One habit I really need to break is my obsessive desire to weigh myself every. single. morning. to see if I've lost weight from the day before! It seems to be counterproductive to my actual goal of losing weight because my weight fluctuates up and down throughout the week and it de-motivates me.
Last week was a good example, I stood on the scales to see a 10 stone 6 fantastic that's the weight coming down from 10 stone 11 (5 lbs yay!). Then a day later I stand on the scales and see 10 stone 7. I hadn't eaten too badly - pretty well in fact. It makes me think its not working so what is the point!? I know I am doing the right things so I ask myself why do I need to check every day?
I think I am convinced that if I don't I will suddenly put on loads of weight without realising. Having said that, I also know I am eating well and doing the right things. So my mission is not to step on the scales, except on my actual weigh in day which is a Friday. I'm going to avoid the scales until Friday morning. On Friday I will weigh and measure myself to check my progress against my plan and then I will try and no I WILL not weigh myself any other day. Let's see how I get on!
Who else is obsessed with scales? Anybody not use them at all - what do you use to judge progress?
