Hi! I'm a fairly faithful lurker here and very occasional poster. I'm putting this post in various areas on the forums looking to see if other people's experience in this mirrors mine.

Here's my burning question: Has anyone weighed themselves regularly and gained any really large amount of weight?

I ask because I've just, for the umpteenth time, weighed myself after a LONG hiatus from weighing to find that I'd gained a ton of weight, without allowing myself to realize, all the way along, that I was gaining. I truly believe I'd never even have let my weight creep over the big 2 (and I'm now -- I'm facing it, although it still makes my eyes bug out to think of it -- half-way between the 2 and the 3 ) if I'd weighed myself all along.

What happens is, I'm doing okay but have a bad week and decide I'll wait until I've got the expected gain off again. And that's the slippery slope. I think I didn't weigh in for over a year this time and gained 26 pounds. OMG -- I hadn't really put it in words before. I'm not discouraged, and am back on track (and will NEVER stop weighing again) but now I've got that much more weight. Oh well, onward is the only way to go.

Just wondering what other peoples' experiences were in this aspect of the battle. Has anyone gained a lot while remaining conscious of the fact that they were gaining or do you -- like me -- close your eyes so you can't see it pile on?

I could have written this post. After going through a divorce and adjusting to single motherhood I was at an all time high weight of 220. I got down to 137; which at the time was 2 pounds from goal. I did it by eating very low calorie and exercising excessively. I decided to take a break for "just a week." Long story short I went multiple months between weigh in's always to find that I'd gone up 20-30 pounds. I convinced myself I would get back down easily until I was within a few pounds of my all time highs. So the most important commitment I've made to myself this time around is that those weekly weigh in's will happen regardless. That way at least I'll have to face it if I'm getting fatter and can do something about it before it's such a significant gain.

I've weighed more than 330lbs (the point where my scale doesn't work) for more than probably 15 years. Yes, I knew I was more than 330, but convinced myself that it wasn't much more. When I finally gained the courage to weigh myself on a scale that would give me a weight I'm not sure that I was that surprised that it was over 400 by that time. I'm pretty sure I knew I was continuing to gain weight, but it was easy to ignore and pretend I was just over that magic 330 number.

With few exceptions I weigh myself every week. Sometimes I have to stop myself doing it more often. I have a feeling this is just one more habit I will have to incorporate into a new lifestyle.

Anne

I'm a little bit different (ok, most people in this area know that already! ).

Anyway, I haven't gone a year without weighing, but I have gone a month or two. What I've found is that I'm pleasantly surprised when I hop on the scale. Not that it has gone down any, but that I've pretty much stayed the same, within a pound or two, as were I had last weighed.

It has taught me that the "good" habits I have incorporated into my daily life have actually stuck with me, more or less, when I'm "off" and that makes me very happy. It also proves to me that when I do REALLY get back to concentrating On Program more and more "good" habits will stick.

I like to think it's because I don't consider myself "dieting", I consider it learning how to eat to be more healthy for the rest of my life.