I'd always heard anecdotally that weight loss tends to go from the extremities in; that you notice your thigh measurement getting smaller before the hip measurement does, etc.

conniewilkins56 wrote: »

Yesterday morning the battery went out in my scales and I was sure I had lost some weight....got the batteries and got on them this morning and YES!.....my lowest weight so far!...exactly 97 lbs gone!...I am pretty excited !

Connie:

Well done.....maybe I need new batteries as my scale isn't moving LOL

conniewilkins56 wrote: »

Yesterday morning the battery went out in my scales and I was sure I had lost some weight....got the batteries and got on them this morning and YES!.....my lowest weight so far!...exactly 97 lbs gone!...I am pretty excited !

Congratulations! 🎉 That is truly amazing!

I feel the same as many of you. I used to dread the scale. It was even worse, since I had to go to a Transportation company to use their scale which was intended for Cargo Freight. As the end of the month approached, I would get a pit in my stomach. In all honesty I think it got worse as I was already beginning to fail, and I didn't want everyone to know it.

Then during a future even, I purchased two fairly good scales and was doing quite well. I would step on both and try with all my might to stay still. But being so large it was quite impossible to get a accurate reading on either scale that it would fluctuate wildly every time I stepped on them. I gave up on the scales, as again it was a very stressful event that would be heavily on mind weeks leading up to weigh in date.

Then yet another attempt... I purchased a good digital scale that if I remember correctly weighs accurately to 400lb (will need to verify). Again every time I stepped on it the reading good swing 30 pounds in either direction. Then depending where you put it on the floor it could sing an additional 30 pounds. I actually thought I was doing good, then one day I was gut punched and consistently got weights in the range of 40 pounds on average higher. Thinking back I think this may be because I actually finally got down to around 400 pounds, and the scale was now giving somewhat a reasonable number, however it still completely fluctuated depending on where I put the scale and how I stepped on them. Either way it totally demoralized me. I then quite soon afterwards lost motivation and fell off the program.

So here I am now... I lost fairly significantly in 2018 didn't use scales. I did manage to gain some good habits though, and consistently didn't go through Tim Horton's or McDonalds for breakfast. However between Christmas 2018 and then going into Covid and the rest of 2019 I still managed to let the wheels fall off, and I gained a significant amount back (but much slower then in the past).

Since January, things have been going 100% amazing. I'm still not using the scales, I haven't' been through a single drive through. And every day my macro's are spot on where I want them to be.

But the scale is beginning to call my name. I'm going to try to hold off long enough that I'm as certain as possible they will be able to give me a number accurately. Will it be 2 months? 3 Months from now? I haven't decided yet.

Hmmmmmm.

There is so much interesting stuff happening around here! Thank you for the good reads everyone!

Great post, weigh daily, monthly? All a dilemma! What I have found useful is seeing your graphs; the fluctuations showing weight loss is not linear.
I can’t weigh daily as I find the ups & downs quite triggering -“ my-nowt- works-so-I’ll- quit” mentality which has been dangerous as not only do I put the weight back on, I put on much more, each & every time.
Hopefully this is the last time for all of us x

I weigh most days but I am also female-bodied and going through menopause, so I have a lot of factors affecting my weight, needless to say. And it's useful to me to see it tick up two pounds suddenly and say, "Aha, bet that's my period!" or "Oh, I'm ovulating, THAT's why I'm retaining so much water suddenly!" Given the amount of swing and bounce I get, more data is the only way to smooth it out.

Maintenance is the same way. I am up and down all over the place. A lot of the swings is determined my how many carbs I had the day before and how much sleep I got. I've learned to average my daily weights into a weekly average and then it smooths things out much better and allows me to see if I am trending up or down. But daily weighing is a must for me. Totally understand those who can't abide it, but for me, it's the only way I can understand and tolerate the weight swings.

I can relate to all of the posts here. I have a love/hate relationship with the scale. It's awesome when you're down for the week, but miserable when you're up for the week. I weighed at the beginning and then two weeks in to see what was happening. I'm taking some advice from Bryan Ganey and I'm only going to weigh once a month. He has a great book detailing his weight loss journey and success with keeping the weight off called "Impossible: How I lost nearly 400 pounds without surgery". It's a very inspiring read and he's been on an incredible journey and transformation.

I went over my calorie limit for 2 days (didn't even overeat or binge eat, just ate probably around maintenance) and gained 3 lbs! Kicking myself for it now.