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Antagony · 06-16-2003, 01:28 PM

I'm watching my weight to see how much I lose/gain from my new workout habits. I'm pretty new to this arena, so I have what I think may be a vital question:

How do you consistently weight yourself?

What I mean is that, for example, you could be retaining water or something, so you weight will come out a bit heavy as opposed to when you weighed yourself without the water retention. Or perhaps your intestines contain 3 pounds worth of shit.

How do you get consistency?

**Remember that I'm not looking for accuracy. Consistency is far more important to me, I just want to observe changes.

Mael · 06-16-2003, 02:32 PM

best thing to do is to wake up, take a piss and shit, and weigh yourself without eating or drinking anything beforehand. that way, you've not added weight from stuff you've eaten, but you've also gotten rid of excess shit and water in your body before weighing.

last week, i weighed myself at night to see how much of a change there could be, and then the following morning, and there was a 5.5 pound difference. pretty crazy.

Sparhawk · 06-16-2003, 03:59 PM

Make sure you always weigh yourself at the same point in the day. If you have a routine going, this should be pretty easy.

06-16-2003, 01:28 PM	#1 (permalink)
Antagony Psychopathic Akimbo Action Pirate Location: ...between Christ and Belial.	Consistent weighing techniques I'm watching my weight to see how much I lose/gain from my new workout habits. I'm pretty new to this arena, so I have what I think may be a vital question: How do you consistently weight yourself? What I mean is that, for example, you could be retaining water or something, so you weight will come out a bit heavy as opposed to when you weighed yourself without the water retention. Or perhaps your intestines contain 3 pounds worth of shit. How do you get consistency? Remember that I'm not looking for accuracy. Consistency is far more important to me, I just want to observe changes. __________________ On the outside I'm jazz, but my soul is rock and roll.** Sleep is a waste of time. Join the Insomniac Club. "GYOH GWAH-DAH GREH BLAAA! SROH WIH DIH FLIH RYOHH!!" - The Locust

06-16-2003, 03:59 PM	#3 (permalink)
Sparhawk Dubya Location: VA	Make sure you always weigh yourself at the same point in the day. If you have a routine going, this should be pretty easy. __________________ "In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard. It's - and it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work. We're making progress. It is hard work."

06-16-2003, 02:32 PM	#2 (permalink)
Mael Banned Location: The Hell I Created.	best thing to do is to wake up, take a piss and shit, and weigh yourself without eating or drinking anything beforehand. that way, you've not added weight from stuff you've eaten, but you've also gotten rid of excess shit and water in your body before weighing. last week, i weighed myself at night to see how much of a change there could be, and then the following morning, and there was a 5.5 pound difference. pretty crazy.