Getting obsessed about weighing myself

only weigh yourself once a week )or every other week or however you want to) but no inbetween weighings.

i used to weigh every day and log once a week, and just this week stopped, as i thought i was becoming too preoccupied with it. nip it in the bud. LOL so, ill weigh friday morning and log, like i always do and ust skip the other 6 weigh ins.

if you dont have self control to stay off it, get rid of it and weigh at the gym or a frineds house or where ever.

I weigh once a week, but I get nervous as I get closer to that time, because I'm afraid I won't like what I see. Last week, I thought I'd overeaten, but I lost two pounds anyway. This week, I may have over eaten again, so I'm getting nervous again.

1 lb a week is a great rate of loss, especially for someone who only has 14 more lbs to lose.

If you cannot emotionally process the fact that the scale is weighing a lot more than your fat, then yes, stay off of it.

If you're only 14 lbs from goal and you're actually... really kind of unhappy sounding (weighing obsessively, binging, super frustrated, disheartened, "depressed about it"), then I'd address that directly. Because I doubt the 14 lbs will solve all of that.

If you really and truly think you're losing too slowly, take a fine toothed comb to your logging. And add a little extra light exercise. The weather is getting nicer, so you could bump up the walking, for example.

And maybe try to take your mind off this a bit. Plan some fun stuff to look forward to other than hitting your goal weight. Focus on some of the things you've already achieved. Make a new fitness goal.

Especially because it could take awhile. The last 5-10 often take a good long while. Accepting it will help you be happy, obsessing about it won't, and either way, it's going to come off when it will.

callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »

if you dont have self control to stay off it, get rid of it and weigh at the gym or a frineds house or where ever.

This is great advice i'm a faithful every morning hop on the scale girl. I got a new digital one yesterday that tells me the fat muscle and bone info. It says i weigh 1 lb less that what my old scale tells me. So today i love it tomorrow probably not as much.

sometimes you don't notice the change on the scale. Measure yourself or take progress pics. Most importantly... it's about how you feel.. not a silly number. Congrats on your loss so far though!

Being obsessed with daily weigh ins is not a good thing. I personally do not think weekly or monthly weigh ins are the best solution. The same volatility that plague daily weigh ins can also plague weekly ones. Say you are down 2 lbs for the week, and the night before you weigh in, you eat a high sodium meal. The next day your entire week's worth of work was masked by the meal. Had you have weighed in a day earlier or later you'd have seen your progress. I think not weighing at all is an even worse solution. This is how I advise handling weigh ins:

Stop concerning yourself with day to day weigh ins. They are meaningless. A million and one things affect day to day weigh ins (sodium, hydration, food in stomach, timing of last bowel movement, etc). A good technique is to weigh daily at the same time each day and record the result (but don't focus on it because it's essentially meaningless). At the end of the week, average the results. At the end of the month, compare the averages. This is where things become much more meaningful. There should be a downward trend (not necessarily a linear drop). If after 4 weeks or more you are consistently maintaining or gaining, consider reducing calories or examine how accurately you are counting them (http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1296011/calorie-counting-101).

I weigh myself everyday a couple times a day- I'm just so curious.

I know how you feel. I actually just thought to myself that I am going to have to toss my scale out, because the number on the scale sets my mood for the entire day. I stepped on it this morning (haven't since I was weighed at my meeting last Thursday night) and saw that the number was two pounds higher than it was last week. And never mind the fact that, logically, I know a couple of things are contributing to that (higher than usual sodium intake yesterday, TOM)...that number immediately sent me into a funk that lasted all day.

Fortunately, I realize that having a scale in my house is doing me exactly zero good, so out it's going tomorrow morning, right along with the rest of the trash.