Re: Re: Should I throw out my scale?

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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!!

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> Hello everyone,

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> 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?

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> 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.

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> 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.

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> 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?

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> Thank you,

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