Good WI = bad eating

ASalner
ASalner Posts: 496 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Why, oh why do I do this? I finally braved the scale last Friday and had lost 4 lbs in the month of September. Then I ate all weekend (DS was home from college so it was my excuse to indulge). It's Tuesday night and I'm still not back on track! I know I'm retaining water and I made the mistake of stepping on the scale before my shower tonight. I'm up nearly 6 lbs!!

Time to clean up my act. But beyond that, why do I think I can indulge after a good WI? It should be a motivator to keep eating clean.

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  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    It's a; natural thing to want to "celebrate" after meeting a goal, which in this case was losing weight. In our culture, we associate celebration with FOOD, so it's really a natural reaction that we have to learn to fight. It might be helpful to think of non-food ways to reward yourself for losing weight. For instance, I bought myself an inexpensive pair of earrings for every 5 lbs I lost for about the 1st 45 lbs I lost. You might like new shoes, going out dancing, a massage. Anything that feels like a "reward" might help.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    edited October 2016
    Have you been restricting foods too much? Not allowing daily treats? What is your calorie deficit (as in, how many lbs per week did you set your mfp up to lose, and how much have you got to lose?) Eating clean does not necessarily guarantee weight loss.

    The 6lbs is most likely fluid retention. Don't sweat it. :)
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    I thought this was going to be about a trip to Wisconsin. ;-)

    OP, maybe if you weighed yourself more regularly so it didn't seem like a built-up, stressful thing it would help with that reaction? I know lots of people say to avoid the scale or not to weigh too much, but I found weighing daily or a few times a week (with only one "official" weigh in on one day a week) was helpful in not making me feel like I had to "brave" the scale, and also helped me understand and not overreact to the numbers and fluctuations.

    That said, it could be something other than the scale (appetite varies for lots of reasons, including hormonally/TOM), although maybe if you were undereating because you knew that WI was coming up and then once you did it felt like now you have a whole month and can relax it could play into a binge/restrict kind of cycle.
  • Jruzer
    Jruzer Posts: 3,501 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    I thought this was going to be about a trip to Wisconsin. ;-)

    Yes, or about a good Work Instruction...

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