<p>I weigh if I’m running at or around the office. We have a very accurate scale there and it’s good for consistency. It’s more than once a week but not every day.</p>
<p>1.25 miles, dips, pullups and pushups yesterday. In general, some part of my body is sore everyday from the weight and core work.</p>
<p>The good thing about weighing yourself everyday is that you learn that plus or minus several pounds is perfectly normal. (Heck I weigh almost two pounds more at night than in the morning.) You really should think of your weight as a moving average.</p>
<p>Huge storm clouds gathering here so I got my 3 miles in early. Might try to get to the gym later. Sabadog also needs a good run. Groceries are needed. I think I need a wife.</p>
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<p>I work near a Trader Joes so it’s easy to pick up a few things after work.</p>
<p>newfaith, you found what works for you so you’ve got this! Good luck on your treatments.</p>
<p>DadII, it’s fine to weigh yourself everyday but don’t stress out over every ounce up or down. You have to look at the overall trend, not the day to day. I weigh myself everyday and log it into my food tracker. I can see from my history that what I eat one day seems to have nothing to do with what I weigh the next, unless it’s something with particularly high sodium.</p>
<p>newfaith,
Do not be too sad about your genetics. Absolutely everybody has something bad. My family on mother’s side and my H’s family on his father’s side ALL have died of diabetese, and I love sweets and all my fat gets stored in a belly, not a good combo at all. Well, my goal is to enjoy my life while it lasts!! I do not have the desease yet, while my mother died of it when she was younger than I am now. I will not let this fact to rule my life, NO, NO, NO. And this is in addition to hypertension, heart problems, some blood disorders (could be cancer) in the same and other relatives. As I said, there is no perfect genetics, unless we start making babies in a dish, but there is no fun doing that!</p>
<p>^Yes, newfaith, it could be worse - you could be of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, like my husband! All sorts of genetic problems. All three of my kids have a rare bleeding disorder thanks to it - their blood doesn’t clot properly when they are cut or get internal injuries. They have to take recombinant factor VIIa before surgery. That cost $23,000/dose a couple of years ago, and my husband needed two doses! </p>
<p>Mental illness is another thing that’s been handed down to two of my kids. On my side, I have high cholesterol. I don’t mind that too much!</p>
<p>The thing with daily weighing, though, is that your body doesn’t gain / lose THAT quickly. It’s not as though you go step on a scale, eat a 1,000 calorie splurge dessert, step on the scale 20 mins after, and poof, you’ve gained 1/3 of a pound. It could be affected by whether you’ve eaten at all, how much water you’ve had, your bathroom habits that day, etc. Doesn’t it cause you to overreact to minor ups and downs? What are you going to DO when you gained one pound from Wed to Thurs if you’re just keeping everything on track?</p>
<p>My genetics aren’t that great either. Mental illness on both sides of my family, familial high cholesterol, osteoporosis ( even my 22 yr old daughter has it), & osteoarthritis.
( just had a total knee replacement a month ago @ 55 yrs old).</p>
<p>But I finally like my red hair, even though neither of my kids have red hair & judging from the ancestry of their significant others, Im not likely to see any red headed grandbabies either!
