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Weigh before/after toilet visit?

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  • 15-10-2019 7:58pm
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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,090 ✭✭✭✭


    My PT wants me to weigh myself before eating but after doing a poo.
    Normally for me I eat my breakfast and then I’m on the toilet.

    Is there any way I can get things moving a little earlier in the morning?


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    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,559 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Sounds like they're being a little pedantic if it's just for tracking weight. Unless there's a reason why it needs to be specifically before eating but after the morning evacuation, just do it first thing before anything.


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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,090 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    So once it’s at a consistent time it doesn’t matter?


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    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    they must think you do massive poos


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    brownej
    Registered Users Posts: 886 ✭✭✭brownej


    If you are taking things this seriously you should establish what the relative accuracy of your scales is and also the repeatability.
    You will probably find that the repeatability accuracy is probably in the same range as the weight of a poo.


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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,090 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    brownej wrote: »
    If you are taking things this seriously you should establish what the relative accuracy of your scales is and also the repeatability.
    You will probably find that the repeatability accuracy is probably in the same range as the weight of a poo.

    Yes I imagine we’re talking half a pound at most


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    DuckSlice
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    As long as you do it at the same time everyday. the weight I take as my actual weight is before my gym session on a Wednesday evening. I've eaten roughly the same as I do every other day at that point. I've had my pre gym banana, and I've had my daily poo.

    I also weigh myself 3 times and take the average.


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    D3V!L
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭D3V!L


    etxp wrote: »

    I also weigh myself 3 times and take the average.

    I do the same, works out more consistently


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    Macy0161
    Registered Users Posts: 9,290 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    Once you're consistent is the main thing. When I did a sport that required weigh in's, I was surprised the difference a good dump could make though!


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    dashoonage
    Registered Users Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭dashoonage


    Once...they emptied all the ****e out of COH and he was only 55kg.


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    ellejay
    Registered Users Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭ellejay


    Gael23 wrote: »
    My PT wants me to weigh myself before eating but after doing a poo.
    Normally for me I eat my breakfast and then I’m on the toilet.

    Is there any way I can get things moving a little earlier in the morning?

    Pears for poo's!!
    as ripe as you can eat it.


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    Mango Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭Mango Joe


    Seriously??? your PT needs to focus more on the myriad of other in-play factors he should instead be considering here.....

    If for some reason you did want to humour their daft notions then why don't you just weigh an average sized deposit and then routinely deduct this value going forwards.


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    Iscreamkone
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭Iscreamkone


    You're full of ..it?


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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,090 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    ellejay wrote: »
    Pears for poo's!!
    as ripe as you can eat it.

    I don’t eat a lot of fruit actually. How long does it need to ha e the desired result?


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    ellejay
    Registered Users Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭ellejay


    Weeeell

    Everyone's different but maybe to get started you could eat two?
    I'd say an hour max to get things moving.

    Eat at same time every morning.

    For max movement eat a bowl of shreddies before the pears.


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    BarryD2
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    ellejay wrote: »
    Pears for poo's!!
    as ripe as you can eat it.

    Or two or three apples.


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    Gael23
    Registered Users Posts: 12,090 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    Had a small evacuation after eating dinner and the difference in my weight was 35g.
    It was a small one though


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    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,559 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Wake up, weigh yourself, have breakfast and have a dump.

    There is no need to know your pre-food, post-dump weight. Once you're weighing yourself under the same conditions, you can track progress.

    Unless you're a jockey, in which case you shouldn't be eating.


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    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,774 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    BarryD2 wrote: »
    Or two or three apples.

    Plus a lb of prunes.
    You'll be grand.


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    Melania Frump
    Closed Accounts Posts: 237 ✭✭Melania Frump


    My personal trainer wanted the same from me except he was just taking the pi$$.


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