The scale can be a lousy storyteller.
You step on one morning and you’re down two pounds.
Fantastic.
Next morning you’re up a pound and a half.
Apparently everything has gone terribly wrong overnight. 😂
Except it hasn’t.
Body weight moves around for all kinds of ordinary reasons. Water. Food. Time of day. What you did yesterday.
That’s why I’ve become much more interested in other questions.
How do you feel?
Are your clothes fitting differently?
Do you have more energy?
Are you stronger?
Can you carry the groceries more easily?
Can you get off the floor?
Are you moving with less stiffness?
Sleeping better?
Walking farther without thinking about it?
Those things tell me considerably more about someone’s life than whether the bathroom scale moved three-tenths of a pound this morning.
If you’re trying to lose weight, the scale can still be useful.
Use it.
Just don’t let one morning’s number tell you whether what you’re doing is working.
Watch the direction over time. Then go live your life.
Your body is considerably more interesting than a number on the bathroom floor.