I finally broke down and did it! I have read many threads this weekend about people getting discouraged very quickly by stepping on the scale daily. And I realized this was ME! I would get sorta depressed everytime I saw a gain, but I knew it was surely because of my water intake SO I broke down and locked that scale in my closet till Sunday mornings. It was very hard this morning to walk pass the "hidden scale in the closet" but I smiled and told myself...YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Good for you! MaryToU has a Mother's Day Challenge out there for people to promise not to weigh themselves until Mother's Day. Hopefully, the whoosh fairy will bring us all a Mother's Day present. I weighed myself every day for months, I finally broke down and went to weekly weigh-ins, well, I went back to daily weighing. The wait was killing me! So I have joined in on this Mother's Day Challenge, the daily weighing is not good for my mental sanity. MaryToU's thread is here on this forum, probably a few pages back.

You have totally inspired me . Those scales are OUT OF THE BATHROOM. That's right, folks - TWO scales!! I stepped on my digital once and it suddenly said 117.8! Pulled out the other scale - cuz I KNEW there was no way. I was right, which is really a good thing. I would prefer slow loss/slow gain to SUDDEN HUGE GAIN/loss. I don't want to feel like I'm spinning the wheel of fortune (OH, bankrupt! too bad).

But that's all ancient history now. I resolve to wait to weigh myself until Sunday.

WE CAN DO THIS! Happy Monday!
Jinx

I weigh in every morning and sometimes evenings, I find the scale helps me to stay sharp and focused, if I don't weigh myself I develop the OUT OF SITE, OUT OF MIND - attitude and end up gaining weight,
I have trained myself to be happy if the scale does not move - no movement is better than an increase- any decrease in the scale movement is an extra bonus, and lovely surprise.

So what I am trying to say is that it is important to deal with the issues in your mind, removing the scale is not a final solution, it only delays the problem. Are you guys intending not to weigh at all?? and what will happen if you only weigh once a week/month etc and still find that you didn't lose?? or even worse you gained?? dealing with the real issues and problems is better than dealing with the indications of the problems !!!

sorry if you don't like what I say- just ignore me :-)

I'm in. I had a low-calorie high exercise day yesterday and I'm up a pound today! I suppose constipation, water retention, and other factors are all in play, but it definitely affects me emotionally the entire day.

SandyDown it's not about denial...it's about removing the psycholigical impetus that affects the attitude. As long as I am eating without cheating, I know I will lose. Period. And the weeklyweigh-in is the reward for focusing on my WOE instead of whether or not I burned enough fat or evacuated enough food/water to lose from one day to the next.

I recently started a thread that polled others about how often they weigh and I was shocked to see how many folks get on the scale more than once a day. At some point it moves from ritual to obsession, and that's not healthy.

I'm not willing to wait until Mother's day to weigh myself, but I am switching to weekly weigh-ins.

Ellie

I ate breakfast right away...knew i wouldn't get on once I'd added "weight." Y'all manage not to sneak a peek?

Ellie

I am thinking of moving the scale in front of my fridge so I think about things before I put them in my mouth....is that torture or a good idea?

the scale this morning - hoping to make it until the weekend without a peek .

Jan

I am sticking to my guns on this one, I haven't broke out the scale yet! I may even take on the bet of waiting till Mother's Day Everytime I walk pass the closet, I can hear the scale CALLING my name....

This possibly makes me the worst child in the world, but when is mothers day? Is it May 14th? The more i think about it, the more i think this scale hiding thing is a great idea. It is so awful - you wake up, feel pretty great, go to get into the shower, step on the scale just to 'check', and find it hasn't moved, or has moved in the wrong direction, and my day is off on a bad note.

May 11th. You are not bad.

Good for you Amy! AS i read more and more i realize it's about inches and not pounds. AND feeling better in general!

His amazing grace.......came

I have a question about this...

I weigh the least first thing in the morning...is this the weight I should "go by?"


I think I should lock mine up, too!

Okay, am I the only one here who would not have to remove the scale to stay off it? LOL...I just get a chuckle because if you are the one who hides the scale, then you know where it is and it would be just as easy to go to where you hid it and get on it as it would be to get on it in the bathroom. Why not just stay off the scale?

Just curious...lol.


L

Works best for me....OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND