I hate the scale!

nickymarie011
nickymarie011 Posts: 152 Member
edited February 16 in Motivation and Support
The last 2 months I have NOT weighed myself at all and instead have been focusing on how I feel/how my clothes fit. I was always the type that obsessed over the number on the scale and depending on the #, it would either completely ruin my day or make my day! Well, today I had a doctors visit and of course, they had to weigh me. I realized I gained 15 pounds in TWO months, which is odd because I still fit into all my clothing just fine. I am seriously annoyed with myself because I cannot find a good medium. It's either I weigh myself daily or weekly and drive myself nuts about the number OR I don't weigh myself and then when I have no choice but to face the scale (like at the docs') , I end up completely disappointed.

I need a happy medium! I don't want to fall into a funk and become obsessed over the number but yet I don't want to keep gaining either. For those of you who obsess over the number, how often do you weigh yourself so that it does not control your mood/ spirit?

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  • Lizzy622
    Lizzy622 Posts: 3,705 Member
    First remember- it is a different scale and probably a different time of day. Unless you stopped logging and started overeating you probably did not gain that much(your clothes still fit). Weight can vary depending on how much you ate and drank and when you visited the bathroom last. I go more by how my clothes fit and bought a few new tighter pieces to keep myself honest. I rarely weigh.
  • jbella99
    jbella99 Posts: 596 Member
    try measuring yourself instead.
  • ncrugbyprop
    ncrugbyprop Posts: 96 Member
    Every other day. I would lose my mind if I had been tight on my diet and putting in the work at the gym and I spike 3 or 4 pounds from my last weigh in. I know that its just a normal fluctuation, but the scale just lays their with its evil, vile smirk flashing that number at me, mocking me... beckoning me to smash its little digital face in...

    Honestly, I used to obsess over the numbers. It does still irritate me but I have learned that its just a number and can just let it go. I don't keep the scale out anymore. Its in a drawer and requires thought and effort to retrieve and weigh, so that I mostly only weigh once a week unless I have an odd spike.
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