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Old January 29th, 2009, 10:31 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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I am a firm believer that success leaves clues so I must say something
in regards to something I have seen in my life that has worked. Most
of the times in my life when I have lost a lot of weight I have done
so by surprise being I did it when I had not stepped on a scale in a
few weeks and realized I had lost 50 pounds. What I can not understand
is this make sure you weigh every day mentality and here is why
because I think I finally understand why it has never worked for me.
Say you take a 110 pound woman and put her on a stage and take a man
and hypnotize him and tell him that this woman weighs over 500 pounds
assuming he is hypnotized he is not going to be able to pick her up.
In other words, I am not someone who believes in weighing every day
because a number is shoved in to your face every day to remind you
that you are overweight and how hard it is going to be for you to
loose weight. I think certain types of exercise are easier if you just
do not pay attention to things that mess with your mind like ok lets
go walking and not pay attention to the fact that you have walked a
mile instead of actually trying to walk a mile. I want to know what
your opinion is of doing everything right for a month and not weighing
yourself is?
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Old January 30th, 2009, 12:14 AM posted to alt.support.diet
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I am a firm believer that success leaves clues so I must say something
in regards to something I have seen in my life that has worked. Most
of the times in my life when I have lost a lot of weight I have done
so by surprise being I did it when I had not stepped on a scale in a
few weeks and realized I had lost 50 pounds. What I can not understand
is this make sure you weigh every day mentality and here is why
because I think I finally understand why it has never worked for me.
Say you take a 110 pound woman and put her on a stage and take a man
and hypnotize him and tell him that this woman weighs over 500 pounds
assuming he is hypnotized he is not going to be able to pick her up.
In other words, I am not someone who believes in weighing every day
because a number is shoved in to your face every day to remind you
that you are overweight and how hard it is going to be for you to
loose weight. I think certain types of exercise are easier if you just
do not pay attention to things that mess with your mind like ok lets
go walking and not pay attention to the fact that you have walked a
mile instead of actually trying to walk a mile. I want to know what
your opinion is of doing everything right for a month and not weighing
yourself is?


I'm a believer in the philosophy of using paragraphs. I'm not on the
side of run-on sentences though, sorry.
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Old February 1st, 2009, 03:27 AM posted to alt.support.diet
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On Jan 29, 6:14*pm, DevilsPGD wrote:
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I am a firm believer that success leaves clues so I must say something
in regards to something I have seen in my life that has worked. Most
of the times in my life when I have lost a lot of weight I have done
so by surprise being I did it when I had not stepped on a scale in a
few weeks and realized I had lost 50 pounds. What I can not understand
is this make sure you weigh every day mentality and here is why
because I think I finally understand why it has never worked for me.
Say you take a 110 pound woman and put her on a stage and take a man
and hypnotize him and tell him that this woman weighs over 500 pounds
assuming he is hypnotized he is not going to be able to pick her up.
In other words, I am not someone who believes in weighing every day
because a number is shoved in to your face every day to remind you
that you are overweight and how hard it is going to be for you to
loose weight. I think certain types of exercise are easier if you just
do not pay attention to things that mess with your mind like ok lets
go walking and not pay attention to the fact that you have walked a
mile instead of actually trying to walk a mile. I want to know what
your opinion is of doing everything right for a month and not weighing
yourself is?


I'm a believer in the philosophy of using paragraphs. *I'm not on the
side of run-on sentences though, sorry.



Well do you agree with weighing every day or do you agree with
weighing every week or what?
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Old February 1st, 2009, 11:52 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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On Jan 29, 6:14*pm, DevilsPGD wrote:
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I am a firm believer that success leaves clues so I must say something
in regards to something I have seen in my life that has worked. Most
of the times in my life when I have lost a lot of weight I have done
so by surprise being I did it when I had not stepped on a scale in a
few weeks and realized I had lost 50 pounds. What I can not understand
is this make sure you weigh every day mentality and here is why
because I think I finally understand why it has never worked for me.
Say you take a 110 pound woman and put her on a stage and take a man
and hypnotize him and tell him that this woman weighs over 500 pounds
assuming he is hypnotized he is not going to be able to pick her up.
In other words, I am not someone who believes in weighing every day
because a number is shoved in to your face every day to remind you
that you are overweight and how hard it is going to be for you to
loose weight. I think certain types of exercise are easier if you just
do not pay attention to things that mess with your mind like ok lets
go walking and not pay attention to the fact that you have walked a
mile instead of actually trying to walk a mile. I want to know what
your opinion is of doing everything right for a month and not weighing
yourself is?


