Scared to step on the scale...
Rajions
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So I started work almost a month ago and I have reverted back to my old routine. I'm not at all happy with myself. I find it very difficult to try to eat healthy at work. I don't have enough time to sit and eat a salad. We have a bar that is available to us (fried chicken, potato wedges, burger sliders), which makes it even worse. I'm too tired to exercise and my feet hurt too bad to even think about it. I'm not necessarily needing an answer, I'm just afraid I've gained my weight back.
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Then don't weigh yourself until you're satisfied or confident enough, because if you weigh yourself, and find a disappointing result, you will get disappointed and maybe quit, don't weigh yourself unless you've been eating clean for a while.4
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The saddest part is that denying the truth doesn't make it not true.24
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mohamedahmed07 wrote: »Then don't weigh yourself until you're satisfied or confident enough, because if you weigh yourself, and find a disappointing result, you will get disappointed and maybe quit, don't weigh yourself unless you've been eating clean for a while.
At this point I've already quit, but I think I can start back up again. Thanks1 -
mohamedahmed07 wrote: »Then don't weigh yourself until you're satisfied or confident enough, because if you weigh yourself, and find a disappointing result, you will get disappointed and maybe quit, don't weigh yourself unless you've been eating clean for a while.
At this point I've already quit, but I think I can start back up again. Thanks
Noo, don't quit, you've sticked to a routine for a while and you saw improvements, but your job got inbetween, just adjust your routine again so that it fits your work, I would suggest doing intermittent fasting, you eat 1 big meal before work, and one again once you're back, so you don't have to eat in work because obviously you won't find that type of food you want to eat, or just check the resturant's menu for some healthy caloric light choices.
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Hey Rajions! I felt the same way before last week. I am a graduate student and my day is mostly sedentary with some walking around campus. Add to that the stress of deadlines and assignments and weight loss was just one more thing I needed to/didn't need to add to my plate. I knew I needed to lose weight, so I started exercising after work/on my lunch hour, which lowered my stress! However, I weighed myself continuously for about a month with no results. I really needed to be mentally ready to embrace the tracking app and admit to myself that eyeballing my "healthy" food wasn't working for me. Everyone's mental set point is different. So far so good! I know where my calories are going, now I can lose the weight.2
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Can you meal prep your food and take your lunch? I make my lunches once at the beginning of the week for the entire week. I make easy stuff and probably use an hour to make it all, pack it in meal containers, and stick it all in the fridge. Then I have healthy food that I know the calories etc and can track accurately and it makes my morning so easy because I can just grab it on the way out the door. There's lots of meal prepping vids on YouTube. I'd be happy to share my two favs if you're interested:) You don't even need to exercise if you're eating at a deficit.3
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When I'm making a salad for dinner I make tomorrow's lunch so I have something. Don't beat yourself up but also don't make this about time and circumstance. Just get back to it, we've ALL been there!7 -
The biggest reason I regained weight that I lost the first time was because I quit weighing myself. Then I went for several years afraid to step on the scale because I didn't want to admit how overweight I was. You are only hurting yourself by not weighing.9
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I got super stressed after my midterms and I fell right back into old habits. I gained 10 lbs quick....mainly because I had stopped taking measrements and weighing myself. My personal little mantra is "I did this to myself and I can fix this myself"1
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So I started work almost a month ago and I have reverted back to my old routine. I'm not at all happy with myself. I find it very difficult to try to eat healthy at work. I don't have enough time to sit and eat a salad. We have a bar that is available to us (fried chicken, potato wedges, burger sliders), which makes it even worse. I'm too tired to exercise and my feet hurt too bad to even think about it. I'm not necessarily needing an answer, I'm just afraid I've gained my weight back.
Stop making excuses and take responsibility for how much food you put on your plate and stuff down your throat.
You can lose weight eating fried chicken, potato wedges and sliders.
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So I started work almost a month ago and I have reverted back to my old routine. I'm not at all happy with myself. I find it very difficult to try to eat healthy at work. I don't have enough time to sit and eat a salad. We have a bar that is available to us (fried chicken, potato wedges, burger sliders), which makes it even worse. I'm too tired to exercise and my feet hurt too bad to even think about it. I'm not necessarily needing an answer, I'm just afraid I've gained my weight back.
Stop making excuses and take responsibility for how much food you put on your plate and stuff down your throat.
You can lose weight eating fried chicken, potato wedges and sliders.
A little harshly put, maybe, but true! You do have to take responsibility. You don't need exercise to lose weight, but you must watch your calories in that case.
Get on that scale... you can't move forward until you know where you're starting from!3 -
Get in the scale, record and move on, only then can you see your progress. Good luck1
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So I started work almost a month ago and I have reverted back to my old routine. I'm not at all happy with myself. I find it very difficult to try to eat healthy at work. I don't have enough time to sit and eat a salad. We have a bar that is available to us (fried chicken, potato wedges, burger sliders), which makes it even worse. I'm too tired to exercise and my feet hurt too bad to even think about it. I'm not necessarily needing an answer, I'm just afraid I've gained my weight back.
Stop making excuses and take responsibility for how much food you put on your plate and stuff down your throat.
You can lose weight eating fried chicken, potato wedges and sliders.
This is 100% the truth.0 -
As somebody who was scared of the scale and got over it, I went from once a week check-ins to every day, secure in the knowledge that it's a long haul process. There are up days, there are down days, and there are really big up days.0
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Have you tried planning your food? I take a simple wrap (spinach, chicken, sweet potato) with me. Of course yours could be anything, or something else simple that you can make ahead of time.
No tupperware nothing to clean. Easy.
I know what's in it and I can log it on fitnesspal ahead of time.0 -
I agree that you need to stop making excuses. I was there and used them! I teach so I get about 15 min. to eat lunch a day. After working 10 hours a day, I was too exhausted to exercise at all. When I finally stopped making excuses I started losing the weight.
1. I meal prep on Sundays. I cut all my veggies, cook my protein, etc, weigh them, and put them into portion sized containers. All I have to do each morning is grab my containers.
2. When I stopped saying I was too tired to exercise and started exercising, I found that I got a burst of energy after. I exercise after dinner and it helps give me the energy to: clean up dinner mess, make daughter and husbands lunches , get clothes ready for next day, correct papers, fold the days laundry.2 -
On your situation you got only two choices to push yourself eat healthily or do eat what is available around. Personally, for me I'll just do eat what's available around and make a deficit on that way it's easy to do weight loss.0
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Take a deep breathe, exhale, close ur eyes, step on the scale, peek, log and repeat tomorrow etc.
One day at a time.. so enjoy your journey! You got this!0 -
I was too scared to step on the scale for months. when I finally did i realized I gained the weight that I lost. I wish i stepped on the scale sooner and stop the weight gain in its tracks its been three weeks and i've been working out and doing my best to eat out less and measuring/logging everything. I lost about 4 lbs since. you got this girl!
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It's Sunday and I just finished my weekdays meal prep. 5 breakfasts, 5 lunches, 4 dinners. (I leave my options open for Friday evening). My lunches are 5 salads. Most of the ingredients are the same except proteins. 2 have beans, 2 have chicken salad, 1 has some thinly sliced leftover steak.
Altogether I spent maybe a couple of hours on this, probably less. & I have no food decisions to make the rest of the week.0
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