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Post by bbbearsmom on Nov 21, 2019 0:04:16 GMT
Thursday, 11/21
Day 21 – Get Ready to Weigh In
In the book this is the end of the first week of actually following a diet and Beck talks about facing the scale today. She says weighing yourself is essential because:
When you lose (maintain on maintenance) you can celebrate and it builds your confidence. Remember it was your hard work that accomplished this.
If you have gained weight weighing in will keep you honest because you might need to face what you are doing versus what you think you are doing.
Weigh-ins can help you stay committed because the losses motivate you to keep going and the gains motivate you to figure out where you went wrong and you want to fix it.
Beck wants you to consider the number on the scale as information not as a character judgment. Use the information to plan what you are going to do. If you are disappointed in your scale number review how you are doing the plan and see if you need to improve things. If the scale didn’t go down and you did everything right, remember our weight varies by two to three pounds each week and that has nothing to do with gain/loss of body fat. Also she warns that your weight might not go down every week, and that no one loses the same amount each week therefore your weight losses will vary.
How do you relate to your scale number?
How do you handle it when it isn’t what you expected?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Nov 21, 2019 0:05:22 GMT
I do pretty good with my scale number but I've been maintaining for years. But, there are times my weight goes up because of portion creep and I'm not happy then. I feel frustrated then and for some reason it takes a while for me to get serious about the gain. So far at least I've been able to eventually cut back and stop the gain.
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Post by cathygeha on Nov 21, 2019 5:09:25 GMT
It is just a number It is what it is
I usually know why the number is greater so fix it if I can
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Post by luvvinlife on Nov 21, 2019 15:42:09 GMT
I see the scale as feedback. We have a conversation, whether I like what it says or not, it keeps me honest.
When it goes up it's usually what I expect it to be. However, when I take hold of the plan and adhere to it well and it doesn't go down I get really ugly!!
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Post by lani on Nov 21, 2019 16:52:20 GMT
I weigh myself daily. I try to divorce emotion from the number, but I fear I will always feel some elation when the number goes down, and disappointment when it goes up. I think my favorite is no change - then I can legitimately feel neutral about it.  |
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Post by surfgirl on Nov 21, 2019 19:01:02 GMT
I see the scale as feedback. We have a conversation, whether I like what it says or not, it keeps me honest. When it goes up it's usually what I expect it to be. However, when I take hold of the plan and adhere to it well and it doesn't go down I get really ugly!! I love this idea of having a conversation with the scale! It's true, it's telling me that my hard work is paying off, or it tells me that I fudged some tracking and went off plan and this is what happens when I do that. I can't hide what I'm doing with my behaviors because the scale doesn't have emotions, it will only tell me what I weigh in that moment and I have to figure out if that's because I'm OP or OFF-P. When I'm consistently tracking and exercising and being OP I usually see the scale go down a couple/few weeks in a row, then I'll have a maintain, maybe an upswing if I go off plan, then a drop again...So I just have to ask myself what I've been doing that reflects a loss/maintain/gain that week. Like luvvinlife, I usually know what happened. |
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Post by ladymajky on Nov 22, 2019 2:16:58 GMT
I've been holding a perfect maintenance profile: up a bit, down a bit, hovering fairly steadily around a central number. Unfortunately, that central number is about 12 lbs higher than I would like. Still, I could look back at the episodes of sabotage, the fooling-myself, the "just this once" and "he'll never know" sneaks and usually understand what was going on. C'est la vie.
Now we are embarked on the new world of green/purple/blue plans, with the promise that one of these rainbow plans will open our personal door to our heart's desire. After a full 7 days of perfect compliance, I was UP 0.2! I feel betrayed!
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Post by surfgirl on Nov 22, 2019 2:33:47 GMT
ladymajky , I'm sure it's disheartening when you feel you've adhered 100% to Plan, but it's a new plan for you so give it another couple of weeks before you decide it's the Plan and not your metabolism adjusting to the new Plan. Also, IIRC, you were very successful on Points Plus weren't you? If so, you can always go back to that, you don't have to go by whatever the Flavor of the Month Plan is with WW. If you know a past plan works for you, use it! I'm a committed PP person, there is not reason for me to go to a new plan because I know what works for me.
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Post by irisinnia on Nov 23, 2019 14:09:00 GMT
How do you relate to your scale number?
When I'm adhering to the plan, my scale number is awesome. I lose weight fairly consistently, and I try to focus on total weight loss when the number isn't very big or when it creeps up a little.
How do you handle it when it isn’t what you expected?
I am currently not friends with the scale. It gave me a maintain this week and somehow, I took that as an insult. I'd rather have a small gain so I know, hey, I need to work harder. This was a tease. Like no, you're doing everything perfectly just not enough for weight loss.
That's how I felt, but what I'm doing is taking it one day at a time, and I stopped weighing more than once a week, because it's affecting my mood.
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Post by surfgirl on Nov 23, 2019 20:13:19 GMT
I am currently not friends with the scale. It gave me a maintain this week and somehow, I took that as an insult. I'd rather have a small gain so I know, hey, I need to work harder. This was a tease. Like no, you're doing everything perfectly just not enough for weight loss. , I get what you're saying, but perhaps you can shift your response to a maintain to "hey, it's not a gain! and I'm able to maintain the last loss which is good practice for maintenance phase, so GO ME!" |
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Post by irisinnia on Nov 24, 2019 4:07:03 GMT
I am currently not friends with the scale. It gave me a maintain this week and somehow, I took that as an insult. I'd rather have a small gain so I know, hey, I need to work harder. This was a tease. Like no, you're doing everything perfectly just not enough for weight loss. , I get what you're saying, but perhaps you can shift your response to a maintain to "hey, it's not a gain! and I'm able to maintain the last loss which is good practice for maintenance phase, so GO ME!" You're right! I need to try to spin things positively. Dieting is hard but being overweight is harder. Everything I'm doing is getting me closer to my goal, which is important enough to go through these lifestyle changes - as challenging as they sometimes are. |
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