What to do...What to do!

AlleganyMiss

Several years ago when I was sick with cancer the medication they gave me during radiation put a ton of weight on me, at my highest I was 265. After getting off the meds I lost down to 220. Several years go by and I detox cold turkey off of all my pain meds and lost down to 172. When I could eat again I gained it back and was when I started wanting to seriously lose weight a year ago I was 218 pounds. On my own and with using Reshape the Nation I lost down to 203. Kept working at it and got down to 195 when I started MFP. Been working at it and THOUGHT I was down to 191. Then I stepped on another scale which said 200. So convinced my scales were cursed or something I went and bought a new scale. Stepped on it today and it says 197.2

I know I am obsessing over something very very trivial....especially when I FEEL so much better and my clothes are fitting better. The thing that is...welll weirding me out...is that I really really don't want to go into MFP and change it to 197.2 and feel like I have GAINED weight.....BUT....feel like I am not being honest.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO????

autumny70

Well, your options are to change it or simply not log a new weight until you have a lower one to log, which could be weeks.

I was bothered by my ticker not reflecting the actual reality so I went in and changed my starting weight to the true number. "home-> check-in->edit previous entries). So you can simply edit the original entries without adding a new one.

Gianna44

I would probably change it - think of it this way: you'll show a bigger loss in the end!
(I would hate to have to do it as well - isn't a shame how easy it is to become focused on "the" number? But I totally get it!)

cari4jc1

You can go in and change your settings on MFP and change your starting weight or actually edit any of the weight entries. As far as the scale thing goes, try not to put too much emphasis on what it says. I can easily fluctuate a couple pounds or so overnight. I'm starting to find the trends in what I eat that causes those jumps, but I try not to take what it says too much to heart. Also, I too have noticed that different scales will give me different readings. Obviously one of them is screwed up so I just stick with 1 scale and only go "officially" by that one. That way I don't get too screwed up and confused by the different readings.

bunnymum150

great suggestions - do what you feel most comfortable with
Congratulations on your cancer recovery. Relay for life is tomorrow evening in our community. such a great event
In the end, it is really about optimal health via nutrition and activity and along the way the #'s will decrease. How nice that you have noticed how body is changing and clothes fitting differently:flowerforyou:

AlleganyMiss

I think wat Iam going to do is reset it to the 218 which is were I was when I first started being serious a year ago and then tomarrow I will make Friday's my weigh in day and what ever it says is what it will be and I will just go from there in continueing to work it DOWN DOWN DOWN!!! At least when I look att he computer screen I will see that loss to still be motivated.

Before last year my concentration was always on just being healthy from the cancer and getting my life back after 10 years of constant pain pill use. I sometimes feel like I was really only "SICK" for about the first 2-3 year and the rest was just my body being so comprimsed from pain pill use. I have had a LOT of surgeries ..2 toe, 3 on right knee, 5 abdominal for endometriosis, 5 on back for cancer, 1 through chest and neck for cancer, 8 for kidney stones (from pill use after cancer...had them 11 times but only 8 would not pass), Gallbladder out, and most recently last May a total hysterectomy which consisted of 2 surgeries and 9 days in hospital. All of these EXCEPT the toe and knee were in the last 10 years ...but....still I worked the pain pills HARD!!

I feel so much healthier now and feel alive! People that I knew before I got sick have said holding a conversation with me was terrible before and now I look and speak so differently with no pills. One person told me the other day they thought I was not going to make it I was so "sick" all the time.

SOOOOO in the end...I am healthier...BUT...I want to look on the outside how I feel on the inside.

Thank for all of your support everyone!!

marygee1951

God bless you....you've been through so much!!! Congratulations on your recovery and the strength it took to get off your pain medications.

Scales are such a nuisance. I have a digital scale -- and the readings constantly chage - some times it's where I place it on the kitchen floor - but then I can step on it three times in 15 minutes without moving it, and it will read a different number each time.
Now I weigh myself once a month at the nutritionist's office.

Gianna44

You've been through so much - congratulations on your recovery! And keep up that focus on being healthy and positive attitude - the losses will come for you.

AlleganyMiss

Thank You everyone!