Weight trend
A weight trend is a rolling average of your daily weigh-ins, usually over seven days, which strips out water and gut-content noise and shows the direction body fat is actually moving.
A single morning weigh-in is a measurement of body fat plus food in transit plus body water plus glycogen plus whatever the bladder is holding. Only the first of those is the thing you care about, and it is the smallest source of day-to-day variation.
Why the average works
Fat mass changes slowly and in one direction. The noise sources change quickly and in both. Averaging seven consecutive days leaves most of the noise cancelled and most of the signal intact, which is why a trend line moves smoothly while the raw dots scatter.
How to build one
Weigh every morning under the same conditions: after using the bathroom, before eating or drinking, in the same amount of clothing. Record the number without reacting to it. Compare this week's average with last week's. That difference, divided by seven, is your real daily rate.
Missing a day is fine. Weighing only on Mondays is not — a weekly single reading carries all the noise of a single reading and none of the cancellation.
What a good rate looks like
For most people in a fat loss phase, somewhere between 0.25 and 1 per cent of bodyweight per week. Faster than that usually means more muscle lost. Slower usually means the deficit is smaller than the log suggests.
स्रोत
- 1.Weight management — NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
- 2.Body Weight Planner — NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
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