Listen, honey...I know the truism of not using the scale is appropriate for non-compulsive overeaters, but for us, all the rules are different.
I think that for most of us (there are probably exceptions), these "new" diet rules just don't apply:
1. Eat six small meals. (Compulsive overeaters already feel we're out of control with food. Once given license to eat "small" meals frequently, we start eating mega-loads all day long.)
2. Throw away the scale. (The Great Unknown is very, very scary to us. On the flip side of the coin, it gives us this wild, over-the-top freedom. We go nuts because we don't HAVE to weigh the next day. I hate to say it, but in most cases, I would keep the scale.)
3. Eating low-fat is the way to go! (Deprivation of ANY kind is likely to set off the Binge from Beyond.)
4. Don't count calories! (See Number Two, above...)
The diet industry acts as though it is catering to a group of very well-adjusted people who simply lack information regarding calories and carbs. But in this day and age, you'd have to have grown up in a cave not to know that vegetables are better than Ding Dongs, and who on this entire planet is truly well-adjusted???? The "new diet rules" failed and disappointed me. So I don't use them anymore. I try to use what *works*. That's all that matters...what works. This is a hard way to live, I know. Hang in there. We're in this together!