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Garry's blog post about this was particularly insightful.[0] He shares a graph of his progress and how it goes both forwards and backwards, as well as the thing

Garry's blog post about this was particularly insightful.[0] He shares a graph of his progress and how it goes both forwards and backwards, as well as the things he's learned along the way. 0: https://garry.tv/2018/10/17/fatty/ https://garry.tv/2018/10/17/fatty/

SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
> When you’re weighing yourself every day you need to understand that you’re creating a weekly/monthly average. What you ate yesterday isn’t going to show up on the scales the next day. If you ran around the park yesterday, don’t expect to have lost weight today. I only weighed myself once a week for this reason. Every day can be demoralizing if you have a bloat day, but once a week gives enough to have a pretty regular drop. Whatever behaviour you do can't be considered on a day by day basis, it needs to be considered as a week of good behaviour, and then weeks and then months. You gotta stay consistent every day over the long term to expect results.
- tacon 8y ago
  I think daily weighing is important because it is hundreds of daily decisions to not eat that need to be made. Our current society makes food available at all times, and daily weighing is one part in actually thinking about our body and being mindful for at least twenty or thirty seconds each day. With the ridiculous calorie density of modern processed foods, a few minutes of mindless eating can add an enormous calorie load, without even beginning to feel full. We hackers can geek out on the math in the Hacker's Diet[0], which goes into various smoothing algorithms and plotting styles to show the daily weight and smoothed trends. [0] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
  - SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
    That's fair, if that needs to happen. I found my caloric considerations where my tracking - I built a spreadsheet where I input values so I could track my daily allotment as I ate. I always tracked it before I ate it. I worry that daily tracking could be discouraging or introduce maldaptive behaviour - you went up a lbs since yesterday, but that's because your morning poop wasn't as productive as it usually is, and now you feel like you need to go more extreme to make up for it the rest of the day.

SketchySeaBeast 8y ago

> When you’re weighing yourself every day you need to understand that you’re creating a weekly/monthly average. What you ate yesterday isn’t going to show up on the scales the next day. If you ran around the park yesterday, don’t expect to have lost weight today. I only weighed myself once a week for this reason. Every day can be demoralizing if you have a bloat day, but once a week gives enough to have a pretty regular drop. Whatever behaviour you do can't be considered on a day by day basis, it needs to be considered as a week of good behaviour, and then weeks and then months. You gotta stay consistent every day over the long term to expect results.

tacon 8y ago
I think daily weighing is important because it is hundreds of daily decisions to not eat that need to be made. Our current society makes food available at all times, and daily weighing is one part in actually thinking about our body and being mindful for at least twenty or thirty seconds each day. With the ridiculous calorie density of modern processed foods, a few minutes of mindless eating can add an enormous calorie load, without even beginning to feel full. We hackers can geek out on the math in the Hacker's Diet[0], which goes into various smoothing algorithms and plotting styles to show the daily weight and smoothed trends. [0] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
- SketchySeaBeast 8y ago
  That's fair, if that needs to happen. I found my caloric considerations where my tracking - I built a spreadsheet where I input values so I could track my daily allotment as I ate. I always tracked it before I ate it. I worry that daily tracking could be discouraging or introduce maldaptive behaviour - you went up a lbs since yesterday, but that's because your morning poop wasn't as productive as it usually is, and now you feel like you need to go more extreme to make up for it the rest of the day.