We have noticed over the years in our clinic that people will frequently cancel their scheduled appointments with the reason truly being that they gained weight that week and they were feeling embarrassed about coming in and having us see the gain. To some extent, the success of any weight loss program is "accountability" and when someone has an "off" week, there is some intrinsic fear that the doctor will be "disappointed" in them. Almost analagous to coming home with a bad report card and having your parents see this while you are standing there!
There will be many weeks in which the challenges of that week will exceed the internal drive to lose weight, and the scale weight will go up. This is compleetly understandable and certainly no one in our clinic nor should you be "embarrassed" about this. Weigth gain in any given week does not imply "failure" or "defeat". Rather, we all understand that thiese weeks will happen and all that it takes is a more aggressive adjustment the following weeks. When we get into big trouble on the scale is when we do not weight ourselves weekly or have no game plan for action based on the weight going up.
When you are in our program, the exact time NOT to cancel an appointment is when you had a chalenging preceding week. Coming to us allows you to get refocused, rejuvenated and pumped to get back on the aggressive weight loss mode. When not in our porgram, please make sure to chart your weight weekly and then have a gameplan as to what you will do if you see the weight going up.
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