What I'm finding most helpful about weighing in daily is that I'm starting to see patterns how my weight fluctuates from day to day which is really interesting along with seeing a weekly average of my weight. I think the biggest thing that affects how my weight is on the scale is actually my work out the day before.

I've noticed that typically my weight goes up on Monday and Tuesday which makes a ton of sense because Sundays are long run days and then Monday I have a strength training and cardio session after work. I'd expect my weight to go up after those days just because when Tuesday rolls around I'm feeling pretty sore even if I've been diligent with foam rolling and stretching. So when I see my weight going up those days it tells me what I'm doing is working. My body is holding onto water to help my muscles repair after those strenuous workouts. Following that, I start seeing my weight go down on Wednesdays as I'm starting to feel how sore I am decrease even though I'm continuing to work out. And overall, my weekly average is down from the previous week.

I’ve seen a very interesting new fluctuation emerge this week. Starting on Wednesday, I decided to get back into tracking how much water I'm drinking, which I did a lot during marathon training and then stopped. But I decided to get back into it because I felt like I wasn't quite getting enough water in. So I set up some tasks in ToDoist so that I drink five of my water bottles every day which is around a 100 ounces of water in addition to whatever else I might drink during the day. And what I saw was a pretty dramatic downswing in my weight Thursday that's continued to hold on today which is Friday. It might not be statistically relevant since I’ll probably go up a little bit from this but it's just really interesting to see this pattern emerge in relationship to how much water I'm consciously taking in every day.

What happened is that I've been right around between 137.5 to 138.5 basically since the honeymoon. And before that the lowest I got down to was 137.1 right before we left on the honeymoon. So I wasn't surprised that I was just kind of going up and down and fluctuating after the honeymoon throughout the week and seeing a slight increase week-to-week. I had seen some really big drops those first two weeks of cutting before we left on a honeymoon (which was probably just water weight and my body recovering from the marathon) so I was just glad to kind of see that decrease post-honeymoon when I hadn't been tracking a strictly or working out as much as I might have at home.

So this week, I saw my weigh in Monday and Tuesday coming in higher which I was expecting because like I said before I tend to go up a little bit those days. Wednesday, I dropped down a pound (again wasn't surprising I wasn't feeling sore from my workouts so I expected that water weight to go away) and I was like “okay I might see it go down a little bit more this week.” I was expecting maybe a half a pound decrease at the most when I weighed in on Thursday. So I hopped on the scale Thursday morning and immediately had to get off and back on a couple of times to make sure there wasn't something strange going on with my scale because of what number it was showing. 136.2 on a scale that morning, the lowest I've been probably since my half in May. So you can see how I was kind of worried that something was going on with my scale because I've been in this kind of similar pattern of losing weight recently and I hadn’t seen that weight in a long time. I actually got really excited about seeing this weight and took a picture of my scale for Instagram stories just because I was not expecting this at all. I know before when I was much heavier and losing weight I kind of see this whoosh on the scale suddenly when I was doing once a week weigh-ins but I haven't really seen that at all with these daily weigh-ins.