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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 19, 2020 0:49:44 GMT
Wednesday, 08/19
Thinking mistake #2: Negative Fortune Telling
You predict the future negatively, without considering other possible outcomes.
Since I didn't lose weight this week, I'll never be able to lose weight.
Since I gave into that craving, I'll never be able to tolerate cravings.
How do you deal with negative fortunetelling?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 19, 2020 0:50:13 GMT
I do have a tendency to think things will go badly. A lot of that is due to my anxiety. I usually work on the logical side of things to bring myself around, and then think of things I can do. Like if I'm going to an event and am not sure there will be on plan food there I remind myself that I can still practice portion control and talk to myself to get myself away from tempting food.
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Post by cathygeha on Aug 19, 2020 7:05:01 GMT
Negative Fortune Telling
Hmm...if I don't exercise today I won't ever again (I feel that way sometimes). I think a lot of my thinking mistakes have to do with exercise and a few others to do with calories taken in...but I more and more aware of those pitfalls.
Today I will get back to walking again since I have seen the slide away from it and it is time to get back to it AND I will also get back to tracking and eating on program. Two days did a number on the scale progress I was making and two days did enough damage to wake me up before the number changes more.
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 19, 2020 16:18:10 GMT
cathygeha, Good for you for getting back on the horse.
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Post by lani on Aug 19, 2020 17:07:33 GMT
My DH is more a worst case scenario person than me. I think it tips me over to minimizing things just to counter-act him. As far as food/weight goes, I guess I get that losing-control feeling if I start gaining. I try to be rational about it.
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Post by surfgirl on Aug 19, 2020 18:42:03 GMT
I definitely have a tendency to catastrophize things in my life, but not really in my weight loss journey, interestingly enough. I think by now, I've come to terms with the fact that if I lose weight it's on me, and if I don't it's also on me. So this doesn't really affect my weight loss, but it does affect my life and it's something I work on constantly. In fact, my therapist gave me the Thinking Mistakes too, because she practices CBT.
Question not related to today's topic:
I sometimes check my weight on Wednesday morning to see where I am for the week, although my official WI day is Friday. The reason I do WI on Fridays is probably because when I started using the Wendie method of using my WPs, Friday was my Super High Point day (an extra 15-20 WPs) because we always eat out that day. So I figured I'd do WI that morning and then have the week to recover from that. However, what I'm noticing is that often I'm lowest on Wed. morning. I'm going to track this for the next few weeks to see if I really am lowest on Wednesdays or if it was coincidence, but what I wanted to ask you all is this - If I am indeed at my lowest weight all week on Wednesdays, is it cheating if I move my WI day to Wednesdays going forward?
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Post by bbbearsmom on Aug 20, 2020 1:29:27 GMT
surfgirl, I don't know what you would be cheating. You only get an advantage the first week you do it, after that the amount of the losses will probably be the same as if you were doing Friday to Friday.
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lizlor
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Post by lizlor on Aug 20, 2020 23:31:47 GMT
On bad days, I do let negative fortune telling prevail and convince myself I’ll “never loose weight.” But if I keep it simple, follow the rules and exercise, all goes well. One day at a time.
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