Who Is Afraid Of The Scale
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OldAssDude
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Just wondering because i see a lot of posts about folks who dread weighing themselves.
I jump on my scale multiple times per day.
when i get up
after i go to the bathroom
before i eat
after i eat
before i work out
after i work out
before i go to bed
It teaches me how my weight is affected by my day.
Nothing to be afraid of really.
I jump on my scale multiple times per day.
when i get up
after i go to the bathroom
before i eat
after i eat
before i work out
after i work out
before i go to bed
It teaches me how my weight is affected by my day.
Nothing to be afraid of really.
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Knowledge is power.4
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Using an app like Libra or Happyscale help to see the big (and hopefully shrinking) picture.1
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I found exactly the same - the more numbers over time, the less I am affected by dips and spikes. It feeds into an understanding of your patterns, too.6
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I weigh myself every morning and use Happy Scale to get a moving average. I definitely feel like more data is better than less. Hoping on once a week would be more stressful for me as so many things other than actual weight gain can cause the scale to go up a couple lbs.6
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That is a lot of weigh ins.
I weigh once in the morning then use a trend weight app.
I am not scared of it, but I do get a bit discouraged when I am losing weight and the mirror doesn't reflect it. This happens a lot.7 -
I weigh 6-7 days a week. I keep 2 trends. One for work days, I get up at 0430. The other for days off. I get up at 0630. It's amazing that 2 hrs can mean 2-3 lbs of difference!6
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No scale anxieties here, but once a day in the morning after the morning business and before breakfast is more than enough for me. Multiple weigh-ins per day would be unnecessary noise, it doesn't tell me anything useful or interesting weighing before and after meals, exercise, or bathroom breaks.
Many people prefer less frequent intervals, but whatever helps them track their progress is their business.
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psychod787 wrote: »I weigh 6-7 days a week. I keep 2 trends. One for work days, I get up at 0430. The other for days off. I get up at 0630. It's amazing that 2 hrs can mean 2-3 lbs of difference!
My lowest weigh in day is usually Saturday. My 'official' day (the one I record on MFP) is Friday. It can be annoying
I love my trending app though and record my weight there every day.2 -
I know the various things that can affect scale weight like muscle repair after lifting, more carbs than usual, more sodium than usual and yet? I still have issues with the scale.
I used to be a daily weigh in sort of person. I started to have a pattern of frustrating weight loss where I'd stall for 3 weeks then whoosh, and that confounds the trending apps, so I couldn't even see any joy there. It got to my head after a while, and I got into a spiral of pretty restrictive behavior when I'd think my weight was trending up in spite of doing everything "right", and that would inevitably end in a binge.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Obviously, that had to end.
So I've shifted my focus from the scale toward compliance with habits, mirror assessments (I'm pretty brutal with myself), and how clothes fit. I still check in on the scale every week or so, but I don't obsess over it and find that it bothers me less now that my focus has shifted.
TLDR: Once I got to the point that the scale was at the root of making it hard for me to be consistent? I had to stop and get on a different track, because consistency with compliance to good habits trumps everything and will achieve the goals I want, whether I check in on the scale or not.14 -
I have what I consider to be a healthy relationship with the scale. I don't fear it, nor do I obsess over it. It's merely a tool to assess my continued compliance, or lack thereof. Jumping on the scale multiple times a day would no sooner cross my mind than would avoiding it altogether.
Doesn't make one better than another.
It just makes us different.9 -
I weigh myself sporadically, sometimes once a month, sometimes every few months.
I'm at a point where the number isn't really important as it pertains to my goals. I wouldn't say I'm completely indifferent to it (and I used to have a poor emotional relationship with the scale at one point in my life) but rather it doesn't provide me information of much use at any given point.
I know my weight is going to bounce around like a space hopper on speed during the course of a week or a month for various reasons - I don't need to step on a scale to confirm that.1 -
psychod787 wrote: »I weigh 6-7 days a week. I keep 2 trends. One for work days, I get up at 0430. The other for days off. I get up at 0630. It's amazing that 2 hrs can mean 2-3 lbs of difference!
So true I have found the same thing. I log the higher weight because I'm up at 430 most days except on Sunday when I sleep in. I never thought about keeping 2 trends
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Not afraid of the scale, but I don't see any real benefit to weighing in multiple times per day...just makes for noisy data IMO. I don't see any point in weighing myself after I've had lunch or something...that data wouldn't really mean anything and is just a bunch of noise.
I typically weigh in 3-4 days out of the week.7 -
No but I don't see the point of weighing yourself that frequently? I try to remember to weigh myself once a day in the morning when I wake up.5
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I weigh myself once a day in the morning. Weighing under the same circumstances each time allows me to use that information to follow my weight trend. I am not afraid of the scale. But I don’t see the need to weigh myself multiple times a day. I don’t care what my clothes or my lunch weighs. That’s not a useful data point for me.6
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Once a day in the morning, record the number, move on with life.9
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I’m now weighing every few days, is it just me or do you just “know” when you have lost?i do 🤪0
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I'm not afraid of the scale, but I don't always look forward to it.
I know at certain times of the month or after eating out that I will see an increase and I don't like it at all - but it's just a data point amongst many, and all information is useful.
I just do once a day - in the morning before I shower (long, wet hair is heavy!). Occasionally I hop on the scale at other times of the day but don't record it as I feel that brings too many variables into it (how much I've eaten/drunk that day, or which clothes I am wearing)1 -
I used to be afraid of scales, I would only weigh myself at the doctor office. I would be nervous for days before my appointment because of the scale. It took me two months of living at my place to have the courage to weigh myself. The first time recording weight for my weekly weigh in on the app, I was anxious and could not focus on anything but the scale that had pending doom.
Since I started losing weight, I felt better weighing myself. There were times when I would lose a significant amount of weight that I could not believe it, so I would weigh myself again and again.
Now that I am at maintain weight, I still weigh myself daily because it is my way to keep myself personally in check with a healthier life.2 -
holycrosser wrote: »I’m now weighing every few days, is it just me or do you just “know” when you have lost?i do 🤪
It's got so I can usually tell before I get out of bed, lying on my back I can tell a lot by the feel of my hipbones.1
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