Hi, my name is Annie, and I have a problem.

I'm addicted to weighing myself.

Seriously. It's gotten scary.

First thing in the morning, weigh myself in my pajamas.

Walk the dog, weigh myself post-walk.

Weigh myself before and after shower.

Weigh myself once I'm dressed. Realize that jeans are heavier than capris, change into capris, weigh myself again.

And on and on. Seriously. It's NOT HEALTHY!

So a couple of us newbies have committed to putting our scales away until Monday! (I know, I should try for a whole week. Baby steps, people, baby steps...)

So I put my scale away yesterday and I have been tempted a thousand times to pull it out and see how things are going today. But there's something about having made a promise that I wouldn't, and I haven't!

Anybody else doing this? Anybody else want to join us? We'll re-group on Monday. We can make it... I'm going to replace this addiction with an addiction to lettuce.

Mind over matter, Anniepoo! You can do it. Remember stress causes water retention. Good luck

I totally understand your addiction!!! It's mine as well!! I did weigh this morning, only because WI was today and I wanted to see what my scale said compared to the official one. It is now back in it's hiding spot until Monday! We also have one at work, I made them hide that one too!!

Weigh-in days are total freebees for un-hiding your scale. And I love that you made them hide the work one too! haha

This is all very wise advice, Mars! Thanks!!!

Hi Annie

Unless you have a general anxiety problem, it seems to me that you don't understand the ups and downs of weight through the day. If you understood it better, surely you would not even want to bother with such frequent weighings. Its totally pointless to weigh yourself more than once a day and the lightest you are likely to be is when you first get up in the morning, and after you've had a pee and with no clothes on.

you should follow with a glass water, then breakfast and then just get on with your day. Your water levels will go up with through the day as food contains water. The food and water will add to your weight throughout the day. If you go for a walk, unless its a very long walk, and you lose lots of fluids, you are unlikely to register a drop through the day.

Even from a day to day basis, you have to try to relax little about the reading on the scale as water retention goes up and down due to various reasons. e.g. menstruation, salty foods, and general dehydration or more rehydration. So its really on the general trend that you should be noticing.

You might find it helpful to plot your daily weighin on a graph.
Some people find it helpful to average out the daily weigh in over the course of a week and consider that the main weight to go by.

I don't do that but i note when there's a new low. If there is only new highs after going lows, then i'd have to adjust what i'm eating.

Or if the new lows are too far apart, i might also consider adjusting my calorie/food intake.

Its seems to me that lack of patience causes worry and anxiety and often failure. So learn to let all that go and just do what you know is the right thing.

If you are not eating very good quality foods then it will be harder to lose weight.

Sorry, I should clarify that this was all meant with a bit of humor and hyperbole. I DO understand that it's ridiculous, which is why I've put it away.

Hi Pattience
I think what Annie and a few others of us are doing is basically in line with your recommendation to stop focusing so much on the numbers. I know (in my logical mind) that the scale fluctuation is normal and appropriate. But I am a data girl. I like inputs and outputs and we all know that the scale doesn't always show the output we want as quickly as we want. And it makes me anxious and often leads to me quitting and binging because I feel overwhelmed and insufficient. My obesity battle is a head game much more than a physical challenge so I am trying to take my head out of the game.
I think that it is especially tempting (and especially dangerous) in the beginning to spend a lot of time worrying about the results and start to second guess whether I am doing the plan correctly or if it will work for me like it does everyone else. It's a big investment financially and the restrictive nature means we start out thinking about IP a lot. Couple that with previous failure and it is easy to see how easy it would be to slip into the danger zone.
I can say that since I agreed to step away from the scale I feel much less anxious. Part if me agreeing to put that scale away is me also agreeing that I am in it to win it, so what the scale says on Monday is less important to me now. Come what may, I am pushing on because I have to. And even if the results aren't as dramatic as I wish for Monday, they will be dramatic in the end as long as I persist

Yes. This. Every word of this.

I weight myself every morning after my shower! I then log it in 2 different apps on my phone. I do this EVERYDAY. If I forget and put my clothes on, I take my clothes off and weigh myself. This is normal, right? Lol.
Sorry I can't put the scale away lol!

I was so excited to weigh this morning and it did not disappoint. FIVE pounds down! Thanks Annie for the fun game of delayed gratification.

awesome!!!!! I'm just waking up, drinking my coffee and reading the boards, I haven't weighed yet.

I am really proud of myself though, the parents are in town, food and alcohol have been flowing freely and I have stayed 100% OP! Major accomplishment for me! This program works!

Hi, Annie...yours is not an unusual addiction as I weigh myself several times a day as well. At one time I hid my scale like you have, but I found it bothered me more to not know what the numbers were.

Arich! That's fantastic!

And thanks, everyone, for making me feel a little better about my little brand of crazy.

I too weighed in (unofficially, on my home scale) this morning, and the scale has not budged. I've been 100% OP, so I'm obviously going to blame this on TOM. Or maybe my new scale is broken. Or maybe my eyesight is broken and it totally said that's I'd lost 10 lbs. Yeah... I'm sure that's it...

I'm not too freaked out by it though. My pants are loose. Like, WAY loose. So I know I'm making progress! Nothin' to worry about here!