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0 pointsgen2205y ago0 comments

This is a super interesting idea, that maybe hasn't been explored deeply enough. Of course, for some people, the obsession with precise, day-to-day numbers is an almost-unmitigated inspiration.

In my experience, the trick with body weight is that you actually do have almost perfect control over the day to day.

Assuming you take it in the morning before breakfast and after the bathroom, it's almost a pure function of your weight yesterday and the caloric balance from the day prior. If you control your caloric balance with diet and exercise, you can predict your 1-2lb swings (aka constant swings) pretty accurately.

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tom_mellior5y ago

> If you control your caloric balance with diet and exercise, you can predict your 1-2lb swings (aka constant swings) pretty accurately.

The featured article tried and failed to do exactly this. As in, not just the magnitude but even the direction of the swing was often estimated incorrectly. My guess is that you would need to be very careful about accounting for water.

alach115y ago

Perhaps if your macro ratio is consistent. The article’s author postulated that some daily weight swings he experienced were caused by increased water retention from glycogen after eating larger amounts of carbohydrates.

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