What do you Consider Actual Weight Loss vs Fluctuation?
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I log a loss whenever I know I am in the position to get the most accurate number, usually the morning after a rest day. It depends on the last time I exercised (if I have fluid retention in my muscles) how much carbs and sodium I had the previous few days, and my TOM.
I won't log, or even weigh myself when I had a really hard work out the day before, or a carb binge or sodium heavy day because I know the scale will reflect that, in my experience. It has helped me a lot to know these things can affect the number on the scale greatly and mask a REAL loss, so I don't get as disappointed if the number is the same or higher than last weigh-in.0 -
didgital scale only works in 0.5 lbs. incraments.....I only record the lowest number I get in the morning on the weekend. My weight can fluctuate up to about 10 lbs over the week and 5lbs over any given day.
I've noticed a similar volatility in my daily weighing (and I'm even a relatively scrawny guy)...but careful, there are people on MFP that would claim this is impossible.
Oh, and I enter what the scale says. Period. However, I am not at all any happier or sadder because of a one day change in scale weight. For that matter, I am not any happier or sadder based on a scale weight change...well, ever. (My wife has never looked across the room at me and said (or thought), I bet when he steps on a scale, it says 162 pounds...and I want that).0 -
I don't count the .x or whatever. I only go with the first 3 numbers and enter that as my weight. The .x lbs don't really matter much.0
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If my weight goes down it's a loss.....if it goes up it's a fluctuation :bigsmile:
Absolutely!
Seeing the slowish but ever downward trend on my progress graph keeps my morale up!
And I'll post a half pound loss with a smile on my face. Yep.0 -
I weigh myself every morning, if I see a lower # than I have seen before then I "consider" it a loss. but, I restrain myself from changing my weight on here more than once a week.. I don't log it on here every morning or 2-3 days that I dropped .2 lbs.. I just make a mental note of that weight.0
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If I get a lower weight than my lowest recorded weight, I record it. Even if it is a fluctuation, you'll only fluctuate within a certain range so to fluctuate lower I must have lost some.
I weigh myself 2-3 times when I weigh and a drop only counts if I get the same number twice. The 2-3 weighs are because the scale can fluctuate a bit, not by much, so I take whatever I see the same number of twice on the same day.0 -
I have stayed at almost same weight for months was getting really fed up until I started measuring my waist. No weight loss but masses of cms down!!0
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