Soooo, at college I haven't had a scale. Once, I bought one and used it consistently, but it ran out of battery at the end of my sophomore year (last year), and I just threw it out.

I weighed myself consistently over this past sumer, though, using other people's scales and I was staying around 231 without trying! That was my weight! I ate as much as I felt, and I just simply stayed at 231...

So I'm back home because my granny just passed...That's when I had my wake-up call/realization. I've been dieting for the past 4 days...SIGH. I bought a scale tonight, because it was killing me not knowing.

I weighed myself...and I was....250.9.

I almost cried. It took everything in me not to break down right there. I so don't understand where this 20 pounds came from!!!!! I haven't eaten any differently! Now I feel so set-back...So much more time now....I feel so terrible. I just...I don't know. It seems so unfair. I want to break down.

I know that I have to keep going...but I feel so discouraged now. I'm so far away from even what I thought my starting point was. I'm so sad.

I wish...I wish this never happened to me.

when I got on the scale and it said 290 pounds I had no clue I had gotten that fat... and you know what... everyone has to start somewhere... you can keep doing what you're doing and gain another 20 pounds and so fourth or you can be proactive and lose 20 pounds... either way the scale is going to move.. up or down... you just have to commit to which way you want it to go

I totally agree!

I stopped getting on the scale at around 220ish lbs. Suddenly I weighed in at 275! I never even saw the numbers between! 2 months after I had my son I was back down to 275. I stopped getting on the scale. Suddenly I had jumped up to 315! Seriously, the scale is my bff now! LOL! I will never go without one again.

You can choose to dwell on it and do nothing but watch the scale go up, or you can get busy and get it down to a number you like!

Thanks for y'all's responses.

I'm not planning on stopping. I've been dieting the past 4 days, and I continue to do so, forever. I shouldn't want to cry every time I weigh myself.

This is just a rude, rude, rude awakening. It's like, whooshhh!!!! Snap!

Same thing happened to me. I lived in a dorm with no scale for three years. Sure, my pants size went up, but I didn't make the connection.
When I moved into my house, my roommate had a scale; one day, i hopped on and was at 260. I had NO idea i weighed that much and was so upset by it.

But something has to be the wake-up call, right?

Honestly, same thing happened to me! I began my new lifestyle, and about 3 or 4 days in, I decided to weigh myself. I figured I was in the 230s or so, I hadn't weighed myself in MONTHS, when I stepped on the scale and it said 255, I felt terrible. It felt like all of the work I had done was in vain. Even now, when I say to myself, "you've lost almost 45 pounds," a part of me still thinks about how I'd be 193 right now if I had started where I thought I had.

The thing that has kept me going is I know that I will get there eventually. It doesn't matter if that 20 pounds makes it take another 2 months, it won't matter IN THE LONG RUN!

Good luck hon!

Each and every one of us have that wake up call. I refused the scale for years. Bravo to you to get on one. My wake up call was seeing a photograph of myself. I really and truly looked at it and thought, "who the **** is that?"

You can do this. Absolutely you can--unequivocally! You got the 3FC and a scale--you have everything you need to make this happen.

The scale is the best objective friend we dieters have. IT doesn't lie. It can't. All it knows is calculations. Of course we still hate it's cold display of truth--when we don't want to know it.

Hun, we have all been there, including me. It's the wake up call we need. I have the Wii fit. I love it that I designed a mi with such cute little proportions and the balance board adjusted me to my mi to reflect my real chubby overweight self based on the weight I was for my height.

I'm sorry that you lost your granny. ::hugs::

Like everyone else in this thread, I stepped on the scale after months of not weighing myself and was surprised to see such a high number. I was so depressed, but I funneled that depression into motivation. Since you joined 3FC it looks like you are doing the same. Good luck on your journey!

yep, been there. thought i was 190, scale said 220!!!!!

seeing that 2 in front of my weight made me break down. just remember, you're not any bigger now than you were yesterday, you just know how much you weigh.

i think that initial major shock is a good thing because it kicks you into action!