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Post by linda72 on Mar 20, 2017 22:24:02 GMT
Beck Week 3 Day 21 Get Ready to Weigh In
Many of us weigh every day but Beck talks about weighing once a week. It’s important to look at the weight as data to use to guide your eating. It is also a chance to analyze how the week has gone so you can make adjustments the next week. When the week shows a gain think what you would tell a close friend in this situation. Weight loss is not a regular thing.
How have you reacted to a bad weigh in? Does it cause you a lot of stress? Or, can you look through your tracker and see where some improvements might be made?
For me, the whole purpose of the Beck book is to teach you to be mindful of what you’re eating. Not every day will be perfect. But, learning how to handle the ups and downs will allow you to guide your little sail boat through the “waters of life” and help you be successful.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Mar 21, 2017 15:13:00 GMT
I do pretty good with the scale but when it tends up I do get fussy because I know why it is going up (usually portion creep) and don't want to admit I need to do something about it. I like keeping track of my daily weight because it helps so much to go back and look at my history. Usually it turns out that I'm not that much off from where I was a year ago.
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Post by doordie50 on Mar 21, 2017 15:25:54 GMT
I was advised years ago to look at the scale as an informational tool and not the whole picture. Since I'm only human, I still can have an emotional response about my WI's either pleased or disappointed but, I've learned its necessary to staying engaged. I used to WI once a week but, recently have been trying to get on the scale every morning and in the hopes of making it a habit.
I can see that daily fluctuations or spotting trends can be useful information. It also helps to keep me an honest broker and not prone to deluding myself about my real weight simply by avoiding the scale.
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Post by jancanlose2016 on Mar 21, 2017 19:28:51 GMT
I've started weighing every day and writing it down. When I don't weigh regularly, and take it seriously, I get into big trouble. It is interesting, I guess, how the number goes up and down from day to day. It annoys the heck out of me when it goes up 1 1/2 to 2 pounds in 24 hours, but sometimes it goes down that much too. In the end, as long as I stay within a 5 pound range I've set for myself I guess I'm OK. What I cannot do is allow a little elevation in the number to set me on an eating frenzy. We do give too much power to the scale. It's just a number, right?
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Post by Tammy on Mar 21, 2017 22:22:00 GMT
If you are the type of person (and many are) to eat more on the weekend and less on weekdays, then you can easily follow a regular pattern where your weight goes up and down within about a 4 pound range every week. When I ate like this (it doesn't come naturally to me, I had to plan it), my weight was usually highest on Thursday, give or take a day, and lowest around Saturday morning (conveniently my WI day  ). You can usually eat more total food this way - by varying how much you eat every day - and maintain or lose. I'm not a big fan of change, so I mostly eat the same every day. But my point is that a single day doesn't really tell you if you are gaining or losing. You need to look at a longer term trend. If you are losing fairly well, a week might be enough to see a loss most of the time. If you are losing fairly slowly, it might take a month to be able to see a difference. For maintainers, it is even worse. We need to not react to 3 or 4 up days (could be salt) but be cognizant of when that turns into 5,6,7 days. And for our sanity, we need to not over-react, but calmly rein it in. In my younger days, gaining 5 pounds was no big deal, because I could lose it quickly. Those days are gone, and I have to keep my weight tighter or I'll end up with a long term problem. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 0:16:22 GMT
I weigh every day and unless I have had a real salt bomb or my IBS was really bad the day before I don't have big upswings.I look at the figure but don't really pay attention to a change one way or the other until my weekly WI day.If I have gone off plan I will blame myself but still don't get upset at the scale.It is just a number unless I go over my goal and then I know I need to do something about it.
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). You can usually eat more total food this way - by varying how much you eat every day - and maintain or lose. I'm not a big fan of change, so I mostly eat the same every day. 