Scale, why should I dump thee? Let me count the ways....
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cstehansen wrote: »cstehansen wrote: »AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »tcunbeliever wrote: »tomato is a vegetable according to the government as confirmed by the supreme court
stupid, but true
Intelligence is knowing the tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it onto a fruit salad....
Does this mean my fruit salad of zucchini, tomato and avocado is no good?
Just don't put ketchup on it...
I never liked that red sugar sludge.
A perfect way to make a tomato taste like *assparagus*2 -
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Time for a bumpty-bump.2
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I gained 4 lbs this weekend being incredibly active and not overeating (I think)...today I am in a pair of jeans that I struggled to get into last week and instead of being tight, I could actually fit a golf ball in this waistband with me...maybe it's just water, maybe I even gained a bit of muscle or lost a bit of fat, who knows, but for sure the scale is not being nice so I'll listen to the jeans!!!3
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Done. Thanks for the reminder.1
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dmariet116 wrote: »@RalfLott I love Butter Bob!!!
Where did he go?0 -
I thought I'd bring this thread back since I spent a lot of time posting about how I hate the scale.
Last year I lost 15 lbs and I was 141 at the end of the year.
This year I steadily gained weight (but not size) until I was 151.
No changes brought on the weight gain. I started the year with a deficit for 6 weeks + 2 weeks at maintenance - this was the same plan with which I lost 15 lbs the previous year...same calorie levels, same macro goals.
Then I switched to Leangains in April - just to try something new, plus I was trying to change body composition and per my scale my body fat was 25% both before and after the 2016 weight loss.
Amazingly, I still gained weight - even at a calorie level that is supposed to be a deficit, but April-July actually changed my body fat from 25% down to 20%. So, I didn't mind being heavier, since I knew I was building muscle, and the visual was definitely improving, more muscle definition, less fluffy belly, etc.
Then I went on vacation most of July and gained some more weight, that was not muscle, and I was not at a deficit that month...my muscle measurements didn't change in July, so I was actually pretty happy that I didn't lose muscle even when I didn't workout for most of the month.
August - back on Leangains and workouts as usual...weight gain continued at the beginning of August and hit a plateau from Mid-August to Mid-September.
Suddenly, with no changes whatsoever, I started losing weight Mid-September, pretty steadily 1/2 a pound a week. NOTHING CHANGED
So, I just switched to keto a week ago for migraine control - I didn't change my calorie goals or my workout plan, just changed the macros around between fat and carbs - I was a bit worried that might stall out my sudden loss record, but it didn't, I'm down half a pound again this week after a full pound loss the first partial week of keto (likely some extra water).
So...for everyone who ever has a stall...keep at it...if you see the scale go up and you know you didn't change anything...keep at it...track more metrics than just weight - my measurements dropped steadily and I lost clothing sizes even as the scale kept creeping up...don't let the scale get you down, the scale is a giant liar sometimes.
I was 146.8 this morning, so still not down to where I was last year, but I look better now and have a flatter belly than I did in my Harley Quinn costume last Halloween and I'm going to be an awesome Wonder Woman at the end of the month.
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This thread made my morning!
That scale means so much to me but unfortunately our relationship is one sided. He doesn't really care for me. I need to end this codependent relationship. My clothes communicate better, they hug me often (sometimes way to tight), and they never leave me. The numbers lie; don't let them tell you any different. LC'ers against lying. UNITE!6 -
Sorry folks but I very much like my scale. It's a great tool to help me understand how my body reacts to different stimulus(ie. food, exercise, alcohol). I won't say i've never been frustrated at it lol ... but when I am I use that to motivate me to make some sort of positive change.0
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I do weigh in daily, don't track the number unless it is a new low one. But if I bounce up, I like to look over what I have done for the past few days. Keeps me on track. I am at goal weight, actually below it by a few lbs. and this is how I do it. Yeah, it can frustrate me like crazy at times but it tells me my BMI and how many cals. to maintain that weight. So I guess I have a healthy relationship to my scale. But my clothes have a say so in things as well. Don't count on just one method of feed back.0
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Your sneaky scale is the Sméagol of your household gadgets - its treacherous ways will not stop till it's been consigned to the flames (or dumpster)!3
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I have a fitbit aria that logs my weight automatically into the app (and links over to here). Its just habit to get up in the morning, pee, weigh, get up for the day. I barely look at the number most days - just a quick mental note, nothing that I stress over. Every few weeks I will look at the chart and thats where the insights come - so easy to see trends (i.e. every monday morning I am up 2-3 pounds over Friday morning due to weekend family eating different. By the end of the week, its back down again (water weight!) Seeing those "humps" and seeing that the trend for the prior 4 weeks is overall still down, I know I am on the right track and just to keep on.
