I've been changing my ticker every day, but I just got started a few days ago, and it hasn't exactly been a success story! This is the first time that I've been honest enough with myself that I need to have the support of a group like this, and I need to be honest enough about gains. So, right now while I'm at the beginning of this journey and just trying to get into a routine I can live with, I'll be reporting. I imagine once I've lost a lot of weight, I'll be more accepting of normal fluctuations. In the past, if I saw a weight gain of a pound or two, I'd give up and go get a bag of chips!
I weigh in every day, but my "official" weigh in day is Friday, and that's when I adjust my ticker. Like others, I don't change my ticker for daily fluctuations.
I always go up and down between the same 2-3 pounds, so unless its a 5 pound gain, and its stuck for a few weeks, I don't change it....
The only time I'll change my ticker or profile weight, is when my highest seen weight on the scale is lowered...so right now even tho it says 186...I hover between 184-186 everyday(PMS bloat excluded of course )
This is the only time I have gained since I started in June. I am going to wait a day or two to stabilize, and if I still show a gain, I will adjust my ticker.
Seems like I have spent a lot of time today in the bathroom off loading water, so we'll see...
So far I havnt changed mine for my holiday weight. Good to know most of you more experienced folks just accept small fluctuations. Makes me feel better. I think I will do what most of you do and only change it for a trend up, not one week/two lbs.
I weigh in daily. When I'm on plan and see little increases in my weight, I chalk it up to normal fluctuations and leave it. I was totally OFF plan for an entire week over my Christmas vacation and the scale is way UP. I'm giving myself a week on plan before changing my ticker.
Hi Fluffypuppy. Like many others, I don't edit the tracker. If I were to gain 5 pounds and they stuck for like 2-3 days I might. I have 2.4 of obstinate weight right now that is + on my true scale. However those will disappear soon enough ... just don't sweat it. You'll see anthing that's lower go away when they bounce back/forth 'cause our bodies transition along the journey.
Ordinarily I don't, because knowing my ticker isn't 100% accurate bothers me enough that I actually work harder to get the weight off if my weight is higher than the ticker weight. I don't like even small white-lies and lies of ommission, so to feel like I'm not lying, I will work harder to make sure the ticker isn't a lie. If I changed it immediately, I wouldn't feel that pressure. Kind of weird, but it works for me.
I made an exception though for today. I changed my ticker last night, because I wanted my New Year's weight to be spot-on accurate. I started a new food journal too, so it was just a way to have that "starting fresh" feeling - even though I've said many times "there is no starting fresh or starting over there's just moving on."
Weigh in day was every Wednesday while I was losing. I changed my ticker every Wednesday (unless it was the same as the week before.) Now I weigh in on the 1st Wednesday of the month and make changes if it is more than 5 pounds. I think we start to slide if we don't hold ourselves accountable. And to say we've lost more than our ticker shows as we gain and re-lose the same pounds is not really accurate. If we lose 50 pounds, gain 5, lose 7, we haven't lost 57 pounds, we've lost 52. It's like money saved - if you save $20,000 for a down payment on a house, but spend $10,000 on a vacation, then save $12,000 more for the house, you don't have $32,00 for the house - you have $22,000. Just my opinion. But I think changing the ticker in both directions is instrumental in accurately keeping our head in the game.
Ordinarily I don't, because knowing my ticker isn't 100% accurate bothers me enough that I actually work harder to get the weight off if my weight is higher than the ticker weight. I don't like even small white-lies and lies of ommission, so to feel like I'm not lying, I will work harder to make sure the ticker isn't a lie. If I changed it immediately, I wouldn't feel that pressure. Kind of weird, but it works for me.
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This makes perfect sense to me, and so do all of you! Who else?
Mine is a wish for a new job opportunity...no resolutions really except for to try not to let everything stress me out so easily. That's going to be hard since that's just part of my personality but worth a try.
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