We need to do what works for us. If weighing causes to much stress, there are other ways to measure, progress.
Clothing sizes, improving health, getting off meds, behavior changes, positive emotional changes, ditching the drive through, ditching processed food, learning to love yourself and treat yourself well! Lots of ways to measure success!
The scale is only "ONE" way to measure. All it really does is define your body in relationship to gravity.
So, if you have lost 3 sizes, got off your high blood pressure meds, ditched processed junk, and can now enjoy a walk,etc, and so on! You have succeeded!
I have weighed weekly (most of my adult/dieting life), daily, monthly, and not at all.
I find that when I don't weigh at all, it's much easier for the weight to creep back on without me noticing until it's "too late" (emotionally overwhelming for me to tackle without re-motivating myself for "another diet").
I find that when I weigh daily, I enjoy seeing the ups and downs. However, while intellectually I know that it's not fat moving that quickly but rather water, hormones, exercise, and the food itself influencing the number, I still find myself obsessing over it and designating myself "good" or "bad" depending on the scale each day.
Currently, I'm weighing monthly. I am trying to adher to the idea that the number on the scale is not the goal. The goal is to work my plan as best I can today. And then tomorrow to do it again. As I achieve those daily goals, the scale WILL record a difference at the end of the month. THe scale then becomes the record, not the goal itself. At least in theory. It also helps that I'm in a weight-loss thread on another board where people weigh in and post on the first of the month. It got me back into weighing and watching what I eat when nothing else was getting me to that point. So monthly weighing for now, and I'll see how it goes for the year.
That being said, long-term monthly or weekly weighing is probably necessary for anyone who has been chronically overweight and wants to make sure their weight is staying even or diminishing and not regaining.
Yep. I haven't stepped on a scale for over 15 years. I really don't need to know anything other than how I feel and how my clothes fit. Anything else is just an unnecessary mind trip. I even tell my doctor I don't want to know and I turn the opposite direction when I get weighed. As long as I'm not over or underweight, he doesn't mind honoring my request to not know.
Yep. I haven't stepped on a scale for over 15 years. I really don't need to know anything other than how I feel and how my clothes fit. Anything else is just an unnecessary mind trip. I even tell my doctor I don't want to know and I turn the opposite direction when I get weighed. As long as I'm not over or underweight, he doesn't mind honoring my request to not know.
Yes! This is how I feel exactly. I was toying with the idea of weighing myself when I next visit my mom, but I won't do it. I don't need to know.
Love reading peoples thoughts and experiences, really fascinating how people work differently!
Me, I weigh everyday (okay, I tryb to but always forget. So maybe 3-4 times a week instead XD). It helps me, and I need too because my weight gain wasn't primarily caused by emotions of negativity but simple ignorance of what I put in my mouth. I also grew up watching a mother struggle with an eating disorder,looking for healing. I know what negativty does, over controlling or hyper focusing on dumb numbers. I don't want it. It's why I've worked to become an Intuitive Eater and its been a great few months of maintaining, eating what I want and eating healthy!
But, I do have to weigh. I'd say I'm not anxious about the numbers though, I don't have that negativity or harmful obsession. I call myself 130 pounds, but the past two weeks I saw everything between 127-134, and I shrug it off. I'm still 130 pounds, that's all fluctuation...I weigh to see if I'm getting anywhere over 140 pounds. Then I know that I haven't been listening to my body and feeding it right.
The one thing I do hate about weighing, and why I love your approach to not weighing at all, is that everyone around me seems obsessed with the numbers. How much, how much, how much...obviously I know numbers but I'm learning its best not to say. Just because I can handle the numbers, doesn't mean it doesn't have a bad influence on those around me :/
Last edited by SenseAndSensibility; 10-08-2015 at 01:07 PM.
