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    Why the Scale Lies

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      this is so awesome, thanks!!:heart:
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      For the record, the author of this article is Renee Chloe...and she has a website:

      skwigg.com

      It's been posted all over the internets, and her name is rarely given as the person who wrote it.

      Thank you, I was wondering who the actual author was.
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      Thank you so much!!! I really needed to hear this.
    • Posts: 3,069 Member
      Thank you SOOOOOOOO much for posting this. I always get upset and depressed when the scale goes up after working out and eating right each day. Now I will remember that I'd have to eat an extra 3,500 calories to gain a pound.
    • Posts: 57 Member
      Thanks for posting this! It's so comforting and validating to have this information.
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      Great post makes me wanna throw my scale away and just measure myself
    • Posts: 411 Member
      bump :)
    • Posts: 465 Member
      Like:flowerforyou:
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    • Posts: 80 Member
      I'm gonna join the chorus and say thank you for posting this!
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    • Posts: 28 Member
      Thank you for Posting this!! I need to remember not to weigh myself so often. once a week or ever two weeks to see my progress should be fine!!
      Thanks!
      :happy:
    • Posts: 117
      :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou: :flowerforyou:
      Thanks for the post. Very informative! Hate that dang scale!!
    • Posts: 55
      Thankyou so much for posting this!! I weighed myself today and after another week of hard training and healthy living I've (apparently) lost no weight. What I have lost is inches and this post just confirmed that the scales are a sure-fire way of making you disheartened and miserable....so thanks...I'll be measuring in future :flowerforyou:
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    • Posts: 143
      what a fab post it is so depressing getting weighed alot and the scales dont move so im saying goodbye to my scales while the 1st of the month and hello mr tape measure x
    • Posts: 223 Member
      bump! Great info!
    • Posts: 25
      I soooooooooo needed to read this today! When I stepped on the scale today I wanted to cry even though the pants I'm wearing today were tight in January and are about to fall off in March. Think I'll go home tonight and try on that skirt I've been wanting to get back into. :))
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      What an awesome article!!!!! I def needed to read this today. And, I am one of those possesed OCD scale people, partially becasue that is one thing I "think" I can control. But, I see now that although I can control what I eat the scael may not be something I can control. Thanks so much for shedding some lihgt on all of this for me.
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      bump!!!!!!!
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      Oh how I needed this today....thanks for the bump! :wink:
    • Posts: 34
      BUMP!!!
      Thinking of weighing myself once a month, there is just too much fluctuation in daily weighing!
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      Thanks! Good Info!
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    • Posts: 113
      Bump! Thanks for sharing!
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