:(</p>
<p>Pizza:</p>
<p>I’m one of those who seem to do fine weighing every morning, although it does drive home the crazy daily fluctuations. The number I actually pay attention to is a running 7 day average that my little spreadsheet calculates. For me, weighing daily seems to keep me focused on health and fitness. Maybe just that little bit of focus to walk by the big display of my favorite candy 2 for $1 in the front aisle of the grocery. </p>
<p>But, there are at least as many people who do much better weighing just once a week or maybe even not at all. This is particularly true for women, many of whom have a long-standing bad relationship with the scale and especially when the scale isn’t even a good measure for someone who needs some muscle.</p>
<p>I’ve had to adjust my “set points” with the scale. Fitting better into the same pants as a year and half ago, I now weigh a few pounds more on average – a few pounds of muscle that has taken a couple of years to add.</p>
<p>If you saw a picture of me today and compared it to a picture from a year ago, you’d probably think that I’m moderately lighter than I was a year ago. I’m actually only down a pound or two but I’m thinner with more upper-body muscle. I would like to lose another ten pounds but most people consider me thin or thin-enough now.</p>
<p>8 fast miles on the AlterG. Now off to do some strength/core/weights.</p>
<p>Woooof. That was a 22 minute 48 second workout that got my attention. Another one of these cute little metabolic circuits, that I changed up a little bit.</p>
<p>Each set:</p>
<p>*Alternating reverse lunge (2 x 25lb DBs) - 8 reps per side
Hex bar dead lift (100lb) - 8 reps
DB snatch (25 lb DB) - 4 reps per side
DB front squat/overhead press (2 x 25lb DBs) - 8 reps</p>
<p>Rest 90 seconds between sets for a total of four sets.*</p>
<p>The goal is to do all four exercises in a set with no rest at all, but those weights are heavy enough that I can’t quite do that. I need 8 to 10 deep breaths between exercises. Still, those are pretty concentrated sets.</p>
<p>These are great little “rest” day workouts that get every muscle in your body tingling and some deep gasping for air! Every one of these works big muscles with a huge oxygen demand.</p>
<p>just finish my third day of insanity, it is getting easier. Especially with my newly purchased carpet ($5) to enable better footing.</p>
<p>Will start the full marathon training in July 6th. With the improved core from doing insanity, I think I will get better in running. May sign up a fall 1/2 just to see if I could break the 2 hour mark.</p>
<p>I need rest after my rest day. Got in a little Vit D while we were out exploring. A lot of car time, and I rode on a boat a couple of times, too. One of the real big ones that carries a bunch of people over to an island.</p>
<p>I do have my routine set for weighting every morning. It helps me to reflect what I did right and what I did wrong. </p>
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can’t help yourself, can you PG? Always have to give instructions because no body else knows anything. I did not seek any advise on that topic and you are definitely welcome to state what you believe.</p>
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I’m going to do nothing. For me I know it means nothing - if I only weighed once a week, I might think that pound was more significant, but since I’ve weighed myself on Mon and Tues I’ll know whether I’m just bouncing around a weight or whether I’m actually losing. I tend to plateau for weeks on end and then lose several pounds. I’ll gain 2-3 pounds over the weekend and lose it by Friday. I’ve gotten to know my particular patterns. But I’m also judging by my clothes. None of last summer’s pants fit properly.</p>
<p>3.19 miles in 55 minutes tonight. Beautiful night to go for a walk…</p>
<p>dadII:</p>
<p>I know you are doing better with Insanity that this poor ol’ fat guy:</p>
<p>[Insanity</a> Workout Day 1 Fit Test Full Video - YouTube](<a href=“- YouTube”>- YouTube)</p>
<p>I think I burned 1000 calories laughing! I feel his pain…</p>
<p>DadII, I am torn about sharing my experience about tracking weight because I feel you were a little discourteous to pizza girl for her comment, which I suspect was well-meaning.</p>
<p>I do personally track my weight daily, but on advice of this thread have learned what they mean about not mico-obsessing, which I think was pizza girl’s actual point.</p>
<p>In short, the variables are too numerous to control to ever fully comprehend weight fluctuation, but recovering muscle from an intense workout can actually “hold water” for a spell (make weight fluctuate via temporary inflammation) every bit as much as the bottle of soda. The difference of course is that recovering muscle goes the direction you want, while soda just leaches good stuff from your bones and messes with your metabolism :)</p>
<p>My trainer friend who coaches some world-class cyclists and triathletes basically says this about the topic: You can’t gain a pound unless you ate 3500 more calories than your body needed to burn. Period. And if you’re tracking, you should know whether you did this or not. Anything else is water, inflammation, etc. and doesn’t really matter in the long haul so take the daily reads with a grain of salt and keep your eye on the longview.</p>