It's probably best that you don't have a scale, so this advice is just as much for everyone else as it is for you:
Don't weigh yourself more than once every 3 or 4 days. Once a week is probably ideal.
Weight naturally fluctuates throughout the day and from day to day, often as much as 10lbs (~4.5kg?). A gallon (3.8l) of water wighs 8lbs (3.6kg), and hydration levels fluctuate a lot, especially if you're working out on a regular basis. You could weigh yourself, work out, weigh yourself again and find that you'd 'lost' 2lbs, but drink the water you just sweated off and it'll be right back. All this doesn't even take into account eating, relative humidity of the air, or other ... water retention things, erm, etc.
Anywho, that's just my $.02US ($.025AUD) ;-)
Oh, and if/when you do get a scale for yourself, look into the kind that can also mesure body fat percentage. The one I have has metal pads on the top of the scale that send minute electrical pulses through your legs. It calculates the resistance along with the height you enter and the weight it also measures, and gives you a % of bodyfat. This is, of course, a better measurement than just weight or even BMI, neither of which take into account your build/bone structure.
If the first bit was my $0.02, I guess this is the 'free advice' that is worth what you pay for it?
Then again, my 250lb fata3 may not be the best one to take advice from ;-) |
