health center/gym. Take off as much of your clothes as is possible, and your shoes.
start there.
Then compare to two of the digital scales, on a hard, flat surface. Throw out the other scale.
And put something you know the weight of on the two scales and see which one is CONSISTENTLY the closest. If none of them consistently weighs a 10LB bag of flour as 10LBs or at least consistently SOME number, then toss them both.
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A gallon of milk weighs around 8.6 lbs. Keep the scale that weighs closest and ditch the other two.0
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More specifically, it's foolish precisely because the OP knows what to do and is using this to make excuses. Nobody on here is a certified scale repair person; we also can't telepathically fix this problem by saying "use the red one, the other two are wrong." The ONLY solution is for the OP to find a trustworthy scale and use it. She KNOWS this. Asking the question, when she already knows the answer, is a means of delaying the task at hand which is setting goals and starting off on a lifestyle change.0
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It must be awesome to be you (perfect, without fault or flaw) AND to be omniscient.More specifically, it's foolish precisely because the OP knows what to do and is using this to make excuses. Nobody on here is a certified scale repair person; we also can't telepathically fix this problem by saying "use the red one, the other two are wrong." The ONLY solution is for the OP to find a trustworthy scale and use it. She KNOWS this. Asking the question, when she already knows the answer, is a means of delaying the task at hand which is setting goals and starting off on a lifestyle change.
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That's strange, how so? "Shameful"? Hmmm, not really seeing it, personally.
Shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
Do you not think that asking "how do I weigh myself?" is foolish?
Do you not see that she's not asking how to physically weigh herself - i.e. "How do I stand on a scale?" or something - but rather is asking which weight she should choose given the extreme variation in her scales, and simply stated it in a way that didn't quite jibe with that? I mean she did explain what her question was. I'm not sure how that could have been missed.
I see what you were going there, some sort of an attempt at humor, and actually, I generally like that style of humor, it's just that it happened to not apply to this particular post.
Hope you figure it out, OP.
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keep one new battery flat surface and a 5lb bag of sugar
Probably the best way to go, IMO. And then whichever scale you do decide to go with, stay with that one - don't hop on the others out of curiosity. It will only confuse the issue. Even if the scale you wind up using is a couple/few pounds off, by using the same one you'll see whether you're trending generally downward, upward or maintaining.
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That's strange, how so? "Shameful"? Hmmm, not really seeing it, personally.
Shame: a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.
Do you not think that asking "how do I weigh myself?" is foolish?
Please cite where she asked how to weigh herself.
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Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
It must be awesome to be you (perfect, without fault or flaw) AND to be omniscient.More specifically, it's foolish precisely because the OP knows what to do and is using this to make excuses. Nobody on here is a certified scale repair person; we also can't telepathically fix this problem by saying "use the red one, the other two are wrong." The ONLY solution is for the OP to find a trustworthy scale and use it. She KNOWS this. Asking the question, when she already knows the answer, is a means of delaying the task at hand which is setting goals and starting off on a lifestyle change.
You're right, it IS awesome. Keep striving for those goals, you can be awesome one day too!0 -
Since the "how do I know my weight?" thing has been more than adequately addressed by now...
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What my doctor* & dietician told me when I started out was to take my healthy goal weightPlugInBabyx wrote:Additionally, if I don't know how much I weigh then how should I go about setting my daily calorie intake?
(based on BMI - see chart at link below) and multiply by 10 to get calories. Eat that. That's
total, not net. Ignore net.
Pay attention to what your weight does** over the next month, as well as your measurements.
If they're going down, keep at it. When you hit a plateau, drop 50-100 cal. If you're not going
down, you've found maintenance, so again drop 100 cal. If you're going up, cut 200 cal and
again wait a few weeks to see what happens.
http://www.shapeup.org/bmi/bmi6.pdf
* endocrinologist specializing in weight loss issues
** after calibrating the scale, or figuring out which is most accurate, or simply deciding on
which one you're going to use & stick with that one so you see a trend even if the number
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This really isn't a productive conversation any longer...0
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(The number of posts in this thread after 1 month)*pi = your weight in lbs.0
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This all make me sad. I fear we're doomed as a people.0
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More specifically, it's foolish precisely because the OP knows what to do and is using this to make excuses. Nobody on here is a certified scale repair person; we also can't telepathically fix this problem by saying "use the red one, the other two are wrong." The ONLY solution is for the OP to find a trustworthy scale and use it. She KNOWS this. Asking the question, when she already knows the answer, is a means of delaying the task at hand which is setting goals and starting off on a lifestyle change.
I thought your first post was funny, but man we all have questions sometimes that might have relatively simple answers. There's no shame in asking. You're assuming an awful lot about her motives.
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