Living The Lifestyle - Monday 7/21/25
This is a thread for everyone. If you're new to GoaD, or to weight loss, your questions and comments are always welcome. If you're maintaining, or a long-term loser, your thoughts on the topic may be just what someone else needs to hear. If you're reading this, join in the discussion!
Each weekday, a new topic is offered up for discussion.
Monday - crewahl (Charlie)
Tuesday – Wildcard
Wednesday-misterhub (Greg)
Thursday -imastar2 (Derrick)
Friday - Wildcard
Today's Topic: Taking license
We all react to a weigh-in in different ways. When you get a good result at the scale, do you act as if that gives you a license to loosen up on your habits?
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A little. Still over goal, so "kinda" working on it. Still way too many snacks.
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I’ll confess, even as a daily weigher and after doing this since 2008, the scale still has an impact. I’m more likely to allow myself an extra “whatever” in my daily food choices.
I don’t think it has derailed my progress, but I’m thinking it’s something I need to be more aware of. 🤔1 -
I don't think I take license with a good weigh-in. Though, to be fair, really good weigh-ins are few and far between as compared to bad weigh ins, so who can remember?
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Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no. Depends on how much I am in the healthy mindset.
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I absolutely do this. I'd say it's mostly subconscious, except sometimes I know I hear the little voice in the back of my mind and don't consciously override it, and … doesn't that make it conscious? Unfortunately, I have the same self-defeating reaction to working out. I've joked about it before - the notion that I ran a few miles so now I can eat whatever I want is actually pretty funny - but it's also real.
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I am so far from goal or a healthy normal weight that I never get any since of a license to break loose. I also don't need any excuse to loosen up on my habits at least because of the scale.
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I'm with Charlie on this, although it does sometimes derail my progress. On the flip side, do you 'always' buckle-down when you go up at a weigh-in, or do you sometimes just shake it off?
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I get anxious about weighing myself, because there are so many factors that influence weight within a relatively wide range. I only weigh myself weekly to account for these daily variations, so that my weekly weight more accurately reflects an upward/downward trend from week to week. Because I don't attend in-person WW meetings, I usually weigh in on Fridays because that is the "Yo, how'd you do?" weigh-in post here. A loss for the week makes me happy, but I don't feel that it gives me license to ease up on my plan. Most of my fine tuning is to start weight downward, which happens more often than not. For example, I set my Cronometer goal at 2000 calories to gradually reduce weight. Because I've been on a plateau for much of the year, I dropped that to 1900 daily calories. I used to include exercise in my calculations, but not anymore, because my exercise is pretty consistent day-in and day-out. For purposes of consistency, I weigh myself first thing in the morning in my skivvies.
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