Re: Re: Should I throw out my scale?

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I don't even go near my scale I have one but I only weigh myself when I go to the doctor because I am in remission from a hyperactive thyroid and very rapid weight loss is one of the things that helps them determine if my disease has come back or not. Last time I weighed I told the nurse not to tell me which was a very big step for me so in short I only get weighed once a year when I go to the doctor. It is up to you just think about it and do what feels right to you. You could hide it some place you don't see it or you could give it away. I am sure that this time of year there are plenty of people looking for scales. Eva

Hi . Your question is one that is asked often. If you want to have a LOT of feedback on it, just do a search through the Messages at the group site and you will get a wide range of thoughts on this matter. Most people seem to do better without having a scale ever present as a constant reminder. Some simply put it into a closet or garage while a few delighted in tossing it out, donating it to charity or even taking a hammer to it! I haven't weighed myself in years and my scale gathers dust where it always sat - behind my toilet (fitting place?!? lol). Weighing never preventing me gaining and I came to see that what/who I am isn't reflected in a number. I have other feedback mechanisms to let me know if I am comfortable in my body or not. (clothes fit, can tie shoes, climb stairs etc.) The worst thing that weighing myself did to me was to heap guilt and shame onto my already overburdened body. That hadn't helped before so I decided to not continue it. Let us know how this goes for you.BEST to you, KatchaIEing since March 2007>> Hello everyone,> > I joined a little while ago and have been reading. I thought I would join in with a question: Should I throw out my scale?> > I still step on it every few days. I try to observe the number on it and not let it effect me. I'm not sure how much the number is bothering me. I do know that I still have the old mentality that I need to know so that I don't gain too much.> > There was something Ellie said in her post, "Bad thing". "Two pounds over my wake-up call is 12 pounds over the weight I like and 17 pounds over my best athletic weight." A light bulb went off that if I weigh myself now, at my highest weight and do end up getting to a healthier weight/a natural, binge-free weight, the weighing myself may never stop. The obsessing could get even worse because I'll be trying to prevent a gain.> > Any thoughts? Should I just throw it out now? I'm scared to do it because I'm afraid to stop monitoring. What if I gain even more weight?> > Thank you,> > >------------------------------------

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I don't even go near my scale I have one but I only weigh myself when I go to the doctor because I am in remission from a hyperactive thyroid and very rapid weight loss is one of the things that helps them determine if my disease has come back or not. Last time I weighed I told the nurse not to tell me which was a very big step for me so in short I only get weighed once a year when I go to the doctor. It is up to you just think about it and do what feels right to you. You could hide it some place you don't see it or you could give it away. I am sure that this time of year there are plenty of people looking for scales. Eva

Hi . Your question is one that is asked often. If you want to have a LOT of feedback on it, just do a search through the Messages at the group site and you will get a wide range of thoughts on this matter. Most people seem to do better without having a scale ever present as a constant reminder. Some simply put it into a closet or garage while a few delighted in tossing it out, donating it to charity or even taking a hammer to it! I haven't weighed myself in years and my scale gathers dust where it always sat - behind my toilet (fitting place?!? lol). Weighing never preventing me gaining and I came to see that what/who I am isn't reflected in a number. I have other feedback mechanisms to let me know if I am comfortable in my body or not. (clothes fit, can tie shoes, climb stairs etc.) The worst thing that weighing myself did to me was to heap guilt and shame onto my already overburdened body. That hadn't helped before so I decided to not continue it. Let us know how this goes for you.BEST to you, KatchaIEing since March 2007>> Hello everyone,> > I joined a little while ago and have been reading. I thought I would join in with a question: Should I throw out my scale?> > I still step on it every few days. I try to observe the number on it and not let it effect me. I'm not sure how much the number is bothering me. I do know that I still have the old mentality that I need to know so that I don't gain too much.> > There was something Ellie said in her post, "Bad thing". "Two pounds over my wake-up call is 12 pounds over the weight I like and 17 pounds over my best athletic weight." A light bulb went off that if I weigh myself now, at my highest weight and do end up getting to a healthier weight/a natural, binge-free weight, the weighing myself may never stop. The obsessing could get even worse because I'll be trying to prevent a gain.> > Any thoughts? Should I just throw it out now? I'm scared to do it because I'm afraid to stop monitoring. What if I gain even more weight?> > Thank you,> > >------------------------------------

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I don't even go near my scale I have one but I only weigh myself when I go to the doctor because I am in remission from a hyperactive thyroid and very rapid weight loss is one of the things that helps them determine if my disease has come back or not. Last time I weighed I told the nurse not to tell me which was a very big step for me so in short I only get weighed once a year when I go to the doctor. It is up to you just think about it and do what feels right to you. You could hide it some place you don't see it or you could give it away. I am sure that this time of year there are plenty of people looking for scales. Eva

