That's great Rosinante. Well done.

Excellent! Look how you've gotten back into this!! You are doing marvelously. Just keep at it. Keep on going, going, going....

Sounds like a plan.

I was afraid of daily weighing at first, but I love it now! I get to have victories almost everyday except TOM time, but when I was weighing once a week and lost less than a pound it did tick me off. Now I see the natural flucuations and I may have been the same or down .5 on weigh day, but the next I was down 1.5 and it stayed! Do what is best for you, but you might want to try daily weighing for a while.

197.3 - after 3 bathroom visits, don't know what's wrong with me today! Although, my treat yesterday, was some hot roast pork - I wonder if it was too fatty? Yesterday was completely within calorie/carb/fibre/fat/protein limits but maybe it was just too much all in one go?

I understand the scale anxiety having suffered from it myself. Long term daily weighing has helped me because now I do it without thinking about it. I have a tendency to over think everything and I think that is where my anxiety comes from. I have learned my fluctuations. It is amazing how much difference a bm can make.

You got 18 lbs off in 8 weeks!! I think that is fantastic. I am thrilled to get 8 pounds off in 8 weeks. You are doing great! Maybe you need to adjust your expectations?? Give yourself the credit you deserve, my friend.

I am very happy when I look at the big picture of this current weightloss. Somehow, though, the daily weighing I find upsetting. I KNOW it can't show a day by day slide - but I haven't yet been able to get over the negative feelings I get when it doesn't.
Trouble is, weekly weighing gives me a massive disappointment sometimes, too.
I daren't risk monthly yet!


And again - WELL DONE YOU!!!!!

I agree with Cheryl that eventually with daily weighing the scale started to lose so much power, because I began to understand it more.

I don't know if you have or would consider a Tanita scale (they're unfortunately pricey) I think it was my Tanita that got me over the scale hump because it gives me body fat, water weight percentage AND weight....

After a while the pattern gets SUPER predictable... my water weight percentage goes UP and my weight goes UP.... back in April, I gained between four and five pounds and it stayed on for two weeks.... I knew I was OP and I "felt" bloaty, but in the past, I would have started obsessing about my food, wondering if I was lying to myself about what I was eating, or thinking that somehow I had "done something wrong" to gain the weight...

But this time, the Tanita gave it to me right there in a concrete number-- my water weight percentage was way out of whack... eventually, I lost the water weight and the pounds came right off, and then some... somehow SEEING the water weight percentage feels more reliable and cuts down on my obsessive second-guessing.

Something to consider as it has been a godsend for me.

I hope it does lose power soon. A 1.5lb Gain overnight.
I know it's not fat.
I know that, in the teeth of an almost overwhelming urge to binge yesterday, I did not, I stayed 100% on plan.
I feel in a difficult place right now. If I weigh weekly, the losses I'm getting at the minute just make me want to stab myself.
When I weigh daily, I don't get 'daily victories', I get daily slaps in the face.
Basically, struggling at the moment.

You have got to find the mature, reasonable, intelligent person in yourself.

When something like this happened to me I would tell myself over and over again that there is no way in H#$L that that weight could be anything else but a water based variance/fluctuation. KNOWING that I've stayed on plan there is no other explanation for it. There just isn't. That's where that reasonable, mature, intelligent woman must comes into play. I told myself this - and now I don't have to *convince* myself of it when it happens ever again, because I am certain of it.

Daily weighing taught me to get on that scale one time, note the number and move on with my day. If I've had a weight loss - great - all the more reason to keep on doing what I'm doing - if I've had a weight gain - all the more reason to keep doing what I'm doing - it's going to eventually work.

My plan is a good one, of this I am sure, so when I am positive that I've been 100% on plan - my food behaviors don't have to change, nor does my mood, because of iwhat the scale says.

Get on that scale and move on with your on plan day.

196 today. This is good.

I'm going to really try hard and try to learn the daily patterns.