Anyone ever delayed changing your ticker downward so as not to jinx it
When I got under 300 lbs again, I immediately changed my ticker - and gained the next day (due to normal TOM weight gain). The gain left with TOM like it always does, but I've been postponing my ticker change.
I'm tempted to wait until I lose a few more pounds before changing my ticker, and I'm not sure if I'm being sensible or silly (if either).
On one hand, I don't think it matters when or whether I change my ticker, but I also feel silly, like I'm being superstitious.
That is funny! I fretted about the ticker so much at first that I finally decided that it gets changed on the 1st of the month and that's it. Although, I have to admit that kind of takes away a celebration opportunity. Congrats on your celebratory milestone even if the scale wiggles around it.
I've felt that way. I think it helps me to have an "official" weigh-in day, even though I weigh daily. I change my ticker to whatever the official weigh-in is and don't change it again until the next week.
I love seeing that sucker go down. Even if I weigh in next time and it's gone up I just leave the ticker alone until it goes down like I know it eventually will.
It's kind of a motivation anyways, to keep doing good so I can quickly get back to that number.
I used to fret about my ticker. It wasn't a case of superstition...but if I moved my ticker down and then gained, I felt like I was being dishonest! Interestingly, I didn't feel dishonest on the days I weighed less than what my ticker said. I ultimately decided I had too many other things to worry about. Nowadays, I typically change my ticker every Monday, which is my official weigh-in day (although I weigh myself daily).
BTW, kaplods...Congratulations on getting below 300!!
Haha!! I was just thinking I should change my ticker (I reached 196.6 this morning), and then decided not to just yet because we went out to dinner at On The Border, and I'm sure I'll gain a pound or two of water which will take a week to get off (and then after that TOM will add the weight back on ).
I do find myself rounding up, though, when adjusting my ticker. Like I would set my weight at 197, instead of 196...I wish there was a way to make it exact, but it only just takes whatever I type before the decimal point.
I'm doing it right now. My weight bounced up and down for a week and a half right around what my ticker says, and today it whooshed! Just a little, but it feels so good to see a new number that I don't want to jinx it. If it lasts tomorrow I will probably update it though. Maybe Monday.
Edit: by ticker I mean the numbers in my profile. Although now that I am thinking about it, I'm going to add a ticker!
Last edited by Secret Swan; 09-02-2013 at 01:10 AM.
yup!! I have to have an official ticker changing day. I feel like changing it too soon will jinx it even though I don't believe in that. lol no logic there! I hate changing it up so I try not to jump the gun after a lose too. currently my ticker says I weigh 21,210 lbs ..... look
Last edited by GlamourGirl827; 08-31-2013 at 08:27 PM.
I change it on the way down and don't change it up unless I know a gain is a gain. I eat at home and at school and out oftenish so my water levels are in flux alot.
if I moved my ticker down and then gained, I felt like I was being dishonest! Interestingly, I didn't feel dishonest on the days I weighed less than what my ticker said.
I typically lose in spurts then regain 1-2 lb of that loss until the next spurt. When I am losing I will frantically update with each lower number, when I am not losing I just wait patiently and pretend the higher number doesn't exist.
I love seeing that sucker go down. Even if I weigh in next time and it's gone up I just leave the ticker alone until it goes down like I know it eventually will.
It's kind of a motivation anyways, to keep doing good so I can quickly get back to that number.
Ditto! I figure as long as I'm staying OP, water weight doesn't count. I'll just wait it out.
Normally I'm pretty laid back about the scale and ticker, but my 30 - 35 lb backslide this winter shook my confidence just a bit.
Old "diet mentality nonsense" keeps cropping up. Habits and superstitions I thought I had left in the distant past. I don't let it trip me up, but the deja vu is a bit annoying.
Anyone ever delayed changing your ticker downward so as not to jinx it
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