Over at Dietgirl's blog (hell, I've even forgotten how to do links!), she's celebrating 10 years - yes, T-E-N years of blogging and (in my opinion) just general overall fabulousness. I love DG's writing; always have, always will.
Anyway, anyway, DG's very generous giveaway includes the winners being chosen by a random number generator. And that is exactly what my weight is doing right now. I get on the scales - every single day - and wonder which number will be generated. Random it certainly is. I have worked really hard to lose the scales-determine-my-mood thought process and just try to log the number and take the information. For information's sake. Sometimes I don't write down the number but I always mentally log it. I'll be honest, when it was going up and up, I saw it but did not have the oomph to say stop. I couldn't take myself in hand. I've also noticed that a 'light' day of eating is not necessarily followed by a lighter encounter with the scales. It's more that my body is a week behind. It's only when I use VLCD products that I notice a big difference.
Today it's almost 2lbs down on yesterday. But yesterday's eating was chaotic; three diet shakes and 3 pieces of toast. That's screwed up eating, if ever I saw it. But I just tried to eat when I was hungry and I was really, really busy. And it followed a weekend of...toast.
And I am still not doing any exercise....Hmm. Must try harder!
It's interesting, the whole thing about weighing yourself, how often one does it and how the data is used, i.e. does one freak out or is one able to 'just' observe.
I have a close friend who has no eating or weight issues, but who is obsessed by statistics so she tends to measure and trend-track most anything she can think of.
Regarding weights: she weights herself everyday but never reacts to 'today's' weight. Instead she looks at her trend line that is based on the last 6 or last 12 months of data, and draws any conclusions from the direction of the trend line, NOT from that day's weight.
As a result, she always takes a long-term perspective. Something to think about :)
Posted by: Heli | January 19, 2011 at 12:01 PM
Yep, would agree with the friend on Heli. Weighing every day good for accountability and keeping to the straight and narrow but trends not snapshot are what counts.
Hope all going well but dont rush things, plenty of time to make a difference.
Lesley xx
Posted by: Lesley | January 25, 2011 at 04:12 PM
missing you - hope all's well
Posted by: janine aka slimmer bridezilla as once was | February 19, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Hope everythihg is ok
Posted by: Fionna | February 25, 2011 at 09:11 AM