Cool Trick-Getting back ontrack after eating something you shouldn't

[MelanieC]

WOW - I had a lightbulb moment at my Weight Watcher meeting on Tuesday.

My WW leader said something to us at our meeting on Tuesday. She showed us a sheet -which I forgot to pick up, but I will next week. It was a weekly sheet on the front and back with hour by hour blocks that were bricks. When you were OP for an hour you filled your brick in any color. When you weren't OP for that hour you filled it in with black or another color of your choice. At the end of the week you will see that as a whole, you have mostly all good bricks because filling in the chart helps you to keep your "binge" of bad foods to just that hour because you want to color in the next hours in the right color.

As someone who is guilty of saying - oh well I blew it today and I would either continue for the rest of the day or week, this was a lightbulb moment. If I did have something like that sheet I would be much more likely to stay on track for the rest of the day and week because I wouldn't want all my blocks to be black.


This trick really could work!

 

[cats7494]

That is so true! Sometimes when I binge - I think -well I have blown that day - might as well continue. Not the right attitude, I know!
I really like the worksheet you described - it sounds so neat! I may have to take that idea and duplicate it for myself to use.

Thank you for sharing!

 

[disykat]

What a great visual! I think it would be great to continue in maintainence. You would hopefully be able to see that an occasional treat is fine, but a pattern can become a problem.

I use a calendar visual, but it is daily not by hour. I color in exercise and staying on my eating plan.

 

[Tiger Lily 03]

I'm thinking that coloring would be fun!

I do like the idea of the daily one too. I find that when I do something similar it really does make a difference.

Do you need a new box of crayons then?

 

[AlreadyexcitedGrammy]

and just make it an excel spreadsheet and filling in the blocks with a color

Good idea Melc

 

[tbstein]

Ok Melanie, do I just color the blocks that are binge and the rest are color coded as to eating, exercise or just life? I would like to do this with my family. We all could do it. I just want to make sure I am on the right path with this. Besides, I love to color!

Wendy

 

[MelanieC]

Ok Melanie, do I just color the blocks that are binge and the rest are color coded as to eating, exercise or just life? I would like to do this with my family. We all could do it. I just want to make sure I am on the right path with this. Besides, I love to color!

Wendy

Hi Wendy,

Well of course I forgot to get the sheet, lol while at WW's this week.

If I remember right it was just about eating, because it was hourly. So if you ate OP for that hour you filled it in with the good color. If you didn't you filled it in with the "bad" color. Then at the end of the week you could see that you only had a few "bad" colors and all the other times were good.

I think this would definately deter me from feeling like I could cheat the rest of the day or till the end of my WW week because I would have to write it in. It would be a visual that could deter!