How Accurate We Are Being Continuous Weighed?
Memorial Hospital Nutrition and Diet Department Experts "Diet during the obsession by weight, continuous weighing" gave information about the issue.
When we start dieting or when we decide to diet, we are constantly weighed during the day and we become obsessed with weight. In the morning on an empty stomach, after dinner, lying, after drinking water constantly weighs and how much weight is taken and checked. A big mistake is made here. First, the weight is very variable during the day. It depends on the amount of liquid and food consumed all day, as well as the edema of the body, urine and stool. The weight you see as you have taken after a meal does not mean the amount of fat that will be stored in your body. The results of the weighing during the day are wrong and serve nothing but creating a person's morale. Therefore, it is wrong to be constantly weighed during the day. Secondly, you may not have regular weight loss every day while dieting or your body fat percentage has decreased, your muscle mass has increased. But we see it as an increase in muscle mass on the scale, as if the weight has increased. However, muscle growth in the body is very healthy or edema (water retention in the body) may occur due to standing, traveling etc. This will go away in a few days, but we can see it as a weight gain. Weight loss, for example, 3-4 days may not be able to lose weight, days without weight, "I do diet, but I can not lose weight," he is abandoned diet. However, if the diet is continued, weight loss will continue. Therefore, it is not correct to weigh if I have lost 3-4 times a day while dieting, and for the mentioned reasons, it can demoralize the person, especially during diet. Especially in females, 1-2 kg weight gain is observed due to edema that may occur during menstruation. In addition, weight gain can be observed in these cases when medications used may cause over-standing, edema in the body after sports and during or after travel. The calibration of the scales may deteriorate over time and deviations from the correct weight may appear. Especially at different scales, weights may be different. Therefore, weight measurements at different scales at different locations can be misleading.
Weight weighings should be taken on an empty stomach in the morning.
Weighing should be done at the same hours.
Light clothing or bare farming shows the real weight.
Care should be taken to weigh the same scale.
The scales used at home should be sent to the service and calibrated at certain intervals.
Weighing after menstruation, travel, constipation, diarrhea or exercise is not correct.
Remember that not only weight, but also your fat and muscle ratio is important;
Continuous weighing can also cause psychological disorders in the person.
The important thing is not only to lose weight, but to change your eating habits for a long time, so the goal should be balanced and adequate nutrition should be to lose weight second.
It is enough to weigh on an empty stomach in the morning only once or at most 2 days a week.
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