To weigh or not to weigh

slacey82 · February 2012

I've lost 10 lbs since January according to my scale. I can tell I have lost weight by how my clothes fit; which is AWESOME. But my scale at home says one thing and the scale at the gym says another. I am getting frustrated and I want to give up on scales altogether and just let my clothes do the talking. I truly would like to know how much I weigh tho. Has anyone else ditched their scale? What is the best way to keep track without the trickery of the infamous scale?

hanahlai · February 2012

I have always heard to stick to the same scale at the same time of day.

KB5711 · February 2012

I put one of my hand weights on my scale to see if it's adjusted to the right weight and then only use my scale and at the same time of day once a week

annatin1018 · February 2012

I weighed one time in Dec. of 2011 and I haven't weighed again at all....I hate scales. If I think I've lost 5 lbs and I get on the scale and I haven't lost anything or maybe just 1 I get frusterated....I know this isn't the way most people do things, but to me I go by my clothes.

sarafil · February 2012

I honestly don't weigh myself that much anymore. I found that I became slightly obsessive about it, and I didn't like that feeling. Now I really try to concentrate on my body fat measurement as a guide for how I am doing, I try to have that checked every six weeks or so. If I feel like the way my clothes are fitting is changing (and sometimes not for the better!) I hop on the scale just to get a feel for what is going on weight wise.