Lenten Scale Diet Official Thread - Join us!

I'm doing this too. On my last weigh-in Friday March 4th I was 164.6. I thought I could leave the scale out and just will myself not to use it, but I'm so used to weighing myself right after I pee every morning, that I almost stepped on it the other day just out of habit. After that I stashed my scale on a shelf high up in the back of my closet.
Good luck everyone!

Ok everybody, you know I'm already in this. But just a reminder, Easter is late this year, it's 47 days from tomorrow, not 40. So are we back on the scale in 40 days on Palm Sunday or in 47 days on Easter Sunday???? :huh:

Phew -- this thead is going to be amazing, I can just tell - we're all stark crazy in the first place for having scale addicitons and now we're all taking it away, together!!! I was cracking up at a bunch of the comments - mostly at where people are hiding their scales haha. As for me, we have a loft at my house, the only way to get up there is a 100% verticle ladder. I don't think I can physically get UP the ladder, plus it scares me half to death -- so he'll be stashing it up there. (Although, when I first started this journey my nutritionist was obviously concerned with my scale habits so she told me to hide the scale and weigh in once a week... So, my hubby did a very poor job hiding the scale and just chucked in the loft about 2 feet from the top of the ladder. I was so desperate one day to weigh myself that I actually did traverse the first 4 rungs which allowed myself to thow my arm up there and slap around until I felt it in all its glory!! I yanked that sucker down so fast I thought I broke it. Hubby was not to pleased and actually gave UP hiding it after that. SO - I've instructed him to put it wayyyyyyyyyyyyy in the back.)

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm going the full 40 days - I don't need no stinkin' halfway check!!!

WOOO! My reward for making it through this challenge will be a massage - anyone else setting a reward? Well besides the Reeses and cadbury eggs hahaha

The Idea: to break the hold that the scale has on us. Yeah sure that number when it goes down might motivate you ... but when it goes up it throws you off, right?

so if its 39 days, 40 days or 47 days... it would be great to break the hold the scale has on us! Good luck everyone!

How the heck can Lent not be 40 days - lent is always 40 days...someone at the Vatican can apparently not read a calendar - ash Wed should be next week! WIERD!

Hubby for got to take/hide my scale this am - and it is taunting me everytime I walk past...I weigh 3xs a day - a total addict. This is gonna be HARD!

I thought my fiance was the only guy bad at hiding stuff??? I asked him to hide the scale before and after he did...I said..."it's under the bed isn't it?" and I was right. Geesh. Us women would be able to hide it so much better than that!!! And, possibly even forget where we hid it. LOL

Yay! I didn't weigh in this morning! And I don't even feel too weird about it...weird. After I eat in the morning I'm not too tempted to weigh, because I just know that eating and drinking water will cause my weight to be up, and I don't like that. :grumble: Anyway, I like the idea of having a reward. I think mine will be getting a new outfit, because I'm hopefully going to need some better fitting clothes at the end of 47 days! :happy:

I did NOT weigh myself this morning. One day down

I did weigh last night though, my starting weight is 205.4. I better be well into "onederland" by Easter! Lol

Hope everyone survives the first day

Hope everyone is having a great day. Finding it hard not to weigh in since a lot of my friends are posting weight loss. But then I realized that this lifestyle change is more than just a number. Its about changing habits so I hope this will carry me through the next 40 days

Ok, I'm in!! I did not even own a scale until I started this journey in January, and now, I find myself stepping on it every time I walk past the bathroom. Enough is enough!! That scale is not going to own me, and truly this is not about a specific number. This journey, for me anyway, is about getting healthier, feeling comfortable in my own skin, and loving myself again.

SW 290. I can do this!!