I declare today: National "THROW YOUR SCALES OUT A MOVING VE

MeekMeals
MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
edited December 16 in Health and Weight Loss
Who's joining me in this celebration?? :-) National "THROW YOUR SCALES OUT A MOVING VEHICLE'S WINDOW" Day!!
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  • ashleyp35
    ashleyp35 Posts: 53
    LOL - I was just thinking about doing that today. I havent got on the scale in almost a month. I still feel great!
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    The scale can become your worse enemy! Or best friend. Depending on how you ise it.
  • JoeD1968
    JoeD1968 Posts: 167
    i sneak up on my scale like a thief in the night,and step on it like Im trying not to break the eggs on it somehow thinking i may weigh less if it doesn't notice me right way..lol
  • original_cake_face
    original_cake_face Posts: 131 Member
    My scale is heavy. And topped with glass. Not sure I wanna leave that lying in the road. :/
  • Miggy52
    Miggy52 Posts: 164
    Yes I tend to think mine lies to me...the clothes fit differently so that is bonus even though the scales does not seem to want to move.......maybe it is on it's way out...lol
  • Mskckaye
    Mskckaye Posts: 69 Member
    I join you in the 'TOSS THE SCALE' party. I just weighed myself a few days ago and was glad...lost 32 lbs I have not been on a scale since i started using MFP back in Dec. 11....I am not a fan of always being on the scale...it can break your motivation if you ask me...so yes let's do it toss that puppy right out the window...or front door....which ever you choose.
  • mfpcopine
    mfpcopine Posts: 3,093 Member
    My scale provides useful information that I try to approach as objectively as possible. It may not be true for you, but some people let their weight creep up because they don't have the regular feedback of a scale. Then they're surprised that they've gained a lot of weight. I don't like surprises.
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    My scale provides useful information that I try to approach as objectively as possible. It may not be true for you, but some people let their weight creep up because they don't have the regular feedback of a scale. Then they're surprised that they've gained a lot of weight. I don't like surprises.

    True! Thats why I said it can be your worse enemy or best friend. In this case best friend. Unless your goal is to increase lean muscle mass, which in turn is healthier than being skinny fat. Trust me, i go through this emotional roller coaster with scale ALL the time.
  • SamHughes15
    SamHughes15 Posts: 149 Member
    i sneak up on my scale like a thief in the night,and step on it like Im trying not to break the eggs on it somehow thinking i may weigh less if it doesn't notice me right way..lol


    this actually made lol! got some funny looks from people at work :p
  • Vonnie2006
    Vonnie2006 Posts: 246 Member
    hahahaha I didn't throw mine out but I surrendered it to my husband yesterday! Eff those pounds, bring on the inches and reshaping baby!
  • Vonnie2006
    Vonnie2006 Posts: 246 Member
    i sneak up on my scale like a thief in the night,and step on it like Im trying not to break the eggs on it somehow thinking i may weigh less if it doesn't notice me right way..lol

    OMG this is hilariouos and so me.
  • whutzup1
    whutzup1 Posts: 96 Member
    :drinker: Yeppers I agree 100%.
  • REET420
    REET420 Posts: 160 Member
    sometimes the weight gain is lean muscle mass. If we are sedentary and start exercising even if you don't lift weights you gain some weight because your muscles tone up
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    hahahaha I didn't throw mine out but I surrendered it to my husband yesterday! Eff those pounds, bring on the inches and reshaping baby!

    GOOD FOR YOU!!
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    i sneak up on my scale like a thief in the night,and step on it like Im trying not to break the eggs on it somehow thinking i may weigh less if it doesn't notice me right way..lol


    this actually made lol! got some funny looks from people at work :p

    LOL!! TOo funny!
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    I join you in the 'TOSS THE SCALE' party. I just weighed myself a few days ago and was glad...lost 32 lbs I have not been on a scale since i started using MFP back in Dec. 11....I am not a fan of always being on the scale...it can break your motivation if you ask me...so yes let's do it toss that puppy right out the window...or front door....which ever you choose.

    Good job on your weightloss thus far!
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    Yes I tend to think mine lies to me...the clothes fit differently so that is bonus even though the scales does not seem to want to move.......maybe it is on it's way out...lol

    YES! TOSS IT!! LOL!
  • Lorleee
    Lorleee Posts: 369 Member
    I wish I could join the no-scale movement but the last time I did, I gained 35 pounds! I absolutely love the philosophy behind it, but I know I too easily delude myself, lol. Plus, the way I carry extra weight, I have to gain a lot before it's really that noticeable. No scale is dangerous for me!
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    I wish I could join the no-scale movement but the last time I did, I gained 35 pounds! I absolutely love the philosophy behind it, but I know I too easily delude myself, lol. Plus, the way I carry extra weight, I have to gain a lot before it's really that noticeable. No scale is dangerous for me!

