Down with evil scales!!!

I am full of thoughts today. Musta been the ganja…****ed! I keed!)

 

Copy the below text and keep it with you, preferably near where you keep the scale. That way if you step on and it doesn’t say what you want it to say you can remember this.

 

What I know

 

If I am following the guidelines set before me by my surgeon, I can say the following with near total confidence:

 

1. I am NOT overeating – so if I have not lost much there may be some other reason but it’s not because I am overeating
2. I am NOT gaining fat – it takes 3500 calories above what I need to do that and since I journal my food/add my calories/pay attention to what I eat, I know that is not happening
3. It is NOT my body’s natural inclination to let go of fat – in fact, it was designed to do the opposite. So I know it will fight me. I must be patient, take good care of myself and continue to do what I know is right.
4. The scale is NOT my only measure of success – I’ve gone down X clothing sizes, I don’t have to take so many meds, I have more energy, and people tell me all the time how great I look. The scale is just one tool of measuring my progress.
5. I must NOT forget why I did this – no matter what the scale says, I have a goal. I have to keep focused on that because there will come a time when the scale rightfully should stop moving and I want my identity to be about more than what the scale says

 

 

Yep, I tell myself that every day when I get on that damn thing!  Why, oh why do I do it?  I know I'm not overeating, jeesh been there, done that!

Hide the scale for now. You are doing everything right.

Your correct about reviewing your life: medications, clothing size, how you feel, exercising, but really ....how you are feeling???

I'd like to put my scale through a plate glass window right about now!

I'm up 2 lb this week for no reason. No salt, calories are normal, no huge changes in exercise *sigh* good times!

Hey me too!  Maybe it was the harvest full moon?

Down with the scale, I say. Sma****!  Throw it out the window and stomp it to pieces! There is no punishment too terrible for the evil scale, I say. *She snarls with a dangerous glint in her eye.*

Let's throw a scale trashing party and romp around with all our flab like those women in Mama Mia (love that flick!). 

Julianne

(Oh, dear, Julianne just got a little overexcited and made a loud WHOOP! sound and a couple of people peered in her office door giving her perplexed glances.  Must put nose to grindstone and ignore seriously distracting website.) 

<<(Oh, dear, Julianne just got a little overexcited and made a loud WHOOP! sound and a couple of people peered in her office door giving her perplexed glances.  Must put nose to grindstone and ignore seriously distracting website.)  >>

And after reading your post and laughing, my team just announced that I'm having too much fun over here to be working, and that if I don't get crabby, they'll have to give me more meetings to attend.

I do not own a set of scales.   I didnt before surgery and havent since.  I did NOT want to become OCD about the number on the scale.  Instead I focus my attention on my nutrition, my vitamins, exercise and my clothing will tell me when I am loosing weight, just as they have told me that even though I'm in the same size that I have put on a couple of pounds with the medical issues I have had.  Even without the scales YOU WILL KNOW when you loose or when you gain.   I feel it's impossible to "be patient" about our weight loss if you are getting on a scale everyday.  

Thats just my opinion. 

Nik, I love the list - but it doesn't work on my psyche. My mind tells me that I should have lost a hella lot more weight by now! 

I had my DH hide the scale - I only see it on the first day of the month now.

When I read about other WLS post-ops who are going through clothing sizes so quickly that they have to shop at Goodwill to stay clothed - it's damned depressing.

I put all my winter clothing away right before my surgery. I got it down from the attic a few days ago and I'm finding that while some things are loose, they are by no means "falling off of me".

Sorry for the bad mood, I'm not having a sunshine and rainbow post-op day today....

I so feel you on this I had to lose like fifty pounds to actually go down sizes.  I am losing but it is extremely slow.  I am trying my best to stick to the program but I do fall off the wagon more than I would like.  So back to the old drawing board I know I can do this.