The scale very much determines my mood, which is why I don't live with one It lives in the gym, a bit too far away from the window for my liking!!! Which is over a canal!! The scales WILL end up in there one day.
I weigh once a week when I feel I need to, or if I know nothing has changed, I leave it a month now that things are slowing down.
I use my Sunbeam analog scale located right in the luxury of my bathroom. I've had it since 283 pounds (it only goes up to 300). I think it cost something like $8 at Walmart. It's fairly accurate, although it isn't calibrated to 0 because I calibrate it in accordance to my 10 lb weights. It's a bit off. I haven't weighed on any other scales since I was over 300 and never on a sliding scale, so I'm still unsure of its accuracy, but I hope it isn't off by too much.
I weigh myself twice a day: when I first wake up in the morning and before I go to bed at night. And sometimes before I take a bath in the afternoon or evening. I'd say on average - 20 times a week (hey it works for me).
Unless I have a major gain or loss, it doesn't affect my mood. With a gain, I'm upset, but it doesn't last too long. I usually snap right back into contentedness. With a loss, I get excited and then it levels off again. But what usually sets me up for a overly-cheerful day is when I've achieved some sort of milemarker in my weightloss. For example, when I left the range of morbid obesity; hit 100 lb weight loss; ONEDERLAND; and my most recent: skipping happily out of the obese range. Those were definitely mood enhancers. I do believe my next milemarker is GOAL weight!! YAY!!
I weigh every time I go to the gym on the scales there. That tends to be four out of five mornings during the week but not at the weekend.
my weight doesn't tend to affect my mood too much, weighing regularly helps me see fluctuations for what they actually are - temporary blips. I also have a monthly weigh in on some scales that print out your weight which helps me keep things in perspective.
My scales are in my bathroom. I weigh every day - sometimes twice! I find it useful because I am learning my body's natural fluctuations. Yes it can determine my mood. I do feel happy when its gone down. Most days if its up I am ok with it because I know it isn't up because I've eaten too much.
I was going to post exactly what coley144 posted. Except to add that around that time of the month, it goes up, and I know it's going to go up, and it still affects me -- I don't know why, it just does.
I have a scale, I keep it in a closet in the living room.
I will weigh myself once a week. (I will not deter from this plan as I have in the past.)
I'm trying to remember that the scale is not an evil being, it is an inanimate object that can not hurt me. I determine what the number on the scale will be based on my actions alone.
Yes. that damn thing can have quite an effect on my mood, and I have used it as an excuse several times to stop me from reaching my goals.
I weigh only once every morning on my bathroom scale. It helps keep me focused. I don't let it bother me when the numbers don't seem right, because I know are bodies are complicated. But I do let it effect me when it is going in the right direction!!
I do find that when I have strayed off plan, then I am not nearly as diligent about weighing every day. Go figure!
I keep the scale in the bathroom, under the little trash can. When I pull it out to weigh, I place it on the same place, using the tiles as my guide. I weigh every day.
At first, it really effected my mood, both postively and negatively. But now I'm learning the cycles my body goes through, and as long as I know that I have stuck to my program for the previous day AND it goes up, I try really hard not to focus on the number. But I still get excited when I see the number steadily going down.
How often? Daily weigher here, since mid-February.
I used to be a weekly but found it to be far too stressful. Having 7 days between weighings allowed for too many variables to affect the number. I find charting daily gives me more of a sense of control. I can see daily fluctuations for what they are. And, as I get more data, I'll be able to see monthly trends. Valuable info, in my opinion.
I only record "official" weights once a week -- updating tickers and signatures, etc. But I keep tabs daily.
Where is the scale? We have a big, doctor's style scale (dual sliding balance weights), and it has a prominent place in our bathroom. You can't miss it, you can't hide it and you can't hide from it. It was pretty pricey compared to what most folks pay, but I'm glad we got it.
Does it affect my mood for the day? When I weighed weekly, it most certainly did. A good reading (3 or more lost) had me floating! A mediocre* reading (1 - 2 lost) had me disappointed. A bad reading (gain of any amount) would send me into an ugly funk.
With the daily weighings, I'm hoping I can catch a bad reading in the making and make whatever tweaks needed to turn it around. Control.
I've only been through one month weighing daily, and TOM weight gain did cause a mini-funk. But, because I could see it coming, it wasn't sooooo bad. I was surprised at how long it took to see the scale moving in the right direction again, though (about 10 days, total). It'll be interesting to see, over time, if this is just my body's pattern.
*I don't consider 1-2 pounds mediocre any more -- that was the "old" me's way of thinking. I'm currently doing 1-2 pounds a week and am absolutely, no-2-ways-about-it satisfied with that!
Last edited by Less of Lena; 03-12-2006 at 01:49 PM.
I have a scale in the bathroom and I weigh every morning and usually before bed. I only "record" Monday morning numbers though. It doesn't impact my moods in a big way. I still get excited about a 2-3 pound/wk loss and a little dissapointed at 1 pound/wk loss. I have only lost 1 pound this week and I feel a tad frustrated because I've been almost perfectly on plan for those days. I know I've been losing water weight and more than expected according to Nutridiary in the previous weeks. I just keep telling myself what the scale would be showing if I wasn't sticking to plan. At least it's not going up. I have no other alternative but to continue doing what I'm doing.
My scale is in my bathroom. I weigh every day, but I find that I stick to my plan better when I weigh once a week. My Weight Watcher's instructor told me that I was weighing too often and when she found that another member was weighing daily she told her to bring the scale to her. She did and immediately got the weight off. I'm trying to break the habit of the daily weigh-in.
My scales are in the bathroom and I weigh myself every morning (and some evenings). This works for me, as I purposely didn't weigh for so many years, which is how I ended up being 346 lbs. I haven't really hit a plateau (yet) so I continue to weigh every morning. I am a bit more upbeat when I see a loss, but my weight fluctuates from day to day, so I'm not upset when it doesn't go down. As I continue to lose weight, I know that the weight loss may slow, and at that time I may have to make a different decision about whether to continue weighing every day.
Scales is the bathroom. I weigh every morning but it only gets recorded on Mondays. It can affect my mood, if I have a big gain = bad mood, big loss = great mood.
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It lives in the gym, a bit too far away from the window for my liking!!! Which is over a canal!! The scales WILL end up in there one day.
Except to add that around that time of the month, it goes up, and I know it's going to go up, and it still affects me -- I don't know why, it just does.
I haven't really hit a plateau (yet) so I continue to weigh every morning. I am a bit more upbeat when I see a loss, but my weight fluctuates from day to day, so I'm not upset when it doesn't go down. As I continue to lose weight, I know that the weight loss may slow, and at that time I may have to make a different decision about whether to continue weighing every day.
