Anyone else completely afraid of the scale???

  I'm phobic about the scale. I know this is strange, and I've never met anyone else quite like me when it comes to this. Even other heavy people I've known always want to know what they weigh. Not me. I guess it's part of my denial. I don't want to know what the number on the scale says, because I feel sort of like it judges me as a person.

   I know I've lost weight. How much weight, I couldn't tell you. I've at least gone down a size and I know a size is generally fifteen pounds. I refuse to weigh myself...because I feel like, if I weigh myself and see a number higher than what I'm expecting, I'll just throw my hands up in the air and say,  "To hell with it! I give up!" and then head to the nearest McDonald's.

   Perhaps my phobia stems from being a chubby kid, and we used to have these public weigh-ins with the school nurse once a year, and everyone used to hear what you weighed, and I was always one of the heavier students in the class. Then all day long I'd get teased.

     So I hate the scale. I've read in so many places that the most successful dieters are ones who weigh themselves daily. Maybe once I get down around where I need to be, this is something I could do...but not now.

      Anyone else like this????

Oh yeah! I hear ya! I shake when I get on it.

I would say go by how good you feel and the size thing is definitely in the right direction.  Maybe always keep an article on hand that's one size smaller and see if you fit into it one day.  That's what I did. I found my favorite pair of pants, but the company didn't make them in any size bigger than 38 (mens), so I bought them anyway as an incentive to lose some pounds.  I tell ya those pants sat around for awhile, but I fit into them eventually, and still wear them today (since 2001).  If they start fitting too tight, I'll re-asses the situation again, which is why I just joined this fabulous site!  Good luck to everyone!  PS:  The pants didn't fit me for almost 3 months (one size down) so don't get discouraged if it comes slowly.  Slow is most likely permanent.

heusto, the scale is only one measurement of our "weight" -- you can use measurements, or, as you have been doing, just how your clothes feel and if you fit into smaller clothes.

the tip about having at least one article of clothing a smaller size is a good one -- something to shrink into. I have a couple that I can fit into, but they are snug, so I will enjoy seeing them become loose.  I also enjoy my now-baggy clothes, just seeing how much too big they are now. 

good luck, and congrats on your success so far.

Take your scale outside and place it under the wheel of any parked, large truck, and wait.  Once it's smashed to smithereens you'll be fine.

Use a measuring tape to record your progress.  It's not how heavy, it's how much thinner.

before I tell you what I think you should do, maybe you'd rather know that I know EXACTLY how you feel! You're not alone! For probably six or seven years I didn't weigh myself. Even in college when I was fit, and then forget it when I started to gain weight, there was no way I wanted to know!

I went to the doctor in 2002 and I turned around and made the nurse not tell me! I just had a baby in April 2006 and all during the preganancy I never looked at how much I weighed, and because my weight wasn't an overall concern my doctor didn't talk about it with me.

It was only after this past August that I finally decided that the power was in the numbers. That if I knew, I'd have a better idea of where I was at, and where I wanted to go with my weight. Clairelanie is right, the tape measure is a great tool, but I think it should be used with a scale too.

Here's what I know now, having been afraid of the scale, and deciding to step on it......I wish I would have stepped on it sooner.  And before I stepped on it I thought it would say 225....instead it said 240! But I went with knowing I had started to lose weight and that I would keep it up!, and hopefully you'll feel the same way if you decide to step on the scale!

My scale now says 213 and it is such a great reward to see the scale go down! I never thought it would be fun to weigh myself!!!!!

I go between being scared of the scale to being obsessed with the scale. I go to a women's gym 4 days a week, and there they weigh me once a month and also check for inches lost.  I only weigh once a month now, and that is on a real doctor scale. 

i weigh myself everday. and in the beginning it was great. my weight always went down...nowadays with my icky eating habits creeping in on me and stuff. not to mention its been 6months im sure im due for a plateau...i HATE my scale. i get sad and depressed sometimes when i look at it. and the sad thing is i KNOW i didn't eat enough to weigh 4 lbs heavier. but i cant comprehend that in the moment. and instead i freak and tell everyone the scale called me fat lol. it's terrible the obsession i have with it. so im thinking about weighing once a week...but with the scale ALWAYS in the kitchen it's going to be very difficult. i understand what you mean tho. i always wanted to know how much i weighed and it never made a difference until the last time the doctor weighed me in July...