Don't let the scale rule your world!

[FunnyActressInLA]

This is my new motto! I was thinking about how last time 'round when I met all you wonderful folk as I was re-reinducting, how I let that darn metal monster rule my emotions and my emotions then ruled if I was going to be successful or not and I wasn't. Confused? Okay, this is what would happen. I started reinduction, got that great feeling of energy, looser clothes, even my face looked thinner in like two days, so I step on the scale, 3lbs lost in two days WOW! So then next day I'm thinking maybe it'll show 4lbs in three days but it didn't, it show .5 gain. Now this was probably because of sodium intake but I didn't think that way then, I just got upset. Stayed on track and for the next few days the scale would fluctuate, down one, up one, down two. Instead of just being happy that my clothes were'nt strangling my stomach and I had more energy, better mood and felt "thinner", I let the number on the scale tell me how to feel. Sometime I would BURST into tears because I hadn't cheated and was doing everything I was supposed to and it just WOULDN'T COOPERATE! And that sometimes lead too, well I might as well have fried rice and ben & Jerry's anyway! Which of course made me feel guilty afterwards and it was just a vicious cycle! DH even hid the scale on me because he hated what it was doing to me. Funny thing is that when I went off the wagon from thanksgiving until now, I never ONCE stepped on the scale! So it's only when I'm living a healthy lifestyle that I feel some obsession with stepping on that dang thing everyday, sometimes TWICE a day! Well NO MORE! I'm gonna do the no weigh challenge and when that ends I'm gonna weigh myself because my two week re-re-re-re-re-reinduction will be over and I'd like to have a starting point for my own personal challenge of only weighing myself ONCE a month. That's right you heard it here! I'm sick of letting an inanimate object rule how I feel about this great WOE! I know it works and I won't let the scale say it doesn't. I'm more jazzed about the number on the tag in my jeans and how I feel and look, then what's on a cold sterile piece of metal! LOL! PLEASE DON'T LET THE SCALE RULE YOUR WORLD!!!!!!

[Mirya]

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that is exactly how it feels. lol too late though it already does. Wish it didn't though cause it is fairly emootionally devastating for me at the moment when I am losing and so proud of myself for not cheating and then gain a pound or more back and its like OMG wth. eh anyway ill live but its so d#$* frustrating

[earlychildhoodeducator]

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well I might as well have fried rice and ben & Jerry's anyway!

Oh my... if I had a penny for every time I've had that thought I'd be sleeping on a pile of money. In fact I just had that thought today. I "accidentally" ate a strawberry.....one dumb strawberry, seams so stupid now. I spent the next hour convincing myself (out loud mind you) not to just say "forget it all" and have a bowl of cereal or the fudge brownie cereal bar sitting on the counter (my daughter is evil to me huh? )But I'm glad to report the feeling has past for now, thanks to me running to the computer to get some motivation from this board. I'll be doing the weight, no way! challenge too... see ya there

[colleenieweenie]

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You're so right!!! I tell myself everyday that I'm not going to weigh myself and I always hop on and want to throw the #$&* thing across the room
Thanks for posting this!

[michigander]

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Oh sister, you don't even know how long it took me to learn this! You are so right! I can't find it, but I love the cartoon with the two little girls looking at a scale, and the one says to the other, "Don't step on it, it makes you cry!"

[Mirya]

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Yah if it wasn't for this board I would not have made it down to here.

[FunnyActressInLA]

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Oh sister, you don't even know how long it took me to learn this! You are so right! I can't find it, but I love the cartoon with the two little girls looking at a scale, and the one says to the other, "Don't step on it, it makes you cry!"

Here ya go! One of my favs too!

[misplaced southerner]

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ha ha ha!!! true story. last summer i was SO CLOSE to goal....it was a lifetime committment for me but i really wanted to be 150 for my wedding. my hubby was so tired of hearing me lament and gripe and complain about my old scale. it gave me odd readings all the time, etc....he actually took it out in the garage and took a hammer to it! then he threw it in the garbage.

he did go and buy me a new and good one....but i learned my lesson. i do not obsess,,,,it is not healthy for my man!

[Porcelain]

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When I joined the six week exercise program I decided I wouldn't weigh or measure until the end of it. It was one of the best things I ever did. Now I have it back, I am trying very hard to control myself. I have been in ketosis consistently since the middle of January. I have drank almost nothing but water and I am eating well. Why does that one thing make you so crazy?? I lost 15 inches too but I wasn't happy because I didn't lose 10 pounds! How silly is that?

[Zarabelle]

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I totally agree with you. It's a nightmare! I just read (and replied) to a thread on 14 day induction where someone had lost an incredible 14 pounds on the first week of induction and then the next day it showed a gain and they were so upset they considered throwing in the towel. The scales are evil!

