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Scales a incredibly misleading, depending on the time on the day you step on one of them. I weight myself every day, seven days a week, at the same time: right after i step out of bed. It is the only way you can know for sure your exact weight, without the interference of factors like the digestion process (which tends to fluctuate your weight throughout the day), hydration, alcohol consumption, etc...Having the scale by my bed helps too. I have some guidelines that i follow in order to evaluate the truthfulness of the number the scale throws at me (it is really just two rules):
1- I have to have had at least 7 hours of sleep before i can trust the number on the scale. Your body needs time to get rid of all the unnecessary things that get in the way of loosing weight.
2. If i have alcohol the night before, I take the number with a grain of salt. Usually, your weight is affected by alcohol consumption.
That's it! I hope it helps.

I believe the correct name of the rice pudding place is Rise to Riches, not Rich to Riches...take it from someone who goes there three times a week, at least :)

You may go to Seabra's Supermarket in Newark, NJ. They have a Portuguese butcher who can probably help you with that.
Here is the address:
260 Lafayette St, Newark, NJ
(973) 589-8606

When I am sad or stressed out I go to Fairway Supermarkets in Harlem (free parking! already feeling better) and buy a Baguette, 1/4 pound of Serrano Ham, some olives, pesto sauce and some manchego cheese. I make a sandwich with all that and have the whole thing by myself! I am so full afterward that I fall sleep for a good couple of hours; I almost always feel better equipped to deal with whatever it is bothering me after I wake up.

If the Dulce de Leche ice cream at Cones on Bleecker street ceased to exist, I think I would buy 10 containers of it at once and stack them up inside the second freezer I would buy just for them...:)
It is the most delicious Dulce de Leche (caramel) variation I have tasted in a looooooong time.

I weigh myself once a week, so that I don't get too obsessed with the numbers. First thing in the morning, after going to the bathroom, no clothes. I also take my measurements every couple of weeks, because even when I'm not losing pounds it helps to know if I'm getting any smaller.

I also just got back from a week-long vacation that involved drinking every day and eating most meals out. The scale was not happy. It is time for a detox - no drinking or eating out for a couple weeks at least.

I recently hit a milestone weight loss of 25 lbs. I have convinced myself that the first 10 was from increasing my water intake to at least 2 litres per day. I weigh myself daily so that, like you, I can monitor my progress, but my official registry of my weight [in a simple word document I created myself] is on Monday mornings. I find that the official weigh-in day is important to my success. I also know that weight loss can vary widely from day to day, but that a weekly weigh-in gives you enough of a look at how you're doing overall. I hope my experiences help, and congratulations and keep up the good work!

Honey, from someone who knows..the weight shows up a week later not two days after the big meal....if u begin weighing every day trying to get 1 no lower then if after reviewing the restaurant if you are 1 up - starve until that no goes down...heck it might not make u a great reviewer since u will be so hungry everything will taste good, but it will certainly make u a lot of new friends in the bus.

I've tried the once-a-week thing but am far too impatient to maintain my sanity in between weighings. What works for me is a daily morning weighing right after rising. Like randomeater, my numbers go into a spreadsheet from which a trend is monitored. Since your weight can vary so much from day to day, monitoring the trend really is key.

Without getting too deep technically, a good way to track the trend is to use what the propellerheads call an "exponentially-smoothed weighted average." Really, all you have to do is add 90% of the previous day's moving average to 10% of the latest weight to get today's trend value. Even if your weight goes up and down from day to day, as long as your daily weight readings stay below the moving average, your diet is working.

John Walker goes into far deeper detail on his Hacker's Diet web page. Despite the name, THD isn't really a diet but a good explanation of the basics behind losing weight and it's worth taking a look at. Good Luck!

I weigh myself twice a week, on Wednesday and Sunday evenings. That number is then inputted into a spreadsheet, from which a trendline is produced.