How does the # on the scale relate to your emotional state?
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Doesn't affect my emotions at all. It's just one of the numbers that help me track my progress to getting healthier. My strength and endurance are improving greatly. No matter what the scale says, my goals revolve around getting stronger and faster. Walking one more mile than the day before, doing one more push up, etc, these are the things that make me feel absolutely amazing and a number on the scale isn't going to take away from that feeling.0
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I know the scale isn't a good measure of my weight or appearance, and I try to be upbeat when I get a bad reading, but yeah it totally effects my emotions.
The trick is to just keep pushing through when you're feeling crappy about it. Not always easy to do, I know.0 -
I feel the very same way - I weigh in the morning as part of my morning routine (I know I shouldn't do it daily, but I need to make sure I'm not doing something to put me in the wrong direction). If that number increases more than it should, I am pissed. I get over it eventually, try to go to the gym and crush it, but that little number weighs (ha, pun) on me more than it should. Don't know how to fix it.
I do MUCH better since I started weighing weekly. Your weight can fluctuate daily by several pounds. Seeing you've gone up 2 pounds overnight due to water retention is much more soul crushing than seeing the scale move slowly or not at all, weekly.0 -
When I don't see the scale move, it makes me more determined than ever to work myself harder! And if I can feel that my muscles are stronger, I know that I am still doing something, even if the scale hasn't moved
But sometimes working yourself too hard can also make the weight loss stall. It's a catch 22, and you have to figure out a fragile balance. lol0 -
I feel excited when it goes down, but it doesn't affect me much when it stays the same or goes up a little.0
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I haven't lost weight in 2 weeks but I have lost a lot of inches. So when the scale lets me down....measurements pick me back up.0
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it bothers me in the sense that I want to shift a lot of weight, but a weekly weigh in isn't the whole story.
My focus is on getting fit and healthy, so ultimately, if I have eaten clean and exercised then I don't really care what the scale says, as that number isn't primarily what I am chasing.0 -
Hi all,
I read recently that looking at our bank statement at any one particular time during the week does not give us an accurate description of our finances similarly looking at our weight once a week does not let us see clearly how we are doing.
With that in mind I am going to track here ( I am back after a long absence) keep working out and weigh in once a week.
I grew up with a mum who always weighed herself myself and my 3 sisters are always at it for that reason I have never had weighing scales in my house. I don't want my 4 kids growing up seeing mum continiously weigh herself, so I am going to weigh in at the gym at the same time each month.
regards,
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I do have emotional reactions to the scale and also to food. I have learned to control them though by using cognitive therapy methods (the book The Beck Diet Solution teaches these skills).
As far as your sister, you've been doing this long enough to know she did not really lose that amount of weight doing NOTHING. She had to at the very least lessen her caloric intake. Be realistic in your view of her and cut yourself a break because every body is different and not two bodies function the same way.
You have to get that emotional response that leads to eating under control- I really suggest the book because it will help you. If you follow the steps in the book, you will not fail.
I weighed myself this morning and saw a 1.5 pound increase...... told myself it's just hormones and water and let it go. I know after I finish up my cycle about the end of next week it will look better- in the meanwhile, I'm getting off the internet and hitting the gym.0 -
Not at all really ....0
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You have a really good husband. the scale shouldn't matter as much as inches and how our clothes feel.0
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The number used to matter a lot more emotionally. It still does to an extent, but I've realized that while I of course have influence over it over the long term, I don't have much control over day-to-day fluctuation. The more I work out, the more I am discovering that my outlook these days is based more on whether I've exercised than what the scale happens to say, so I am working toward a more dedicated fitness routine.0
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The number on the scale does not have anything to do with my emotional state. I do not believe in scale/weight goals. After all, the scale only gives total weight at a given moment. It has very little, if anything, to do with my appearance or my fitness.0
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I'm a scale junkie. I weight myself every morning before I get dressed to go to the gym. I weight myself at the gym before I start working out, then I shower and weight myself in my work clothes. I get home from work around 5:30 and weight myself again. Then I wait until it is time for bed undress and weight in again. It is truly my addiction like nothing else has ever been. When it doesn't move fast enough, I want to cry and drive down to Sheetz to get a soft pretzel to console my broken heart. Logically to lose 14lbs in 35 days is good, I know that but to know I still have 150lbs to lose rips at my emotions. It is frustrating when you know how hard you work and do not feel like the scale is telling you what you want to see. When I do not see the scale move how I want it to I get depressed and discouraged. Sometimes it makes me want to fight harder sometimes it makes me think why do I even bother. So for me the scale is definitely tied to my emotions. I think if I can learn to not depend on it I will have an easier path in my weight loss.0
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