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Nervous for weigh in :-(

Apples38
Apples38 Posts: 54
edited January 15 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi guys, gonna weigh in tomorrow and really nervous. Every time I start a diet and don't lose weight I give up and fall off the wagon. Anyone else get like this? X

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  • MissNordicLight
    MissNordicLight Posts: 140 Member
    Why not skip the weigh in if a bad result makes you quit? The scale depends on so many things, measure yourself instead?
  • isaiahjackson
    isaiahjackson Posts: 1 Member
    Well its time you do something different.

    Question: How long have you been following the current diet?

    From personal experience I can tell you, that when I was trying to gain weight I was eating like crazy amounts of food.
    All healthy of course and guess what it took me 3 MONTHS! To gain weight, yeah I got on the scale every 3 weeks to see
    if anything was happening. Nothing scaled stayed the same for 2 in a half months but on that third month something happened.

    So just stick with it, look at the number you see on the scale and make a decision that you WILL
    drop that number by 1. Yes thats right just 1.

    So if the scale says 200 pounds, make a decision to make it say 199 pounds the next time you get on it.
    Yeah its a small number, I know that but if you really give you all, 1000% then I'm sure you will start seeing
    the numbers on the scale decrease.

    Hope that helps

    - Isaiah J
  • hilldiggity
    hilldiggity Posts: 166 Member
    I just wrote a blog about weigh-in anxiety. Just the fear of not losing, despite having done everything I've done the weeks before and lost weight. I think it's fear of failure wrapped up in not being used to seeing the numbers on the scale go down - but they keep going down and staying down.
  • Apples38
    Apples38 Posts: 54
    Thanks guys that is great advice. I am obsessed with numbers!! X
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