ok maybe not exactly the devil but close enough for me at the moment. I have started working out and walking on the treadmill again trying to get back into my routine and have done well the last 2 weeks, i think i have only missed 2 days w/o doing any type or form of exercise. And i knew better than to even think about getting on the scales for a month at least - but .. i did. and of course it shows a weight gain, i am building muscle, replacing fat, turnin this bod into a fat burnin machine!! but those numbers!! -snarls and foams at the mouth- they are so discouraging! i am in a constant chant right now of saying - its not accurate yet, don't look, it will jus irritate the heck out of you and depress you... even tho ya doin great!! -- of course this gets odd looks from the family unit .. but if i don't i know i might self destruct! so anyone out there feelint he same way or dealin with same thing ... chant with me!
ok maybe not exactly the devil but close enough for me at the moment.
OMG! Thats exactly how I feel! i ate in proportion (just salads and fruits), ran 1 full mile for a whole week, but the scale shows no loss or even gain at times!!! my hubby just did 10 situps and lost 2 pounds!!!
I am with you on this one! I have just accepted that my body is more demanding and needs more work to be put in to show the results as others would with half the work! my bad luck I guess! I keep measuring ,myself every 2-3 days and try to bear the pain!
I feel like the scales can be very evil sometimes. The weird thing for me is that when I workout 4 times a week, I lost weight real well. The weeks I tried to overdo it and workout 7 days a week, I either didn't lose or would gain. I used to get so frustrated at times that my DH would tire of my whining and threaten to hide my scales. LOL
I think it was 2 months before I actually started losing anything! I lost like 5 lbs within that time and was fuming because I'd look around here and read 'I lost 10lbs in the first month, 15lbs'...all that. No fair!
My saving grace was measuring and overall feeling better. Take it slow, it's the best way I'm still way slow, but better than nothing and better than dropping it all in a month or two only to get it right back!
Location: Plateautown on my way to maintenanceville
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S/C/G: 205/149/128
Height: 5'3"
Hi everyone
I am brand new to the site. I am a long time low carber [four years] and now on temporarily on calorie counting diet instead bec. of gallbladder [don't blame dr. atkins]. I was a slave to my scale for the last six months, every time I would lose a few pounds, I would feel so relieved, I felt like it was okay to cheat a little. Then when I gained weight, I would be down and then I would feel like eating. I tried hiding the scale and that helped a little, but if I felt really compelled I would sneak it out of the closet. FINALLY, a month ago my scales batteries died and I just didn't buy new ones. At last I started losing weight again [going by clothes and inches]. Sometimes throwing it out the window really is the best thing to do, but it took a while to get to that point. In my earliest days I absolutely needed it to stay on course.
Why even bother to weigh? There are other ways to measure progress. With all your workouts you must be putting on lots of muscle and losing inches. Get out a tape measure and use that as your progress indicator, as well as how your clothes fit.
They weigh/measure me at the gym where I work out. I stand backwards on the scale and tell them to just note the weight in my records and not tell me what it is. That way I can celebrate the inches I have lost without feeling some misplaced sense of guilt because the numbers on the scale aren't coming down.
The reason I don't trust inches too much is that they're always varying with me. One day it's 42, the other day it's 43. I made sure the tape was going around the same location on my body, the same way everything and the change is still there. I go by weight more because I feel I can trust it. Most of the time, I'm going by what I see in mirrors and how my clothes feel after I wash them. You know how they would be super tight when you first put them on but when you've lost weight they feel comfortable after a wash? LOVE that feeling.
I have started paying more attention now to how my clothes feel. Even if the scale is up or down by a couple lbs., I am not fretting as long as I can comfortably wear my clothes. I have noticed the scale can show a 2 or 3 lb. increase, just because I'm constipated. (Gross, but true.) I really am full of it. LOL
I tried posting yesterday at lunch from work but the computer gods must of ate it .. and storms knocked out my internet last night ... i had told myself not to weigh for 6 weeks to give my body time to adjust and to get a better view on how i was doing .. and i generally do just go by my clothes ... cause that is the best way to gauge actually how your body is doing.. its just those lil numbers on the scale can hold people hostage ..when it doesn't really reflect the accomplishments that you make no matter how minor .. i guess i can hope that the batteries die .. or my dogs eat my scale .. laffs ..
and gotta agree with lilybell .. not that ya full of it ..but the others ..and pms .. and water retention ... i am 3 for 3 this week! yay?!
[QUOTE=willmakeit]my hubby just did 10 situps and lost 2 pounds!!!
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omg .. husband does that ..says .. i need to lose weight ..steps on scale ..and loses 3 pounds ...that is so NOT fair ... ya think since we have to have the kids and stretch marks and pms ..we would at least catch a break on metabolism!
scales are the devil!
I'm still way slow, but better than nothing and better than dropping it all in a month or two only to get it right back!
