Staying Off the scale

[trinity210]

Does anyone else find this difficult?
I seem strangely drawn to that damn scale in my bathroom (a week ago you couldn't make me go on it) as i want to see my daily progress!!!

Any tips? I'd ideally like to weigh in once a week tops.

[steady as she goes]

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my best advice is to hide the scale. seriously! if you don't see it, you'll be less tempted.

[susan423]

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I have to weigh. Every morning. It keeps me on track and if I start to gain I can nip it in the bud before it gets out of hand. I will not have it any other way.

[moniegail]

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there are many scaleoholics on this board, yours truly used to be one of them. the only tip i can give you is will power. tell yourself that you will only weigh once a week, and then only weigh yourself once a week. be in control of your scale just as you are the food you put on your plate.

i tell myself i will only weigh on mondays(because that's the day i started on the plan), and for the most part that's what i do. i did weigh one day early once to have my starting weight for 6 week challenge. then another time, waited for several days to weigh until after TOM was over, had planned going 2 weeks before weighing, but just had to know sooner.

unless you can handle the ups and downs from daily weighing, you should stick with the idea of weekly weigh ins. your body's weight can flucuate from day to day and can effect you emotionally if not prepared for those flucuations. weighing in weekly you are more likely to see a noticable drop in lbs. (hopefully that is)

good luck to you in what ever you decide, just be ready if you weigh in daily to not see a drop in lbs every single day.

monie

[kellymch2006]

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I would be so depressed if I weighed every day. It really does affect my mindset for the day.

I weigh once a week, on Friday mornings before the weekend because generally I'm good durin gthe week.

I'm currently one week and one day into induction and I'm not weighing until next Tuesday morning which will be the end of my two weeks.

I guess Tuesday will be Weigh Day from now on.

[trinity210]

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thanks for the tips!!
i'm only on day 2 of induction.. but i have weighed myself 3 days in a row. lol
mind you it isn't helping that each time i have weighed myself i've lost 2 lbs.
i think i have to take it out of the bathroom.. good plan.

[chinadoll]

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I was a scale-aholic and would get depressed even though I knew I was retaining water and that I fluctuate a lot anyway. I know that when I drop weight I usually bounce back up for a few more days before dropping permanently to the lower weight. Even knowing all this I would get depressed if the scale went up.

So I now measure on Sat morning before I get on the scale. And I get on the scale on Sat morning because I know I tend to eat worse and exercise less on the weekends.

If I have a crummy week (4th of July comes to mind) I don't weigh that week. I know the depression will affect my motivation---I don't want to know.

I find that this works much better for me.

[DesertRain]

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I'm just like Jill, even knowing all the facts, a number I don't wanna see might cause a lot of damage.
I also used to be a weigh-a-holic and many times I threw in the towel it was due to a number on the scale.
I am also a once-a-week-weigher now. At my house it's called "Wednesday Weigh Day" and I have my daughter bring me the scale first thing in the morning on Wednesday and as soon as I have my stats recorded she takes it away and hides it....she has taken a vow to me not to ever disclose the location or give it to me prior to Wednesday Weigh Day.
I asked my husband to be the scale hider but he declined saying I shouldn't care what the scale says and to just have the willpower not to weigh myself everyday....argh. I know myself and sometimes we gotta do what we gotta do to stay away. I mean if the scale wasn't hidden, the temptation would be.....well you might as well just tape a Hershey Kiss to my nose.
Good Luck and continue to post here with us....there's lots of great advice and people here!

[joee5]

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I see it,(all 3 of them), and simply avoid them. No need to step on the scale and weigh yourself continuously, once a week I think is fine. Or better yet twice monthly, that's me. God Bless,Joe

[SugarFreeSheila]

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The great thing about scale avoidance during weight loss is that you get a very sweet surprise when you finally do step on the scale. The whole "watching paint try" aspect is out the window. Why merely smile at the scale when you can hop off it yelling out, "Yes!"

[susan423]

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Or it's up for the week and I'll have to wonder....is it the cream cheese I ate on Tuesday? The pork rinds I had on Friday? who knows. But that's what works for me. My weight doesn't normally fluctuate that much for no reason so I guess I can handle it