Day before weigh in ideas?
 

No, I'm not looking to cheat the system, I am on this journey for life here. But, I would truly like to see results at my weigh in tomorrow.
I find my weight fluctuates and often on weigh in day, it reflects "up" when I know it just isn't so.
I try to wear the same thing each week, even the same underwear (clean, of course!) but I keep thinking that if I eat or drink something, that I might be able to really see what I see on my home scale for a change.
Or, is my home scale so off that it's pointless to worry about it all? ;)
At any rate, I'm interested to hear what you all like to do the day before and if you find it helps?

I'm back here after a very long absence. I hope to be more faithful.

Hi Linda,
Hope your weigh-in went well. My meeting is Saturday morning, so I don't eat or drink before I go, and I also try to eat light the night before.

But even so, our weight fluctuates so much for so many different reasons, it will eventually even out.

Good luck!

I don't worry about it and I weigh in at 4:00 pm on Monday. As long as I know I have stuck to the program and faithfull journaled every bite, lick and taste, I feel successful. The scale often lies and is not the best way to measure progress. We have to learn a new lifestyle and what we need to do to keep the weight off after we lose it.

Things I do during the couple of days before weigh in:

1. I don't eat out unless I can go somewhere where I can be very careful what I eat and it won't be too many points (Panera, for example, is fine).

2. I watch my sodium. I don't want to be retaining water right before weigh in. Last Saturday I weighed in and was retaining water and was up a couple of pounds and it really ticked me off.

3. I don't do weight lifting on Friday. I will do treadmill, just not weight lifting. That sometimes causes water retention.

4. I usually eat closer to my minimum of 26 points a day. I may go over it a couple of points, but not more than that.

I also wear the same clothes on Saturday to weigh in. I usually wear shorts and tank top and take my Fitbit off when I weigh. If I think I will get cold or am going out after the meeting I bring long pants to the meeting and change in the restroom after I weight in.

That said -- like Susan -- I once attended an afternoon meeting and just had to adjust to that. What I would do when I did that was try to wear similar weight clothing each week and tried to eat a fairly consistent lunch each week.