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Day 30 of 100 Days to Thanksgiving
Day 30 of 100 Days to Thanksgiving
253/236/195 September 13, 2005 Got on my balance beam scale just now and saw that I still did not weigh less than 236 so still just 17 pounds gone. Actually the indicator would have gone a bit higher if I moved it to find out the weight I actually weighed this morning, but I know that it's water weight, I know the information will be distractive, etc. As long as I am eating substantially fewer calories than my weight maintenance requires (and yesterday I had 1200 calories), then I know that my weight will go down (and is going down at the cellular level). I interview people daily as part of my work and routinely ask them about sleep problems. A lot of people toss and turn at night after looking at the clock on their bed-end table. I ask them how is looking at the clock in the middle of the night is useful. I point out that for a person with sleep problems, the information provided by a clock in the middle of the night is almost always bad. People start thinking about how little time they have left to stay in bed, start worrying about getting back to sleep, etc. I tell people with sleep problems to hide all the clock faces they have in their bedrooms (and maybe tape over the VCR face, if it tells the time) and if they wake up in the middle of the night, to tell themselves they went to bed 20 minutes before they woke up. Similarly, I don't think I'd ever want to weigh myself on a scale that isn't a balance-beam scale and which doesn't allow me to avoid information about weight fluctuations. The information that I have gained a few pounds of water (or roughage weight) is information I don't need and which is demotivating. I didn't go up my little hill last night because my legs still hurt a heck of a lot from my weekend hiking. If I bend at the knees from time to time during the day, it helps with the pain, but tonight I'm going up the hill. (I had to leave for work in a town 80 miles away very early yesterday and I got back somewhat late as well.) I hope everyone has a great day and week and month ahead! I hope we can all stick to our schedules and continue to do what is working for us! Yours, Caleb |
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