What if you lost...
lorrpb
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What if you lost inches, looked better, and felt better, but the scale weight was the same? Would that be a problem for you?
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For me, yes. My glucose number is directly tied to my weight (I have around 4 years of data/blood work that backs this).
eta: I'm already at goal weight and have been in maintenance for a while now. So I was reading the question as if I'd be ok at my original, higher weight.0 -
I'd be fine with that.0
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Not a problem!0
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I really, really wish I could say no to this. I lost about 90 lbs over 2+ years and then I during the cold, rainy winter I started doing more bodyweight workouts at home . . . I had gained some weight and that just irked me but then one jean Friday - my jeans just glided up over my thighs and I realized that though I had gained I was smaller.
. . . but sad to say I still battle with the scale. Probably because I still see myself closer to that person I was before, I know its just how I am shaped but it still bothers me. So on scale of 1 - 10 it rates a 7 as being a problem for me.0 -
I would be happy. No one needs to know what i weigh, they are looking at ME. Inches are what they're noticing. I don't have a big number floating above my head... But i need to lose another 15 pounds or so before i get to the point i wish to be at. 120 is my goal, it has been for a long time. But if i find i look fine at.. 125 or 115 then i'll have to adjust... but i fear the day i feel i still need to lose more!
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Now, I would be fine with that. 70lbs ago, I needed to see that number move.0
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No prob. If I was loosing inches all my lifting would be paying off. I'd be ecstatic and rarely use the scales again! (Just to keep tabs of course.) That would lend itself to me feeling even better and fitter.0
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Not a huge problem, no, but part of the reason I'm losing weight is for the ability to climb a mountain, and every pound of weight, whether in my body or my pack, is a pound I need to carry 19,000 feet into the air.
That said, I could do it at my current weight. Probably not at my starting weight.0 -
Realistically the scale needs to drop some more for me, but that being said I have more of a size goal. I reckon I know roughly what that will be in kilos and chances are that will a bigger number than someone would think I weigh (I have been reluctant to tell people my weight since highschool, I was by no means fat and I told my best friend how much I weighed, being a featherweight she couldn't hide her shock).
ATM I dont have the motivation/desire to count calories but I am motivated to improve my fitness so I am working on fitness and strength and just watching the scale to make sure its not creeping back up.0 -
The scale is one of many tools, just like the measuring tape.
Be honest. Be steady. Finish the drill.
Do that and the positive results will come.0 -
With the numbers in my weight no. Id be too imposing next to my reed of a hubby, despite his being a foot taller. Now, if I were under 200 but it was all hard work and lean muscle then hells ya0
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At my current weight (goal weight), I'd OK with losing inches but not weight, since that would imply gaining muscle/strength. I'd be even happier, deliriously so even, to stay at pretty much the same size (basically) but weigh 10 pounds or so more, for the same reasons.
Neither would've been true at my starting weight - if nothing else, similar to what others have said, because my joint problems (especially knees) are soooo much improved now that I'm lighter. For my personal case, increased strength at the same weight couldn't have had the same positive effect. (I'd already lost a couple of sizes worth of inches without losing weight, before this past year's weight loss.)0 -
I would be thrilled if that happened. I do not care at all about my overall weight in pounds right now. I'm more concerned with body composition.0
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I'm trying to lose weight partially because of my sciatica so it will for me.0
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Great comments and great work, everyone! I see so many threads in which people express that they've lost inches, not pounds, and are stressed because of it. Some people seem addicted to the scale number. I thought that posing it like this would help focus on what really matters. Do you HAVE to see that number move, or are you REALLY happy with the results? I understand those who had specific reasons for wanting fewer pounds.
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Great comments and great work, everyone! I see so many threads in which people express that they've lost inches, not pounds, and are stressed because of it. Some people seem addicted to the scale number. I thought that posing it like this would help focus on what really matters. Do you HAVE to see that number move, or are you REALLY happy with the results? I understand those who had specific reasons for wanting fewer pounds.
A good, thought provoking question!1 -
What if you lost inches, looked better, and felt better, but the scale weight was the same? Would that be a problem for you?
Yes, it definitely would have been a problem. I came here to lose weight ... to get a better power to weight ratio for cycling up hills.
Losing centimetres is an additional bonus ... and it would have been extremely unusual for me not to lose inches given that I lost 1/3 of my original body weight.
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it would not have been OK in the beginning because my initial push to lose was "you need surgery but we refuse to do it until you lose some weight" - turned out after losing the weight I didn't need the surgery anymore
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What if you lost inches, looked better, and felt better, but the scale weight was the same? Would that be a problem for you?
I lost 41 pounds and have put 9 of it back since I started lifting weight. My skinny clothes still fit and I know I am stronger (like I can take the tailgate off my truck and put it back without help) and people ask if I am still losing.
The scale is not the ultimate measure of health and wellness.
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It would be for me. Gravity is destroying my knees. If I don't get the scale to change, I'm done for.
Right on comment. I notice you tend to respond wittily Nice.
Technically the OP did state that you have to feel better. Failing knees wouldn't qualify.
OP, there are other health issues such as high blood pressure, glucose level that do not stop at feeling better and looking better. The weight needs to come down.
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What if you lost inches, looked better, and felt better, but the scale weight was the same? Would that be a problem for you?
At first - Yes, because I wanted to get into a healthy/athletic weight range.
Since hitting maintenance - Mostly no, it's what I'm doing really (recomp).
But for cycling extra pounds means harder work / worse performance, especially on the hills. Currently cutting down to my summer cycling weight so yes I would be disappointed if I wasn't losing.
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Now, when I'm already a 21 BMI, yes. When I was a 27 BMI I knew I needed the scale to come down for health reasons.
Now, if I lose inches and the scale goes up or the same I'm not worried.0 -
Like others say, it's context. When I started I went weeks without a loss but lost loads of inches. It whooshed eventually but when you're very big it matters more.
Now I know I can just trust the process and pootle along taking whatever form the progress comes in.
When I get closer to my aesthetic goal then the inches will be far more important than the scale.
So context and place in the "journey".0 -
What if you lost inches, looked better, and felt better, but the scale weight was the same? Would that be a problem for you?
In theory no. In practice, it depends on the results of my blood works. Currently, losing weight is what is making the results improve. I suspect that once I reach a stage where I'm no longer obese and only slightly over weight (according to BMI) and the values stabilize I would be okay with that. (I would probably also be starting recomp so the point would be moot
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Scale weight is an emotional thing. It has been engrained in my psyche since I was a child: there was a weight that girls should be (in the media, in books) irrespective of height and body frame size...if I recall correctly it was 120-125lbs
Getting rid of that from my brain is an uphill struggle
I weigh 40lbs more than that "perfect weight" but I'm at goal and in maintenance, within BMI and at a lean BF%. I suppose I profess to being happy with my scale weight but in reality it is still quite possibly an issue to me, albeit extremely small. I also make a big song and dance about being happy with my body now and that is true, that feels real. The two "feels" set up a dichotomy but my body, irrespective of scale weight, wins out,
But getting away from decades of lighter is better is difficult, possibly impossible for me. I just continually reinforce to me that I'm great at this weight.
Get out of your own head is quite possibly good advice here0 -
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Absolutely! As long as my waist shrunk!0
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