A random post on weight loss. Many diet and weight loss sites recommend that you weigh yourself just once a week.This is terrible advice. The justifications given seem to be either that people can't handle the trauma of daily fluctuations or that once a week is more accurate. I suspect that these weight loss programs and coaches are succumbing to moral hazard. Daily weight measurment allows for micro adjustments of diet. Up two unexpected pounds? Deal with it the next day? Ahead of your projected weight, indulge a little to fend off saggy skin. (You could also eat some almonds and bananas. Then again, maybe you shouldn't eat the almonds.)
As for the more accurate argument: weekly weigh ins are subject to the same water and waiste fluctuations as daily ones. I contend that a 7 day moving average gives a far better picture.
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