A Hundred Beers on the Wall
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Take one down and pass it around, 99 bottles of beer on the wall.
This drinking song is my ear worm this morning. Because … because … I’ve only got 99 more pounds to lose. Yeah! Or as my niece would say, yeah?
I don’t weigh myself every day or even every week, as one thing that would make me crazy on past diets was the scale. I’d have a really great week, where I’d exercised prodigiously, and ate wisely as prescribed, and I’d gain weight. And another week I’d have meals out and my exercise schedule would have been trashed, and I’d show a weight loss. See – crazy making.
As this week’s session on exercise at the clinic, there was a very long group discussion on weighing oneself, and on scales. Most people weighed themselves at least once a week, and I think one person said they weighed themselves daily. There was also a discussion about when do you weigh yourself, is it better to weigh yourself in the morning, or at some other point during the day.
The facilitator suggested weighing yourself in the morning just after your first trip to the bathroom. She also suggested that as our body weight fluctuates quite a bit each day, that weighing ourselves each day and getting a weekly average is also optimum. I’ll continue with stepping on the scale in the morning, but I’ll also stick to my schedule which is about every two weeks. That’ll do just fine.
My current loss rate is about 2.8lbs per week. That is more than recommended as a slower rate is best, at about 1/2 to 2 lbs per week. But, for heavier people, and Helen’s a heavy girl, bigger weight loss happens at the start of the diet, before settling down. At this weight loss rate I’d be at goal in 7 months, but realistically I’ll be at goal in about 14 months.
99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer – take one down and pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall.
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