Anonymous wrote:Pretend you’ve spent 8 weeks eating right and getting to the gym, and you’ve lost a modest but pleasing amount of weight for the first time in years.

Then you have a vacation or something—little exercise and lots of extra food and drink.

Do you hop on the scale to check the damage before returning to good habits, or do you wait two weeks or so to shield yourself from the number?

Do it 🐷

I had some not great health news last year and I got in a body reset because I don’t want to be on a slew of drugs the rest of my life. Since Thanksgiving, I have lost 32 pounds. Since I had an eating disorder when I was younger, this time it’s once a week, every week, same time. It doesn’t matter if I’m feeling fat or thin in the middle, or had a big meal (which I have not had since then and I’m really really over it), just the once. I hadn’t lost anything in two weeks and was stressed but still didn’t tempt myself with the scale, and this morning I was down three.

Get on the scale, just to know, and go back to what you were doing.

I weigh myself every day. And so does my my spouse. We're fit and fun.

Anonymous wrote:I weight myself every day. I take a scale with me when I travel. It's the only way I am able to keep my eating under control.

You what? You travel with your scale? I feel like there has to be another way to manage this. When I travel or had an indulgent week - I acknowledge the fact and give myself a re-start. Its rare that I need to know the number on a scale on a daily basis- once a week is a good way to keep things on track - there can be so much daily fluctuation with too much sodium, water retention or just the need to take a huge dump.

I weight myself every day. I take a scale with me when I travel. It's the only way I am able to keep my eating under control.

Anonymous wrote:How long does it take for the weight gain to show up after overindulging?

DP. It takes me about 3 weeks to show weight gain (or loss)..

I never weigh myself.

Salt. Restaurant food has more salt than you can imagine. It takes a day or few to lose the held water.
But fwiw if a weight gain or tight garment throws me into a binge it's because I have an eating disorder. There are free groups for that.

I normally only weight once a week = same day. When I go on vacation and worry about weight gain, I give myself two weeks from return of vacation to get back into a good eating and exercise pattern. Then I start the weekly weigh-in. For me, personally it allows me to adjust and not worry about what I did over vacation. Although I can usually tell by the clothes I wear how bad I was while away. Give yourself grace and a timeline to get back on track.

Don’t weigh, just reset. Be strict with your healthy habits for 2-3 weeks and know you’ll likely have made back the indulgence losses and even if not you’re back on track and you’ve benefited health and wellbeing wise. Plus you have the fun and the e memories. No point being in shape to hide at home.

Noom encourages weigh in daily so that you get exposed to the ups and downs....and it has helped. I don't get a worried about it when I come home from a trip...

I weigh, but I don't always note it down lol.

i used to weigh myself every day. It made me really obsessive and I noticed my mood was tied to the number on the scale. I am 5'9 and my weight could fluctuate 3-4 pounds any given day. I switched to weighing myself on the first of every month. I find that even a month packed with vacations and special events doesn't actually make that big of a difference as long as my normal daily routine stays consistent.

I weighed myself three days after returning from spring break vacation. I was up almost 5 pounds in that weigh in. I got right back to my intense exercise plan and weighed myself 3 days later and I was only up 2 pounds from pre vacation. No way I burned up 10,500 calories in 3 days. Maybe water retention from eating too much salt on Vacay? I don't know but I think the real number will be several days later whether good or bad.

Of course you get back on the scale. Back to reality (imagine me singing].