I'm a bit sad to say that I am a slave to the scale. My father taught me when I first started working out a few years back, to not get onthe scale ever day.. more like once a week, on the same day. Because the changes in weight are so small day by day, if I weigh myself everyday It will feel as though all my work isn't doing anything.
That worked for awhile.. but now ive turned into one of those people who weight themselves everyday.
At the gym they have 2 scales, one is digital and is the little spin dial thingy. I weigh myself on both of them ( one will say something like 231 and the other will say 240) and then I weigh myself again when I get home and again before bed and in the morning when I get ready for the day. I only really pay attention to what the digital scale at the gym says.
I know it's not really a good thing to be a scale slave.. anyone know what I mean? lol there is even a doctor scale in one of my classrooms at the college and I will weigh myself on that too.
Tell me about it! I have a scale at home and I step on it every morning. I hate it. For some reason I went up 2.5 lbs since sunday. I don't get it. With all that I'm doing different to lose weight and it's not working....how the heck did I gain this weight in the first place! I think from now on I am only checking my weight once a week.
I too am a scale slave and it SUCKS! I HATE IT! But I can't stop. I thought I could cut down to weighing once a week. So I stopped for a week and weighed and hadn't lost. So I am back to weighing every morning.
I think once I have lost an amount of weight I can be proud of I will feel better about it. But since I had such a rough start and I haven't lost much I want to see it go down. Once I have lost 30 or so pounds I know I will find it easier to weigh once a week or even once every few weeks.
I, too, am a scale watcher. I feel that if I don't know what I weigh every day then it will get away from me. I'm dreading getting on the scale tomorrow morning because I overate at dinner tonight. I've been so good, but tonight I blew it. I keep telling myself that what I ate was healthy, and I know it was, but I still ate too large of a portion. How come one screw up can feel like all the good work is gone?
COunt me in on that. I too get up and hop on. And once I come home from work when I'm changing clothes...just to see. Once I tried putting it in the hall closet, and that worked for a few days....until I couldn't stand it anymore!
Scale slave here too. At the doctor's office I go from room to room weighing myself because the scales all weigh differently. When I don't weigh myself I eat and eat and tell myself I know I gained but will lose it before I step on the scale again. The next time is usually too late. So I weigh myself daily to keep me honest.
I've read somewhere just recently that it said the people who weigh every day vs. the people who weigh only once a week are more apt to keep the weight off.
Ah, I found the story from Webmd...
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Nov. 18, 2005 -- Making friends with your bathroom scale just may help you lose those extra pounds and keep them off.
While most weight loss programs don't encourage the practice, a new study suggests that daily weighing may be better for weight loss and weight control than weekly or less frequent weighing.
People in the study who weighed every day lost more weight or maintained their weight better than people who did not.
The early findings must be confirmed, but researcher Jennifer A. Linde, PhD, tells WebMD that daily weighing may serve the same function as keeping track of daily food intake and exercise.
"People who make lifestyle changes consistent with weight loss use all kinds of tools to help them," she says. "Daily weighing provides feedback. It may be one more thing that someone can do to keep them on track."
I'm a slave as well. I recently bought my own bathroom scale and I can't keep my feet off of it. Before that I was going to my dad's house every Saturday and I'd weigh myself while I was there.
Thanks for the link to the article. I DO weigh every day and sometimes more than once a day. For years, I never weighed, and that's how I ended up at 346 lbs. I go into it knowing that the scales don't move down everyday, but as long as the trend is downward, I know I'm doing something right.
Of course, I have a lot more to lose than many of you, and when I get closer to goal and my weight loss slows, I may have to rethink what I do.
Shoot, I was a scale slave even before I started trying to lose weight. I would probably say that for the last 3 years (since I started gaining my weight) I have stepped on a scale at least 4 times a week EVERY week! (Moreso recently!)
Scale slave here I get on it at least once a day if not twice to three times a day. But it keeps me in check. If I gain, yes I am upset but I know to work harder. If I kept it off or lose Then I know what I am doing is working. I feel if I do not get on the scale then how do I know my progress.
I have a digital scale and love it. Every scale is not the same so I always weight on my scale and only my scale. Right now I am going on pounds not how much I weight but how much I have lost. When I get closure to my weight I want to be I will know by the way I feel.
So please add me to the list of scale slaves Please
Scale slave
Once I tried putting it in the hall closet, and that worked for a few days....until I couldn't stand it anymore!
I go into it knowing that the scales don't move down everyday, but as long as the trend is downward, I know I'm doing something right. 
I get on it at least once a day if not twice to three times a day. But it keeps me in check. If I gain, yes I am upset but I know to work harder. If I kept it off or lose
Then I know what I am doing is working. I feel if I do not get on the scale then how do I know my progress. 
