Re: Re: the scale is in the garbage

[Guest guest]

Hello,

Thanks for encouraging me. It is extremely destabilizing. I almost bought a new one today but did not. I find it hard to hang in there and just eat and feel my hunger and stop when I am full. I overdid it today. We were eating out and the service was so slow, I got ravenous and ate everything. One meal at the time, tonight will be better.

You take careNat

Subject: Re: the scale is in the garbageTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Received: Wednesday, August 27, 2008, 10:57 AM

That is awesome. I have yet to make that step even though I know that the scale is my anchor. While I think that it's preventing me from aimlessly floating around (a diet mentality I think) it's also preventing me from getting anywhere - including where I need to be. I hope that makes sense. >> Hello,> > A couple days ago, I throught the scale in the garbage. It is a little > odd, I get up and I usually weight myself first thing in the morning. > Now there is an empty space in the bathroom...I feel a little insecure, > trying to feel my body, it is bigger or smaller or the same? It`s like > I have lost a friend (I know it is sounding silly.) I tried a old

pair > of pants and they could`nt button a month ago and now they are thight > but button. I don`t want to use those pants as a scale either. > I am also trying not to count calories in my head - I`ve been doing > that - and just feel my hunger and honor it with food I like. I have > such a long way to go...> I did walk today because my body felt like moving. Not because of any > other reason.> IE is hard. But I take it one day at the time, and I try to accept to > be imperfect, which is so hard for me.> Thanks for listening.> Nat>

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[Guest guest]

That's so crazy! Counselor? I think I'm going to label my scale "Pure Evil!" I agree with all of the reasons that the members on this site have given for getting rid of the scale. Logically I get it! I know it's not my friend, but why can't I take the leap and throw it out? I'm honestly afraid that not knowing will set me off again and that I'll spin out of control again. I really want to stick with IE.

Kari

IEing since August 21 2008

Subject: Re: the scale is in the garbageTo: IntuitiveEating_Support Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 9:16 AM

I was walking past a recycle bin the other day and saw a box for a scale. The name of the scale was the "Health-o-Meter" ...like a scale can give you a true measure of your "health." Then I noticed that the scale in my mom's bathroom is labeled "The Counselor".. .what kind of message does that send? It's understandable how transitioning off of the scale can be unbalancing. ..especially given the personal and cultural value we give to this object as shown by names like "Health-o-meter" and "The Counselor."Latoya

[Guest guest]

Kari:

I haven't thrown my scale away, but I have put it away, so that it is not convenient to get to or see. So if there is a time that I really think that I need to know, I could use it, but so far in the past year, I have gotten on it 2 times. I was weighed at the Dr. yesterday and she didn't say what my weight was and I didn't look, but I have been plagued by thoughts of checking on my scale since. However, I " play the tape " of how the numbers affect me, so I choose not to get it out. On the positive side, today I have shorts on that I couldn't fit into at the beginning of the summer!

Sue

IEing since August 2007

That's so crazy! Counselor? I think I'm going to label my scale " Pure Evil! " I agree with all of the reasons that the members on this site have given for getting rid of the scale. Logically I get it! I know it's not my friend, but why can't I take the leap and throw it out? I'm honestly afraid that not knowing will set me off again and that I'll spin out of control again. I really want to stick with IE.

Kari

IEing since August 21 2008

Subject: Re: the scale is in the garbageTo: IntuitiveEating_Support

Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 9:16 AM

I was walking past a recycle bin the other day and saw a box for a scale. The name of the scale was the " Health-o-Meter " ...like a scale can give you a true measure of your " health. " Then I noticed that the

scale in my mom's bathroom is labeled " The Counselor " .. .what kind of message does that send? It's understandable how transitioning off of the scale can be unbalancing. ..especially given the personal and

cultural value we give to this object as shown by names like " Health-o-meter " and " The Counselor. " Latoya