To get power over the scale, I went the "other way," and instead of weighing only once weekly (because if the number didn't go down or didn't go down enough, I was bummed the entire week), I weighed at least once a day, at first several times a day for a while, to really get familiar with my weight fluctuations. I found out a lot about those weight fluctuations, and even sometimes what caused them. I also stopped seeing the scale as my enemy, but as a tool, and nothing more.
Now, I still weigh daily (usually only once), but only my Monday weight counts. I write them down daily, but there's a special place for the weight that "counts."
It does seem that either by chance, or sometimes a poorly timed higher calorie day, that the day after I change my ticker, I'm up a pound or two. I really don't do the superbinges anymore, so it's usually water weight from salt rather than true weight, but it would be discouraging if I let it be. Instead, I push the water a little more and watch the sodium especially, and usually within a day or two, I'm back to the lowest weight.
For me, not caring about it so much, really was a component of success. For me, when weight loss was the most important thing in my life, it ruled my life, my emotions, and tempted me to do crazy things to get the weight off fast (which then inspired the starvation/deprivation feelings that led to binges, guilt, self-hatred, more deprivation as punishment, more guilt... the cycle was endless).
When I took the emotion out of the process, it helped. Of course, I can't dismiss taking the hormones and hunger-triggering carbs out of the equation
also (changing bc and reducing carbs), as they were the other two main components in my hunger-binge cycle.
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