Vacation--do I pack my scale?

The family and I are headed to Southern CA for a week with my inlaws.  They, of course, do own a scale.  It's just not MY scale and I'm not sure how it compares to mine.  Of course, even if I do take my scale, it's a different floor, etc. 

I'm leaning toward leaving it at home.  This means I will not have an official weigh-in from Saturday through the next Sunday.  Which would probably be good for me since I'm one of those obsessively weigh myself every morning people.  And I can still do that at their house, just not track it because different scale, etc.

Thoughts?  I do not think the presence or absence of my scale will change how I eat, and I will continue to track on mfp.  Unless someone has a reason I should take it, I think it will stay home.

Leave it home.  Stick with your program.  If you're doing what you're suppose to do, it's all good.  Enjoy your vacation!

I say leave it at home.  If you are really worried about it you could weigh on their scale when you get there with the expectation it will be different.  Then if you want you can weigh while you are there and compare it to the initial weigh in with their scales.  But I'm not even sure I'd do that.  I might be tempted to go a week without weighing.  Just my two ounces...I mean cents.

Two things I would have to say to you.  The first is leave it home and don't use the inlaws either.  You have no reason to jump on the scale every day.  Second of all why would you weigh yourself every day.  You are becoming or have become a slave to the scale.  It is so much more satisfying to check every week or two and see that you are down let's say 5 pounds.  You also are not seeing the little ups and downs you might on a daily basis.

I weighed myself every week or two and only ever saw a loss the whole time for about 6 months until I reached a weight where I wanted to switch into maintenance mode.  Now that I am in maintenance mode weigh-ins are still the same ... every week to two weeks.  Even though I am actually at a weird point where I believe I lost too much weight and actually want to gain back 8 pounds I still am not fanatical about weigh ins.  As a matter of fact as I am writing this I realize that I haven't weighed myself for almost 2 and a half weeks.  I do need to check in only to see what is going on.  I have three possibilities obviously.  I haven't gained anything which is fine with me.  I have gained something which is fine with me as I know I couldn't gain 8 pounds in that timeframe based on my food tracking and the fact that I haven't been able to increase calories to a point where I have seen any weight gain in over two months.  And the third thing is that I could have lost some weight which wouldn't be bad as I am not at a dangerous spot where it would be unhealthy to loose a little more.  I would say another 10 pounds down would be a place where I would start having some serious concern for being too low.  Right now my body fat percentage (not the fake BMI number) is about 14% which is healthy but getting a bit low for me.  

Anyway, sorry for the long off track part of my response.  My suggestion is that you stop being a slave to your scale.  Go on vacation and enjoy.  In a week's time if you are sticking to plan nothing bad could happen.  Don't worry about weighing yourself for a week.  You will be happily surprised when you get home and see that you have lost 5 pounds or some such number.  It is so much more satisfying to see your weight loss in chunks like this rather than the ounces or pound per day you might be seeing now.

I don't know if I'm a slave to it.  It's more like a security blanket.  I don't freak about about gains or losses (ok, the week-long stall was a bit annoying but I knew to expect it so it wasn't TOO bad).  It's more like a science experiment.  I'm trying to see if I can identify any patterns (when my body loses more/less, if I lose then stay the same, etc.  So far, I have identified NO patterns other than the scale always goes down eventually.  I always figured that when the loss slowed, I'd switch back to once a week.

I do see your point, and I'm glad that works for you, but I don't think I'll ever go 2 weeks without stepping on a scale.  And my husband has strict orders that if I do become obsessed he is to hide it from me and only let me see it once a week.

Skip the scale.  Have fun, stick to your plan.  Then see the results when you get home.  And DO NOT get on your inlaws scale -- you know it will not be the same as yours, and you'll be bummed if you see a gain, and if you see a bigger loss there than you do when you get home, you'll be bummed.  So I don't see how any good can come of weighing while you are there.

This is the beginning of a new lifestyle for you -- so unless you think that taking your scale everywhere for the rest of your life is part of that lifestyle, leave it behind and enjoy your vacation!

Congrats on your success so far!

LOL, thanks.  No, I do not want to lug it with me everywhere I go for the rest of my life.  And good point about their scale.  I'll just stay off it and do my thing. :)

My vote would be to leave it at home.  But as for your food scale?  That's a different story!  I think having access to that for all 'at home' meals is invaluable.  

Your faithful and trusted scale will be there when you get home.  Work you life plan and enjoy!!!!