Can you buy scales that only show your weight loss?

kerri5555 wrote: »

Hello! I am hoping to lose a significant amount of weight, but I find that scales make me disillusioned really quickly. I lose a stone, but because I am still so overweight, I can’t celebrate that success.

I’m looking for scales that show me ‘18lb loss’ etc - like on the biggest loser tv show, but that never show me my weight.

Does such a thing exist please?

Each little step goes a long a way eventually. I highly recommend Happy Scale for trends and watching. I understand where you are coming from. I don’t know how much you are trying to lose but I’m 5’4 1/2 and was 208 lbs last Aug. The most I ever weighed. I remember taking a photo for work and I saw how fat I was and cried for a week. Then I got on the scale and I felt hopeless. I was in a bad relationship that consisted of eating all the time and he was smoker. He also then cheated me and dumped me. I remember when that happened, the week before I decided to make a change and be healthy for us then it came out he cheated and dumped me. I pushed through. I remember back in august looking at the scale and thinking how can anyone love me being this fat. It hurt when I moved and I couldn’t even walk a minute without my ankles hurting and my knees. I Bradley lost any weight for a month and I just cried cried between being cheated on and left and being so out of shape and ugly and fat. I was super depressed. That number on the scale just haunted me. Eventually it started to tick down.. I got stronger and better. Every day I hated to see that number on the scale until I got into the 170’s. Then it dawned on. Why am I so upset by that number. I allowed my self to get that way and I’m working on being a better a me and healthy weight. Every lb is a victory closer and every plateau is your body working through changes, every step is you being more physical, I reflect now on the crying moments and think… I never what to be that way again and I’m glad I watched that scale number go down because I watched my slow victories being achieved. I still have about 30 lbs to lose to get to my goal weight. I will watch that scale work down and trend. Very lb or in your case stone is better than the 1 stone more you did weigh.

Also, the lbs going down or stone only.. is that going to beneficial? What if you stay steady for a bit or gain due to food and water weight flucations. Your scale won’t let you know your weight just that you haven’t lost any more weight or let you know where you stand. For instance happy scale shows me my weight trend or even looking at a weight log. You could be fluctuating the same 2 lbs or stone but in reality the lbs/stone fluctuates in more of a downward motion. You wouldn’t know that. I would feel like a complete failure if my scale told me for 2 weeks that I didn’t lose any weight if that’s the only thing I could see.

That’s just me though. You have to do what’s best for you but I’m telling you.. those stone victories are huge and eventually they will be a mountain of success. Eventually you’ll look at your past weight and knowing what each day holds so you know how body fluctuates and how far you have come.