Felt I had to check again today. Still hardly a whoosh but 197.7, and an exact 18lbs off in 8 weeks.
Excellent! Look how you've gotten back into this!! You are doing marvelously. Just keep at it. Keep on going, going, going....
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I think the only pattern I can follow is: weigh daily until that drives me insane; then weigh monthly until that drives me insane; then either go back to weekly or move on to monthly.
I was afraid of daily weighing at first, but I love it now! I get to have victories almost everyday except TOM time, but when I was weighing once a week and lost less than a pound it did tick me off. Now I see the natural flucuations and I may have been the same or down .5 on weigh day, but the next I was down 1.5 and it stayed! Do what is best for you, but you might want to try daily weighing for a while.
197.3 - after 3 bathroom visits, don't know what's wrong with me today! Although, my treat yesterday, was some hot roast pork - I wonder if it was too fatty? Yesterday was completely within calorie/carb/fibre/fat/protein limits but maybe it was just too much all in one go?
I understand the scale anxiety having suffered from it myself. Long term daily weighing has helped me because now I do it without thinking about it. I have a tendency to over think everything and I think that is where my anxiety comes from. I have learned my fluctuations. It is amazing how much difference a bm can make.
You got 18 lbs off in 8 weeks!! I think that is fantastic. I am thrilled to get 8 pounds off in 8 weeks. You are doing great! Maybe you need to adjust your expectations?? Give yourself the credit you deserve, my friend.
I am very happy when I look at the big picture of this current weightloss. Somehow, though, the daily weighing I find upsetting. I KNOW it can't show a day by day slide - but I haven't yet been able to get over the negative feelings I get when it doesn't.
Trouble is, weekly weighing gives me a massive disappointment sometimes, too.
I daren't risk monthly yet!
I am very happy when I look at the big picture of this current weightloss. Somehow, though, the daily weighing I find upsetting. I KNOW it can't show a day by day slide - but I haven't yet been able to get over the negative feelings I get when it doesn't.
Trouble is, weekly weighing gives me a massive disappointment sometimes, too.
I daren't risk monthly yet!
And again - WELL DONE YOU!!!!!
I agree with Cheryl that eventually with daily weighing the scale started to lose so much power, because I began to understand it more.
I don't know if you have or would consider a Tanita scale (they're unfortunately pricey) I think it was my Tanita that got me over the scale hump because it gives me body fat, water weight percentage AND weight....
After a while the pattern gets SUPER predictable... my water weight percentage goes UP and my weight goes UP.... back in April, I gained between four and five pounds and it stayed on for two weeks.... I knew I was OP and I "felt" bloaty, but in the past, I would have started obsessing about my food, wondering if I was lying to myself about what I was eating, or thinking that somehow I had "done something wrong" to gain the weight...
But this time, the Tanita gave it to me right there in a concrete number-- my water weight percentage was way out of whack... eventually, I lost the water weight and the pounds came right off, and then some... somehow SEEING the water weight percentage feels more reliable and cuts down on my obsessive second-guessing.
Something to consider as it has been a godsend for me.
I hope it does lose power soon. A 1.5lb Gain overnight.
I know it's not fat.
I know that, in the teeth of an almost overwhelming urge to binge yesterday, I did not, I stayed 100% on plan.
I feel in a difficult place right now. If I weigh weekly, the losses I'm getting at the minute just make me want to stab myself.
When I weigh daily, I don't get 'daily victories', I get daily slaps in the face.
Basically, struggling at the moment.
I hope it does lose power soon. A 1.5lb Gain overnight.
I know it's not fat.
I know that, in the teeth of an almost overwhelming urge to binge yesterday, I did not, I stayed 100% on plan.
I feel in a difficult place right now. If I weigh weekly, the losses I'm getting at the minute just make me want to stab myself.
When I weigh daily, I don't get 'daily victories', I get daily slaps in the face.
Basically, struggling at the moment.
You have got to find the mature, reasonable, intelligent person in yourself.
When something like this happened to me I would tell myself over and over again that there is no way in H#$L that that weight could be anything else but a water based variance/fluctuation. KNOWING that I've stayed on plan there is no other explanation for it. There just isn't. That's where that reasonable, mature, intelligent woman must comes into play. I told myself this - and now I don't have to *convince* myself of it when it happens ever again, because I am certain of it.
Daily weighing taught me to get on that scale one time, note the number and move on with my day. If I've had a weight loss - great - all the more reason to keep on doing what I'm doing - if I've had a weight gain - all the more reason to keep doing what I'm doing - it's going to eventually work.
My plan is a good one, of this I am sure, so when I am positive that I've been 100% on plan - my food behaviors don't have to change, nor does my mood, because of iwhat the scale says.
Get on that scale and move on with your on plan day.
