The Scale
I used to think weighing only once a week was the way to go. For me now though, this time 'round it simply isn't.
I've been weighing myself everyday. Yesterday I was up 2 pounds from the day before. Today I'm down 3 from yesterday. Tomorrow I'll probably be the same or up. That's just how my body seems to do it. There is no steady loss for me. Some weeks, if I were to only weigh once I week, I stay the same or gain!! It's simply because of my daily weight fluctuations. 2 up, 3 down blah blah. It SUCKS getting on the scale once a week and not seeing a loss for a week never mind 2! Or even a gain! OMG!! Then I get depressed. I hate being depressed.
For me, I like the everday thing. I don't expect to lose everyday but I DO like to know that today I am 183 even though tomorow I could be 186. At least I know, from doing this for several weeks that the 3lb gain is NOT a fat gain. It can't be because I simply did NOT eat enough to gain 3lbs of fat! LOL nor could! if I were to only weigh once a week and just happen to be showing a gain I'd be questioning myself - did I do this right, did I do that right, maybe I fmessed this or that up. I get the voices - you didn't do this good enough or that good enough, you didn't work out enough, you are just bad bad bad. you're just a no good failure blah blah blah.
Simply put, when I weigh only once a week there's no way for me to know that I actually did lose weight but it's just not showing on the scale today.
I'm comfortable knowing that so long as I keep getting the down spikes along with the up spikes I'm doing good. You don't get to see this when you weigh only once a week.