Scale Stress Syndrome
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Exactly what I needed today!1
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I've always struggled with the whole 'only weigh yourself once a week' thing that I've always been told. If I weigh myself once a week it builds up in my mind to a big 'reward' thing that I'm working towards, so a gain is devastating. In the past, I've tried to lose weight and it's been fine while the scale went down, but 2-3 weeks of gains or staying the same and I've lost motivation every single time.
I've changed to weighing every day, and logging via Happy Scale so that I've got different trend lines and charts - hoping this will help. There have been a few days with small gains, but those have always gone by the next day or two, and so far I'm finding that the small gains don't bother me, because I haven't waited a week for the 'reward' of stepping on the scale. I've only been doing this for four weeks and have lost 13lbs so far, but I expect a slowdown in the next week or so and fingers crossed using the new method will help cope with that and those times when things aren't happening so quickly!4 -
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I weigh every morning, I need to, to keep up my momentum. Thank you for keeping this thread alive.
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I weigh every morning, I need to, to keep up my momentum. Thank you for keeping this thread alive.
https://screenshots.firefox.com/LLv9cwhRtN6lFcHm/www.myfitnesspal.com0 -
I weigh every morning, I need to, to keep up my momentum. Thank you for keeping this thread alive.
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Thanks for bumping. Great thread0
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I’ve been weighing every day and can confirm that it stresses me out! And that’s with the knowledge that it changes off water weight as well. I’m considering putting my scale up and weighing on weekly basis. If we’re all following our plans then the number should go down.1
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My number goes down, then I stop exercising and it goes up. Even when I do everything right, it fluctuates over the course of a week. Then I log the best number for that week.
Thankfully my range of variation is not very great, and I never had much to lose at the beginning anyway.0 -
I weigh every morning, I need to, to keep up my momentum. Thank you for keeping this thread alive.
https://screenshots.firefox.com/LLv9cwhRtN6lFcHm/www.myfitnesspal.com
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Don't mind me. Just yet another bump for this useful thread.0
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Needed this today. Ridiculously upset about my tiny weight gain on my weekly weigh in. Stupid I know, but tell my emotions that 🤪1
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I love the NSV (non scale victory) thread in Success Stories. There are so many non- scale reasons to lose weight!0
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