I don’t actually have long to post anything of note: I have the Cold Turkey app on my computer, and 12:30am currently serves as the time everything shuts down. I have 13 minutes.
Functionally, I don’t know if I even need 13 (now 12) minutes to say anything. What’s happened is the following:
every night at 11:30am my computer blocks all the fun sites (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
at 12am it blocks all sites sans my Gmail (in case of emergencies), Headspace (to meditate), a few other necessities, and Beeminder. At 12:30 it defaults to the lock screen.
For now, the closest thing I can get to fun is to write in Beeminder or tidy my room… so here we are (for 10 more minutes, at least.).
I’m still getting to grips with Beeminder. I’m still not entirely sure what a retroratchet means, just as I’m not sure what a lot of this stuff means. The first time I started Beeminder I did OK, apart from I found myself beeminding in the middle of my exam period and unable to keep up with the app. Lesson learned. Things are different this time.
This time I have a very loose plan: lose 0.7lbs a week. Doctors tend to say that around 2ish lbs is the maximum one should aim to lose - I’m currently 6’1 and 270. 0.7 lbs a week averages to 0.1 lbs a day. If I can stick to that, eventually I can step towards 1.4 lbs a week, and then 2.1 lbs.
The hope is to add a certain amount of steps done once I get a fitbit watch to go alongside my weighing scale. For now I just want to learn the basics. This month’s entries is just me coming to a forum to log how I’m doing, I guess.
I think there’s more I’d like to say, but we have one minute.
Welcome, and good luck! As you mentioned there are indeed lots of folks on this forum with experience and willingness to help answer questions and give advice on how to get things set up in a way that makes sense for you.
I have a million opinions about beeminding weight! Caveat: I’m super crazypants.
My first opinion is that you should get as much data as possible and weigh in every day. I have a separate weighins goal to make me do that even when I have safety buffer on my actual weight goal.
I’ve lost ~60 pounds using Beeminder and kept it off for years, but I
have only had one body that whole time so my advice comes from a
sample size of 1
I also weigh in every day, and most of the snags in my weight loss
goal were due to not weighing in when I should have. I think that
it’s pretty important to actually master the emotional/mental side of
weight loss more than most folks think. I would actually sit and
think and figure out why you are working on your weight, and where the
calories are coming from. Are you eating a lot of snacks? Are you
eating the right food for you? Both? Do you go out to eat a lot?
Figuring those things out were actually key for me, but I did them
after losing quite a few pounds, so I’m not sure if order really
matters.
To beemind weight and also manage fluctuations (which are quite normal) you can try beeminding your trending numbers. I use https://trendweight.com/ which connects to Fitbit (feel free to ask for details on making the data entry automated).
