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no_hypocrisy

(51,330 posts)
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:43 AM Apr 22

Is it time to buy a new digital scale if

the numbers don't correspond to your diet and (for lack of a better word) excretion?

First thing this morning, I "gained" one pound. Two trips to the pot and now another two pounds. And this is without clothing or food or drink.

All I had yesterday was a salad with nothing but vegetables and then a turkey Salisbury steak, one beet, and 5 thin asparagus.

I couldn't change the battery because the replacement was low.

Your thoughts?

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Is it time to buy a new digital scale if (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Apr 22 OP
There are a number of variables that can make your weight fluctuate True Dough Apr 22 #1
Thank you. no_hypocrisy Apr 22 #2
The numbers don't mean so much day to day, what matters is over time: do you weigh ... marble falls Apr 22 #3
I weighed 450, Benn at 200 kozar Sunday #4
Thanks. Will take your advice. no_hypocrisy Sunday #5
Weight loss, is a marathon, kozar Sunday #6

True Dough

(22,839 posts)
1. There are a number of variables that can make your weight fluctuate
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 08:56 AM
Apr 22

throughout the day. Weighing yourself multiple times per day isn't useful, IMO.

If you step on the scale once a week or once a month and you're not seeing the corresponding change you are driving toward, then I would question the calibration of the scale.

marble falls

(64,977 posts)
3. The numbers don't mean so much day to day, what matters is over time: do you weigh ...
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 09:02 AM
Apr 22

... more or less in a month.

Weighing daily might make you start to lose any sense of success. Sometimes ignoring numbers without context to one's overall health is the better part of controlling weight.

kozar

(3,066 posts)
4. I weighed 450, Benn at 200
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 06:14 PM
Sunday

For 7 years.
saw Dr last week, For 6 month checkup, im at 192.
I lived through the big weight loss. I stood on a scale multiple times about day.
Don't do that! I could show ya, how to change, your feet position, and gain, or lose a pound.
And what I'll tell ya, if you constantly step on a scale daily, no, I went from 450 to 192, yes, I had surgery, but the one thing I was taught.


Take your weight , no more than, once a week. Same scale, same time, and, then, look at your weight.
Koz

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