Scale Addictions!!!

I am an absolute scale addict. I weigh myself in clothes, out of clothes, after drinking something and even after the shower to see how much of a difference wet hair makes.

It's really bad. Just screws with my mind. So 6 days ago I threw the batteries out from my scales (I had two sets of scales!).

A staff member at my gym is going to be weighing me in once a week. So far it has done me a world of good!

If you follow the plan...the weight will come off. You just cannot look at weight loss in the short term. It's crazy making!!

Old adage - "You didn't put it all the weight on in a day and so..."

Take a deep breath and focus on how your mind and body are feeling. And then maybe follow in kyrannosaurus's footsteps and throw out your batteries!!! :happy:

I am a scale addict also, but I weigh myself every three days. It works for me, I was alot worse, weighing myself 2-3x a day.

Yes! I understand how you feel, definitely a scale addict. I have two different scales and I weigh constantly. Honestly it's sad to admit but I bet that I weigh about 10x per day. However, I have stayed faithful and not weighed in this morning!

yeah. that's not healthy for the mind.

Maybe give the scale to someone in your house and have them bring it out once per week for weigh-in?

Or ditch the scale completely and go by measurements and how your clothes fit.

Good luck... I know the whole scale thing can get neurotic if you don't keep it in check.

I only weigh in the morning, since my weight goes up 1-2 pounds throughout the day, depending on what I eat. I also don't weigh the day after I cheat, or the day after I've consumed a lot of sodium. Just isn't worth the mental stress haha.

I'm turning into a scale addict myself. However, I NEVER weigh myself more than once per day, it's just meaningless. In order to get any meaningful trend out of it, the conditions have to be as close to exact as possible. For me, that's first thing in the morning, after using the bathroom and not eating or drinking ANYTHING. Doing it multiple times per day can't help you, there's no way to know how fast you're disposing of those calories you intake.

The only time I could see it being interesting is doing a before/after for a long run or something. But that's just for fun, don't use that for progress.

My goal is once per week, but sometimes I'm so dang curious that I can't help it.

I was addicted and it drove my crazy. Now only weigh once a week at the same time of day and it has worked wonders for my mental fitness. I put the scale out of site until it is weigh in day. Through out the day and week your weight will fluctuate and it will play games with your mind.

I used to be. I used to weigh myself constantly. But I got to a point that I didn't care anymore @140 lbs, I just stopped and realized that I was freaking out over fluctuations that I couldn't control anyway and that even days that I did everything perfectly, it Still would fluctuate. So I just stopped, and now I might weigh myself every week or two and that's it. I just realized that the way I look is far more important then a number

I was a MAJOR addict... Id weigh myself anytime I went into the bathroom for anything (or the closet since ours is in the bathroom) so maybe 15-29 times a day very day.... I retain water like crazy so the scale fluctuates like crazy and I hated seeing it up even though I knew it was water fluctuation... So I weighed on March 1st and put it away until April 1st! Hoping to cure the addiction and then next month I will go aback to weighing ONLY once a week or maybe every other week.

I weighed in every AM for several months, but as I got closer to my goal and the weight loss slowed, I decided to try once or twice a week. For me, I found that more frustrating, because I knew mathematically how much the scale should have moved during the week, and was devastated when it didn't. I also wouldn't have any chance to see any type of encouraging number, even .2lbs., for another week. It placed too much pressure, importance and anticipation on that one day and one weigh in. Also, when I would have a high-calorie day, I knew I had several days to "make up for it" before my weigh in, so I started taking my calorie intake a bit less seriously.

My solution has been to use the free app called "Happy Scale". You enter your daily weight, and it follows the trends of your entries and gives you a "predicted true weight". I can see how a little jump up or down on the scale doesn't really change my weight trend, and how many pounds I am losing on average every 30 and 90 days. I also see when those "tiny jumps up" start adding up and affect my trend, and nip it in the bud.

Works for me

Honestly, I weigh myself twice a day and I like doing it that way. You can celebrate each little decrease, no matter how small, you learn to see the fluctuations as just that and not get disheartened. You learn what you eat and drink that makes your weight go up. I know if I have a takeaway pizza I'll be a few pounds up on the scale - but it's ok, because I know it's just water. If I have a few drinks I will be down - dehydration. I almost find it more disheartening to step on the scale after a week and not see a big change!

If you have an unhealthy obsession with weighing yourself I would suggest taking photos and measurements and throwing away the scale.

Or giving them to someone else so you have to ask them to weigh yourself is not a bad idea either.

But no matter how often you weigh yourself you have to accept that your weight fluctuates.

Soooooo Addicted to the scale ! I moved it to 3 different locations this morning so I could get the lowest reading. It ruins my day if weight goes up...especially since I have been staying at, or below, my calorie goal, and exercising 6 days week for the past month. I was weighing every 3 days. Now going to weigh in just once a week Monday mornings ( that will keep me behaving over the weekend). Otherwise I get so angry at the scale I just want to give up.

wow...just posted under another topic dealing with the scale... I can't agree with you more about wanting to just eat eat eat when you think you did great and the scale says otherwise... that's why I don't weigh anymore... might do so on July 1... will be my first anniversary of my break up with the scale (except for a brief encounter at the end of November for a pre op checkup... was down 52lbs then!)...