I need a scale intervention too. I'm on it every morning and I tend to get despondent when it doesn't move in the direction I want it to. If I don't get on it every day, though, I start eating whatever I want, and that's how I put on 12 lbs over the holidays. Very frustrating. I would like to hear about how you conquer the scale and how you mentally cope with not weighing every day!

I put my scale in the give-away box (we are moving house soon) and there it shall stay. It can torment someone else. I am only allowed to weigh in at the gym. They have a "doctor's" type scale that is consistent. Best of all, I won't fret every half-pound gain/loss due to dietary sodium or other various fluctuations.

Besides. It gets me to the gym more :)

Its not easy..My scale is in my disabled sis kitchen and when I do check on my sis, I feel tempted, but doing self talking and telling myself No...wait till March.. I have pateince with other things, but scale..ugh..its a working progress.

Liliann

I have to stay away from the scale also..Thats why I am setting small goals of keeping to my calorie count everyday.If I have to think about how much weight I need to lose it is overwhelming.So far I am weighing in about every 2 weeks.If I only lose a lb a week I am good with that..The main goal is to get healthy,eating a well balanced diet and not binging to cope with my feelings.

I have seen this problem before and there is pretty much only one conclusion. Weighing yourself everyday is a method of focusing on the product, and the not the process, of lossing weight. If you want to divert yourself from the scales, focus all of your attention on doing those things that will help you to loss weight and be healthier. I challenged my weight loss team to stay off of their scales for a week and focus on the process. They were shocked to find out the level of dependantcy they had developed on the numbers on the scale. I, therefore, extend the same challenge to you, and anyone else reading this post. Train yourself to stay off the scales, except for a once a week weigh-in. Remember this: disicpline becomes habit, habit becomes routine.

As for the gym, remember that lossing weight is 80% diet, 20% exercise. If you want to do workout, body weight exercises are an excellent option for home workouts. There are many things you can do. If you can't find anything on the web, send me an email and we'll go over some things.

I'm not a scale addict, but I am due to weigh tomorrow. If I haven't made progress, I really hope it doesn't make me want to quit again. This is a frustrating journey.

Hi all...am back into daily weigh ins and doing great!! I am at 39 Lbs lost so far!! Am happy :) I am drinking 4 liters of water a day ,plenty of movements..weight training at home...I have a long way to go!!!

I will keep in touch...busy b at home!! Take care all..

Liliann

I did good today. 4 lbs down in the last week. I rewarded myself by kicking my butt in a workout, and going for a swim, then walking home.

I find I do best when I weigh daily. I have a nice scale that weighs to the .2 of a pound so if i've had a good day, even if i wasn't perfect, the scale is pretty good about going down at least .2 of a pound which is really motivating. if I'm off the wagon I don't weigh, my weight increases and the cycle continues.

The scale can only tell you so much, remember that!

If you're weight training, you might gain weight. Since muscle weighs more than fat, don't worry too much about it.

As long as you're within your calorie range for your goals, you will be good. Don't eat too much, don't eat too little.

I've found that after weight training for as long as I have, that I can actually eat a lot more food! Since my diet consists of a lot more plant foods than before, it's gotten easy for me.

Just remember, the scale might distract you from what's important. Staying healthy and eating enough.

Good luck to you all!

I am tracking my daily weigh ins this week...Before I started, had done research on why I can not pass the 390s mark...and now I understand on keeping a log on tracking it..I weigh once a day, in the mornings and also, I stopped taking my water pill daily, I truly think that hinders it and waiting to see if my left swallon ankle is be healed...I am doing this on and for motivation in me...and watching it trend as I shrink. Now am only taking my water pill when needed...So I shall see if this works. If not... then the patience on a monthly basis will be on my list...

I track it daily for the week, that on my offical day, I average it out on finding my true weight loss. This is new to me...and also a learning process as well.

Liliann

I have a scale phobia stemming from my 13th birthday when my dad bought me a sale for my gift!!!
I tried hard o break that sucker but he only buys good stuff even threw them down stairs.
he thought It would be nice as I was at the age girls want to look after themselves and I thought He was telling me I was fat. That is the moment I started my spiral down. I began to not eat breakfast and have only an apple for lunch then so hungry I pigged out at dinner and in evenings.
Heck I went to a diet group and gain weight because we had to publicly weigh in, so now what???

I only weigh at the doctors office and indulge myself after.
Stopping that now.

Ah...Norma a big hug to you..That must have been tough 13 and having to deal with that..Its so common for girls that age to put on weight. I had a plump stage for about 2 years around that age.Have you had a pattern of weight gain during hormonal changes? I believe that hormones play such a big part in weight gain.more than the medical community will address. Alot of the foods we eat now are so genetically modified with antibiotics hormones ect..Most of my major weight gains I can contribute to pregnancy ,menopause and hypothyroidism..

Nov
I foound I could tell you exactly when I went into perimenopause ugh!
My weigh packed on fast I developed diabetes and when I was athalf way point I was my heaviest weighing in at 260 puffy with fluid and miserable. BP was up yuck.
I began a very strick rooutine and lost 70lbs,
now I feel good, I dont feel fat even though I am, but the puffy isnt there. I am not beating me up but going ahead.

The nurse at the Bariatric clinic did say hormones do cause weight gain or for others loss, remember what hormones control. Thyroid, metabilism. so we work harder eat less and lose slower.
I didnt listen when I had been told lose it while you are in your thirties, did ok in early forties now Im 56 and it is a longer process but we can trick oour bodies into speeding up
exersize and diet change. yeh I know ..suckslol!