Tue, Apr-11-17, 10:50
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Senior Member
Posts: 4,335
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Plan: vLC/GF,CF,SF
Stats: 197/136/150
BF:
Progress: 130%
Location: Alberta
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The .5-1 lb up and down thing is virtually all water; you would have seen the same variation (or more) if you had weighed every day when not dieting. And home scales typically have 0.1-0.2 lb variabilities (and that is why they bear labels saying they are not valid for trade or postal transactions).
2 cups of water weigh a pound. And it can be in your kidneys (most of us empty our bladders before weighing), intestines, or retained in tissues due to salt retention or inflammation caused by eating foods you are sensitive or allergic to, or muscles repairing themselves after exercise. Even taking a bath & washing your hair adds water weight as your skin and hair absorb water. Howard Stern once weighed is poop on his (thankfully) radio show - about 1/2 lb, but your intestines typically hold ~10 lbs.
Daily variation is often the reason people suggest weighing only once a week, but I always worried - what if weigh day is a high day? - I might lose motivation. So I still weigh nearly every day and use the variation as information; my software also lets me choose to plot the weight averaged over a few days, a week or month so I can easily see the trend. Since I log my food, I can see that certain foods cause me to retain some water that will come off in 1-3 days. For instance pistachios within my carb allotment (30g net/day) will typically bump me up 1 lb; but I still have them occasionally. Other things like dairy proteins, grains & legumes cause bigger spikes and other health problems, so I avoid them.
Last edited by deirdra : Tue, Apr-11-17 at 11:09.
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