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Originally Posted by Aoife
not necessarily. I mean, if you weigh weekly, you only get one sample per 7 days... you may end up weighing on a consistently high day for some reason, thus discouraging. If you weighed daily, you may see a pattern that can allow you to ignore the occasional uptick, even if it happens regularly, because you see the pattern.
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In theory, if you weight one a week, same day, same time, and it's the consistently high day, that high day will still drop over time (trying to lose weight). My high will be relative to my "true" body weight.
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Originally Posted by cycomiko
Ya, thats the main issue.
If I take a program i was doing the other year, I would do a large deadlift session every second week. On my saturday weighin, every second week I would go up in weight and every middle one I would go down.
When I weigh daily, I see why. After a good deadlift session, I hold a ton of water.
Personally, I just weigh nearly every day, and track my weight with an average of the last 7days (trend line on Excel). Smooths out the day to day garbage, to let me know the trends.
Similar concept to a BIA recommendation from Jason Norcross (? memory is fading) at tmag years ago.
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This is more of a topic for "
Why the Scale Lies to People Who Are on Advanced Diets and Lifting Plans."
Everyone gets exercise related swelling, water retention, "free meal" bloating, etc., but this generally isn't much of an issue for someone who's doing a pretty
normal diet.
For instance, when my heavy lifting day was deadlifting 225lbs, and I ate about the same amount of carbs on each day, the fluctuations were pretty minor. There was some, but I weighed myself every friday morning for years (monday-thursday were very stable dieting days for me). Sometimes, I weighed other days out of curiosity, but I counted on that Friday weigh-in to tell me if I was progressing.
I've used Kelly Baggett's No Bull plan (which uses a lot of UD2.0 concepts) and tracked my weight on two days per cycle/week (the last day of the "cut" and then the last day of the "bulk"). 5-7lbs difference from cut to bulk weigh-ins. So, I certainly saw the trends.
Most people with 20-n lbs to lose should probably just be eating 500-1000 calories below maintenance and not sweating the details.
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Originally Posted by Littlemermaidklb
I don't even own a scale... fixes that problem!
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