[southernbelle102]

I am getting rid of my scale. I will weigh occasionally at the doctor's office but I feel like it is better for me not to obsess over the #s anymore. I think it isn't good that the # on the scale can dictate my mood for a certain day. I am breaking free of the #s. It is a very scary but liberating experience!!

[niknaknat]

SNAP!! I decided that the scales were my enemy last year when I was trying to lose weight!! I would get on them every day...it became almost a compulsion and I couldn't stop myself. Eventually I fell off my diet because I just thought I wasn't getting anywhere...maybe if I had weighed myself a little less I wouldn't have been so dis-heartened. I don't own a set of scales now..they went in the bin when I decided to try again a few weeks ago, I am now walking the mile or so to my cousins house every monday to get weighed....I find it gives me something to work towards as she is also trying to lose weight and we get weighed on the same day Good luck with your journey xxxx

[lin43]

I refuse to weigh myself anymore. I know that daily or weekly weighing works for others, but it just gives me unnecessary stress. I used to literally have a sick feeling in my stomach when I was about to step on the scale. Obviously, I was giving it too much power. I am trying to make this way of eating about getting healthier with a side bonus of being able to fit into a "new" wardrobe (aka, the clothes that stopped fitting me 40 lbs. ago).

I do think it is important to be truthful to ourselves, though. I sometimes used to avoid the scale when I gave up on a "diet" and didn't want to face that reality. If you don't believe you'll do that (I don't believe I will), then I say, "Give that scale away!"

[AshleyLaurent]

Yay! Once I understood the fluctuations of the scale. I basically started to get over every little weight change. Now I just weigh myself every week.

Clothes are much better for seeing progress than a scale is. Good luck!

[Lovely]

Hurray! Good for you taking back the power.

[Cali Doll]

Congrats!! The scale totally dictates my mood for the day. I totally understand your feelings.