Weighing (was: Scared to give up the scale)

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Interesting that this topic should come up just now. I weighed myself last on Jan 2nd, and before that was Jan 2nd of '10. And I do that just to see that yes, my body is such a finely regulated machine that over a year it remained at a nearly exact weight. But for the last couple weeks I have been *dying* to weigh myself. It's very hard to resist!

The problem is that if I have lost weight (which I suspect I may have, hence the temptation), and I see that on the scale, I know from experience it will throw me into a downward spiral of wanting to lose more weight, wondering how I can 'make' it happen, etc, and then the emotional roller coaster that follows. And I don't want that! And honestly, I have probably not lost much weight, if any at all...I just noticed that some clothes aren't fitting quite the same.

This is all exacerbated by the phenomenon of literally 75% of the people I know currently being on a diet, as if dieting is like paying taxes or working for a paycheck. I get so sick and tired of seeing and hearing the diet talk!

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