I've been at a plateau for 2 months now... I plateaued earlier this year, stuck within the same 4 lbs for a month. Well this time I've been at a plateau for TWO months and stuck within the same ONE lb for that time. I can't take any more plateaus. I am getting so frustrated stepping on the scale everyday seeing the same number.
I feel like I need to reconfigure my diet & fitness goals and take how much I weigh out of it. I even feel like I want to stop losing weight, even though I'm a good 35-45 lbs heavier than I want to be. I feel like I want to just concentrate on healthy eating and becoming stronger and more active and seeing if weight loss results (by how my clothes fit).
I move from Korea this weekend and will go home to America for a month. In America, I have my fancy schmancy digital scale (here I have a manual kg scale) that even measures body fat and I know I'll weigh myself regularly when home, especially to make sure I don't gain back any of the 20+ lbs I lost this year in Korea. But in October, I'm moving to Australia for 8 months--and I don't want a scale. I want to get there, eat a whole foods diet, start training for some 5-10ks and get active.
Anyone else ever give up the scale and have success?
I want to stop weighing myself until halloween but I'm afraid of gaining it all back! I am sooooo paranoid with the scale I weigh myself after everythn I eat or drink! I'm stuck at the weight I'm at but the last 2 months were easy the 25lbs just rolled off! I knw where ur coming from I just hope you are happy with watever desicion you make good luck!
omg we are the same weight and i am on a plateau too! But since january Ive also just quite weighing daily though as well! Well, my battery died xD So im using my super cool body fat analyser one once a week.
I've gotten to the point where I don't even expect a different number... I wonder if my pessimism is messing with my body? Er, probably not, but maybe?? That's why I want to stop... I hope I stop viewing the scale number in correlation to how I like my body. When I was slowly but surely losing (1-3 lbs a month), I felt okay with the scale not moving much... but now that is has not moved AT ALL, it's really bringing me down.
I've gone on a couple vacations recently and in my pictures, I think I look the best I have in a long time... I only weigh 3 lbs less than I did in January but I think I look much better now. I feel I need to focus on that.. the mirror, pictures, etc, and not the scale number.
OH YEAH and in the past, I tended to avoid the scale when I was eating badly and not exercising. But now I just want to prove to myself that my body is good enough now... I can stop trying to lose weight (aka weighing everyday) and just believe my body is good enough to wear nice clothes or run races or be active, etc.
I stopped weighing myself a long time ago. I weigh myself maybe once a month now. at first it was really hard to "let go" of the control of seeing what I weighed every day, but I was driving myself crazy. Not weighing myself helped me get back to the basics of WHY i am eating healthy/exercising... (for me, personally) not for a specific number, but to feel better and look better. But different things work for different ppl. I can say that getting rid of the scale was a blessing for me!!
It's funny because when people posted on here in the past that they wanted to stop weighing themselves, I thought it was pretty crazy--I could not relate! But I guess I feel I'm at the breaking point... I'm feeling it's more important how I look and feel than the number.
I struggle with this same thing. It drives me crazy when I weigh in more than once a week and am disappointed with the outcome. It also drives me crazy not to weigh in. Sometimes I feel like I need to stop weighing in so much, but I know I can't.
Sometimes I feel like I need to stop weighing in so much, but I know I can't.
Yes, yes you can. I've known girls who have needed to literally throw it out a window and break it, but yes, you seriously can.
I used to weigh myself every day. It only ever made me feel inadequate with myself and panic if I gained even a little. Then I stopped, cold turkey. I haven't weighed myself in months, and I feel ten pounds lighter.
Last edited by Wolf Goddess; 08-26-2009 at 07:49 PM.
I'm quitting my scale
Ive also just quite weighing daily though as well! Well, my battery died xD So im using my super cool body fat analyser one once a week.
