I've gone from weighing myself twice(or more) a day for the past four years to now, where I'm trying to weight myself only every 10 days(how often I'd like to lose a pound).
I know that how often I weighed myself before was obsessive, but I'm still in ED recovery & working on my body image & perception of all things body/food. That's why I'm changing. I don't want to be that obsessed.
But with not weighing myself, I'm thinking about it more...which I know is natural.(like when you deny yourself cake then dream of it or even binge later on).
so how do you get over this rough patch of adjusting to a healthier, less-dependent relationship with your scale?...if it were a person, then I'd be in the "you know, just because we're divorced doesn't mean we can't still be friends" phase. LOL
I used to obsessively weigh myself too, then it got to the point I was scared of the scale, then back to obsessively weighing myself... For me, I just put it up and out of sight, then made a rule that I couldn't weigh myself after I'd eaten or had anything to drink during the day. That meant I could weigh myself after I'd gone to the bathroom and before I ate breakfast. Second rule was I couldn't weigh myself 2 days in a row, then I extended it to 4 days, then once a week.
I obsessively weigh myself several times a day lately. So this morning I weighed myself then put the scale away in the closet. I promising myself to not weigh in till November 1 because I cannot handle seeing those numbers all the time, its only making losing weight and being healthy harder.
not sure how to get over not weighing so much since it hasn't been long yet. i guess its the same as not binging. this is going to be hard!
i put mine in th closet. it helps bc i don't see it every time I go to the bathroom and its not as easy to weigh (i would have to get it out etc). maybe make it a goal not to weigh yourself and tell people about it in your life, especially if you live with someone you can tell them. we can always make it a challenge, like the no scale challenge. tell me if you would like that because ill make the topic and join in for sure!
I do really love the idea of make a no scale challenge .... lets made one.
We can call it No scale for 7 day in arrow challenge so we chose or own day to WI and then promise to ourself that we are no going to WI any more until next Wednesday in my case.
as a teenager I was terrified of not weighing in. If I didnt have my scale I would try not to eat or exercise harder.
I used to weigh myself 8 times a day at the same time each day. (thankgod for the hours when i was at school, because the weekends, that number went up more)
I went a little cold turkey on the scales. I tried to cut it down every few weeks - I'd cut one weighing in session out. Took a while, but I got out of it
Would it help to lock your scales in the trunk of your car? or a friend's car? Or put it in the attic or basement? Make using it lots of effort? (I threw mine in the trash several years ago and now weigh once a week at my doctor's office.) Hopping on and off the scales was depressing and unproductive.
Getting used to less frequent weigh-ins
