Hide the Scale!
 

so, i have been battling with weighing myself, jumping on the scale after every workout and then being frutrated when i don't lose anything, and start to get off track...

SO, i asked my husband to hide my scale for me today! i will continue working out, doing the C25K plan, and yoga, and will not weigh myself for ONE MONTH...quite a change for me from daily weigh ins...

has anyone else tried this method???:?:

no im a scale fanatic like you also, i weigh everyday in the morning .... i don't know if i could hide the scale like you, good luck!!!

I threw mine out yesterday. I am only going to weight myself twice a week at the gym. Having a scale in my home and getting on it in the morning and seeing 'not wanted' results ruined my whole day and often lead to binging. I would suggest weighing yourself at least once a week.

My other trick is I try on a pair of tight jeans or other item of clothing once a week (and not around my peroid lol). Sometimes the scale doesn't move so much but you are losing inches. I am prone to gaining a lot of muscle and love heavy lifting so I try not to use the scale too much but get my inches measured every month too :)

ya, i might have to do a weekly weigh in, but only if i feel like i am off track. i also like to use my jeans and my inches as a measure of success!

I like to stick my tongue out and prance away from it when I'm down. The scale doesn't get my attitude but it sure feels good!!

that's sweet! i have decided that you're right, i am going to do weekly weigh ins instead...a month may be too late to realize that i am gaining or something. thanks for the advice, Brown Eyed Staccie!

I am doing it.Weighed in at 218 on April14,2009 and today I weigh in at 208 April 28,2009.I am doing the Alli,And drinking slim fast and eating better foods for me.Following the eat the three meast plus snacks in between.Walking with my meter.And just doing changes in my life.

This thread has inspired me to rely on the scale less. I compulsively weigh in every single day, from now on I'm only going to weigh in every week (for Biggest Loser).

omg, i am so trying to avoid the scale too! im trying to just weigh in on my weigh in days...

I've never thought of hiding the scale. Honestly, it's my motivation... but that's just me. If I see a loss, it's awesome and I work harder. If I see a gain, I might get a little down but I try to keep going. It's different for everybody, though.

I have wiifit and that encourages you to do a 'body test' every day to check your weight and balance. However, I'm starting to lean towards doing my official weigh in at the gym once a week, and relying on my measuring tape to check for progress during the week. Even though the scale has only moved down 15lbs since Feb, my 'spare tire' has decreased from about 55" to 50". So that is the biggest victory to me!

Today is a good day for me.I`m eating better and I am loosing weight.I know this will work because I am going to make this work foe ME and only Me.I want to see my daughter get married and have kids and enjoy all the evants be a grandma one day.So I have to get my health back in track.One day at a time for me.

I have been weighing myself like 6779866756756528735648754 times a day. I really need to stop. I am going to wait till Monday's for BL to weigh. I can do this.

It really flucuates and doesn't help when I weigh so much.
When I woke up it was 195 later on it was 198 then just now it was 197.2 or something so I need to wait lol.

I've never done it because I've never been obsessed with weighing myself. In fact, I'm usually scale-phobic. Which is strange, because my sister put the scale in our kitchen last summer and it's been there ever since. I've just learned to ignore it, but now that I'm serious about losing weight again I find myself stepping on it a little too often...

i am now only weighing on mondays too for the BL challenge...but i'm still putting it high in the closet in between to avoid temptation...:) i guess i'm just weak-willed!

I am so right with you in terms of getting rid of the scale. I am one hundred million percent done with my scale. My ticker is not accurate anymore.

I would weigh myself pretty much every time I used to bathroom at home and it just messes with your mind. And personally, I don't care what the number says. I want to feel my pants getting looser, I want to see muscle definition and all that. Until I start seeing changes like that, I am not weighing myself at all.

I weigh in on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays. I find that doing it everyday drives me insane, but not doing it enough causes me to think I can cheat all the time because I will have been "good" enough of the time.

Sometimes if I really feel antsy I'll weigh in on a Tuesday or something, but I only record the days I'm supposed to.

That's so funny that this thread was just posted. I just decided last week that I would only weigh on Sunday mornings now.

I don't like weighing everyday. It fluctuates so much based on what time in the morning you do (sometimes I'm at 6 am for work, sometimes I sleep in until 10), what you ate last night, the salt content of your previous day etc etc. And when I weigh everyday I expect loss everyday.

So I'm hoping that by only doing it only once a week if I see a pound or two loss it will be better than watching myself go up and down every day of the week. And it may have been lower on Wednesday than it would be on Sunday but as long as the trend of the weight are going down, I think it will be happy.

Also, knowing I have to weigh in on Sunday and looking forward to that day and seeing it go down I'm hoping to curb some of my typical weekend binging.

I leave my scale over at my moms house. And since I only weigh myself first thing in the morning, since I am always more weight in the evening than in the morning (water weight, etc, fluctuations i can't control) and i've found the morning weight to be a more reliable #, I rarely weigh myself now! haha

I can't tell you if it's working as far as losing lbs goes or not, but my jeans are looser and my husband has noticed a difference in me already. I've not weighed for almost 3 weeks now and I'm scared to get on there and see a gain, but i'm almost positive I've lost since i'm feeling smaller, etc. Anyway, to go from compulsive weigher to a almost never weigher like overnight has been weird. But I am a lot happier right now, not freaking out over my weight 30 times a day. :)

I definitely need to limit how much I get on my scale. I get on it everyday, sometimes a few times a day.... I should just get rid of the thing altogether because my mom and my best friend use it too and all it does is make us frustrated.

Very well done, as you can see, I'm scale-free. ;)
Thing is the scale is a tool, as much as a spoon is, but you don't get frustrated if your spoon isn't looking at you right, while you get frustrated if the scale doesn't. Well, at that point the scale becomes a judge more than a tool, and it's time to throw it away.
You can have better rewards looking at how clothes fit you and how you feel better yourself, not from weight, that you know may increase or decrease with nothing...

Ugh, I've had it with scales. I weighed myself at the gym (on one of those old school ones) and I'm 212. Now, I'd normally be thrilled about that - but when they weighed me at WW on Tuesday (AFTERNOON) I was 215. So I'm starting to second guess myself and I'm just going to leave it up to the lovely professionals. And maybe just weigh myself on Tuesday mornings to see how much of a difference there is.

Oh my goodness, I envy you ladies. I've been obsessive about stepping on the scale every morning. I don't think I'd be able to limit it to once a week.