Re: Why i weigh daily
Posted: 23 Nov 2013, 17:43
Whoa - really? Those last two are really good arguments.... I might have to finally get a reliable scale and use it....
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ADFnFuel wrote: Daily weighing allow smaller adjustments to occur more frequently because you know what you ate and drank the day before to quickly realize what you might do differently the next time.
Imagine driving down a road and closing your eyes for a full second then opening them. Now imagine leaving them closed for 5-7 seconds. The longer time delay will be far more stressful and your necessary correcting adjustments far larger than they'd be with the shorter time.
Making daily adjustments is easier and less stressful than throwing in another fast day or two to restart a downward trend. And after a short while weights are just numbers, stressing is gone and simple adjustments have become habit.
wendyjane wrote: ... Therefore, I think that for me, and for some people like me, for whom weight loss is not a high stakes game and for whom 5:2 works well, making daily adjustments in one's intake requires an increased focus on food that is not necessarily psychologically the healthiest approach. ...
I want to stress here that I don't at all think this is the "right" way, just mine. Check back with me in, say, November, 2014, and I'll let you know how it's working out
kencc wrote:Gimmick wrote: ...... But there's obviously no "right" way since we're not subjects in a controlled experiment here.
Except that studies show that, on average, daily weighers lose a lot more weight over a period of time than those who weigh weekly or at greater intervals. Not that it's the 'right' way but the probabilities are that daily weighing gives a greater chance of successfully achieving weight loss targets.
Similarly, studies show that daily weighers are more successful than weekly weighers in maintaining their weight loss during maintenance.
Personally I always play the percentages if I can.
His first thought was that, of course, weighing oneself daily helped control weight. He checked for the conclusive studies he knew must exist. They did not.
"My goodness, after 50-plus years of studying obesity in earnest and all the public wringing of hands, why don't we know this answer?" Dr. Allison asked. "What's striking is how easy it would be to check. Take a couple of thousand people and randomly assign them to weigh themselves every day or not."
Wendy Darling wrote: I'm a daily weigher, encouraged by Kens posts when I first started. Here's a picture of my graph from the true weight app. Imagine if I were weekly or monthly weighing, I wouldn't see all those drops and I think I would have given up before now.
I have gone from never weighing to it becoming part of my daily routine. Note that the steep increases have coincided with holidays, May, July/August and October but I see it as a bit of a result that I have seen those increases and kept going anyway. This is all so easy albeit slow that I am sure I will always weigh daily so that it never gets out of hand again.