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harleymae
Deep thoughts...
January 25th, 2011

Current Mood:: working

Current Music:: Indestructible - Disturbed

So, I recently rescued an electronic scale from under a huge pile of clothes in the laundry room and have been weighing myself a lot. :P Chip is in town for some meetings, so he was hanging out in my room last night.

ME: Hey! I weighed myself before and after I peed and I'm 0.2 pounds lighter after peeing!
CHIP: ...

But the really crazy thing is the 2 pound difference between going to sleep and waking up. I didn't know that people lost that much water! That's losing 2 pints in 8 hours.

These are the kinds of things I think about every day.

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fullycompletely

2011-01-25 07:25 pm (UTC)

Yeah, they say you should weigh yourself first thing when you wake up. That's when you're lightest and it stays the most consistent.

harleymae

2011-01-25 07:39 pm (UTC)

It just seems like so much to lose! Like they recommend 8 (8 oz) glases of liquids per day, and I'm sure you get more from food and stuff, but... it still seems like a lot!

But it does seem to have been pretty consistent every morning so far.

fullycompletely

2011-01-25 07:56 pm (UTC)

I think sleep is pretty important to weight loss in general? All I know is, when I'm dieting, if I'm short on sleep it makes a difference.

harleymae

2011-01-25 08:00 pm (UTC)

Supposedly lack of sleep makes you release more stress hormones, which in turn causes various behaviours that would result in weight gain. But when I'm short on sleep, I get nauseated by anything that isn't like... fruit, vegetables, whole grain or low fat.

tyches_echo

2011-01-25 07:33 pm (UTC)

Our scale was cheap and isn't very accurate. I weighed myself before and after a shower once and apparently gained four pounds. It made me giggle.

harleymae

2011-01-25 07:40 pm (UTC)

LOL! It was all of the water you absorbed through your skin! ;) I have a cheesy IKEA one that pretty consistently reports about 5 pounds under the real weight even though it's calibrated properly at 0.

fromcainwthlove

2011-01-25 09:47 pm (UTC)

ugh. both of those scales (yours and karen's) would drive me crazy. i always check my scale's calibration after i go to the doctor.

harleymae

2011-01-25 10:06 pm (UTC)

The electronic scale is really good, but the body fat measurement functionality is super dodgy.

fromcainwthlove

2011-01-25 09:46 pm (UTC)

...i don't lose 2 pounds between going to sleep and waking up. what the hell are you doing, running marathons in your dreams?

then again, i'm chronically under-hydrated, so maybe that explains it.

harleymae

2011-01-25 10:05 pm (UTC)

Perhaps I'm very hydrated! But that's what it is every night, 2 pounds!

Also I totally wrote the thing about hydration before I read what you said about being chronically under-hydrated haha.

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