So, I’ve been weighing myself several times a day (as the fancy strikes me) and noticed that my bodyweight typically fluctuates about 5 pounds over the course of the day (about 3%). I notice that I’m most often at the 185lb. mark. I’m going to assume that this is average for me and this amount of weight fluctuation is not abnormal.
Recently, I’ve been noticing that I’m fluctuating more than 10 lbs. between days! Some days I’ll be at 195 and others at 178ish. Granted, during this period, my activities have been significantly different than before (less crap foods, indeed, less food in general and more exercise than I’m accustomed to). I suppose that fluctuation is only 5-6%, but is that normal/healthy? But 20 lbs. between two days? I certainly don’t feel any different than I normally do.
The only explanation I can think of is that I’m catching the extremes of the tolerance of the scale: i.e. 2% on this side plus 2% on the other side combined with the normal 3% change.