weigh ins...does anyone on here diet without weighing??

kirsty2276

im looking to go down a dress size on my top and bottoms before xmas, the thing is i find it stressful weighing myself and just wondered if anyone else does, i tend to feel like shouldnt eat or stuff which is not healthy! im going to measure waist, hips, bust, arms and thighs instead.
ive lost the motivation to go to aquafit due to the dark cold evenings .so im going to push myself to walk the dog for a few hours at a time on my days off work instead.
any other ideas for motivation??
im really the type of person who would love to hybernate for winter so i need to keep going!

MacMadame

Hey, if it works for you, why not? The scale is really a crude measure of how much fat you are losing anyway. I think watching your body fat % and your inches and sizes in clothes is a much better measure.

OTOH, I weigh every day as I think it makes me accountable. :laugh: But, if it didn't work for me, I wouldn't do it.

July

try weighing yourself every two weeks instead.
Push yourself to exercise. I hated exercise, too, in the beginning. Try a workout video.

blakgarnet

I'm working through the couch to 5K program and find having a goal helps me stay motivated. of course, I go to the gym, so the weather doesn't really affect if I exercise or not.

mamaturner

I typically weigh myself every 2 weeks, although I do have those days where I jsut feel skinnier and I'll hope on.... and I weigh more than the last time!!! So I've found that I need to keep to one particular day every week or every 2 weeks, because your body weight does fluctuate throughout. Also I've noticed that many times I may have not lost any pounds or even gained one or two, but lost inches instead! Which for me is fine! I also bought an eliptical not to long ago bc I live in WI and it already flurried yesterday! I also do yoga and have a few aerobics dvd's. It's always fun to invite a friend over you haven't seen in a while to do 'em with you. You tend to laugh at each other which burns calories too!! :bigsmile:

arewethereyet

honestly, my weight means nothing to me at this point. To some I have plateaued, given I am fluxing between 135-137 for months..............but I have gone down an entire dress size without losing a pound.

I am stronger and healthier. Yesterday I started my garden, as I do each year in Oct and agin in March. My husband commented that this is the first time in over 5 yrs I didnt almost pass out from digging and planting.......I am stronger.

So can you achieve your goal of losing a size without obsessing over the scale, you betcha!!

:drinker: jeannie

BrenNew

im looking to go down a dress size on my top and bottoms before xmas, the thing is i find it stressful weighing myself and just wondered if anyone else does, i tend to feel like shouldnt eat or stuff which is not healthy! im going to measure waist, hips, bust, arms and thighs instead.
ive lost the motivation to go to aquafit due to the dark cold evenings .so im going to push myself to walk the dog for a few hours at a time on my days off work instead.
any other ideas for motivation??
im really the type of person who would love to hybernate for winter so i need to keep going!

I'm not much into exercise either, so my kind of exercising has to be fun! :happy: I dance to a fast oldies CD that my husband made up of all my favorite old songs. (Like "Love Shack", Wild, Wild West", "Mony, Mony", "Footloose", and "Gloria") It's free, (unlike a gym!) fun, and I can even watch tv at the same time, so I never get bored! :happy:
I also walk, and use the Wii Fit, and jog with it, which is a lot of fun, and easy too!
Maybe you could do fun stuff like that to get you moving!
As for weighing in, I don't like it, but, I do it once a week to keep myself accountable. :grumble: :laugh:

jigs

I'm with BrenNew. It's gotta be fun or I won't do it. That said, I did buy a jump rope. It's not fun, but it's fast! I can usually make myself go out in the garage and jump rope for 10 minutes. It's a good way to spend the time while I've got the t.v. paused so I can fast forward through the commercials as my 'reward' for exercising. :laugh:

briblue72

I no longer weigh in regularly. Between every 2-4 weeks usually. I have been maintaining the same weight for almost a year - fluctuating about 4 lbs either way.

When I first started out, almost 2 years ago, I weighed in weekly. Any more than that did nothing for my self-esteem. Any less than that and I lost track of my goals.

lizbeth787

I used to weigh in like everrryyy day - but I'm not trying to lose and I tend to eat the same kind of things on a weekly basis. So I figure I will most likelly be the same unless I have a night out or something. So then I just cut back or work out harder the next couple of days. It all balances out in the end! I'm glad I finally came to this realization instead of being aslave to the scale!!!