Re: Should I throw out my scale?

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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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