Three years here, and I still get a raised eyebrow when the scale moves fast. I started tracking again eleven days ago. The morning after a very salty takeout dinner, I was 3.8 lbs under my baseline. My brain wanted to call it fat loss; my log reminded me I’d also eaten less, slept poorly, and drank way more water than usual. By day five, two of those pounds came back, then things settled into a much gentler slope. I’m treating the early dip as a data point, not a verdict. I’ve seen enough threads here to know the first stretch can be noisy. For those who’ve been at this a while, what helps you separate real trend from the opening shuffle?
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