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Not knowing when I weigh in really helps!

chunkytfg
chunkytfg Posts: 339 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I, much like the vast majority of everyone on here have self sabotaged themselves at some point in the weight loss process. I know I used to do it pretty much every week. I would weigh in Monday morning feel good about myself, have a couple of good days followed by the midweek blow out which would last 1 or two days. I would then spend the rest of the week desperately trying to compensate for the 5K of extra calories i'd probably destroyed without even thinking about it.

I am very fortunate to have a very supportive girlfriend who has seen me struggling with the getting the last bit of weight off for best part of a year now.

She recently decided that maybe we should try something new. A surprise Weigh in. Meaning I record my weight and measurements on a bit of paper and then she writes a date for my weigh in on it sometime this month. I have no idea when it will be and I will be told as we go to bed that tomorrow will be weigh in day.

I have found over the last 2 weeks I has really focussed my mind and helped me to control the urges to go mad with the food.

I write this not as a suggestion for something your should do but merely to give you an possible idea on a way to tackle the mid week binge eat that I imagine many of you face dealing with every week. It may work for you or may not but it can't hurt to try maybe.

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  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    How interesting.

    I can see how this could encourage a person not to go full-on binge on any given day.
  • chunkytfg
    chunkytfg Posts: 339 Member
    LAWoman72 wrote: »
    How interesting.

    I can see how this could encourage a person not to go full-on binge on any given day.

    Exactly. I have had 'naughty' foods but because of the unknown I have kept it in the realms of a coulee of jaffa cakes or a posh yoghurt rather than a a packet of doughnuts and a 12'' meatball subway!!!
  • chunkytfg
    chunkytfg Posts: 339 Member
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Like a surprise UA... :p


    Not entirely sure what a UA is?
  • LAWoman72
    LAWoman72 Posts: 2,846 Member
    chunkytfg wrote: »
    quiksylver296 wrote: »
    Like a surprise UA... :p


    Not entirely sure what a UA is?

    Oh ha ha, I think I just got this...urinalysis? Like for a drug test?

  • chunkytfg
    chunkytfg Posts: 339 Member
    LAWoman72 wrote: »

    Oh ha ha, I think I just got this...urinalysis? Like for a drug test?

    Yeah that would make sense. I get those at work but we call them DnA tests (Drugs n Alcohol)
  • Will_Run_for_Food
    Will_Run_for_Food Posts: 561 Member
    edited November 2016
    Interesting! When I was with Weight Watchers, I would always be good all week leading up to my Friday weigh-in and then blow it on the weekend thinking I had the time to work it off. Nope! And I never made it to my goal weight...

    Good luck with this method! Props to your gf for thinking of it.
  • hapa11
    hapa11 Posts: 182 Member
    Great idea!
  • chunkytfg
    chunkytfg Posts: 339 Member
    Update:

    2 surprise weigh in's now complete over what amounts to about 5 weeks.

    5 Kgs down so far and other than a couple of days where I logged over my usual daily allowance its been really successful

    So if your someone who has a mid week sabotage and then tries to recover by the time the next weigh comes round, get your OH on board and start down the road of the unknown!
  • sarko15
    sarko15 Posts: 330 Member
    This is such a great idea! I know weigh-in day sometimes feels like a dark cloud hanging above my head and I think random weigh ins would maybe help with some of the anxiety around it, and encourage healthy habits all week long.
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