My scale can jump around a little in the morning - I usually get on a few times and settle on the number it settles on - if I get it a couple of times in a row, it counts. I like weighing everyday, though. Once a week was too tough on me if I happened to be retaining water or something that day. I keep a daily weight graph and a weekly graph. The daily goes up and down a bit, and the weekly tends to go straight down. But if a weigh in day says I've gained or maintained, it's a lot easier to look at the weight for that last few days and see if it's a fluke weight or water retention or something - If that happens and I'm not weighing everyday, it's too easy to get depressed about it.
I swear if I move the scale to different places in the bathroom, it weighs differently. I also weigh twice. I almost never get a different reading when I do. I bet it's like PP said, there is something in the design of the scale. That is very interesting.
I am very focused on keeping my feet at even weight distribution and that I am standing straight up and not leaning. Who knows if that matters at all. It is funny the things we do when we weigh!!
If I see a new weight, I take it ASAP! The reason is that it makes me want to do everything I can to "keep" it. However, I don't take it if it's a weight.8. Once it gets to .6, it's fair game.
I swear if I move the scale to different places in the bathroom, it weighs differently. I also weigh twice. I almost never get a different reading when I do. I bet it's like PP said, there is something in the design of the scale. That is very interesting.
I am very focused on keeping my feet at even weight distribution and that I am standing straight up and not leaning. Who knows if that matters at all. It is funny the things we do when we weigh!!
If I see a new weight, I take it ASAP! The reason is that it makes me want to do everything I can to "keep" it. However, I don't take it if it's a weight.8. Once it gets to .6, it's fair game.
I step very gingerly onto the scale. LOL! And as for the .8 stuff, I take every little ounce I get! But as you can see by my ticker, I take the decimals to heart. I haven't lost a whole pound until I've lost a whole pound as in point zero.
When I was in the throes of my eating disorder, I would weigh myself sometimes ten times a day. I lived and died by the number on the scale. For awhile, my obsession was so bad that if I went to the doctor and had to get weighed, I would ask to weigh backwards (so I couldn't see the number) and for the nurse to not tell me my weight.
It took a really, really long time, but I'm finally at the point where I get on the scale once a week - that's it. My suggestion is to put your scales away for awhile and concentrate on just eating healthy and using non-scale victories.
When I was in the throes of my eating disorder, I would weigh myself sometimes ten times a day. I lived and died by the number on the scale. For awhile, my obsession was so bad that if I went to the doctor and had to get weighed, I would ask to weigh backwards (so I couldn't see the number) and for the nurse to not tell me my weight.
It took a really, really long time, but I'm finally at the point where I get on the scale once a week - that's it. My suggestion is to put your scales away for awhile and concentrate on just eating healthy and using non-scale victories.
That is very good advice and will help many others like you. I'm sure this will help someone out there make goal healthfully.
But for me, I actually obsess less when weighing daily. I'm going to obsess anyway, and this way I only obsess once a day about getting on the scale, then I get on it, then the obsession is over. It doesn't last all day and all night.
And a little update...the scale read yesterday's low number again today!! Yeah! I've been stalled out this month, so I'm really happy to see this number. I lost 17 pounds the first month, 11 the second month and with only 10 days left I have only lost 4.2 pounds this third month. I know it's supposed to slow down, but geesh.
I downloaded a widget to my igoogle page called the google 15. It takes a running average of your daily weight and plots a graph so you can see how your weight fluctuates, but also see the downward trend. It's pretty cool! It's free too!
It all comes out in the wash if you ask me lol If you go with the lower then the next week it might be a little less for a loss. It's all the same really!
Out of curiosity, I weighed myself multiple times today, throughout the course of the day. So far, my weight has varied by about 7 lbs, include a 4 lb shift when I didn't do anything but some basic housework, walking around the house, etc. - didn't eat or drink or pee and it still went up that much.
So I'm thinking that scales are VERY overrated! lol!
Not only do I weigh about daily and try to balance perfectly for the lowest weight, if I have a really great week I usually "save a pound". If I lose five pounds this week then often I only lose one pound next week and only losing one pound depresses me. So I save a pound - then on the low week I count a pound from the high week. Is that completely crazy or what????? But it works for me. Helps me stay positive. And I like having a pound "in the bank." Jeez. Can't believe I just admitted that!!!
Not only do I weigh about daily and try to balance perfectly for the lowest weight, if I have a really great week I usually "save a pound". If I lose five pounds this week then often I only lose one pound next week and only losing one pound depresses me. So I save a pound - then on the low week I count a pound from the high week. Is that completely crazy or what????? But it works for me. Helps me stay positive. And I like having a pound "in the bank." Jeez. Can't believe I just admitted that!!!
jaja Do not worry you are not the only one...I do that .
I like to see a lose every week even if it small like
0.6
Possible TMI alert--I've been known to weigh myself before and after using the restroom. (Talk about embarrassing confessions!)
Yea, sort of related, I used to do this when I was going to Weight Watchers in the evenings, I would hit the rest rooms before the weigh in, every little .2 helps, LOL!~
Now, I am weighing myself at home. I do weigh daily, for now, anyway, because I need to see that I am getting results.
This initial shedding of water-bloat-excessfood-whatever is happening daily and seeing the number go down keeps me motivated to stay on plan.
But I don't get on the scale more than once per day and I don't try to manipulate. I weigh in the morning first thing, same time every day with about the same amount of clothing on. This scale I have now is a digital Taylor scale and the number I get is very stable. Sometimes the first step-on is a false reading but when that happens it shows an error code after the number fades away. So in that case of course I weigh again. But if I wiggle jiggle or weigh three times in a row, I still get the same weight. So I just do it once on and off.
Multiple weigh-ins during the day could lead to obssessive behaviors, cheating or disappointments in my case also, so I just don't do it.
Yeah! I've been stalled out this month, so I'm really happy to see this number. I lost 17 pounds the first month, 11 the second month and with only 10 days left I have only lost 4.2 pounds this third month. I know it's supposed to slow down, but geesh.