I am with you FAI LA. I want to weigh myself at the end of induction on Wednesday but am happy to join your once a month weigh in day. It would be fun if a group of us only weighed in once a month on the same day. What do you think?

Zara x

[APanthesilia]

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When I joined the six week exercise program I decided I wouldn't weigh or measure until the end of it. It was one of the best things I ever did. Now I have it back, I am trying very hard to control myself. I have been in ketosis consistently since the middle of January. I have drank almost nothing but water and I am eating well. Why does that one thing make you so crazy?? I lost 15 inches too but I wasn't happy because I didn't lose 10 pounds! How silly is that?

Porcelain and I both made the committment not to weight until the end of the six week exercise challenge. It was tough at first but then it got easier and easier. Now that the 6WEC is over though I have been stepping on it more and more! I was pleased the first two days but yesterday the evil scale monster reared its ugly head. I decided to stay away from it today just in case it tried to talk me into eating chocolate again!

My plan for a while is to step on every week or so to see how I am doing but not to obsess! It is funny like FA in LA said, when I'm not eating right I would never even think about weighing but when I'm being good and cheat free it is all I think about! I guess it is because I am so proud of myself for eating right that I think the scale should be too and therefore help me out a little! Sadly, it doesn't work that way! And because we DO want it to work that way when it doesn't it is easier to justify a cheat (or two...or three).

The scale...turning normally sane and reasonable people into raving, obsessive madwomen.

[FunnyActressInLA]

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Porcelain and I both made the committment not to weight until the end of the six week exercise challenge. It was tough at first but then it got easier and easier. Now that the 6WEC is over though I have been stepping on it more and more! I was pleased the first two days but yesterday the evil scale monster reared its ugly head. I decided to stay away from it today just in case it tried to talk me into eating chocolate again!

My plan for a while is to step on every week or so to see how I am doing but not to obsess! It is funny like FA in LA said, when I'm not eating right I would never even think about weighing but when I'm being good and cheat free it is all I think about! I guess it is because I am so proud of myself for eating right that I think the scale should be too and therefore help me out a little! Sadly, it doesn't work that way! And because we DO want it to work that way when it doesn't it is easier to justify a cheat (or two...or three).

The scale...turning normally sane and reasonable people into raving, obsessive madwomen.

I know!!! One thing I was thinking about today when I was cooking breakfast was the time I was so successful with this WOE is when I didn't step on the scale. How I started was stepping on a scale at the mall and seeing that I was 215 and freaking out and started Atkins and an exercise program. I never weighed myself, I just kept going one day, one week, one month, three months. How I gauged me losing weight was in my clothing size. In 3 months I went from a size 18 to a 14. And to this day I can't remember what I weighed at the end of the 3 months. Unfortunately I went off and on plan so many times in the past 8 years that I am now up 55lbs from where I had started before. TWO lessons well learned...1. THIS IS A LIFESTYLE CHANGE, not a diet and 2. DON'T LET THE SCALE RULE YOUR WORLD! lol!
Pay more attention to how your clothes are fitting you, how you don't almost die when you go up a flight of stairs, how your moods are better, how you have more energy. We can do this successfully without relying on the scale so much!!

[OzLover]

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TWO lessons well learned...1. THIS IS A LIFESTYLE CHANGE, not a diet and 2. DON'T LET THE SCALE RULE YOUR WORLD! lol!
Pay more attention to how your clothes are fitting you, how you don't almost die when you go up a flight of stairs, how your moods are better, how you have more energy. We can do this successfully without relying on the scale so much!!

AMEN SISTER!!!!

I'm so happy that I'm don't let the scale rule my world. I get on it once a week at the doctors office ( I work in a hospital). I don't own a scale & I won't own a scale!!!

Great post FAILA. Thanks

[DigitalMocking]

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Preach on fatactress

[Smallerizing]

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I decided to stay away from it today just in case it tried to talk me into eating chocolate again!

I guess it is because I am so proud of myself for eating right that I think the scale should be too and therefore help me out a little! Sadly, it doesn't work that way! And because we DO want it to work that way when it doesn't it is easier to justify a cheat (or two...or three).

The scale...turning normally sane and reasonable people into raving, obsessive madwomen.

So THAT's what has been making me eat chocolate! I KNEW it couldn't be my overly logical mind!!!

All that being acknowledged, my scale is my friend who reports the whooshes and I can't believe it would be such an evil de-motivator in my life. I'm not ready to give it up. But I appreciate your showing me that it's really getting inside my head!! And I had no idea there were so many people like me, who ARE normally sane but take the scale's suggestion of "might as well......" BINGE! Maybe I can ignore its evil whispers......