I'm a believer in the philosophy of using paragraphs. *I'm not on the
side of run-on sentences though, sorry.


Well do you agree with weighing every day or do you agree with
weighing every week or what?


I would suggest doing whatever works for YOU. Each person is an
individual and what works for me may well not work for you.

I prefer weighing myself daily, but I don't go cry in a pail of ice
cream if I don't lose weight for a day or three. I came to terms with
who I am some time ago and that includes my body.

I don't need the high of having suddenly lost 50lbs, rather, I prefer to
keep an eye on where I'm at on a daily basis so that I know if what I'm
doing is working or whether I need to watch my portion sizes or snacking
frequency closer or not.

It was early-to-mid September when I decided to make losing weight a
priority and I'm down almost 50lbs (45-48 depending on the day),
weighing myself anywhere from daily to weekly, averaging a weight
reading every 1.8 days.
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Old February 2nd, 2009, 04:39 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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Well do you agree with weighing every day or do you agree with
weighing every week or what?


If you have an emotional problem with what you see on
the scale after being on plan and not cheating, then you
are weighing too often. Dieting is not supposed to be
about self inflicted emotional trauma aimed at driving
you back off your diet.

If you weigh yourself more than once per day then you
have an emotional problem with the scale and you are
weighing too often. There are a few reasons for weighing
more than once per day but they are about unemotional
gathering of error bar statistics not about fat loss.

I think the trend is to weigh weekly or less early on,
then gradually build confidence and emotional detachment,
then gradually switch to weighings more often than
weekly during maintenance.

So, once past emotional hurdles I prefer a daily weighing
where the number is put into some averaging formula to
see the trends. Average of the last 7 days works well.
The reason for this is random water retention - No matter
how much effort is put into battling water retention it
never works so it's wasted effort. So learn your swing
and use averaging to ignore it.

One simple approach -

During loss phases while on plan only note new lows.
During maintenance while on place only note new highs
and use those new highs to know when to go back to a
losing phase. While off plan, focus on getting back on
plan and use the scale however helps without emotional
problems.
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Old February 11th, 2009, 11:43 AM posted to alt.support.diet
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I TOTALLY & STRONGLY DISAGREE with people who tell you not to weigh
yourself frequently. How the hell are you supposed to know how well
you are doing or how badly you screwed up if you don't weigh yourself
every day?

How often I weigh myself is a very strong indicator of how much I am
mentally into losing weight. I weigh myself several times a day and so
far I lost 23 pounds in 6 weeks. If I weigh myself infrequently, it
shows that I am not really into losing weight very much. When I am
like that, I don't lose weight. You have to be passionate to
accomplish anything in life. Indifference doesn't accomplish anything.
Frequent weighing shows a strong passion and dedication to losing
weight! That's what it takes!

Brian Tracy is the world's best success guru, and he says that
whatever number you focus on and keep track off, the more you improve
in that area of your life. So if you keep meticulous track of your
weight and weigh yourself frequently, it will greatly help you to lose
weight. Every day I write down in a text file the lowest weight I
achieved that day. In my business, I also keep meticulous track of my
sales every single day. And as a result my sales increase over time.
These numbers are extremely important to me. It's important to know
what's going on and what kind of behavior produces what kind of
results. By seeing how fast or how slow I lose weight, I can see what
kind of behavior on my part causes that. Also if I gain weight, the
scale lets me realize immediately what I did wrong and how badly I
screwed up. Basically if I eat any kind of high carb food, my weight
goes up pretty fast, so I need to stay off those.

