Weigh In Once A Year?? Should I Do It?

[ChefChiTown]

Yes, it's a 100% guarantee that you're losing fat. No other possibility..

I don't see whats so hard to understand about this. Though given youre idiotic statement here, I'm not surprised you dont get it...

No, I get it. You think that a person's measurements can accurately inform people of the amount of fat and/or muscle that person has. And, as much you would like to believe that to be true...it's not true at all.

I'm a 29 year old male. I stand 5' 7" and weigh just under 245 lbs. My waist measures 40", my neck measures 18.5" and I wear a size 10 shoe. What's my body fat % and the ratio of fat to muscle on my body? You have some measurements, so go ahead and work your magic. Wow me.

 

[Primevci]

rut roh raggy

 

[Daybehavior]

LMAO @ random Scooby-Doo reference. hahahahaha don't know why that so funny -_-

k. back your regularly scheduled argument.

 

[SoCoSideshow]

Even once a month is incredible discipline.
I feel like not weighing yourself for a whole year might get you a bit discouraged.
While it's important to like what you see and how you feel, and not necessarily just the number on the scale, a lot of times that number going down provides great motivation to keep it up.

 

[BigBob]

I fall into the "everyday" camp too. I know the warnings people give, about fluid retention etc etc - so I take my number and stick it onto a graph and I look at the trend over time, rather than fixating on today's number.

Personally, I find this keeps me on track. It also means if the trend is creeping the wrong way, I can take action to correct it before it's too late and I feel I've "failed".

But I can see my approach wouldn't work for everyone, so if you know you and think it would work for you - then go for it.

 

[Jynus]

No, I get it. You think that a person's measurements can accurately inform people of the amount of fat and/or muscle that person has. And, as much you would like to believe that to be true...it's not true at all.

I'm a 29 year old male. I stand 5' 7" and weigh just under 245 lbs. My waist measures 40", my neck measures 18.5" and I wear a size 10 shoe. What's my body fat % and the ratio of fat to muscle on my body? You have some measurements, so go ahead and work your magic. Wow me.

You're seriously still talking? sigh, poor guy.. Someday you'll understand that there is something called time. And things change over it. Till then, not much chance for you I'm afraid...

 

[ChefChiTown]

You're seriously still talking? sigh, poor guy.. Someday you'll understand that there is something called time. And things change over it. Till then, not much chance for you I'm afraid...

So, you can't determine the amount of fat and/or muscle in my body based off of my measurements? That's what I thought.

Point proven. Thank you very much.

 

[Jynus]

So, you can't determine the amount of fat and/or muscle in my body based off of my measurements? That's what I thought.

Point proven. Thank you very much.

The only thing you proved is you lack reading comprehension dude...

Look, it's obvious here, yo really have zero clue what youre talking about. Like none. Your posting is evident enough of this.

I'll make it simple for you. I'm saying measurements provide a much clearer picture of fat loss than scale does _over time_. You seem to think that by offering a few sizes in inches of your body that this somehow proves whatever retardation point you're trying to make... I honestly have no idea just what your point is, all it seems you are doing is attacking mine, and offering little on your end..

I'll make this even more evident. I'm 240lbs. 6'2, my BMI is 30. At the start of summer I weighed 200lbs. I've gained 40lbs, but based on my measurements it's pretty obvious that my bodyfat % dropped. Though granted my total fat has increased slightly based on my waist measurement.

Even more on this same vein. When I gave my example of it's a 100% guarantee he lost fat a few posts ago, in a lot of ways I was referring to myself. I gained 5lbs from 200-205. Yet without question I lost a ton of fat. Waist measurement went down 2inches, I had the start of a 6pack showing, chest grew 3", etc etc. Again, scale fails hard, measurements win the day.

There is ZERO chance a scale could possibly hope to do this. Being able to draw conclusions like this can ONLY be done through measurements. Hell, give me every measurement of your body, and I can tell to a reasonable % just what your bodyfat % is.

Do you even have a point in any of this, or a reasonable argument to make? Or is your only interest just to attack everything I say. At this point dude, you're not looking too good here..

 

[Jericho]

both of you 'dudes' dial down the puffing up of the feathers..got it? The tone is getting this side of insulting.

 

[ChefChiTown]

I'll make this even more evident. I'm 240lbs. 6'2, my BMI is 30. At the start of summer I weighed 200lbs. I've gained 40lbs, but based on my measurements it's pretty obvious that my bodyfat % dropped. Though granted my total fat has increased slightly based on my waist measurement.

The only people who gain 40 lbs and lose fat are called body builders. The minute you can outlift Magnus ver Magnusson, I'll start to take your nonsense a little more seriously.

both of you 'dudes' dial down the puffing up of the feathers..got it? The tone is getting this side of insulting.

You got it.

 

[Melancholy]

can't you two have this pissing contest over PM? Nothing you are saying is relevant to this thread, literally, nothing....and you have successfully buried legitimate posts on this topic. I think Jynus is suffering a little roid rage, but that is niether here nor there... please, PM?

 

[Jynus]

can't you two have this pissing contest over PM? Nothing you are saying is relevant to this thread, literally, nothing....and you have successfully buried legitimate posts on this topic. I think Jynus is suffering a little roid rage, but that is niether here nor there... please, PM?

Pot calling kettle black? Please don't make baseless accusations...

as for PM.... no

 

[Jynus]

The only people who gain 40 lbs and lose fat are called body builders. The minute you can outlift Magnus ver Magnusson, I'll start to take your nonsense a little more seriously.

Or athletics. Like you know, everyone who wants to be stronger to improve their game. Like I used to do back when I training for national level sports. (well, sport, as in singular.. only provincial at a couple others)

I'll never outlift him, but I can bench 1.5 times my body weight and squat and dead 2x. So Im at the elite level of fitness in that regard. While I'm currently at this moment "body building" for nothing else than fun since I no longer compete in sports, my training template is very closely based on Westside for skinny bastards. Which as you know is first and formost an athletic strength training template.

I fail to see what this has to do with anything though....... Is what I do somehow negate the things I've said? Shouldnt you be attacking the message, and not the messenger?

 

[ISeeNoChanges]

Is what I do somehow negate the things I've said?

In my opinion it does... This is a thread about people losing A LOT of weight... and doing so for a long period of times... (Years). Your scenario is much different than that of the poster and many of us readers.

Both of you are missing the forrest bc of all those trees at this point...


It is common sense that a combination of measurements, scale & mirror will be most accurate....

To argue about which one of the 3 is most accurate seems pointless.

 

[ISeeNoChanges]

Even once a month is incredible discipline.
I feel like not weighing yourself for a whole year might get you a bit discouraged.
While it's important to like what you see and how you feel, and not necessarily just the number on the scale, a lot of times that number going down provides great motivation to keep it up.

Yes! it does take a lot of discipline (im about 1.5 months away from a 1 year weigh in) and yes... it can be discouraging when still looking at naked fat in the mirror or when you have a bad day or week... But I have found it more than possible to motivate myself without the number!

It is pretty ironic when you spend most of your life as an obese person afraid of a number on a scale and then getting to a point of taking control of your health/diet/exercise & life and truly not caring what the scale says. It feels pretty damn good actually!