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Pretty cool, Kings, I always tell myself I need some energy to get me through the walk/jog, but now I know!
Today was another great weigh-in; according to the scale I am down 2.4 since that first weigh in on Tuesday a.m.!
However, speaking of trends, I was also the exact same weight that I am today, on July 3. Blehhh. I should be down at least 4-6 or so lbs. by now! Dang cravings and inconsistent workouts!
To the OP:
The recommendation is to weigh yourself once a week at the same time before breakfast with minimal or no clothes on. I used to weigh my self all the time like you are describing and there is no point in that. If you drink a 16oz glass of water that is one pound. Water weight will be what will fluctuate the most. As has been mentioned, no point in driving yourself crazy.
To the OP:
The recommendation is to weigh yourself once a week at the same time before breakfast with minimal or no clothes on. I used to weigh my self all the time like you are describing and there is no point in that. If you drink a 16oz glass of water that is one pound. Water weight will be what will fluctuate the most. As has been mentioned, no point in driving yourself crazy.
But I'm not driving myself crazy, I am having fun.
For me this is the norm. I NEVER eat before my morning cardio whatever food/carbs I recently ate.
Nor do I. A healthy person doesn't need to "fuel" before working out. I drink coffee or tea but that's it, not even any juice.
I'm 66 y.o. and daily do a 2-3 mile walk-run and 45 minutes of yoga most mornings and then wait an hour or more after that before I eat my first food for the day.
I don't start doing anything until I've had my morning cup of coffee.
I also don't own a scale.
When I want to know how much I weigh, I use the scale in the gym or, if I'm going to the doctor for any reason, I use theirs.
It's usually more a matter of curiosity than concern; I generally don't care what the number reads on the scale, so much as how I feel, how my clothes fit, and how I think I look in the mirror.
Doing my exercise routine before breakfast has been the magic bullet. I literally cannot sing the praises enough.
My first bout with being overweight (well, obese with a 30.5 BMI at 220 pounds) ended when I dropped it senior year HS before going to college, but I could never get rid of love handles. Put it back on after mom died (I was 22-24).
At 25 with a much smarter routine, I am in better shape than at 19: 162 pounds, 32" waist, muscles, and love handles virtually gone.
The love handles, the most stubborn bit, did not go until I began running after a pot of black tea. They really fell off after I upped to: run 3 miles to gym, lift weights, run 3 miles back home, eat breakfast.
For consistency, I weigh myself first thing in the morning. Anything past that, and you start introducing various variables (waste, water, meals, etc) that could significantly skew things.
For decades I didn't own a scale. Then last year my husband bought one. I do weigh myself each morning, and there are fluctuations of 2 -3 lbs, which I know is normal, depending on what I may have eaten previously, etc.
I will occasionally do some light exercise before I have breakfast, but as a Type 2 diabetic who suffers from high fasting blood sugar, it serves me best to eat shortly after I awake. Strenuous exercise raises by BGs big time, while light exercise (like walking) brings it down. We all do what works for us.
I like my scale! I deal with hypoglycemia, and am trying to learn what I can eat, what keeps my blood sugar steady during the day, and how it all can fit into my 1600 calorie recommendation per day. I used to have to just eat enough to not get hungry. But that just results in weight gain. I have read labels since they started putting the information on them. I have owned a BMI scale now for over 20 years. But fitting all of the little pieces together, for me, is helped by my weighing myself daily. I can see the flucuations, and by keeping track of the info in myfitnesspal.com, I can track better.
FWIW; I am 53, 5'2", and currently 182 lbs. My weight was manageable at 155 before I hit peri-menopause, then it threw me under the bus.
I have only recently been able to get back to losing weight, after getting up to 237 with the peri-menopause issues. Once those started settling down, this past winter....I was able to re-focus. The scale...is my friend. I document my daily weight, and what I eat.
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