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**Dogman** · November 24th, 2012, 06:37 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 06:25:42 GMT, (Harold
Groot) wrote:

On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:02:49 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:

Harold Groot wrote:

I've decided that "officially" weighing myself will be limited to once
per week. Oh, I'm not going to worry if I decide to peek at my weight
at other times - but I won't make daily weighings part of the plan.
This is part of my "Let's maximize feeling good about things" plan. If
my loss is a slow-and-steady 2 pounds per week, I would expect a daily
weighing would have only 2 "good news" days (where the scale dropped a
pound) and 5 "bad news" days (where the scale held steady).

Reality check time - Two pounds per week is not slow. It's Olympic
sprinter doing 100 meters fast. If you have 100+ pounds to lose you
can expect to lose at that rate initially. Not if you have less to lose
initially.

Sigh. It's only Day 1, and already it's appropriate to have a
discussion on what IS and what ISN'T support.

Let me offer a re-phrasing for your consideration.
[...]

With all due respect, Harold, you don't get to make the rules as to
what qualifies as support, and what doesn't.

Doug offered you some good advice, and some very good information, and
already you're biting the hand trying to help you? Why?

If you're intent on doing this your way, period, that's okay. But you
might want to ask yourself where that has gotten you in the past.

And if you want to lay it all out here for everyone to read, you
should at least expect to be constructively criticized if people think
you're going about it the wrong (or less effective) way.

If I were you, I'd worry less about how someone offers you support,
and more about the actual support.

Or, I suppose, you could go on Oprah and get all the hand-holding you
apparently want, but very little information that will actually help
you.

It's up to you, bro'.

--
Dogman

"I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty
about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything" - Richard Feynman