Advice please - weigh ins

I usually have my packs - one at breakfast, one in the office at lunchtime (under extreme secrecy), one for supper and then a hot chocolate before bed. But on LL meeting nights this won't be possible as by the time I get in I won't be able to fit in 2 packs before bed. So I thought I'd have my hot choc mid afternoon but I also want to maximise my weight loss on the scales! How long should I leave between a pack and the dreaded moment on the scales? I have read here that it's best not to drink too much water in the 2 hours before the weigh in.....

Thanks

[my blog is Lighter Life - from munter to minx?]

I spread mine out the usual breakfast, dinner, tea and supper, our LL meets were on Saturday mornings and a few of us had our breakfast there. Now in development in an evening some eat a bar during the meeting - As long as you get your 4 in a day you will be fine - agree on the water I minimise my intake on a weigh in as it caught me out a couple of times.

Peridot to be honest, I think that as long as you do the same thing each week you will show a true loss. When my class was early evening I'd only have a breakfast and lunch but now it starts at 8pm I have a pack at 6ish as well and then a bar/soup when I come home. I tend to drink water in the same way each week too in the hopes that my losses will show as true as possible.

As above - my WI is at 5pm and I never drink more than a litre beforehand (but I drink lots until late the night before) Then I drink two lites during the session and have a litre when I get home at about 8.

I also leave all my packs till I get home and I have a double soup and a bar and a chocolate for pudding over about an hour. But I do know that some people don't like doubling up packs. Just do the same every week so you can compare week to week properly (and wear light clothes) is my advice. I wore the same dress every week for the first 10 weeks!

I try not to get too crazy about the WI. My WI has always been after 6pm so I've already had 1 or 2 packs and quite a bit of water. I agree with the above, as long as you keep to the same routine you can't really go wrong

Our LLC says that its fine to double up on packs, and as everyone here is saying - as long as you do the same thing every week, that should even things out.

The other thing our LLC said is that we shouldn't have a pack/bar less than 1.5 to 2 hours before a WI as you may not get a pink ketone stick - Not what you want after a week of sticking to plan! I'm not sure if this is true for everyone, but I make sure I eat at least 2 hours before my WI just in case.

Hi Peridot

Nice to see you over here! I have just found your blog - had problems earlier in the week - so hope to catch up properly.

Totally agree with what's been written so far:

whatever you do, do the same each week - water intake, clothes (very important), food. I drink my last litre of water 1.5 hours before weigh in (dictated by the train journey in!) and then drink through the session but I would have already drunk at least 3 litres in the day.

I haven't heard the no bars before weigh in before so that's interesting.

I think it's the consistency during Foundation that makes the difference rather than the odd foodpack being consumed at a slightly different time.

Good luck with the journey!

Mrs L xxxxxxxxxx

I plan on having a shake for breakfast, a soup when I get home from work, then a bar after weigh-in, and the last one when I get home.

It says in the book that it doesn't matter when you have them. In week 1 I went 10 hours between having a pack and then had three in four hours when I got home as I didn't want to make the soups and shakes up at work. I am now onto bars, so I take a bar with me if I want to have something at work, but 1/3 days this week I had it on the way home in the car. I'm trying to stop associating work with food.

Last week, however I had my last 500mls of water (and I'd had 9 of them!!!) at 3:15pm, and at 7:40pm when I got weighed, my ketostick was bright purple when it should have been pink. I wonder if the long gap had something to do with it. I want to buy my own to make sure that I am burning fat