It’s got to be all in my head
May 7th, 2008
Every week, without fail, I have major munchies the night before a weigh-in. It’s like I am sabotaging myself but I don’t want to. Why do I do this? This week I had to push my weigh-in to Thursday instead of Wednesday, so it’s not even my “usual” night. I have been ravenous all evening, nothing sounds great yet everything is good enough to eat. Thank God we have very little crap in the houes right now, though I did choose the crappiest stuff we do have: 100-cal pack cheetos and fat free chocolate pudding when I could have had apple, banana or yogurt instead. I’m just in a funky mood tonight and I want eating to make me feel better. Every time this happens, it is the night before a weigh-in. I am broken. I want to get fixed and be normal and not be a freak about food and eating and exercising.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:47 am
your choices aren’t all that bad - I think you’re being pretty hard on yourself
Why do you think you freak out like that before a weight in? Should you weigh more or less frequently or not at all? Just use a tape measure? I’ve found that both daily weighing and monthly can help when you’re really stressed about the scale, but both need mental management. For monthly I’m almost always disappointed I didn’t lose more - so if I lose 5 pounds I’m usually like “gee, all that effort for only 5 pounds” etc. For daily weighing the key is to not freak out w the fluctuations - so I used to keep the daily weights but “officially” count a 7 day average from Mondays. That helped keep me on track and less scared of the scale for a good period of time.
Right now I’m weighing weekly, but I expect that to change from time to time…