I like data. I dont like obsessing for a single day's weight. So this works pretty well for me.3 -
I hate how much power the scale has over me, my mood. I know, logically, it should not rule me like it does.
I know and often say, it is not the only metric, it is not even necessarily the best metric. Unfortunately, it is still the most common metric.
In my experience, that is what people ask or mention. "How much weight have you lost?" "How many pounds this week?" "Wow you've lost weight."
From doctors too. "You need to lose XX pounds." or "Come back when you're under XXX pounds." or that sort of thing. It's never "I want you to feel 17% better." or "Come back when you're down three dress sizes."
This is the disconnect, the cognative dissonance that I feel when approaching the scale.
I know, logically, that regardless of whatever number it displays, I'm the fittest I've been since probably the 1980's. I know that almost every piece of clothing I own is now loose. (The only remaning clothes still tight are things I've kept from waaaaaay back that I'll soon fit into again.) I know that the number on the scale does not change how I look, how my clothes fit, or the progress I've made in the past ~22 months.
And yet, if that number is higher than it was last week, I will feel crummy. I will literally feel bad for a day, or two, or three, depending how much higher that number is. Conversely if the number is lower, I'll feel good. Energized, happy.
I don't like that the scale has this power over my mood. But I don't know how to stop it. And I can't just stop weighing myself, because of aforementioned doctors. (Lose xx pounds, get under xxx weight, et cetera.) And then, as my dad used to say, "How do you know you're winning, if you don't keep score?"
Finally, despite the way it affects my mood, I do not let it affect my behavior. Whether up or down, I don't let the scale or my mood drive me off plan, either to celebrate or to assuage my sorrows.
I just want to get the number off the scale without also getting all the emotions. Maybe someday I'll be able to do that.
Edited to add: It feels like the scale's power is greater now than it has been in the past. As of last Sunday, I'm 2 lbs away from a big milestone, and 15 lbs away from a major milestone, so it feels like every week has the potential to be a step forward or two steps back.4 -
I have a fitbit aria that logs my weight automatically into the app (and links over to here). Its just habit to get up in the morning, pee, weigh, get up for the day. I barely look at the number most days - just a quick mental note, nothing that I stress over. Every few weeks I will look at the chart and thats where the insights come - so easy to see trends (i.e. every monday morning I am up 2-3 pounds over Friday morning due to weekend family eating different. By the end of the week, its back down again (water weight!) Seeing those "humps" and seeing that the trend for the prior 4 weeks is overall still down, I know I am on the right track and just to keep on.
I like data. I dont like obsessing for a single day's weight. So this works pretty well for me.
I keep thinking I need to get that scale, since I & DH both use Fitbits. We currently just hop on and record it in a notebook that is nearby. I'd love it to self log
. Maybe Santa will be nice and bring me one this year? But honestly my current scale registers the same as my Dr. office does, I have weighed before driving over with the same clothes etc. and they match up within .01 lb. So mine is in great working order. 0 -
This is my motto where scales are concerned: "The LORD detests differing weights, and dishonest scales do not please him." Proverbs 20:23... Like I always say the Bible is like Ragu, it's in there
And thus the reason I avoid scales at all costs (until my dr. makes me weigh)
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Steph_Maks wrote: »
Edited to add: It feels like the scale's power is greater now than it has been in the past. As of last Sunday, I'm 2 lbs away from a big milestone, and 15 lbs away from a major milestone, so it feels like every week has the potential to be a step forward or two steps back.
Sometimes this milestones even though they drive us turn into mood killers as well. Once I had a goal I was trying to meet and I was finally within 1 lb. I had lost no less than 1 lb. every week so I knew I would meet the goal the next time I weighed in. That was the only week that I lost less than 1 lb. Only lost .7. And even though I had lost at this point 42.7 lbs that failure to lose that .3 extra ounces I needed to meet the goal that week made me want to cry. And as I was sitting there trying not to cry I was also berating myself for being so childish as to not be happy. I had still lost weight....I had not gained.....1 -
You can go through the motions of doing colonoscopy prep and then weigh yourself the next morning.
(You'll be under your goal, and then you can heave your scale into a dumpster from a 5th-floor window!)5
