Since I started dieting I find myself jumping on the scale every 5 minutes. I find that when I show a loss (usually in the morning) I can easily stick to the diet, but when it goes up a pound or two (at night) I get really frustrated and want to give up. I think its time to hide the scale. If only I could forget where I put it...

I was like you at first. After a month you will not do this.

Get a friend to hide it for you

Just keep telling yourself weight fluctuates!

I feel the exact same way!! Also, are you having problems with water weight? It actually says I've gained! I've been doing everything right but I think it's all the water. It's so frustrating! I hear it passes though so stick with everything!! Good luck!

BeckyBoo, I love your quote! That's a great one!

I totally understand about the scale. I guess I know that I am not getting a lot of other rewards (other than energy), so getting on the scale and seeing it move is my reward. Of course, seeing it not move (or seeing it go up!) can send me into a bad funk. I am now down to weighing once a day, in the morning. I need to get to just once a week.

Maybe we can hide our scales in a part of the house that is hard to reach? Or put the scale in a closet, so if we have to weigh, we have to take it out first? Mine is just sitting in the floor on the bathroom, so I pass it tons of times a day and always think about just stepping on! If it was in the spare bedroom, I would not think about it as much. Maybe that is the solution.

But I feel your pain! Just remember to drink lots of water (which helps you retain less) and focus on how you feel and how your clothes fit!

I've stuck mine under the bed in the guest bedroom, and the door is closed. I'm hoping I wont think about it if I don't see it because it used to be in the kitchen. So far, so good. BeckyBoo, I think my weight gain might have been because I drank a ton of water (a 24 oz bottle, and also a glass of crystal light) within the hour before I weighted myself. I read somewhere last night that if you drink about two glasses of water, it will immediately increase your weight by a pound. A gallon of water equals just over 8 pounds of weight, supposedly. I'm going to hope this is why I showed a weight gain and try to stay away from the scale for a week. Laurie, I think you should def. put yours in the spare room. It seems to be helping me a great deal.

Lisa

Lisa, I think I'm going to try that tonight. And figure out another way to encourage myself...one that consistently works!

Good for you on moving the scale. In the kitchen? That would make it impossible for me to eat! (so maybe I should move it there! )

I think you are completely right about the water gain. However, it eventually leaves your body, and if you drink a lot, you retain less.

I used to keep mine right smack in front of the refrigerator. Fat lot of good that did

Mine is in the bathroom cabinet. Let me tell you, I feel so much better now that I've hidden it. I'll still weigh in occasionally (right now, I'm thinking monthly), just to make sure something is happening...But I started this journey concerned with getting healthy and active again, and I am. In that sense, I've accomplished my goal.

Since putting up the scale, I've been noticing how I look. A few days after hiding it, I looked in the mirror and noticed how baggy my pants were getting (I'd already noticed them starting to work their way down more than even lowrise jeans normally do ). I've noticed myself pulling up my shorts. I fit into a pair of stretchy size 16 pants I own. I went shopping the other day and I now own a size 16 dress that fits marvellously.

Overall, I feel a lot more accomplished without the scale.

[/QUOTE]Overall, I feel a lot more accomplished without the scale.[/QUOTE]

How true I have been trying to remember the samething. I always wanted to be skinny.People become the slave to the scale when they start to diet, but since this is not a diet but a healthy way of eating we should not have to slave to the dreaded metal beast. For me now it is about being healthy. ok and a little bit about being sexy.

Well, I still weigh daily BUT I switched the scale to metric which is wonderful as I have no idea how much I weigh - just that I'm less than 100!

Seriously, when I do weigh, I do it first thing in the AM, naked and after potty, of course. Then I average the readings for the week because my weight is very variable depending on whether or not I am retaining water. Chinese food can put me up 3-5 pounds overnight!

I only weigh in the mornings, naked and after potty, like Ruth! When I do weigh at night, I do so because I want to keep track of what I ate in the day. I weighed myself last night after being off SB almost all day and knew there was going to be a gain [as I was almost 7 lbs above my low of 197.2]. I purposefully did not weigh this morning.

Hopefully, by the time I get back and weigh Wednesday AM, I will be back below 200!

Anyway, I hid my scale for a bit...

Little Chick, I love what you wrote. And I think you are well on your way to being sexy! I would love to be sexy too, even if my husband is the only one who sees me that way!

I wish I could tell my weight loss in my clothes, but I can hardly tell. A couple of pairs of pants are starting to fall off, but my belly is keeping them up (thankfully, or I'd be giving off more of a show than I want!). The tight ones have stayed pretty tight, though. If the scale didn't say I'd lost 28 to 30 pounds, I would never have guessed! So I'm sticking to the scale for a bit. Weighed in again this morning. We'll see what happens tommorrow, which is official weigh-in day!

Thankfully, I've been able to stop stepping on the scale every five minutes!

BTW, a good friend whom I have not seen in a while asked me if I had lost weight. I told her that I had, but figured no one could tell. She said she really could. : Happy day!