Obsess over scale numbers?

If I went by how I look and feel, I wouldn't have bothered to lose weight.

I can see how that makes sense -- but I was implying that if you are doing the necessary things to get healthy like eating properly and exercising, I don't find the scale needs to be an everyday or multiple times a day thing. I weigh in once a week at the docs office and my appointment is always around 10 am, after I have breakfast. SO normally I feel a little full when I get on the scale so the number could be wrong, but that's what I go by as it's very accurate.

Being overweight, I was in DENIAL a lot of the time and then when in denial you trick yourself into thinking you look and feel good, but you actually aren't. I was speaking of "looking and feeling" good relative to doing healthy things and finally being out of denial. After all, for me anyways, coming out of denial was my swift kick to my *kitten* to get healthy cause it's when I realized I don't look good and feeling good is what I CRAVE.

I don't know if what I said made sense but I hope it did. :happy:

I agree with that. ^

Even when I was at my heaviest, I never realized just how big I was. I thought that I looked/felt good. Now that I actually *do* look, feel good, it's easy to see why I had a weight problem for so long. Denial. In retrospect, I cannot believe that I thought that I was "okay" when I was so overweight and unhealthy.

Weight is unpredictable and no, we are not defined as people by our weight. Our health, however, is often defined by our weight.

Yes, like I mentioned in my previous reply, denial is a dangerous thing. Haha. Not in so many words, but you get it. :laugh: I was there for many many years too... sucks so bad, but it's so good when you finally have the epiphany and get out of it. :bigsmile:

I hate how society has people defining each other and ourselves by our weight. HEALTH in general should never be defined by a number that fluctuates more than the stock market values do Haha But somehow, it has. I was the healthiest overweight person I KNOW!! All through my years of school, I was super active, involved in Volleyball (fav sport ever!) and we won champions throughout our province!! I was also in dancing, weight training and basketball and soccer. I LOVED to run and have a ball around -- even when I was at home, I'd be outside kicking the ball around with my brother or we'd spend LOOOOONG summer days at the beach playing beach volleyball!! I was super active. But my eating habits were horrible because my dad had a few strokes (he was a cook) but cause he couldn't often use the left side of his body, he started cooking crap. That's when I started packing on pounds. EVEN THEN, I could still run around the soccer field faster than my thin friends who were half my size or smaller! My gym teachers often asked how it was possible. LOL Still healthier than a lot f my current friends cause I have more endurance and stamina and they hardly exercise so they out of breath going for a slow paced walk!

THAT MY FRIENDS, is a better description of healthy than a stupid number. (Granted, now that number is slowly declining so it's even better!)

I obsess too! I just decided a few moments ago that from now on, I will ONLY weigh every 1-2 weeks, maybe longer ^.^ I gave my scale to my parents, so now even if I do change my mind there's no going back.

I weigh myself once a week at my doctors office - every Thursday and we record it. She told me to record my food (so now I do it on here instead of in a book) and if I gain, I can go back and look to see what I need to improve on for the following week. I do my full body measurements once a month and it's always amazing. I remember saying "WOH, I lost ___ many inches after only losing 7 lbs this whole month!!! HOLY COW!!" cause muscle weighs more than fat, remember that.

I agree. Another interesting fact is muscle does weigh more than fat so even though the scales can indicate weight loss sometimes it can't if that fat is replaced w/ muscle! I think the best way to really determine if you are losing is by taking measurements. I do have a scale that calculates body fat %, muscle weight % and water weight %-it seems accurate, sometimes when I have not lost weight or I have a gained weight and the muscle % goes up and my measurements are better I still know that I am still on the right track.

Exactly.