As I wrote some time ago, I based my way of keeping fit on the three pillars: diet, sport, and control. Today I will present one of the three steps I use to control the success of my model, namely weighing myself every day.
From work processes to management and upbringing of children, control is a common topic of discussion in many fields. We often hear, for example, that control is obsolete and that trust and motivation are more important in modern times. It may be true, but what to do with weak motivation?
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I am talking, of course, about my own problems with weight, diet, and the will to do sports. Of course, I often want to eat foods incompatible with the Smart Dad Diet. And, of course, I don’t feel like exercising every day after a hard day’s work, especially in the summer heat, after dark, or in the rain. And yes, I can tell myself that I can afford to skip my workout today because I haven’t eaten much anyway. Then, on another day, I will have a roast potato because I have done an intense workout. It is easy to make excuses like that and avoid a bad conscience. That is why I know that control is valuable. And what is more simple than weighing oneself in the morning and getting objective information that no excuse can comfort?
Looking at my history of weight struggles, I weighed myself regularly while dieting. On the one hand, daily weighing served as a way to monitor my success on the way to my target weight, but on the other hand, it motivated me to stick to the diet. However, in the past, when I reached my target weight and gave up dieting, I usually lost the motivation to weigh regularly. This, of course, could only end up in me putting the weight back on. If I had marked my weight history with the periods when I did or did not weigh myself, it would have looked like this.
In recent years I have changed this radically, and for the last seven years, I have weighed myself every day, except for business trips and holidays. The process is straightforward: every morning, when I wake up, I weigh myself and write the result on a chart. I reflect on the weight and the difference from the previous day and try to interpret it in relation to the last day’s meals and sports activities. If I have gained too much weight, I also set a goal for the next day’s diet and exercises.
In this way, weighing serves not only as a bare data point but also as a way to help me understand how my body reacts to food and sports, to help me plan, and to motivate me to keep going.
Stay tuned!