I challenge all of you

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  • kjllose
    kjllose Posts: 948 Member
    Well I picked the scale up and moved it but I didn't get on it :laugh: But a little:devil: inside me said "go ahead" but I ignored him:wink:
  • tdroseler
    tdroseler Posts: 165
    Banks...thank you for adding this thread, lol...it is great.

    Unfortuantely i too belong to a group that weighs every week...although, im wondering if i told them of the challenge if they would let me not weigh in.

    Concidering the stress i put myself through the other night, this idea really hits home. It never ceases to amaze me how our mind controls us and we haven't got a clue, lol...

    I'm addicted to my weight.. :devil: Granted it is the number game that is represented...but im obsessed with it. Does this help with loosing wieght, i think not. I think the more i think about everything i do, the more i think about eating, food, or the resistance of it all. Could very well be how i have sabatoged myself in the past.
    when we put so much emphasis on making something go away, how can it?
    Thank you for offering a different light on the same old subject.
    I have been looking for a way to "let go" of some of the stress i take on needlessly.
    Would you look at that, not even noon, and ive learned somethign today:bigsmile: :bigsmile:
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    td,

    that's a kick *kitten* attitude. the saying that fits best is "the best way to avoid temptation is to remove it!"
  • mamatusa
    mamatusa Posts: 40
    I'm a day late, but I'll join you guys! This is going to be hard though, I'm addicted to my scale.
  • babblingbarbie
    babblingbarbie Posts: 12
    I truly hate my scales so this is something i can do! I agree that it can get depressing when you think you are doing great and then get on and weigh and everything falls apart. I exercised all summer on my bike and only lost 6 lb but in reality lost the fat and gained the muscle because my clothes are a lot bigger on me by a LOT! I try and not go by weight because I have been a body builder most of my life and I just get depressed when I read that my body weight is too much when I can see in the mirror a different picture. But I do get sucked into the weighing thing so this will motivate me to feel better about myself! barb
  • time2wrk
    time2wrk Posts: 773 Member
    You know, years ago when I was in GREAT shape, I hardly ever weighed myself. I just always was truly conscious of what I ate and whether it was considered healthy. This will help me to do that again.

    However, it did confuse my dog this morning. He is used to me stepping on the scale first thing before we head downstairs to let him out. I skipped that step this morning and it took him a minute to catch up to me going down the stairs. :laugh:
  • babblingbarbie
    babblingbarbie Posts: 12
    too funny!:happy:
  • rachelfrear
    rachelfrear Posts: 15
    Hello Banks! I'm new to this website, I'm totally in as well! I didn't weigh myself this morning but instead of waiting two weeks (which is extremely hard to do) I'll weigh in once a week like they do on biggest loser :laugh:

    So I'll weigh in Next Monday and see my progress

    Good Luck!
  • rachelfrear
    rachelfrear Posts: 15
    Ok, I had to weigh in this morning so I start tomorrow.

    10/30: 161 lbs
    My goal by 11/22 is: 155 lbs.

    I know I can do it... It's only 6 lbs for goodness sake!!!

    Angela:flowerforyou:


    Good luck Angela I'm 157.5 and my goal is 150 by December 1st! Keep me posted on your progress and i'll keep you posted too... We can do this!!
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    Wow, this is great support everyone! I really hope we can all stay strong with this. Good luck guys.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    hmm. Can't do it. :ohwell: I'm 53 - just bought a scale for the first time in my life. Since the trainer gave me the idea to weigh twice daily and take the average, I've weighed every day for two weeks. Before that, once a week. I like the twice daily.

    But good luck to all! I'll keep an eye on you :heart:

    ~Cheryl
  • Petal
    Petal Posts: 27
    Hi Banks.

    Ive just joined up and the site looks fantastic. I love the fact that I can keep records and then chat about progress. COUNT ME IN... but I think I can only manage 2 weeks without looking. Any longer would drive me mad.. Lots of luck

    Petal:smile:
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    Hehe, 2 weeks is still a huge step Petal. Welcome aboard, and good luck!
  • Lisa_25
    Lisa_25 Posts: 9
    Not too sure about this challenge yet. I thought about it, but a month is quite long. I started this whole change in my life one week ago and told myself when I started I would wait at least two weeks to weigh myself. Did I?:noway: I waited only five days. I think your reasoning makes perfectly good sense, but I just have to know that I'm making progress or I may give up. Which, I can't let happen. Good for you though, you're doing great by the sounds of it! :flowerforyou:
    Lisa
  • sistersscn
    sistersscn Posts: 14
    OK OK Im in This will be very difficult for me as Im used to weighing myself several times a day!!! however I have to weigh myself Thanksgiving Day because I just joined the Thanksgiving Day challenge so I will have to know how much I have lost by T-Day. Thanks for another great idea Banks
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    another convert :wink: welcome sistersscn.

