Advice: (*TMI alert*) You should always weigh yourself at the same time of day. On occasion I’ve been >5lbs heavier at night than in the morning. Thus, I weigh myself in the morning. If you want to make yourself feel better about it, weigh after a poop, and before breakfast, if possible. Depending how regular you are, that could give you that extra pound you were looking for.

Forum: I think we have a decent amount of people interested in joining the forum. I think I’m going to start it soon, so I hope everyone who expressed interest will actually participate, otherwise it’ll be a big waste of a domain registration. I’ll keep you posted. Any recommendations on what should be included with the site, outside of the actual forum?

I’ve got 5 people intereseted in starting a public accountability weight loss forum with me. 5 more and we’re in business. I’d start it right now, but my wife won’t let me buy the domain name for it until 10 people have expressed interest. So fellow fatsos, express interest! Anyway, to the business:

Advice: Everyone goes off their diet for one reason or another. When I’m being serious about it, my only reasons are when we have dinner events with friends. I’d say only about 1 in 4 times we actually count points. Otherwise I pretend beer is zero points (it’s 3, 2 for lite). When I’m not being serious about it a high stress day will make me convince Linnea we need to eat out. Another big reason is we didn’t take anything out for dinner.

So, to the actual advice. If you go off your diet, only do it for one day. We would usually just neglect the rest of the week. This leads to splurging and trying to “eat it while I can,” before the new week of dieting begins. DON’T DO IT! We’ve also found that making a weekly dinner menu virtually eliminates the “what should we have? oh, let’s go out” aspect.

Weight loss: 2.0 lbs. I’m not marking this at daytum.com/diberard, because I fluctuate by more than 5 pounds throughout the day. Granted, both weigh-ins were in the morning, but I’m only showing this to brag. It’s only been a day and that could swing back the other way tomorrow.

Cheating?: Technically, I had a “pinch” of shredded cheddar that I didn’t count. It’s a wash because I never exactly measure all my servings when I’m following WW anyway, but it still works (assuming I stick to it for more than 1 week).

Today will be our designated cheating day, we have our bi-weekly bible study/dinner. We’ll count 5 flex (35/7 days), and be done with it.

Advice: (pertaining to the above statement) I’ve actually heard though, that diets are MUCH more effective if you have one day where you don’t calorie count. Otherwise, your metabolism adjusts to the lower calorie intake and you burn less.

Forum anybody?: So I learned there is a really cool domain name I would use if this “public-accountability” weight loss system picks up interest. Anyway, please email me (or comment) your interest if you think you’d post either weight loss stories, struggles, advice, etc. Since I’m poor, I’ll need some “donors” to buy the domain (it’s only $10/yr), but then I bet if I threw Google’s Adsense on it we’d recoup the cost. Let me know, I think it would be a cool support system for people like me who always “wait ’til next Monday” to start their diet.