Taking a break from the scale

I weigh in every Friday morning, unless I've plateaued. Then I take a break completely so I don't get frustrated and off track. As long as you exercise and stay within your calories / sodium etc for the day, you'll lose weight. Great idea to take a beak. :flowerforyou:

Mornin Jamie,

That X@&$!&! scale! It deserves to be locked away! :happy:

Our weight fluctuates so much throughout the day with food and water intake, and even during the week if we workout everyday or every other day and begin to build up our muscles again. Muscles are more dense than fat and the scale can deliver small gains even when we're dieting and exercising.

The scale can be motivating or the scale can be discouraging - it's a double-edged sword. I have had that impulse to weigh weigh weigh myself but have learned that it is better to believe in yourself, in the knowledge that you have watched your calorie intake and you have also burned calories through exercise.

And the scale doesn't measure those sometimes hidden inches we have lost, so its a good idea to also put more "weight" (no pun intended) on how you feel in your clothes. Sometimes changes are more visible to the eye than to the scale.

So There Scale!

Best wishes to you for your October goals.

Yours in the quest,
bmq98

Good plan, if you still feel the need to track something, take your measurements once a week, waist, hips, thighs, arms, neck, body fat percentage, etc. I find those measurements are way more encouraging than the numbers on the scale anyway!

What a good idea! I'm usually quite disciplined and limit myself to once a week ......but lately I've been feeling the urge to jump on more often. I think I'll hide my scales too!:happy:

thats a brilliant idea, and I wish I could do the same! I need to see the number every day on the scale, up or down, and I know I need to break from it! I'm gonna lose this last 13lbs, and then re assess... good luck and keep in touch with the results!

I am glad you posted this. I thought something was wrong with me. When I read other posts about people weighing in everyday some 2-3 times a day that was normal.

I used to weigh once a week but I found that I was obsessing and it was stressing me out so bad. I was constantly thinking about my weight and if I didnt lose I would eat what I wanted out of depression. If I lost weight I would eat because in my mind I was thinking "Ok I can lose it"

It became such stress factor. I just threw the scale in the closet and committed myself to weigh once a month. This helps me to stay on track the entire month without stressing about my weight.




Lana

I had to throw mine out for awhile and I used the gym scale only on Mondays. I have since bought a new one but I have a strict Monday only policy, when I get tempted I just say to myself if it isn't Monday it doesn't count. Why Monday? because it forces me to stay good on the weekends!

I'm obsessess with my scale also. I was weighing my self every morning (three times in a row, just to make sure it was right) and every night to see how much damage I did for the day. I put the scale up yesterday and said I would only weigh in 1 time per week (every Tuesday). I'm hoping this works. I feel now, I have to be more accountable, but now, I find that I don't want to eat as much cause I don't want my weigh in to be bad. I will see what happens Tuesday. Good Luck!

did it! it is now in the closet under some stuff!

So, to prove the scale doesn't give the whole picture... in August I only lost 0.6 pounds, but lost about 4 inches!!

I highly recommend that everyone take their measurements once per month, it is so nice to see that you may not have lost weight but you are changing for the better........yay muscle :drinker: