Why I weigh myself every day - part 2

Stopping being obese involves identifying and eliminating sources of inflammation that can foster weight gain, undermining our success.

The body's different reactions to inflammatory spikes is immediate enough that measuring your morning weight reflects whether there were any such spikes the day before.

The problem is that these increases in inflammation can have numerous origins:

• What we eat

• When we eat

• The type of physical activity

• The quantity and quality of sleep

• Stress levels

• ...
  

There are some obvious causes that impact all obese people, such as eating refined carbohydrates or poor quality fats.

It is more than obvious that their consumption will cause weight gain for more than a handful of reasons. Daily monitoring would not be necessary to assess that effect....

The point is that not all causes are as obvious and common as carbs. Most of the factors that can lead to an acute increase in inflammation are highly individual and vary enormously from person to person:

• The types of food we eat

• Mealtimes

• The hours of sleep or the time we go to bed

• The specific type of physical activity we may do
  

Assessing your weight every morning allows you to look at what happened differently the day before that may have had an impact, either positive or negative.

After a while, you start to see patterns and responses.

When I started weight recording, I found it strange that my weight could increase by 1kg from one day to the next only to drop back down after 2 days.

I was sure it wasn't my diet, I was sticking to the plan to the letter. But I couldn't figure out what was going on...

One weekend, by coincidence, I ate exactly the same food both days: the same meals, at the same time, without any variation. Nevertheless, one day I gained 1kg and the other day I lost weight.

The explanation could be something different from one day to the other.

The only thing I could identify was the time I went to bed!

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