Ignore the Diet Rules - A Diet Tip

Recently, I decided to finally lose some weight - I have tried in the past but always failed for one reason or other. This article is the first in a series of tips I have learned work for me.

I decided to ignore all 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.

I don’t get feedback fast enough on my efforts or failures if I weigh in only once per week.

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).

Of great importance to the reliability of this feedback is to weigh yourself on a highly accurate scale at the same time each day. The best time for me is after awakening before I sit down for breakfast. My first step was to purchase a scale of the best quality. Such quality scales, with appearance very much like one encounters in a doctor’s office, cost approximately $150. This expense is well worth it seeing it imparts great confidence in the results I see. I do not worry they are due to a malfunctioning scale giving varying readings from one weighing to the next.

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.

If you are finding it difficult to shed pounds, I highly recommend giving this tip a try.

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