After 40 plus years of weighing myself every darn morning, I AM NOT REPLACING THE SCALE THAT BROKE LAST WEEK!
Methinks the lower weight encouraged me to allow more leeway and a higher weight gave me the What The **** Syndrome!
Last weight I got was 212 - next weight will be at the doc's in mid October.
I will probably go into scale withdrawal for the next few weeks! Just ignore me, OK?

Ruth I shuld be so lucky I get on that metal monster several times a day. I can not help my self. i use it to monitor my fluid, as i know that my real weight will not fluxuate that much daily!!! I just wish that i was able to stay off it, but atleast i am not eating my carbs more power to you for staying away. i will be thinking of you!

Since I started taking BP meds, I have a TERRIBLE problem with water retention. It's no doubt due to other medical problems too. My point is that I can't depend on the scale to tell my a darn thing! I never weigh myself anymore. I depend on how my clothing feels. Even that isn't dependable as I retain water more some days than others. So...listen to your body more than some foolish mechanical thing that lays on the floor! God bless!

Ruth!
Don't go throwing out your old scale. Just send me your goal weight number and I will stencil ya up a nice sticker to put on the offensive part of the scale. This way you can step on it and say..."See! I am Perfect!" No fuss, no muss!

But! I seem to have the same problem I get to a certain number and feel like I have to eat my way up to 5 pounds heavier....sheesh This I need?

peach

Ruth, I don't blame you at all--I never had a scale until a just before Christmas and I hate the darn thing. I'm just obsessing now about every single little pound and feeling discouraged or happy about my weight ups and downs. I wish I had never bought the thing. Wanna come here and break mine?

Good for you girlfriend! I haven't stepped on my home scale since I discovered it weighs me in at 15 lb less than the one at Weight Watchers. SHEESH!!! I needed to know I was really 15 lb heavier than I'd thought.

I haven't weighed myself in years! I go by how well my clothes fit and how I feel.

The clothes in my closet range from size 12 (rarely fit) to size 16; when I discovered that the 16s were feeling snug, I knew something had to be done -- nothing fits, but I don't want to buy more clothes!

Down with scales! They don't measure how well you feel, anyway.

-- Barb

i too have a scale problem- every day! cant help it, but from what i read, i feel lucky im satisfied by 1x a day.