What has been helpful to me is to just record it and let it go as quickly as I step off of it. I look at the scale like a barometer and the act of stepping on it like looking out the window at the same time. You can't tell if it's sunny by looking at the barometer, or cloudy for that matter.

One can have nothing to do with the other and if you start trying to correlate the short term with the long term and 37 other variables, I've seen it derail more people here than all the toes and fingers on at least 24 bodies.

Measure. Record. Move On.

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However, I know, from personal experience (I know someone) that body building and diet leading up to contests is all about being anal and manipulation of diet and trusting in results. That's a recipe for disaster in the long term, at least the way I think. Don't be an asshole to your body.

You say things are different now. Perhaps it's a good time to start thinking different

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