    Day 3, no lookie so far (although yesterday was tough, there were some compelling posts that made me want to run to the scale and check)
  • SUGARPLUM098
    SUGARPLUM098 Posts: 60 Member
    :drinker: Day Three - Haven't looked. I got close to the scale but turned back!:laugh:
  • lotusfromthemud
    lotusfromthemud Posts: 5,335 Member
    Still staying strong...

    this is such a money where our mouth is challenge. If I had a dime for every time I'd told a friend that "the number doesn't matter" "the scale can fluctuate five pounds in a day" "the scale is no indicator of how healthy you are",..."blah blah blah"

    but.....I haven't been using my own advice... the scale can send me reeling in one direction or the other...and that sucks. I just want it to have less power over me, and us.
  • cathyt56
    cathyt56 Posts: 12 Member
    I currently weigh myself several times a day, also. Bad habit, I know. So I am happy to join you. I will start weighing only once a week and see if I can build up from there. Thanks for the challenge, I need this.
  • apaden4
    apaden4 Posts: 137 Member
    DAY 2 (for me)
    I DIDN'T LOOK BANKS! I was sooooo tempted every time I walked by it - but I didn't do it. And you know what? - I am glad that I didn't. I feel better!

    *Staying Strong!*
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    yes you can do it!
    The worst part for me is that there is a scale in the
    shower of my work gym. I can't even move that one
    out of view, it taunts me. So far I am steel, but that
    is one lure that may cause me to do property damage
    to my workplace.
  • tdroseler
    tdroseler Posts: 165
    out of sight, out of mind, deffinately helps, doesn't it? lol

    Kudos to you banks for resisting that scale at the gym.


    try walking past with a "hummh" of indiffernce. Turn up your nose at it.lol
    At least it might get your mind off it as you are laughing to yourself, lol...
  • aslavich
    aslavich Posts: 250 Member
    :flowerforyou:
    Day one for me... I haven't looked and I'm not tempted... no, not today. Our kitchen is full of goodies and I had a sugar cookie for breakfast but I made them so I know what's in them.

    Happy Halloween!!!

    hey, was anyone else upset that Sabrina was voted off of Dancing with the Stars last night. She really grew on me and I thought for sure she'd win!!! Ugh! :sad:
  • mamatusa
    mamatusa Posts: 40
    Day two for me, and didn't look! It's hard though. I walk right past a scale at the gym and I just want to hop right on it and see my progress. I can tell its going to be a fight with myself every morning!

    mamatusa
  • rachelfrear
    rachelfrear Posts: 15
    I haven't LOOKED!!! LOL

    I can do this!!
  • Petal
    Petal Posts: 27
    Day Two of food diary...eek! But I have been true to myself and all here by putting everything in. Its pretty hard but I`m already finding this site really helpful.

    End of Day one of promise not to weigh myself and somehow I managed to keep away from the scale....also pretty hard, but making promises to people you have never met seems to have all the more meaning:flowerforyou: and flowers for all.
  • sistersscn
    sistersscn Posts: 14
    Thanks for the flowers Petal!!!
    Day 2 and I was not even considering stepping on that scale!!!
    I have to admit though that I worked 13 hours today and did not have time to even look at it.
    Tommorrow is a different story Ill need to keep busy
    Good night everyone Happy Halloween
  • babblingbarbie
    babblingbarbie Posts: 12
    i just about stepped on the scales yesterday when I was home sick with a cold and a buggered up knee and then remembered this challenge. :happy: But I stopped myself and am glad I didn't have that to obsess over!
  • banks1850
    banks1850 Posts: 3,475 Member
    OK everyone, day 4 and I'm still succeeding. This is going
    to be harder then I thought. The scale calls out my name sometimes.
    The worst part is when I think I had a good day, and KNOW I lost
    weight, I reeeeealy want to know how good a day I had. It just proves
    that part of my weight issue was my obsessive personality, and
    (not to be cliche boy but) better the evil you know then the evil you don't.
    Atleast I can fight the scale urges now that I know they are part of
    my destructive behavior.

    I read somewhere once that a well know (in the psychiatric community) psychiatrist
    said that everybody has obsessions, and the more obsessions you can
    remove from your life, the less subconcious stress you have weighing you down.
    Paraphrasing here, but that was the gist of it.

    Hope you all had a good Halloween!
  • barefootbabe
    barefootbabe Posts: 271 Member
    I don't own a scale! So I think I am succeeding very well in this challenge! Though I guess there are about a zillion scales around me all the time at the gym where I work, so that will be a challenge.
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