“Tonight’s the night, it’s gonna be alright.” - Rod Stewart
Weigh in #7 and I’m wondering if it really will be alright. The past weekend wasn’t good diet wise but I did increase my run length from 4.6km to just over 7kms.
So, have I balanced things out?
I am no longer fully trusting my scales as one moment I’m nudging 84+kgs and the next I’m back down to just over 82 kg (target is 76kg).
Saturday I went with FBH to her bosses birthday - bottling wine and a hearty lunch. I managed to not indulge in the chips, crisps and nibbles that were on offer but I did do two rounds of salads with dressings!
Sunday was Mother’s Day and while it started off reasonably well we then ventured to MILs (Mother-in-Law’s) in the afternoon for cannelloni, salad, biscuits and roast meat and veg. I felt myself give way mentally as I picked at the food.
I said in a previous post I was at the mercy of gourmet/foreign food and again it proved a thorn in the side.
So my plan today is obviously to eat well, drink loads of water and hopefully have a good result at Jenny Craig’s.
Plus I also have a FULL day of work with little time to rest or snack so that works in my favour.
Do you have any tricks to get your weight down specifically for a weigh in?
I can imagine:
- not eating for the whole day just to get a good reading or;
- doing a very strenuous workout early in the day (that reminds me, I need to go swimming this morning) or;
- perhaps there are other “tricks” in the trade to have a win at the scales.
In the end, we all know weight lose and fitness isn’t brought on by “tricks” but it’s good to know there’s the good old law of cause and effect that can work in our favour! 
Bill
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The swings in scale weight used to drive me nuts (and still do somewhat) so I started using physicsdiet.com to track my weight as it smoothes out the numbers and gives you a trend instead.
Andrew, so true.
The weekly weigh in a better guage and the “trending” you suggest is also probably better psychologically. If there is a bigger blip than normal it might cause someone to give up in despair.