292.6

So... that's how much I lose during the day, eh? I weighed myself before going to work earlier today and got a result-- after two poops-- of 294.4 pounds. Tonight, after teaching six hours and having consumed only a single 12-ounce mug of green tea, I weighed myself and saw 292.6 pounds. Wow. Awesome. So, just doing what I do all day at my job (which is mainly talking while seated), I can lose almost two pounds in the space of about eight hours (six hours' work plus two hours' commute).

I'm beginning to wonder, though, what time of day offers the most "legitimate" weight for weigh-ins. In the morning, after I poop? (I have no trouble pooping, and often do a two-parter poop in the mornings.) The problem there is that I know, even after two poops, that there's still more cargo in my intestines, waiting to be offloaded. How about at night (10:30PM), when I'm back from work and can poop while pooped? Won't I have lost too much weight, then? Then there's the question of my weird mealtime schedule. I certainly don't want to weigh myself too soon after eating, but how long should I wait?

292.6 pounds is great news, because it represents a nearly nine-pound loss from the original January 31 weigh-in (301 pounds). But it also feels somehow unearned: I normally eat almost nothing while I'm at work, for fear of engendering a Poop Reaction (whenever I eat, I tend to want to release a herd of war slugs soon after), so weight loss is only natural, and doesn't occur with any real conscious effort on my part. How "legit," then, is a nighttime weigh-in? Am I cheating? Or is this more a case of "Weight is weight. Don't overthink this"?

I imagine some commenter will tell me simply to set a routine weekday and time, and just stick with that. Establish a statistical baseline and be consistent. Daytime weigh-ins shouldn't be followed by nighttime weigh-ins. Make sure your body is in the same state at every weigh-in. I'd agree with this hypothetical commenter that that's good advice.

For the time being, I think I'll stick with daytime, post-defecation weigh-ins on Mondays. But I may peek at my weight late at night, on occasion, just because I'm curious.


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