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What is "more often" ? Weighing yourself daily is useless, since the weight fluctuates too much. Not to mention that "weight" is useless as well, while you're a
by tdkl 11y ago
What is "more often" ? Weighing yourself daily is useless, since the weight fluctuates too much. Not to mention that "weight" is useless as well, while you're actually trying to loose FAT. Fat percentage and resulting lean body mass (body weight minus body fat) are the metrics to measure. But still a waste of time doing it daily, twice per week to gain insight on the delta and where it's trending is enough.
- drumdance 11y agoI do it daily as a motivation trick.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoWeighing yourself daily is not useless. The idea of doing it weekly is being spread explicitly because GenPop doesn't understand the concepts of a moving average and a low-pass filter - instead, they freak out over those daily fluctuations. If you weigh yourself daily and remember to always look at the average of the last few samples, you get a more useful indicator of your current weight trend.
- franciscop 11y agoIt's not useless, it taught me that weight fluctuates a lot by the hour and some by the week (; I took the average of the 3-4 last days at the same time (about waking up) is a good enough approximation. Once I learned this, "more often" means once daily, as opposed to "once monthly" (if any). It wasn't only about the hard number, it was about the motivation.