I got a new electronic scale with big blue LED numbers on it. It's
easier to read, more convenient, quicker, and more accurate than my
old mechanical scale with the spring mechanism. It's very conducive to
being used frequently, so I do use it much more frequently. I think it
actually helps me lose weight by giving me so much quick & easy
feedback. It really helps keep me on track. If I go off my diet a
little bit, the scale will reflect that immediately so I know I need
to cut back again and exercise some more and stick with the healthy
foods.

I think people who tell you not to use the scale every day are way off
base and giving very bad advice. Feedback is extremely important. The
more you have, the better. Having infrequent feedback is just a really
stupid idea. Perhaps there are some weak-minded people who can't stand
to be hit with reality. Well that just means that they are losers and
they need to change their attitude to become winners. It doesn't mean
that weighing yourself is a bad idea. If the number on the scale isn't
going down, then it means you're doing something wrong and it's
telling you that you need to do some different things and try harder,
like eat healthier, cut out empty carbs, exercise more, drink more
green tea, eat fewer calories.
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Old February 11th, 2009, 12:00 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:31:13 -0800 (PST), wrote:

I am a firm believer that success leaves clues so I must say something
in regards to something I have seen in my life that has worked. Most
of the times in my life when I have lost a lot of weight I have done
so by surprise being I did it when I had not stepped on a scale in a
few weeks and realized I had lost 50 pounds.


I don't believe you lost 50 pounds in only a few weeks. If it's
possible, it definitely doesn't sound healthy. You'd probably have to
lose a lot of muscle mass to do that, and that would doom you to gain
back all the weight and more. I think I have actually gained muscle
mass during my weight loss because I've been walking a lot and lifting
weights. And I make sure I get enough protein.

because I think I finally understand why it has never worked for me.
Say you take a 110 pound woman and put her on a stage and take a man
and hypnotize him and tell him that this woman weighs over 500 pounds


I use hypnosis and visualization to see myself at my ideal weight. The
number on the scale doesn't cause me to be hypnotized into staying
heavy, because I use hypnosis techniques to see myself as being slim.
I do not see the number on the scale as a discouraging thing. I use
that number as a score card, and when the number goes down I feel
GREAT about it. Personally I need that feedback. I love the feeling of
seeing that number go down. It makes my day when that happens. So you
see, that number isn't something that makes me feel bad.

You sound like someone who gets easily discouraged and therefore
avoids looking at reality. I learned long ago that running away from
reality is a bad idea. You need to be mentally strong and confront
reality and conquer over it.

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Old February 11th, 2009, 08:47 PM posted to alt.support.diet
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I weigh myself several times a day and so


And so you are irrational on the topic. The reasons for
multiple weighings per day are all irrational after you've
determined the error range on a new scale.

The rest of your rant is a discard of any emotional
impact folks have on weighings. Interesting that an
irrational viewpoint would discard the emotional ...
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I am a firm believer that success leaves clues so I must say something
in regards to something I have seen in my life that has worked. Most
of the times in my life when I have lost a lot of weight I have done
so by surprise being I did it when I had not stepped on a scale in a
few weeks and realized I had lost 50 pounds. What I can not understand
is this make sure you weigh every day mentality and here is why
because I think I finally understand why it has never worked for me.
Say you take a 110 pound woman and put her on a stage and take a man
and hypnotize him and tell him that this woman weighs over 500 pounds
assuming he is hypnotized he is not going to be able to pick her up.
In other words, I am not someone who believes in weighing every day
because a number is shoved in to your face every day to remind you
that you are overweight and how hard it is going to be for you to
loose weight. I think certain types of exercise are easier if you just
do not pay attention to things that mess with your mind like ok lets
go walking and not pay attention to the fact that you have walked a
mile instead of actually trying to walk a mile. I want to know what
your opinion is of doing everything right for a month and not weighing
yourself is?
Daily weight check in AM using good digital scale that reads to 1/10 pound after voiding without clothes and chart results.
 




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