How do you not get upset?

perkymommy wrote: »

I'm a daily weigh person too and I wish I didn't step on there because I know it's best to weigh once a week or even once a month. It's hard not to weigh! I suggest measuring your body and keeping track that way.

There's no one best way.

If it's stressful to you, I would suggest weighing less often. However, I don't stress over any particular weight on a particular day. I see each day as a data point and more data points allow for more accurate number-crunching.

earlnabby wrote: »

seska422 wrote: »

Weight naturally fluctuates. Mine fluctuated all through my weight loss. Here's a 3-month trend where I was at or below my calorie goal every day:



I measure my daily success by how well I stick to my plan rather than what the scale says. Concentrate on the process and let the results take care of themselves when they get around to it. It's your trend over time that matters.

This is one of those things where each person is different. I really, really dislike seeing gains on paper so I stopped using the trending app and went with my spreadsheet. I respond better to seeing the losses only, even if some are spread far apart, and calculating totals and averages. No matter how much I tell myself fluctuations are normal, I just don't want a reminder of it. I weigh myself and if it is up from my last weigh-in, I step off the scale and forget it.

I agree 100% with concentrating on the process and judging your success by how well you stick to your plan.

Been there, done that. When I started MFP, I recorded my weight once per week but only if it was down from the previous week. Right now, I'm enjoying the trending app. Who knows how I'll feel about recording things in the future. It's all good as long as it works for you.

Try not to focus so much on the scale. Your clothes always tell the best story...

I try to remember that it's my responsibility and I can change it.
Only you can really impact the number on the scale.
Remember that it's not out of your control.
Take back power.

I always think "at least it's not X" and reframe it. Because one pound, no biggie.
I also post in a weekly challenge. Then when I want to get down on myself I can see clearly over time there is no question I'm losing.

I was much, much more emotionally tied to the scale when I weighed weekly, because if it went up I had no idea whether I'd gained fat or was just on the high side of a normal fluctuation.

Since I've been weighing daily (and only ONCE daily for three months) I've found I'm not nearly as concerned about the number and I don't get upset if it goes up. I have learned so much about how my body loses weight that I don't care if the scale goes high if I've been sticking to my plan. I know the number will come down again, and I generally know how long that will take.

daisyfields79 wrote: »

I've only been doing this life style change for a little over a week and was so please and excited to go from 300.2 to 289.8 in 1 week. I was weighing myself daily and decided to start ever 2 days, which brings me to this morning when the aisle said 290.6. I really really wanted to see under 290 on my first week and did it by 0.2 lol o was over the moon but now I'm back to the 290's it just feels like a smack in the face. I know it's all in my head but that 1 pound feels like 10. I'm not giving up, no way, no how but I have to admit it took a lot to not stop for and grab a giant ice cream when I brought my son to see the ships. Lol I'm an emotional eater and knew if I stayed home I would start picking at stuff so we went for a walk. Try to change that emotional eating to emotional walking lol

Give yourself some credit for making healthier choices! This is a long tem process, and once you change your mindset (easier said than done) to that, it will be so much easier.

ETA: you lost 10 pounds in a week!! That's awesome! Some of that will be water weight, and that's probably what you're seeing on the scale - a small water weight rebound. It's nothing to be concerned with . Your loss will probably not be as extreme week to week going forward, but every pound lost is a victory, so just keep reminding yourself of that when you have down moments and think you didn't lose enough.

As far as the weighing thing - most of the time I weigh several times a day, lol. It's kind of like a game for me to see how my weight fluctuates along the day and it takes away all the anxiety or frustration at seeing a 'bad' number. I weigh first thing in the morning after using the toilet, again before my workout when I'm at the gym, again after dinner, and once again right before bed. The only one I 'count' is the one first thing in the morning, but just seeing how daily activities can effect my weight at any given moment is fascinating to me. I've even been known to weigh before and after peeing just to see how much difference a full bladder makes, lol. It's not something I obsess over, it's juts part of my routine that if I'm near a scale, I will probably jump on. Sometimes I'm fully clothed with shoes, sometimes I'm not. I like understanding how the variables show up on the scale. In the end, I have no emotional tie to whatever the number on the scale says. I have weeks where it hardly moves at all and I can get frustrated in that I'm eager to see my work show up, but I KNOW that it will eventually it just takes longer to do so sometimes.

What's helping me is doing the 10-day challenges and, at the end of the period, finding the middle between my high and low for the 10 days. I think of that as a close approximation of my "real weight." Last challenge, my day 10 was higher than my day 1 so I could have been discouraged that I wasn't losing. But half way in between the high and low for the period was two pounds down from the previous challenge so, to my mind, I lost 2 pounds in those ten days, which is right on track.

Here's my figures for the last several weeks:
Round 8/1: HW 274 LW 269.8 MidW = 271.9
Round 9/2: HW 269.4 LW 266.8 MidW=268.1
Round 10/3: HW 269 LW 266.4 MidW = 267.7
Round 11/4: HW 267.4 LW 264.2 MidW = 265.8

My daily weight bounces all over the place but this reminds me I am going down. I look at it daily to keep it in mind and remind myself I want to do another 10 days. I can do this 10 days at a time!

There are different schools of thought when it comes to how often to weigh yourself. Everyone figures out what works best for them, psychologically speaking.

For me, weighing every day gives me better knowledge of normal fluctuations and what causes them. It helped me not to stress so much about a swing of a few pounds either direction.

If you can take your emotion out of it, this might be a good experiment....for a week or so, weigh yourself SEVERAL times a day and record it. This can show you how much weight can fluctuate just over the course of a day. It might help you get over an obsession with small fluctuations.