20190817 Saturday weigh-in

On Saturday, I weigh myself.  It’s one of the two mechanisms I use to ensure control of my body’s weight.  (1) Regulate your food intake and (2) weigh yourself regularly.  

(1) has to do with what I eat and how much, and when during the day.  I am learning more and more about myself, which makes regulating intake much easier. 

(2) means in general once per week.  This week, I tried weighing myself every day, and there was variation in the early part of the week.  But there really wasn’t by the end fo the week.    Here’s how I did: 

Lowest number ever

The two weeks ago Saturday weighing had me at 258 pounds, and I was 258 last Sunday too.  So four pounds is a lot to lose in one week, but there were special circumstances.  Since starting my program of weight control I have lost:

Pounds!!
0

49 pounds to go?!

Last week (August 2-9) I had several days of high calorie eating – bad diet days.  This week, I was able to regulate my food intake better, by paying attention and using my self-knowledge to see where I had been letting myself down.  (I sometimes refer to myself in the third person like this, or talk about my body vs. my mind.  All I mean is that there are lots of different layers to a person’s consciousness, and they are not always working together.  My goal is to unify myself towards a positive project, to achieve success.  So far, 71 pounds of success.)

But first, some revelry.  Yay!  The last six weeks have been a trial, my weight coming down but very stubbornly slowly.  Now I am completely healthy, and have used my values and self knowledge to re-align myself with the goal: weight control.  There was immediate success: weight went down from 258 to 254.  Now, four pounds in a week isn’t usual.  But I was coming off a week (Aug 2-9) with several bad diet days, so my system had a chance to clear out this week (Aug 10-17).  So last week’s and this week’s weight loss came together and were visible today.  Next week I don’t expect to have lost four pounds!  

Something different: I weighed myself every day this week.  I was curious.  Interestingly, my weight bounced around a lot the first few days as my system got cleared out from the bad dieting days, then was pretty steady.  So, from Sunday to Saturday the results were:

  • 258.0
  • 257.2
  • 258.8
  • 255.4
  • 255.2
  • 254.8
  • 254.0

I’m not sure I will keep doing this​ daily weighing, but it made Saturday a bit less scary.  

In a way, this week was an amazing experience.  It was a re-awakening , as I realized I had drifted away from my weight loss program successes, and fixed it.  Literally, I felt no hunger after the dinners and it seemed like I had eaten a lot of food!  I was actually worried that I was counting the calories wrongly, it didn’t seem like I could be correct.  But every day (in the last half of the week) the scale showed a lower and lower number.  And today the success is obvious.  That is so inspiring and a reason to keep going.  Getting control of your body’s weight can be a satisfying and rewarding process, but do you ever have to pay attention.

Think hard to find a good goal, and then change yourself to be a person who values the right things that support the goal.  Coordinate those together and it is hard to stop you. 

-The Doctor

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  1. Judith Phillips

    Yay! So glad you were able to conquer the beast! Congratulations: Can 250 and its food reward be far behind this success?

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