Ignore the Diet Rules - A Diet Tip
Recently, I have nearly completed a very successful self-directed diet program. After trying other ways to lose weight, I decided to give some of my ideas a try. This article is the first in a series of tips that have worked for me even though they violate conventional wisdom.
Simple idea - ignore the extraneous advice and do it my way.
The first idea I had was to weigh myself every day. Sure, I know you are thinking, all the so called experts advise that you should weigh yourself only once a week at most. Why? Because they think you will get “discouraged” if you weigh too often and don’t see results from your diet.
My problem with weighing only once a week? I don’t get feedback from my efforts (or failures) fast enough.
The importance of feedback.
I have found that if I weigh myself once a day, I know right away, practically on a continuous basis, whether what I did the day before was helpful (or not).
The first thing I purchased when I started the diet was a high quality scale similar to those you’d see in a Doctor’s office. I spent about $150 on this scale, but I feel confident with the results from it since it doesn’t give different readings every day. I think that having such a reliable scale and weighting myself right after getting out of bed, before eating breakfast each day, is a key to getting useful feedback.
This feedback shows me the effects that eating a fast food burger with fries at lunch can have on my weight. It shows that I truly will lose weight if I stay on the diet and I can generally see actual results every couple of days.
A week is just too long for me to be able to know what I am doing right and wrong. Weighing each day lets me see the results quite quickly.
Daily weighing can be tough to do - especially when I know I haven’t been “good” the day before. However, even this bad feeling about myself provides a limiting factor to my behaviour the next day.
Give this Idea a Try if You are Having Trouble Dieting.
