Losing Weight through Self-Metabolization

You'll recall that this year we bought a food scale so we could carry the obsessive compulsion of cataloging pawpaws further out toward the nth degree. Now we're recording not only dates of each fruit's harvest but also weights. This is the first pawpaw on the scale back on Sept 6th.

Then, out of curiosity, I weighed the same pawpaw on Sept 7th. It had lost weight.

And what of the same pawpaw on Sept 8th? It had lost more weight.

It presents a problem for the conscientious pawpaw weigher: When to weigh the pawpaw--when it's first disconnected from the tree or right before you're going to eat it?

For right now we're going with disconnection from the tree.