Scared to step on the scale...

Rajions
Rajions Posts: 128 Member
edited November 18 in Health and Weight Loss
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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  • mohamedahmed07
    mohamedahmed07 Posts: 161 Member
    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.
  • Rajions
    Rajions Posts: 128 Member
    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 :)
  • Mistywolf3000
    Mistywolf3000 Posts: 18 Member
    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.
  • TxTiffani
    TxTiffani Posts: 799 Member
    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.
  • amberlyda1
    amberlyda1 Posts: 154 Member
    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"
  • SueSueDio
    SueSueDio Posts: 4,796 Member
    Theo166 wrote: »
    Rajions wrote: »
    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!
  • dejavuohlala
    dejavuohlala Posts: 1,761 Member
    Get in the scale, record and move on, only then can you see your progress. Good luck
  • MalkinMagic71
    MalkinMagic71 Posts: 1,433 Member
    Theo166 wrote: »
    Rajions wrote: »
    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.
  • JeffreyOC
    JeffreyOC Posts: 810 Member
    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.
  • gueseak
    gueseak Posts: 7 Member
    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.
  • choppie70
    choppie70 Posts: 544 Member
    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.
  • ferd_ttp5
    ferd_ttp5 Posts: 246 Member
    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. :)
  • jaxonzhole
    jaxonzhole Posts: 14 Member
    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!
  • Cocoa1020
    Cocoa1020 Posts: 197 Member
    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!



  • susanp57
    susanp57 Posts: 409 Member
    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.
  • Geocitiesuser
    Geocitiesuser Posts: 1,429 Member
    FreyasRebirth wrote: »
    The saddest part is that denying the truth doesn't make it not true. :(

    I love this quote.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    Rajions wrote: »
    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.

    you can eat those things just take less than what you usually eat from the bar.if you can get a premade(small) salad and have that with some chicken and some wedges. or pack some precut veggies to have with those things to balance it out.weight loss is not about healthy eating per se,its about a caloric deficit. eating healthy is for health reasons,but everyone defines healthy eating differently.

    I still eat things I like in moderation and have less of it, my health has improved. there were 2-3 months were I was out with an injury and couldnt exercise and I still lost weight. eat what you like just less of it and dont worry too much about it. Its not about what you eat but how much.
  • Aarjono
    Aarjono Posts: 228 Member
    When I put away the leftovers from dinner, I will most of the time pack some for my lunch the next day. I also pack snacks, and I pre-log everything. That keeps me on track. (I admit this past week I have been lazy, and have paid the price by making bad nutritional choices.)
  • Rajions
    Rajions Posts: 128 Member
    tiffanifair wrote: »
    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.

    I don't have a regular break at work. I just get 5-mintue breaks. I'm constantly on the move at work that I don't even take a break sometimes. I thought about meal prep before I started working, but after the first day I knew that wouldn't be possible
  • Rajions
    Rajions Posts: 128 Member
    Theo166 wrote: »
    Rajions wrote: »
    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.

    I'm not making excuses and I'm not stuffing my face... It's just the fact that I'm eating that junk.....
  • ElizabethHanrahan
    ElizabethHanrahan Posts: 102 Member
    I worked in a gas station, usually as the only one there. I had to lock the doors to go to the restroom. I took a protein bar and ate it in between the customers. This might be a way to skip the bar and stay within your goal. Good luck.
  • Rajions
    Rajions Posts: 128 Member
    ElizabethHanrahan wrote: »
    I worked in a gas station, usually as the only one there. I had to lock the doors to go to the restroom. I took a protein bar and ate it in between the customers. This might be a way to skip the bar and stay within your goal. Good luck.

    I thought about getting a protein bar there but the sugars are Soo high.. I guess if I don't eat anymore sugar then it should be fine. Thanks :)
  • SueSueDio
    SueSueDio Posts: 4,796 Member
    Do you have a medical issue where you need to limit your sugar? If not, then there's nothing wrong with it. (Nothing wrong with the fried chicken and potato wedges either, in moderation.)

    Weight loss is all about the calories, although nutrition is a different matter. If a protein bar is all you can fit in, try it and see how that works for you. Take note of how they affect you, though - for me personally I have to avoid maltitol because it does nasty things to my digestion, but other people don't have any problems with it!
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    Rajions wrote: »
    ElizabethHanrahan wrote: »
    I worked in a gas station, usually as the only one there. I had to lock the doors to go to the restroom. I took a protein bar and ate it in between the customers. This might be a way to skip the bar and stay within your goal. Good luck.

    I thought about getting a protein bar there but the sugars are Soo high.. I guess if I don't eat anymore sugar then it should be fine. Thanks :)

    are you diabetic? Surely the cafeteria food isn't great for someone with diabetes either.
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