I don't think it's a silly question at all. I think about my weight all the time, too. Even when I was at my goal weight, I did.
As a PP said, it can help stay focused on losing weight. At the same time, I understand you feeling overwhelmed. And it's definitely possible to get obsessed.
Right now, I'm trying really hard to focus on life and the people around me. I'm trying to learn to truly enjoy it and get out there and do things, no matter what size I am.
I'm also seriously considering never weighing myself again. Not in a bad way. I think it might be a good thing for me. Even at my slimmest, I was still obsessed with my weight, and often weighed myself as often as I could. I even used my weight as an excuse to be ok with binging - as long as the scale didn't move up, I told myself that I was fine. But it was affecting me physically and emotionally, and when the scale started creeping up, I was already stuck in a behavior that I didn't know how to change.
So for me, weighing myself wasn't even a good thing. I haven't weighed myself in over two weeks, but I can feel the difference that two weeks of no binging has made in my body. I feel great! Who is a scale to tell me how I've done, when I know how I feel and how my clothes fit? This time, instead of weighing a lot or even ever, my focus is on not binging.
Please KUP!
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