My Weigh In Days.

My husband pointed out to me that I have not stated my weigh in days and how I go about it.  He thought it may be a great idea to post it here to let people know. 


Well, I weigh myself every Sunday morning, it's literally the second thing I do in the morning.  I strip down and step on the scale.  I do have a strange thing where I won't watch it while it "thinks".  I look straight ahead and think light thoughts.  When that number comes up a bunch of thoughts hit me at once, depending on what the number is.  If I am down my first thought is woo whoo!  Then I start analyzing my week.  What did I do to get the scale to move in the right direction?  Was I more active this week?  Did I eat all my fruits and vegetables?  Did I drink water?  These, I think, are pretty basic for most of us working on weight.  It's what I do when the scale shows a gain that keeps me going.  


My first thought is "oh no".  Then I analyze for about a second before I put a lock on it.  I have found in the past that when I over think about my gains it makes me less successful.  I tell myself it is one week, I can recover from this.  This is not the end all be all of my weight loss.  One week's weight is not going to undue me or the work I have done.  Once I step off the scale and finish my morning routine I will allow myself to try to figure out what happened that week.  Sometimes it's as simple as I had something really salty the night before or my "aunt flo" is visiting.  When it is a little more complicated than that I just keep my mantra up of it's one week, not the end of my life.


It is so important for me to keep up the positives.  I am an emotional eater.  If I let myself start to feel guilty or too upset I can turn to food.  This is not easy, and it's really not easy if you can't stay positive.  Celebrate the good and recognize the bad, but don't let the bad get to you.  Just admit you made a mistake and move on.


That is my Sunday morning weigh in, in a nutshell.