Scale.....be gone (until final weigh-in, anyway)!

I have been doing so well this week! The hospital I work for had a "Holiday Social" yesterday with tons of delicious appetizers and desserts. I stayed strong and had some sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts and cheese cubes. I'm pretty proud that I managed to get through that without any damage to my low-carb chemistry.

I'm disappointed in the scale, though. It just goes up and down constantly - not a ton, but enough to frustrate me. I've decided that the scale cannot be used more than once a week - if that. I know that I'm doing well and working hard, so I can't let water-weight and monthly hormonal weight changes affect my mental picture of how I'm doing.

Stress is definitly an eating trigger of mine, and this time of year is very stressful - and this year even more so than others. A dear friend passed yesterday, after she was discovered only 2 months ago to have stage 4 cancer. I grieve for my loss of her, and for her family. Normally, my comfort would be food. Now, I'm trying to keep it together by working out.

Overall, a week to be proud of. I'm improving myself in different ways, becoming stronger.

LilyN

12/10/2015 10:27AM

So sorry for your loss. I'm sure your friend would be proud of your progress in these tough times. I agree with sine, weigh yourself (same time in the morning, before you've eaten/drank anything) and chart it. I like to use the Health app in my iPhone, it'll chart over the week, month, or year. The week looks like a zigzag, but the year is definitely a downward slope.

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sine

12/10/2015 8:31AM

here is a hint for you: plot the weight on a line chart but add error bars. i find that my weight fluctuates randomly +- 1.5%. anything that falls within that range is just noise. weight daily, average for past 7 days and look at trends, not absolute numbers.

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