Seconded!…and should you weigh every day?
Gertie Stein:
Kate- I hear you.
Its been rough lately! How come some weeks can feel so empowered and living a healthier lifestyle seems like an inevitable future, and then others are a crap shoot?
I got on the scale this morning and was not totally horrified by what I saw. Not great….but not as many steps back as I had feared given my life lately. As I went through my morning, I kept thinking of that number in my head every time I made a choice about what I would or wouldn’t eat (Halloween candy! Be damned!). It helped some….
I think I am a ‘weigh every day’ kind of girl. For now anyhow. I know a lot of sources discourage you from this–and I can definitely see how it could become an obsession if your not careful– but I find that it is a nice reminder every day why I am doing this….
Goals for this week:
- Make some healthy homemade soups to stock my fridge and freezer for the coming winter
- Pay attention to how much money I am spending on junk or fast food when I have alternatives at home (i.e. Starbucks, diet cokes, Subway….)
- Walk my dog every day that it is sunny. This is Chicago, after all, and I hear the dark, freezing whisper of winter already….
I started out weighing every day in order to motivate myself and so I could modify things if the numbers started to go up. This worked great in the beginning, but when I reached a plateau or the weight loss slowed down, it started to make me crazy! I became a little obsessed with the scale. Now I definitely do it once a week, and if I feel like I had a good day in between, I’ll weigh myself the next morning to get a little confidence boost.