I am thinking I might buy a scale and weigh more often...

Hi Everyone,

I need some other peoples thoughts and points of vew...

I don't own a scale and I weigh once a month... this is buy design so I don't obsess over the numbers and look at everything, pictures, measurements, how my cloths fit...etc.

I am now thinking of buying a scale, so that if I am not losing I can make small adjustments to my eating plan, and not have to wait a month to find out if I am losing...

Right now:

I feel it in my clothes, I see it in my pictures...

I often HOPE I am losing weight as the days and weeks go by.  It is really hard for me to leave it up to chance.  I look in the small mirror in the bathroom and I see some changes, but they don't guarantee I am still losing...  (I also don't own a full length mirror...)

I am thinking of breaking down and buying a scale.  I just don't want to become obsessed with the numbers on it...  and I don't want to weigh daily...  but I can make some small adjustments early if need be...  a month is a long time to get confirmation I am doing ok...  or to let something get out of hand that easily would have been fixed if I had known...

If I could see the changes often enough I would not buy the scale...

But I can't...  I just can't see it.  I see the belly and thighs and...

I know it is a personal choice, however, my mind just won't wrap itself around the answer...

Thanks guys,

Cindy

Hmm...I think this is a personal thing...but I would obsess more about weight if I didn't  own a scale.  I do weigh almost daily- get up, take a pee, hop on the scale, hop in the shower.  It's a routine, lol... but I think if I didn't know the scale was standing still (good in my case) I would obsess about whether I was possibly gaining.  I guess it is whatever will put you more at ease, and for me it is knowing.

Hi Fawn,

Thanks so much sweetie... I appreciate your input...

I just don't know, I have been on both sides and I don't know which is worse...

Your girls are absoluetly adorable!  And you have beautiful eyes...

You are doing amazing and look so good honey,you should be very proud of yourself.

Cindy

Thank you and thank you! 

I think you should just get the scale and weigh weekly...sometimes our eyes can decieve us for sure, but numbers never lie..and they help us stay accountable...

Ok point taken and I am thinking about it...

I want to do it for all of the right reasons...

I don't want it as a cop-out...  I want it to be accountable and make adjustments...  I don't want to obesses...

My gosh can you tell I am struggling with this and still on the fence...

Have a good one,

Cindy

My scale is my best friend, weight-wise, anyway. Before surgery, I invested several hundred dollars in a hospital-quality, calibrated scale, accurate to 1/10 of a kilo (about 3 ounces). Weighing on it every day (always in the morning, naked, after I pee and before I eat or drink) helped me relax about fluctuations (since I knew it was accurate, I could just sort of dispassionately observe how my weight bounced up and down in a certain range during the weight loss phase. Now that I am at goal, it keeps me honest and is my Early Warning System if I start to stray off the semi-straight and middling-narrow path I need to stay on to maintain. And finally, it was, for me, exactly the kind of evidence you want. Body perception is unreliable, at least for me, and I still see only the thighs, etc. (not the belly so much since the TT) and often still see myself as fat, even though that is objectively not true, so my scale keeps me from turning into a complete freakozoid.

BTW Cindy, one of these days, I would love to hear what life is like in Belize (as far as communications/Internet/transportation, cost of living, safety, etc.). I've long had a fantasy about moving to a tropical island (preferably one that is still relatively inexpensive).

Ok I see what you mean, the scale will really tell me where I am even if the mirror does not...

The next part of my answer some may not understand, however, since you want to know about Belize (in another thread) I am going to try this on you.

In my past life, if I wanted a scale, I would buy one, and I would buy a good one...

In my new and improved life.  Rat race gone, keeping up with the Jone's gone, less is more attitude, back to the basics lifestyle...  I am having a hard time justifying the purchase of a scale, let alone a good one...  does that make any sense? 

As I get older, life is so much simpler and so much more complicated...  my reasons for doing things have changed and I like it...

I LOVE Belize and would be happy to talk all about it with you anytime...  I live on the beautiful tropical island of Caye Caulker and I am a Real Estate Agent.  We own our own business, check out our webiste so you can see just how beautiful it is here...   www.CayeCaulkerForSale.com

Anyway, thanks for your input, I really do appreciate it!  AND I think you should where that tunic out in public sometime...  you look gorgeous and very sexy in it... lol

Cindy

Buy the scale and only weigh on Mondays, buy a full length mirror this way you can check yourself out.

I love your answer, it is black and white for you.  Do this and it wil be done!

BTW the last time I looked in a full length mirror I wanted to cry, I am a bit surprised I didn't.  Man I was shocked at how fat I looked...  it hurt really bad...  however, that is not why I don't own one...  I will think about the mirror...  I hate spending money now... it's a long story...

Thanks friend,

Cindy

Hi Cindy,

Well, you know there aren't any full length mirrors in my house either!!!  Same reasons.  But there is a scale.  It's individual to each of us how we best deal with this issue.  I need the scale to reassure myself I'm doing the right things, and to correct if it is going the wrong direction.  I spent a lotta years with no scale in my house, couldn't stand the thought of what it would say.  But I am "converted" these days.  I like watching it go down, albeit, not fast enough.  I am on the crazy side of things, weigh everyday.  But it does help me to know if I'm retaining too much fluid and make adjustments in that way too.  So for me it works. 

It sounds to me if you are sorta "obsessing" anyway.  It is clear that you are thinking about your weight a lot.  It is bothering you not knowing, and will bother you to know.  Oh the conundrum you have going on!!!   I think you'll do better with one.  Either way, we think about our weight constantly, its just part of the deal on this crazy journey.

One thing I can tell you....you are gorgeous inside and out, and a scale will not change that one iota.  Blessings to you!!!