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i have been onSBD for 16 days now. i have lost about 6 lbs total. i cant seem to not get on the scales every day. i am obsessed! i think everyday..."this will be the day, they go down" and then it isn't! i lost most of the 6 lbs in the first 4 days. i know i am losing somehow, cause my clothes are looser, and i am wearing things that were too snug 2 weeks ago.
i get on the scales for a motivation boost (hopefully) every morning, but i am afraid i am gonna wind up discouraged. funny, i avoid them like the plague when i am eating like crazy! :twisted:
i know the best advice would be to move them to another room and i probably will, and then weigh weekly. i guess i am just wondering....
Can anybody relate!!!!! :?: |
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Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:57 pm |
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| DeeDeeKay60
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I relate! I've only been on the diet one week and I have been on the scale every day. This has caused me a great deal of emotional stress because I keep going up and down. I told myself after today (the "official" weigh in) that I would not get on the scale for another week. But I know tomorrow morning I will be right back on it.
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Thu Apr 08, 2004 1:38 pm |
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| Windstar
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Well I weigh every morning but I don't think I'm obssessed. I also weigh several times throughout the day on many days but I do that because I think it's interesting to see how weight flucuates throughout the day. Believe me, if I see a 5 lb. gain during the day, I don't really think I've gained them! LOL I just think it's interesting.
About every three days if I see a consistent gain in the morning weigh-in then I do start to wonder if I've actually gained, if my period's coming on, or if something else is going on. |
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Thu Apr 08, 2004 1:54 pm |
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| DeeDeeKay60
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| Windstar, the difference between what I do and what you do (and why I would call mine an obsession) is that what is on the scale affects how I feel about me and the diet. I'll get over that part of it eventually. |
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Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:09 pm |
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| oldpjams
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| i know better but i still weigh every morning. here's something funny: i can take my weight when i get up, go downstairs have three cups of coffee, an omlette, ham, and a V8. when i come back upstairs my weight is the same. makes you wonder. |
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Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:14 pm |
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| Len
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| If you must weigh yourself every day, do it at the same time every day. I found that drinking one cup of coffee made the weight "go up" a pound--but it isn't really up, it is the additional fluid in the body. I found that if the scale said I hadn't lost that day, I was so depressed all day that I ignored the fact that I was a clothing size smaller! Now I don't weigh myself every day. My clothes are getting bigger, so I must be getting smaller, and who cares what the number is?! I do weigh myself if I have any little "cheats" during the day before, so I shock myself back to being careful. Remember that you are getting slimmer in a healthy way, and that is the important thing. |
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Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:37 pm |
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| onthelose
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well, i actually forgot to weigh today. (out of town company, my morning was off) i went down and drank 2 cups of coffee and had some quiche w/ a piece of turkey bacon. when i went upstairs to get dressed, i realized i hadnt done my obsessive act of weighing. so, of course, i did. and ya know what? it went down another lb! go figure! on the day i didnt weigh until after i put food in, i finally see a loss! just goes to show...you never know!!!!
SBD 3/23
189/183/140 |
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Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:57 pm |
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| Fishplate
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| Give the scales to a good friend and have them lock the darned things away for a while. If "scales discouragement" affects your ability to see other measures of success AND affects how you view the WOE, daily weighing isn't worth it. |
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Fri Apr 09, 2004 11:25 pm |
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| SkinnyMarie
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here's my 2 cents on the scale issue:
for me, when i weigh myself, and i lose weight, I'm proud. and to reward myself, I eat.
When i gain weight, or maintain, I'm sad so to make me happy, I eat. See the problem?
One idea I tried, since I got to the point that I had to stand on the scale every day, and I had to be naked, for accuracy pruposes, is I put my scale in the living room. Can't really justify being naked in the livingroom. Especially with roommates. Then, if I want to weigh myself, it's a process to do it, and I can usually talk myself out of it by the time I think the effort through of moving it to the bathroom and avoiding roommates. But I do still weigh myself every week... and before I step on I give myself a little lecture on how my weight is not a measure of my worth. But I think someday, I should just throw it out... I just can't do it yet... :) |
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Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:33 am |
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