A Diet Tip that Violates One of the Main Rules - But It Works
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Recently, I decided to finally lose some weight - I have tried in the past but always failed for one reason or other. This article is the first in a series of tips I have learned work for me.
Simple idea - ignore the extraneous advice and do it my way.
The first idea I had was to weigh myself every day. Sure, I know you are thinking, all the so called experts advise that you should weigh yourself only once a week at most. Why? Because they think you will get "discouraged" if you weigh too often and don't see results from your diet.
If I check my weight just once every week, the problem with that is, I am not able to enjoy my successes (or my failures) soon enough.
Feedback is the Key
I have found that if I weigh myself once a day, I know right away, practically on a continuous basis, whether what I did the day before was helpful (or not).
Of great importance to the reliability of this feedback is to weigh yourself on a highly accurate scale at the same time each day. The best time for me is after awakening before I sit down for breakfast. My first step was to purchase a scale of the best quality. Such quality scales, with appearance very much like one encounters in a doctor's office, cost approximately $150. This expense is well worth it seeing it imparts great confidence in the results I see. I do not worry they are due to a malfunctioning scale giving varying readings from one weighing to the next.
The feedback provides me daily assurance that, indeed, if I eat a fast food burger with fries at lunch, the next day I won't have lost much (or any weight). And, if I stay on the diet, I will, in fact, lose weight. I can usually see real results almost every day or two.
Everyday feedback lets me see both my successes and mistakes. My prior, failed, dieting attempts have shown that weekly weighing is not frequent enough for my requirements. Seven days is too long and results in me forgetting the root causes of gained or lost weight. My session with the scale each morning allows me to go over in my mind the previous day's food consumption.
Daily weighing can be tough to do - especially when I know I haven't been "good" the day before. However, even this bad feeling about myself provides a limiting factor to my behaviour the next day.
Give this Idea a Try if You are Having Trouble Dieting.
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