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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
by 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 agoThat'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.