Scale Addiction

[Curveegrrl]

WHY can I not stop weighing myself?? Why are the numbers on that confounded machine so important to me??

I know I'm shrinking. I know I'm morphing. I know weight loss is anything but linear and that my shrinking fat cells are filling with water and my hatred! It's also that TOM, so I have no business even LOOKING at the scale. And I'm dressed. And I've eaten two meals and drunk 3L of water. And my developing muscles are sucking up gallons of water and weighing me down. And my ponytail holder is made of dark matter. I'm actually wearing zebras for earrings.

But that scale....

It calls to me.

It beckons me.

"This time I'll be good and show you the numbers you want to see."

It LIES to me! That scale.




Why do I need to weigh myself so often?

[jennyj]

Re: Scale Addiction

It's also that TOM, so I have no business even LOOKING at the scale. And my ponytail holder is made of dark matter. I'm actually wearing zebras for earrings.

Curvegirl ~ you cracked me up, and that's hard to do on a Sunday morning at 4:50 a.m.!!! Your pontail holder is made of dark matter...HAHAHA!!!! If it's any consolation, I'm addicted to that evil thing as well, and I dread TOM because I just know it's 2 weeks out of the month (the week before and the week of) that the scale will just laugh at me, so my condolences!
~Jen~

[CarbaholicJoe]

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I cant stop checking the scale; they tease me, down 2lbs, then up a pound, then back down a pound all within five minutes. They are always inaccurate, bouncing me around a pound or two depending on which way I shift my body weight.

I am a scale-oholic

[Katlam]

Re: Scale Addiction

I've decided that unless I'm feeling really skinny I'm going to stay away from the scale. that works about 2 days...LOL! Not I'm retaining water due to 1) knee surgery to remove the torn and shredded cartiledge and 2) TOM is coming (isn't it always except when it's here! LOL) So I'm blaming that 2 pounds on my knee and since I can't quite step on the scale yet (surgery was only weds) I can stay off until next week when I'm walking about without the added fluids and crutches!

Good LUCK avoiding the dreaded scale monster.

Kathy

[Waterbabe_Helena]

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I threw out my scales a few month ago because of addiction and today I have just bought some new ones. With a twist this time: they don't go up to my present weight! So I have to lose a few pounds before I can evern make the scales register!

[Mary-chan]

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I know what you mean! So far, I'm only allowing myself to weigh right as I wake up. That and I have a crappy cheap scale that likes to play tricks with me!

It sucks though, because if I DON"T weigh myself, then I'm not careful enough and don't lose very much... but If I weigh myself all the time I just drive myself crazy.... just one more thing we have to learn to moderate I guess... it sucks

[BenandHallesMom_1]

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Hey Curvee....I too am a recovering scale addict. Qbu and I are in a no weigh challenge until Sept. 30 and it has been AMAZING!! For 12 weeks now I haven't weighed. Oh it killed me at first but it has also set me free from the addiction. I got a body fat analyzer and kicked the scale to the curb. It doesn't keep an accurate record of everything going on inside our bodies. So, I challenge you to try a personal no weigh challenge. It did wonders for me! Good Luck!

[Analog6]

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I have put mine in a really awkward place around the side of the bed by the window behind where I keep the dirty clothes basket in the bedroom. So it is a production to get to it. And I just weigh once a week (most weeks). One week I actually forgot! Daily or oftener weighings are just depressing.

Once a week. reward yourself if you stick to once a week. Punish yourself if you jump on more often (although 9 times out of 10 the scale reading will do that for you!).

You are doing fabul;ously well, you look like a different woman. That scale belongs to you, not the other way around. You are its mistress! (And I'd get rid of that dark matter hair thingy - can't have those around!)

[SarahJane]

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I was always getting on and off the scale for my first two weeks of Atkins. I decided that I wasn't going to weigh myself but once a month. I had my roomate hide the scale and promise not to put it back until Oct. 4. Then I'll have her hide it again for another month. So that's how I took care of that proplem. : )

[Curveegrrl]

Re: Scale Addiction

Thanks everyone for your support and suggestions. I'm glad I'm not the only one who falls prey to the scale's siren song.

Why is it so important though? I can list fifty gajillion ways of measuring my success...but I still wanna see it on the scale. What's up with that??

[Waterbabe_Helena]

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At one point a few months ago I weighed before I went to sleep, then waking in the night for a pee, I'd put on the light and weigh again, then again and again each time I awoke. One interesting thing that came out of this was that I'd lose a pound in 2 hours, go back to sleep for a coupla hours then weigh again, and find I'd lost another pound. I reckoned that if I could just sleep for a month I'd lose 200 pounds. LOL

I threw away the scales, but just bought a new set this week