ugh i ate 3 times the amount of salt I was supposed to today (while somehow staying under 1400 cals lol)...i'm sooo terrified about water retention ruining things when I weigh in tomorow. I can't decide whether to just suck it up and weigh in or skip tomorow and weigh in on friday.
I weigh myself: when I first wake up, after I use the toilet, when I come home from work and before I go to bed. I am definitely obsessed but sometimes it encourages me...like after a big piece of pizza.
I think my obsession comes from not noticing how big I had gotten over the course of a few years because I refused to step on a scale. Last week I stayed with my cousin's kids for four day while she was on vacation and couldn't find her scale. I was pleasantly surprised when I weighed myself after the weekend and it went down! I was SO expecting a gain!
Except to check it to start posting here, I haven't weighed myself since the beginning of July. It is a new thing I am trying. I am results obsessed, so when I don't see the scale moving I tend to get discouraged and quit dieting/exercising/whatever I am doing to lose weight. This way, I am observing physical differences in how I look, how my clothes fit, and how I feel, and I guess that is what is most important anyway. But just talking about it makes me really curious, and glad I am at work, sans scale!
Whenever I feel like it (anywhere from once a day to whenever I go to the bathroom), but it does typically end up just being after I pee, since that's when I'm in the bathroom anyway. I... don't take any clothes off, except for shoes. I'm happy as long as the needle is between 165 and 170.
But that's actually kind of a good point. I got a 10 dollar ANALOG scale from Walmart and the numbers are so small that I can't read them without taking a picture of it with my camera while standing on it and zooming in afterwards. So... I only have an official weigh-in once every 2 weeks, when I do that. That's the only time I change my weight here. Other than that it's like a sort of... eye-balling it. Like oh I'm still around 165 (not sure of the exact number)... that's good.
I'm not going to SEE things like that I'm up .2 pounds, so I never even have to worry about that kind of thing bothering me.
And I ONLY weighed once every 2 weeks PERIOD until I was actually happy with my weight. Because before then if I WAS up a few pounds I'd get depressed, but now it doesn't bother me, as long as I'm still in the 160's, since I'm happy here.
So basically... GO ANALOG SCALE!
LOL I thnk 85% of us are scale obsessed! I used to weigh myself everyday....but of course youre not going to loose 2-3lbs overnight. Sometimes you'll weigh in heavier than the day before and when that happens I get depressed than dont care all day and eat badly/dont workout. So I now only weigh myself once a week (tuesdays) in the morning, after I go pee, naked. I get on and off 3 times to make sure it's right lol. But its better to weigh once a week because you usually loose 2-3lbs a week and youll be SO HAPPY, I think it'll motivate you more to do it only once a week!
I weigh once a week, every Saturday morning as soon as I wake up.
I WANT to weigh every day, but I only weigh once a week for my own sake. My weight tends to fluctuate so much, and when I'm weighing every day and watching that, it makes me need to eat a whole cake by myself - it totally stresses me out. So I only do it once a week now...it keeps me more stable and gives me less reasons to stress throughout the week.
i try to do it every other day but in high school i had a slight eating disorder and i would weigh myself almost 3-5 times a day so im trying to make sure i dont get myself back in bad habits.
I weigh myself at least 5 times a day, which I know is a horrible idea... but I can't help it! I actually just got back from taking the scale to the dumpster though, and I plan to buy a new one friday that's a little more accurate. And I am going to force myself to only weigh in every other day, and hopefully end up just doing it once a week. And I always weigh in "nekkid" haha... every little bit helps!!!
Ok, I'll balance you folks who are weighing more than once a day. I weigh in @ every 6 weeks. However I track my calorie deficit daily to keep myself on plan.
