To weigh in, or not weigh in… that is the question
July 30th, 2008
Here is the deal: I have not lost weight this week. I maybe even gained in the less than 1 lb range. My exercise level was good, but my eating-shit level was high, what with the camping and the M&M’s and my friend Captain Morgan, etc.
This is my Jenny Craig weigh in morning and I don’t want to go. I don’t need to buy food because I have a ton of it left over from when I was eating the aforementioned shit all week and not eating my JC meals. But not going kind of means I’ve given up on the program, and I don’t know that I am ready to quit it just yet. My original weight loss goal was get to 150, and now I’m there and, whoops, still chubbing it up, I want to lose more. And Jenny Craig has worked for me to reach that first goal, and I’m sure it would work for me to reach my new goal if only I actually made an effort to stay on program.
But the whole going in for a weigh in and plotting it on my chart when I know for a concrete fact that I have not lost weight seems kind of like “asking for it.” I’m not going to have a good day after I go weigh in and feel like a tub-o-lard. But consistency is one of the keys to success, and today is my weigh in day, like it or not.
That’s my morning dilemma. And I need to decide now because it’s almost time to head over there. Plus I’m starving and won’t eat if I’m going to go weigh in, so no breakfast until I decide, heehee.
July 30th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Personally, I think I would go and weigh in. As you can see with me, when I weigh in badly, I throw quite the tantrum, but then it totally gets me back on track. Soo, maybe a weigh in, even a slightly negative one, would reinvigorate you and your motivation this week? At the same time, if it’s just going to put you in a really bad mood all day, it may not be worth it.
Not sure, but it maaayyyy be worth going in.
Either way, good luck!
July 30th, 2008 at 11:45 am
You can do it! The only thing you can do is get yourself back on track. What’s done is done. Now it’s time to move forward with your new goal. If JC works, and you know it does, then maybe you should keep going with it. We all have little set backs, but that doesn’t mean give up totally on something that seems to be working.
If you forgot to brush your teeth last night, would you just give up and never brush them again because you feel like a horrible slob? No, you would just start again today. It’s the same thing with having a bad day, or week, diet wise. Just dust yourself off and try again.