I found this interesting article following a discussion a few weeks ago before Image Therapy on weighing in at home between official group weigh in. Give it a read and make up your own mind!
I’m firmly in the “Every Day” camp and have been for some years…….when I’ve not been off plan and avoiding the scales completely! I’m very much an all or nothing type of person. In the past I’ve been either strictly dieting or face down in a plate of burger and fries! Slimming World is changing that for me, at least in the healthy eating area of my life!
Firstly back to the scales, and the weighing in daily thing. I think it’s again a bit of an all or nothing thing. As I weigh in every day I know how my home scales compare to group scales so there’s no big surprises on the night! I’ve also got used to weight fluctuations the differences between morning and evening, before and after the weekend. The conversation we were having at group was about having a sneaky weigh in before the official one and being gutted to find the home scales are screaming a gain at you when you’ve been 100% on plan and are expecting a loss! It’s so disappointing and disheartening but I think if you’re just hopping on the home scales every once in a while you don’t have the same comparisons as you do when weighing daily. The key, I think, is consistency, either do, or don’t nothing in between LOL .
Which brings me to my all or nothing personality. I’m pretty much like this in all things, however having first started Slimming World back in 2013 and getting to target I started going to group just once a month and not sticking around for Image Therapy which eventually turned into not going at all. Slowly the weight crept back on, but much slower that it has done in the past when I’ve stopped whatever diet plan I’d been doing. What I realised when I re-started was that although I’d been off plan a lot of the principles of Food Optimising had stuck and started to become part of my normal eating habits. Using Frylight, buying 5% mince and removing all the fat from meat, skin from fish etc. So whilst I was eating far too much bread (I love a sandwich) and not keeping a check on Synned food I was still following the basic principles. It’s all a learning curve, learning new habits and making them become your normal. I’m getting there, it’s not going to happen overnight.
One of the things I’ve also found is that getting the right group for you is also key. Check out your local groups, we also have some people who don’t live locally but who work locally and come straight from work to weigh in. My old group was great, the consultant was brilliant, but the timings just didn’t really work for me, which is one of the reasons I lapsed. Stay to Image Therapy, make that part of your normal. It’s an hour a week to get that little bit of extra help. Make friends, swap tips, get support when you’re struggling and give support when you’re doing well!
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