Speaking of the scale (and free days)

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Speaking of ignoring the scale (see my last post), I know that scale

weight is largely irrelevant if you're following BFL, since so many

changes are occurring to body fat and bone density.

But, in the past, free days have been a HUGE problem for me. In fact,

that's how I added the 10 pounds I've been trying to get rid of for

the last two years. I'd eat healthy and exercise all week, eat my way

through the weekend, and steadily put on 0.5 to 1 pound a week.

So I'm trying to be really careful with my free days. Since I have a

tendency to binge, I'm limiting it to one free (but very free) meal.

For example, this week, I had a normal BFL breakfast and snack, went

out to eat for lunch and had a meatloaf sandwich with fries and a

bread pudding dessert. Then I was too stuffed to eat dinner, so the

total for the day was about 2300 calories.

Now back to the scale and my question. I'm currently up 0.6 pounds

(and a full pound from my low) (I'm a little under 5'6 " and 142

pounds). Because I'm worried about slow gain over time, I'm tempted

to delay my free day next week (which would be on Tuesday) until the

scale drops back down. But I know if I get rid of the free day, that

it will be much harder for me to follow this plan and I'm likely to go

nuts at some point. So do I just ignore what the scale's doing and

have my free day/meal? Keep the free day/meal, but scale it back? Or

cut it out for a week and see what happens?

Thanks!

Megily