VegSeekingFit wrote:Hi Buns!
I am sending you big HUGS from Illinois (hoping that you may remember me from a few years ago and don't think I am a creep... )!! Completely understand what you are saying about your recent challenges and empathize with what you are going through... Remember that you totally rock and have sustained many changes in your diet over time that are so healthy!!
I can so relate to your frustration with the scale. I really don't like how it "grades us" on how "good" we have been. Nothing should have that power, but it really does... (and power to change our emotions... BOO!!)
Seriously, wondering if you may not want to hide / put away / decommission your scale for a month or so... I only say this because it seems to be a measure that may not be helpful to you - if you are looking to follow the MWL behaviors (then you know how you did and don't need a grader). Maybe you have jeans you want to fit into -- or something else ??
In case this may help you, I want to share the dumb fact that I when I gained 23 pandemic pounds, I was "mostly" following McD... I really didn't go off the ranch (or did I??), but some stuff like peanut butter and bread (or Cheerios or rice cakes). I was still starch-based and ate produce.... So, I may have "passed" the MWL checklist except for a couple of exceptions ...
Just food for thought... I wish you the best and am pulling for you!!
Cheers,
Stephanie
Hi Stephanie! I do remember you! Even though I was only on here sporadically when I first saw your name.
Your advice and Mark's over at the MWL weigh in forum match, in that you both remind me that the behaviors are what I am aiming at, not the specific number on the scale. I really let it get to me emotionally, and even cried at the time. But when I got thinking about it, yeah I didn't follow 100%. I ate two meals out on Sunday for my day trip to Idaho (and I'd do it again, let's just be honest.)
The nachos are compliant with Starch Solution, but not MWL. I had those a few times in the past month or so. So TBH, looking at it clearly, I may have been following very closely for those days, but the scale was reflecting the prior week or something. I've been weighing every day in order to see for myself that the scale vacillates. and why did I think it was going to plummet because I was tight with it for four days?
as for hiding it or throwing it out the dang window...I don't know if I'm there yet. Seeing it go up and down sort of normalizes it for me. I *thought* I was over the emotional attachment to that number, until I burst into tears when I saw the number up four lbs. It's ALWAYS up and down on the same four lbs. Can I ditch it and not step on the scale for a month? Keep tight with the plan and make daily adherence to the guidelines my goal? Phooey on the scale? Maybe. Maybe I'll try for a week. Maybe.
I need to make the guidelines my goal. Mark says so. You say so. I say so. And no more "mostly" following the plan. Period.
Thanks for the hugs!