Heard from a guy this week who hadn't weighed himself in three months.

But he saw a picture of himself at a work event that rang his bell.

So, this week he stepped on the scale.

Worse than he thought. Not "oh, a few pounds" worse. "Holy shit, how did I let this happen" worse.

Twenty pounds, gone somewhere in the space between "I'll get back to it Monday" and now.

He thought he was maintaining. But he was slipping.

This is just another reason to weigh yourself daily.

Not because the number on any single day matters. It doesn't.

Your weight will bounce around 2-4 lbs daily based on water, sodium, glycogen, how much you ate the night before, whether you pooped.

A single reading is noise.

But the average is what you want to see.

When you have that number in front of you, three things happen:

No more surprises.

You can't drift twenty pounds without noticing when you're watching every morning.

The shame spiral of "how did I let this happen" only exists in the absence of information. Daily weigh-ins delete that.

You course-correct at 2 pounds, not 20.

Daily weigh-ins are an early warning system.

Trend creeps up. You tighten up right away. Not three months later in a crisis.

Small corrections are easy. Big ones are miserable.

Weighing in daily, with zero other changes, makes people act better.

Attention changes behavior. Know you're checking in tomorrow morning, and you think twice about a second plate.

No more surprises, please?

- Matteo

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