honeebuns's Journal, 04 Nov 23

Ha! Good hack, those .02 wiggles are indeed annoying. 

I’m think about going back to analog also. These digitals gives me random numbers, n they all eventually do it 

Super the batteries died in my digital so I figured it was a good time to switch to analog !! 

I'm fortunate my digital scale doesn't go to tenths. I also decided to keep a spreadsheet with a rolling 7-day average as my "true" weight. Still doesn't completely eradicate that mental twinge on a day I weigh in higher, but does keep it in better perspective  

WYO I have read on FS that many members do something similar to what you are doing. I have a very small spiral notepad in my kitchen junk drawer where I have written down my weight every Saturday morning for the last five years No graphs or trends but sometimes I look back at where I was a year ago or 6 months ago.  

Weekly works well for a lot of people, honeebuns. I'm hesitant to go that route because I've seen my weight go up or down 3 pounds in a day (even weighing consistently 1st thing in the a.m.), depending on what I ate and how I slept. Yesterday, nursing a pretzel freakout and anxious binge, coupled with exhaustion, I weighed in at 134. This morning, it was 131. I know dang well I didn't run a 10,500 calorie deficit yesterday 🤣 I've always been concerned if I go weekly, I'll get a false drop or jump. Plus, I like to nip gains in the bud. Really just depends on what works for you! 😃 

I have considered using my weekly average in FS. My digital bluetooth scale connects to my phone and will automatically update to Fitbit. Fitbit then records the data and provides me a weekly average every Saturday. That is much more constant and allows for the daily fluctuations. I have not actually gone to this method yet... I think the daily routine helps to keep myself in check and fear going to a weekly reporting would allow for too much "cheat" snacking on my part. 

WYO my “official” log as simplistic as it seems is my weekly notepad. I am not necessarily advocating others to weigh weekly or record weekly. I don’t weigh every day, but almost every day and log in FS randomly.  

I still need to weigh every day. Fluctuations don't bother me when I'm eating on plan but I need that jolt in the morning when I've been overdoing it. 

I have to reset my digital scale often by weighing myself with a box of heavy things, let it turn off, then get back on as normal. Sometimes several times. Otherwise, it reports the last saved weigh-in. I'm finding the digital scale is really bad for maintenance b/c of the constant reset needed. 

Good idea! 

Writingwyo-i am just like you i believe. I weigh daily to keep myself in check. I find the little ups annoying but today i went up 2 pounds from yesterday. No way i had an extra 7000 calories. I had under 1500 last night but did have boom chick a pop kettle corn so am guessing from that. If i weighed once a week im also afraid it would be up 5 pounds which would take a month to get off. Scale slavery. 

Outer limit, my scale requires a reset anytime it has been moved.  

Due to having small children I reset my skill anytime I go to weigh in. Otherwise I would have faulty weigh-ins each time I weighed in do my little helpers playing with it. 😀 For me it's better to just weigh in once every two to four weeks so I don't over correct do to anxiety issues "unless I start feeling fluffy" then I'll weigh in as a just in case measure. I'm currently in maintenance so it's less important for me at this time then it was when I was trying to lose weight after the baby. Although I do try to still keep up with it both to increase muscle mass, maintain current weight, and share my weight with my doctors to calibrate my medicines.