Hi . Your question is one that is asked often. If you want to have a LOT of feedback on it, just do a search through the Messages at the group site and you will get a wide range of thoughts on this matter. Most people seem to do better without having a scale ever present as a constant reminder. Some simply put it into a closet or garage while a few delighted in tossing it out, donating it to charity or even taking a hammer to it! I haven't weighed myself in years and my scale gathers dust where it always sat - behind my toilet (fitting place?!? lol). Weighing never preventing me gaining and I came to see that what/who I am isn't reflected in a number. I have other feedback mechanisms to let me know if I am comfortable in my body or not. (clothes fit, can tie shoes, climb stairs etc.) The worst thing that weighing myself did to me was to heap guilt and shame onto my already overburdened body. That hadn't helped before so I decided to not continue it. Let us know how this goes for you.BEST to you, KatchaIEing since March 2007>> Hello everyone,> > I joined a little while ago and have been reading. I thought I would join in with a question: Should I throw out my scale?> > I still step on it every few days. I try to observe the number on it and not let it effect me. I'm not sure how much the number is bothering me. I do know that I still have the old mentality that I need to know so that I don't gain too much.> > There was something Ellie said in her post, "Bad thing". "Two pounds over my wake-up call is 12 pounds over the weight I like and 17 pounds over my best athletic weight." A light bulb went off that if I weigh myself now, at my highest weight and do end up getting to a healthier weight/a natural, binge-free weight, the weighing myself may never stop. The obsessing could get even worse because I'll be trying to prevent a gain.> > Any thoughts? Should I just throw it out now? I'm scared to do it because I'm afraid to stop monitoring. What if I gain even more weight?> > Thank you,> > >------------------------------------

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, good for you!  You can also donate it to the Goodwill store if you have one near you.  My road block, if you can call it that, is that I did run into the health issues and the doctors told me to I needed to lose weight.  It really through a monkey wrench in my confidence to IE but I am working my way through.  So if you do run into that kind of a situation, know that we are here for you and let us help you get through it.  I just remembered that yo-yo dieting is much more unhealthy than other conditions and stressing about it only makes the whole body more ill.  (That was a reminder to myself).  Sandy

 

Thank you for the responses, everyone!

, good point. I won't get rid of the diet mentality at this point without giving up on weighing myself, at least for now.

Barbra, thank you! " What are you going to do then? Go back on a " diet " ? " No, no, NO! I definitely don't want to go back on a diet. I started this journey in April 2011 and promised myself I would never go back on a diet! Unless I end up with health problems that causes a doctor to say I need to *adjust* my diet in some way - i.e. heart disease, diabetes, etc... I won't do it for the purpose of trying to lose weight. Thank you for writing that; excellent point!

Katcha, I like the idea of taking a hammer to the scale. Hehe, had not thought of that!

Paddy, good questions. Monitoring does not make me healthier or happier. The scale will not help me if I gain more weight. Somewhere in the back of my head, the idea was to restrict if I did gain more weight. But I did promise myself I would never diet again and included in my reasons is the fact that dieting again will cause me to gain weight. No question. I am NOT in that 6-20% (whatever the true percentage is) who will be successful long-term with dieting. I gave up dieting also because I hate it. The " eat, repent, repeat cycle " brings me down. I'm done.

My decision after reading your responses and through a few old posts about tossing the scale is to do it. I'm going to ask around and see if anyone wants it and if not, I will chuck it. Yay!

Thanks again, everyone!!

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> Hello everyone,

>

> I joined a little while ago and have been reading. I thought I would join in with a question: Should I throw out my scale?

>

> I still step on it every few days. I try to observe the number on it and not let it effect me. I'm not sure how much the number is bothering me. I do know that I still have the old mentality that I need to know so that I don't gain too much.

>

> There was something Ellie said in her post, " Bad thing " . " Two pounds over my wake-up call is 12 pounds over the weight I like and 17 pounds over my best athletic weight. " A light bulb went off that if I weigh myself now, at my highest weight and do end up getting to a healthier weight/a natural, binge-free weight, the weighing myself may never stop. The obsessing could get even worse because I'll be trying to prevent a gain.

>

> Any thoughts? Should I just throw it out now? I'm scared to do it because I'm afraid to stop monitoring. What if I gain even more weight?

>

> Thank you,

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

, good for you!  You can also donate it to the Goodwill store if you have one near you.  My road block, if you can call it that, is that I did run into the health issues and the doctors told me to I needed to lose weight.  It really through a monkey wrench in my confidence to IE but I am working my way through.  So if you do run into that kind of a situation, know that we are here for you and let us help you get through it.  I just remembered that yo-yo dieting is much more unhealthy than other conditions and stressing about it only makes the whole body more ill.  (That was a reminder to myself).  Sandy

 

Thank you for the responses, everyone!

