Everyday Systems: nosdiet: message 938 of 3212

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--- In , "D." <allan2015@y...> wrote:
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> ...suggests weighing yourself every day, at the same
> time each day, wearing the same thing every day. Then,
> AVERAGE those weights over the course of a week. This
> will give you a more accurate representation of weight
> lost over the long term, which is what we want, right?
</snip> 

This is what I do, but I like numbers and I don't get too freaked out
if I see the numbers go up as long as they go back down. I started
doing this after reading an e-Book called the Hacker's Diet

While not as elegant or as non-intrusive as the noSdiet, The Hacker's
Diet has some really good tools for tracking your weight loss to help
you figure out if that surprising number on your scale is part of a
trend or just a fluke. Also, both the tools and the book are free.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/comptools.html

Alternately, if you find scales just too frustrating and discouraging
or you get to obsessed about it, you could try why a friend of mine does. 


She goes out and purchases what she calles her "optimisim pants" 
and
sets her goals based on fitting into the pants instead of numbers on a
scale. 

--j