Woo hoo, Buffy! You’re on your way!
Hey Peachie! Welcome to Scale Addicts Anonymous!
I weigh myself every day too and have tried to break the habit but can’t … so I figure I'm doing OK if I can keep it to just once a day.
Seriously, though, I have to weigh myself every day in order to keep myself in line because I
didn’t weigh myself for so many years (and refused to believe what the scale said when I did — I mean, how crazy is that? but I’d get off and say
“that can’t be right; I can’t weigh that much; it must be broken" and go eat something to get over it). Now if I eat things that I shouldn't, they
always show up on the scale the next day — there’s no “free lunch” for this chickie!
So weighing myself every day keeps me in line cuz I
hate hate hate seeing that number go up.
If I relied on how clothes fit, I could do too much damage before it would show up. And I hear you on the plus size clothes — I had to lose 35# before I dropped even one size (which shows how much I was squeezing myself into my 22s at that point
). All of my shoes ended up too big too! But I’ll still clomp around in some of the fancy ones that never got much use and are too nice to get rid of now — DH is used to taking me out to dinner and having my shoes fall off. The only clothes that I own now that are more than two years old are socks and the one pair of size 22 pants in my avatar photo (with matching pink tent T-shirt) that I’ll never get rid of.
New bras? That’s a whole ‘nother (depressing) story ...