    For the love of God! Dont do it then!! :-)
  • mfpcopine
    mfpcopine Posts: 3,093 Member
    My scale provides useful information that I try to approach as objectively as possible. It may not be true for you, but some people let their weight creep up because they don't have the regular feedback of a scale. Then they're surprised that they've gained a lot of weight. I don't like surprises.

    True! Thats why I said it can be your worse enemy or best friend. In this case best friend. Unless your goal is to increase lean muscle mass, which in turn is healthier than being skinny fat. Trust me, i go through this emotional roller coaster with scale ALL the time.


    I acknowledge that for some people the scale info is more of a burden than a boon. If I ate more or less the same number of calories every day, exercised religiously (I'm recovering from an injury at the moment), and never deviated from my regime I might be willing to try consulting the scale less.

    I have a scale that provides a body fat percentage estimate as well as the weight. I watch that number just as closely.

    Whatever works.
  • graelwyn
    graelwyn Posts: 1,340 Member
    The scale is more of a nightmare if you fret over the fluctuations you get from day to day, which I tend to do.
    I find I only have to eat a bit closer to weigh in, to have a Ib up, or to have had a bread or oat product and find it is up.
    I do wish it remained exactly the same from day to day, but it doesn't seem to happen.
    I was 125.8 yesterday, and same time today I was 126.6. :/
  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    i still do not own a scale.
  • metco89
    metco89 Posts: 578 Member
    i am only going to weigh when i go to the Dr. otherwise i get so depressed with little or no progress i just want to give up. I made a big decision today, i set my ticker back to 0, as i have not been doing anything in the way of continuing on this journey i started way back in 2009. I am considering this day 1 of a new journey!!!!
  • happythermia
    happythermia Posts: 374
    I HATE my scale! Actually, it's not the scale's fault, but I live in an old house and the floors are uneven. So I can't get an accurate read ANYWHERE!! I try to just weigh myself 1x a week at the gym, but just out of morbid curiosity I step on my scale.
    Depending on where I put it - I can weigh 4 - 8lbs more than what I usually do.

    My husband just picks a spot and uses it as a gauge, but I NEED a specific correct number lol
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    i am only going to weigh when i go to the Dr. otherwise i get so depressed with little or no progress i just want to give up. I made a big decision today, i set my ticker back to 0, as i have not been doing anything in the way of continuing on this journey i started way back in 2009. I am considering this day 1 of a new journey!!!!

    Good for you! Much success to you in your "new" journey!!!
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    I HATE my scale! Actually, it's not the scale's fault, but I live in an old house and the floors are uneven. So I can't get an accurate read ANYWHERE!! I try to just weigh myself 1x a week at the gym, but just out of morbid curiosity I step on my scale.
    Depending on where I put it - I can weigh 4 - 8lbs more than what I usually do.

    My husband just picks a spot and uses it as a gauge, but I NEED a specific correct number lol

    i like weighing in at the gym too! getting rid of my at home scale eases so much stress. Although I still stress during the gym's weigh in as well. lol!!! It's a personal struggle that i think alot of us deal with. we've been brainwashed for so long by the fda and other government agencies that try to tell us how to eat and what magic # we should weigh. Yes weight does matter, but lean muscle mass and eating good stuff and not the bad stuff should matter more. Don't mind my babbling these are things I have to tell myself everyday to help me in my journey! LOL!
  • chachadiva150
    chachadiva150 Posts: 453 Member
    I love my scale. You have to divorce your emotions from the number. The only power the number has is the power you give it.
  • NewLIFEstyle4ME
    NewLIFEstyle4ME Posts: 4,440 Member
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • AmberJslimsAWAY
    AmberJslimsAWAY Posts: 2,339 Member
    I don't want to waste the 20 bucks... sorry
  • chrisy0316
    chrisy0316 Posts: 18
    I gave my boyfriend my scale to hide until next "weigh day" otherwise I want to check my weight daily and get discouraged. It's so self destructive. I had the hardest time when I was doing the Curves workouts to wait the whole MONTH until the next weigh/measure day, especially when those numbers didn't move as far as I thought they should.
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