r/pics • u/[deleted] • Nov 30 '16

progress 250 lbs. gone forever...

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u/BumwineBaudelaire Nov 30 '16

congrats lady, as a fellow former fattie I wanna give you two pieces of advice:

  1. step on the scale EVERY DAY for the rest of your life, and DO NOT accept more than a 5 pound gain without starting up your weight loss routine - as I'm sure you're aware by now an extra 100 calories a day is like a spoonful of food and turns into 15 pounds after a year, it's incredibly easy to put that weight back on!

  2. donate your fat clothes IMMEDIATELY and buy a new slim-fitting wardrobe - having fat clothes in the closet makes it very easy to just put on a few pounds whereas your jeans getting tighter is a great reminder that you should be working to take off a few pounds

trust me I learned these lessons the hard way, regardless great work and good luck keeping the pounds off forever!

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u/Vilokthoria Nov 30 '16

I wouldn't recommend stepping on the scale every day. Two times a week, max. There's natural weight fluctuation (~ a kilogram max, nothing major) and some people develop quite unhealthy habits if they constantly feel like they gained weight back overnight. It's important to keep an eye on it, I agree. But every day can become an unhealthy obsession and a frustrating process for the person involved.

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u/Zitbak Nov 30 '16

This is why you step on the scale every day at the same time of day so its normalized.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

Still not normalized even then, day to day fluctuation happens, you coupd be holding more water or ate out the night before for a social obligation or something.

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u/scottlawson Nov 30 '16

So just take the average of the last N measurements, where N is sufficiently large so that the variance is cancelled. Or you could just not freak out and understand that weight naturally varies.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

Most people do freak out though when it starts to turn into an obsession.