absolutly dreading the scale...

Ugh, I have that same problem too! I always dread the scale because I have seen it go up sooo many times when I thought it would go down. If I know my time of the month is coming I don't weigh myself until the week after so I don't get discouraged, and my trainer actually told me that if you work out harder during that time you will lose more because of the water weight and all of that. Try not to get discouraged by the scale, it takes time to see the numbers drop and as you build muscle and increase your water intake you might see it go up or stay the same - I am trying now to worry about my health, how much I am exercising and what I am eating first and not focus so much on the scale, because if I do all that it will start to go down, even if it is stubborn sometimes

I have the same issues with the scale...I still use it at least once a week but I also measure myself because even if I don't lose pounds, inches are a better gauge to measure weight loss. It could be you are building muscle which weighs more but takes up less space than fat. So maybe you should start to monitor your measurements too if you're not already. I fight discouragement everyday, just have to keep telling myself I didn't gain the weight overnight so its not gonna leave overnight. As for TOM, I also put on lbs shortly before and after, so that could also be a factor. Hope this is helpful, stay encouraged and feel free to add me as a friend if you like!!

I went through a 6 week bootcamp at the gym and lost several inches. I have trouble actually loosing fat... I just worry that all the healthy eating isnt goin to show when i do weigh...

You are not the first to worry about the scales and you definitely will not be the last :flowerforyou:

It is entirely up to you, however, if you do NOT weight yourself and take your measurements, you will never, ever know.

Look on your weight loss as a lifelong change, therefore if the worse came to the worse and you had lost nothing, just continue, persevere to the next week. If you had indeed, lost nothing, you would now know to try other things that would help you to lose.

However, if you have lost weight and inches, imagine how much of an encouragement that would be! There is absolutely nothing like a good spur on when the scales reading has reduced along with the inches, it is one terrific feeling, don't deny yourself that feeling.

Personally, I reckon you will be very pleasantly surprised if you were to risk jumping on the scales, ESPECIALLY if, as you say, the inches have already reduced.

You would not have reduced inches without some weight having come off xxxx