Who's lying?
stryker520
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Until scientists, physicians, and fitness experts can explain this phenomenon in great detail then I will continue to say that they don't have a clue about the human body.
I have a sophisticated scale at home. It measures weight, muscle mass, body fat, water weight and organ weight. It is reliably accurate.
Yesterday I knew I was going out with a friend for dinner and a few cocktails so I "saved" many of my calories until the evening. I didn't over indulge or gorge myself in the least. Split a salad with my friend and half of a small flatbread pizza and 3 drinks over the course of 5 hours.
If it takes 3500 calories to gain 1 pound and alcohol dehydrates you. How is it possible to gain 6 (SIX!!) pounds overnight when muscle mass remained constant and water weight decreased by 2%. This means that I gained 2% body fat and ate over 21,000 of EXTRA calories yesterday. Neither which is possible.
I have a sophisticated scale at home. It measures weight, muscle mass, body fat, water weight and organ weight. It is reliably accurate.
Yesterday I knew I was going out with a friend for dinner and a few cocktails so I "saved" many of my calories until the evening. I didn't over indulge or gorge myself in the least. Split a salad with my friend and half of a small flatbread pizza and 3 drinks over the course of 5 hours.
If it takes 3500 calories to gain 1 pound and alcohol dehydrates you. How is it possible to gain 6 (SIX!!) pounds overnight when muscle mass remained constant and water weight decreased by 2%. This means that I gained 2% body fat and ate over 21,000 of EXTRA calories yesterday. Neither which is possible.
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Those home bioimpedence scales are notoriously inaccurate.
Just keep doing the right things and try to let go of the tiny details.
Going out to eat (pizza and drinks) leads to temporary scale "weight." It will drop back off. I wouldn't give any credence to that water/muscle/fat weight reading.46 -
You are right. It is fluid retention from the pizza. 21,000 calories would be a lot of food. Those pounds will disappear in a few days or sooner.
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Bar pizza and drinks scream water retention. Your scale is being reasonably inaccurate. It's totally a thing.29
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Food weight? That salad and pizza is camping out in your intestines at the moment, along with whatever else you ate yesterday, and possibly some food from the day before.16
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stryker520 wrote: »Until scientists, physicians, and fitness experts can explain this phenomenon in great detail then I will continue to say that they don't have a clue about the human body.
I have a sophisticated scale at home. It measures weight, muscle mass, body fat, water weight and organ weight. It is reliably accurate.
Yesterday I knew I was going out with a friend for dinner and a few cocktails so I "saved" many of my calories until the evening. I didn't over indulge or gorge myself in the least. Split a salad with my friend and half of a small flatbread pizza and 3 drinks over the course of 5 hours.
If it takes 3500 calories to gain 1 pound and alcohol dehydrates you. How is it possible to gain 6 (SIX!!) pounds overnight when muscle mass remained constant and water weight decreased by 2%. This means that I gained 2% body fat and ate over 21,000 of EXTRA calories yesterday. Neither which is possible.
Can you explain in great detail how you are so certain your sophisticated scale is accurately measuring your muscle mass and water weight?39 -
Probably the food is still in your system
There won't be a good correlation to what you ate yesterday and what you weigh today. Look at your results over time, at least a month or more.
This is especially true if you are a woman with a menstrual cycle - compare yourself to where you were at the same point in the cycle last month rather than last week.9 -
The only thing lying is your "reliable" scale. No way you gained 6 lbs and your water weight decreased 2%.23
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stryker520 wrote: »Until scientists, physicians, and fitness experts can explain this phenomenon in great detail then I will continue to say that they don't have a clue about the human body.
I have a sophisticated scale at home. It measures weight, muscle mass, body fat, water weight and organ weight. It is reliably accurate.
Yesterday I knew I was going out with a friend for dinner and a few cocktails so I "saved" many of my calories until the evening. I didn't over indulge or gorge myself in the least. Split a salad with my friend and half of a small flatbread pizza and 3 drinks over the course of 5 hours.
If it takes 3500 calories to gain 1 pound and alcohol dehydrates you. How is it possible to gain 6 (SIX!!) pounds overnight when muscle mass remained constant and water weight decreased by 2%. This means that I gained 2% body fat and ate over 21,000 of EXTRA calories yesterday. Neither which is possible.
There is no such thing as a home scale that is reliably accurate for things like body fat measurements. They are basic bioimpedience devices and their BF and other readings they give (except for your weight) are basically for entertainment purposes. They may offer some basic long term trending values, but they have a wide margin of error.
Even the top of the line devices, such as Bod Pod and DexaScan, have margin of error. BF readings don't really have any value taking them day to day, because even the best device will have fluctuation in readings. They all work better to measure long term trends.
Science is still safe. Your device is just not that accurate.37 -
Your scale is not as reliable as you think it is.
You ate most of your calories later in the day, so they were still in your system and not pooped out yet.
Water retention from the sodium in restaurant food.23 -
Aliens.
In all actuality, your high tech scale isn't as reliable and accurate as you claim. Also, the scale can fluctuate several pounds on a day to day basis.14 -
I am lying:
Your scale is to be trusted at all times.22 -
@garystrickland357 - as it compares to Dexa and BodPod as well as caliper measurements it is right on the money. I'm certain you are going to argue that they also are not accurate. But how do you know those are not accurate? What tool is accurate then and how do you know it is accurate? Is it just because it reports back what you want it to report back?33
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I think the issue is that you are assuming your scale is the absolute source of truth. How did you determine it is "reliably accurate"?
If I had a piece of at-home equipment that was part of a category of devices famous for misleading or inaccurate readings and it gave me a reading that didn't make sense, I would assume the problem was with the device not with the medical and scientific establishment.26 -
Did you read the article I linked upthread, @stryker520 ?4
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stryker520 wrote: »@garystrickland357 - as it compares to Dexa and BodPod as well as caliper measurements it is right on the money. I'm certain you are going to argue that they also are not accurate. But how do you know those are not accurate? What tool is accurate then and how do you know it is accurate? Is it just because it reports back what you want it to report back?
No, the consensus is the DEXA-type scans are accurate. Even if you had a DEXA scan and immediately hopped on your scale, I wouldn't conclude that your scale would meet the accuracy of a DEXA at all times because factors like your amount of hydration can affect it.15 -
Yes science is wrong but that $60 scale is infallible?41
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MelanieCN77 wrote: »Yes science is wrong but that $60 scale is infallible?
Surely weight scales are tired of being stepped on and shall be the the ones that rise up to lead the robots against the human race in a revolution.30 -
@MelanieCN77 Nice try at being sarcastic and unhelpful. For the record the scale was way more than $60.16
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