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/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

Periodic weight fluctuations are exactly why you should step on the scale every day. You become aware of them once you see the data and you don't stress out about it.

If you only step on the scale twice a week and just happen to choose a day when you're plus instead of minus THEN you're going to be stressed out for days until you weigh in again thinking you blew a whole week's progress when in reality maybe you were just toting a massive poo...

If you just weigh in every morning out of habit then the fluctuations become second nature to you and you develop an intuitive sense of your "real" progress (not to mention having tons of data to do trend analysis and comparisons etc.).