, good point. I won't get rid of the diet mentality at this point without giving up on weighing myself, at least for now.

Barbra, thank you! " What are you going to do then? Go back on a " diet " ? " No, no, NO! I definitely don't want to go back on a diet. I started this journey in April 2011 and promised myself I would never go back on a diet! Unless I end up with health problems that causes a doctor to say I need to *adjust* my diet in some way - i.e. heart disease, diabetes, etc... I won't do it for the purpose of trying to lose weight. Thank you for writing that; excellent point!

Katcha, I like the idea of taking a hammer to the scale. Hehe, had not thought of that!

Paddy, good questions. Monitoring does not make me healthier or happier. The scale will not help me if I gain more weight. Somewhere in the back of my head, the idea was to restrict if I did gain more weight. But I did promise myself I would never diet again and included in my reasons is the fact that dieting again will cause me to gain weight. No question. I am NOT in that 6-20% (whatever the true percentage is) who will be successful long-term with dieting. I gave up dieting also because I hate it. The " eat, repent, repeat cycle " brings me down. I'm done.

My decision after reading your responses and through a few old posts about tossing the scale is to do it. I'm going to ask around and see if anyone wants it and if not, I will chuck it. Yay!

Thanks again, everyone!!

>

> Hello everyone,

>

> I joined a little while ago and have been reading. I thought I would join in with a question: Should I throw out my scale?

>

> I still step on it every few days. I try to observe the number on it and not let it effect me. I'm not sure how much the number is bothering me. I do know that I still have the old mentality that I need to know so that I don't gain too much.

>

> There was something Ellie said in her post, " Bad thing " . " Two pounds over my wake-up call is 12 pounds over the weight I like and 17 pounds over my best athletic weight. " A light bulb went off that if I weigh myself now, at my highest weight and do end up getting to a healthier weight/a natural, binge-free weight, the weighing myself may never stop. The obsessing could get even worse because I'll be trying to prevent a gain.

>

> Any thoughts? Should I just throw it out now? I'm scared to do it because I'm afraid to stop monitoring. What if I gain even more weight?

>

> Thank you,

>

>

>

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way to go !

 

, good for you!  You can also donate it to the Goodwill store if you have one near you.  My road block, if you can call it that, is that I did run into the health issues and the doctors told me to I needed to lose weight.  It really through a monkey wrench in my confidence to IE but I am working my way through.  So if you do run into that kind of a situation, know that we are here for you and let us help you get through it.  I just remembered that yo-yo dieting is much more unhealthy than other conditions and stressing about it only makes the whole body more ill.  (That was a reminder to myself).  Sandy

 

Thank you for the responses, everyone!

, good point. I won't get rid of the diet mentality at this point without giving up on weighing myself, at least for now.

Barbra, thank you! " What are you going to do then? Go back on a " diet " ? " No, no, NO! I definitely don't want to go back on a diet. I started this journey in April 2011 and promised myself I would never go back on a diet! Unless I end up with health problems that causes a doctor to say I need to *adjust* my diet in some way - i.e. heart disease, diabetes, etc... I won't do it for the purpose of trying to lose weight. Thank you for writing that; excellent point!

Katcha, I like the idea of taking a hammer to the scale. Hehe, had not thought of that!

Paddy, good questions. Monitoring does not make me healthier or happier. The scale will not help me if I gain more weight. Somewhere in the back of my head, the idea was to restrict if I did gain more weight. But I did promise myself I would never diet again and included in my reasons is the fact that dieting again will cause me to gain weight. No question. I am NOT in that 6-20% (whatever the true percentage is) who will be successful long-term with dieting. I gave up dieting also because I hate it. The " eat, repent, repeat cycle " brings me down. I'm done.

My decision after reading your responses and through a few old posts about tossing the scale is to do it. I'm going to ask around and see if anyone wants it and if not, I will chuck it. Yay!

Thanks again, everyone!!

>

> Hello everyone,

>

> I joined a little while ago and have been reading. I thought I would join in with a question: Should I throw out my scale?

>

> I still step on it every few days. I try to observe the number on it and not let it effect me. I'm not sure how much the number is bothering me. I do know that I still have the old mentality that I need to know so that I don't gain too much.

>

> There was something Ellie said in her post, " Bad thing " . " Two pounds over my wake-up call is 12 pounds over the weight I like and 17 pounds over my best athletic weight. " A light bulb went off that if I weigh myself now, at my highest weight and do end up getting to a healthier weight/a natural, binge-free weight, the weighing myself may never stop. The obsessing could get even worse because I'll be trying to prevent a gain.

>

> Any thoughts? Should I just throw it out now? I'm scared to do it because I'm afraid to stop monitoring. What if I gain even more weight?

>

> Thank you,

>

>

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