I weigh myself every morning. Our digital scale is reasonably accurate, or I should say consistent. Sometimes if it’s placed a certain way on the bathroom floor it will give a reading that is out of range. But mostly you can step on it ten times and it will give the same results.
My goal is to lose 50 lbs. I’m down 30 and stuck. So to be more decisive, I hooked my mountain bike up to the training stand and have been spinning every other morning.Â
Yesterday morning I stripped down and weighed myself. 216 lbs. I moved the scale around the bathroom and it gave a consistent reading every time. Then I suited up and went for a 30-minute spin. Listened to Prairie Home Companion. During this time I didn’t drink water or eat anything.Â
I decided, just for the heck of it, to weigh myself again. There should be no change…well, I should have lost weight from sweating and exhaling carbon dioxide…nothing the scale would indicate.
NOW I WEIGHED 216.2 LBS. Just to be sure this wasn’t a bogus reading I moved the scale around the room. Every reading was the same. Perhaps I increased my muscle mass from the workout? Muscle is more dense than fat.
But what happened to the law of conservation of mass?