Miss Demeanour
I.P. Freely
Some fundamental truths about scales:-
1) stick to the diet and you cannot fail to lose weight. it may be in fits and starts (erratic losses are not unusual), but you will lose it. At this kinda calorie level, you cannot not lose weight.
2) You will lose weight at your own personal rate, which is rarely, ever, consistent. One's own personal rate is a mystery know only to the pixies, and at this level of calorie intake, there is little you can do to speed it up.
3) Looking at scales is not going to speed anything up. You can look at them daily, weekly or monthly, but the amount lost at the end of that month will be the same.
4) fluctuations even themselves out over time. Not losing weight today (or even this week) is no reason to be proper upset. (Although I will allow 'a bit miffed'
) If you stuck to the diet, you could not have done anything different, therefore the loss will just be delayed a bit. But it'll go.
5) if, however, you didn't stick to the diet, you need to be accepting of that fact. Maybe even write the week off, put it behind you and start again. But don't be surprised or disappointed.
6) Your losses will slow over time. And typical weekly losses vary with current weight, for the same sort of reason.
So what I'm trying to say is, look at the scales daily if you like, or never at all. It doesn't really matter to your losses overall whatever you do. If you can see frequent weighings as an 'interim reading' and not let it ruin your day, then fill yer boots. When the bathroom in my old house was set up I was a daily weigher, now they haven't been dug out of the box yet. But when I do get those sort of things unpacked, I *know* I will have lost weight. Don't know how much, but I can't do anything to change that amount anyway - so knowing or not knowing, is not going to change anything. If I'm on the same daily diet, my body will lose weight at it's own rate, whether I know what it is, or not.
So chill. Don't let it affect your mood. Odd things happen, and you can't actually do much about it anyway.
1) stick to the diet and you cannot fail to lose weight. it may be in fits and starts (erratic losses are not unusual), but you will lose it. At this kinda calorie level, you cannot not lose weight.
2) You will lose weight at your own personal rate, which is rarely, ever, consistent. One's own personal rate is a mystery know only to the pixies, and at this level of calorie intake, there is little you can do to speed it up.
3) Looking at scales is not going to speed anything up. You can look at them daily, weekly or monthly, but the amount lost at the end of that month will be the same.
4) fluctuations even themselves out over time. Not losing weight today (or even this week) is no reason to be proper upset. (Although I will allow 'a bit miffed'
) If you stuck to the diet, you could not have done anything different, therefore the loss will just be delayed a bit. But it'll go.5) if, however, you didn't stick to the diet, you need to be accepting of that fact. Maybe even write the week off, put it behind you and start again. But don't be surprised or disappointed.
6) Your losses will slow over time. And typical weekly losses vary with current weight, for the same sort of reason.
So what I'm trying to say is, look at the scales daily if you like, or never at all. It doesn't really matter to your losses overall whatever you do. If you can see frequent weighings as an 'interim reading' and not let it ruin your day, then fill yer boots. When the bathroom in my old house was set up I was a daily weigher, now they haven't been dug out of the box yet. But when I do get those sort of things unpacked, I *know* I will have lost weight. Don't know how much, but I can't do anything to change that amount anyway - so knowing or not knowing, is not going to change anything. If I'm on the same daily diet, my body will lose weight at it's own rate, whether I know what it is, or not.
So chill. Don't let it affect your mood. Odd things happen, and you can't actually do much about it anyway.
