Does anyone here NOT weigh themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone is so obsessed with these numbers.

isnt your HEALTH and how your body actually LOOKS more important???? why do people weigh themselves constantly? i would love u to try this for me, weigh yourself, note that number, then drink a litre or 2 of water and weigh yourself again. hahah :) or better yet, weigh yourself, take a good long piss and then weigh yourself again! MAGIC

I weigh myself reasonably regularly, but more just to see where I am at.  Currently I have been putting on weight but still losing centimetres, which isn't uncommon for me.

 

How you lookin the mirror and the tape measure are better indicators, and no need to rush it all either!

sometimes you need to see the number to be sure your going somewhere. when you are just starting out it helps to see the number go down a little so you know your not failing.

thats it what it is for me. other then that, when i went down a pants size i stopped look as much. but each person gets their power to keep going defferent in ways. you have yours, i have mine.

exactly. i just really hate to read about all these obsessive thoughts people are having. its hard enough if you have to watch wat you eat. everyone, exercise (short, frequent and intense!) and eat all the fruit and veg u want and i promise you'll be fine

this is my point, its all good when the number "goes down a little bit" but wat do u do when it goes "up a little bit".

depends on the person. i at first did freak out. but i had a bad mind set about my body at the time. it is not uncommen for people with a wieght problem to have issues with how they look.

but that is one of the many reason this site is up. to help people see that the scale is not the only answer, and to get you the support you need.

i think is it great that you dont feel that kind of need. it speaks volumes about how you see yourself.
unfortunly not everyone is able to do that yet.

Not everyone obsesses or freaks out.  Personally, I weigh myself everyday and I'm smart enough to know that a lot of things can effect my weight at a given day, so if I'm up 5lbs one day I don't freak out.  However, I need that number to keep me accountable.  If I don't weigh myself for a while, I can pretty much gaurantee that I will gain weight.

Someday I'd love to be at a point that I'm able to maintain my weight without that regular check in, but I'm not there yet.

i know what you mean because i live at two seperate houses and there are different scales, one always tells me i'm heavier. it's ridiculous. there's way too many things to affect how much you weigh. the only time i knew i lost weight is when things that didn't fit me before were loose. then only after that did i weigh myself. i'm trying to keep it to once a week, but it's hard to know where you are at.

I'm aware that weight is not the best indicator of fat loss, etc.  But I love to weigh in.  It keeps me motivated and is easier to do than all the measuring.  I do the measuring every few months, but my daily weigh-in is something I look forward too, and I love seeing my weight graph (I actually track at fitday) .  Even when my weight plateaus or goes up a bit, I still find it motivating.  All the times I have gained a lot of weight in my life have been when I went months at a time without standing on a scale.  It helps keep me mindful of where I have been and that I don't want to go back to being heavy.

 

So I guess it's really more of a ritual than anything for me... 

Oh and the other thing, I have the opposite problem anorexics have.  I can stand in front of a full-length mirror at 100 lbs overweight and say to myself "Damn, I look GOOD!"  I swear it is true.  My epiphany came in late 2005 when I saw a video my wife took of me from behind walking up the street.  I was SHOCKED too see how HUGE I was waddling around.  It was then that I realized that I could not trust the mirror because I was seeing myself as how I want to be, not as how I was.  I honestly saw no difference in the mirror when I was 275 than when I was like 225. 

 

But the scale gives an actual number.  I'm 6'2", but not a muscleman, so I know that if I am over 200 lbs, I am really too heavy.  So intend to keep on weighing.  Obsessive?  I dunno, but I really do enjoy it. 

Your right. Infact, I did have an eating disdorder and "Obeyed" with whatever the scales told me. But now, I don't care, I know I gained some weight but doesn't bother me anymore because I don't much have an Eating disdorder anymore. And yeah, people should just be comfortable with how they look. ^^

I agree with what udokier said above. I was also one of those people who would gain a ton of weight if I didn't watch the scale regularly. The mirror and even clothes sizes didn't snap me back into reality either. These days, I weigh myself about four or five times a week always first thing in the morning before consuming anything. It really helps me keep a handle on things and lets me know what works and what doesn't . I don't obsess over it or get all crazy when I have minor fluctuations. For example, I was up 4.8 pounds today since my last weigh in two days ago. Some people might freak out about that, but I know it's all water due to eating at Benihana last night (major sodium) and two days of intense work outs (muscles holding water and glycogen). No big deal, it'll all be gone in a day or two.

On the other hand, I do think that daily weigh ins and scale obsessing is really bad for people with eating disorders. That's a completely different situation as the scale can have a really negative impact on those people. 

 

i have to. at least once a week.

I dont weight myself. I dont have scales in my house due to how i used to reactwhen i used them. I find it a lot less stressful, as you judge your fitness and health on the way you look not the number that represents you. Its not your weight that someone notices its the way you and your body look. Trust me, for people who have weight issues it helps so much to lose the scales.

im a sex goddess i know this. Unortunately I need to show the world this as well. I find it easier to keep track of weight loss wih a scale mainly becuase its easy.

If i didn't weigh myself i would probably give up, the little numbers give me motivation and keep me in line. Once i am near my goal i will probably weigh myself less, but at the moment i need to to remind myself i need to lose the weight

I agree with Lifeizsweet: "If i didn't weigh myself i would probably give up, the little numbers give me motivation and keep me in line. Once i am near my goal i will probably weigh myself less, but at the moment i need to to remind myself i need to lose the weight"  

Thats what I do too, when I first saw the scale go down I got excited and it motivated me to keep going.

But people with ed's like ana and mia, they shouldn't really have scales, because they freak out at the fluctuations and it may cause them to purge. 

 

But for me it motivated me, it even motivates me to eat less sodium, so I won't hold in excess water. Its different for different people. So you should  stick what works for you :)  

Me on the other hand, started off weighing myself on a "ordinary scale" NOT the digital scale. Showing my starting weight to be 130kg and shortly after that I decided to stay away from the scale because if I don't see the weight going down fast enough, I get all depressed!  Anyways, I stayed away from the scale for 8 months and brought my weight down to 80kg.... or so I thought!  Until I went one Friday night two weeks ago to a friends for a BBQ and ended up being persuaded by her to weigh myself on her DIGITAL SCALE. 

 

Well what did I find out????  I weighed in a massive 100kg (220lbs) BUT the amazing thing is that I have a heavy bone structure and therefore I look alot thinner than the 100kg!  But that night I ended up being soooo depressed, I cried ALL night long and eventually ended up binging for the whole weekend!!  

 

The Saturday, I forced my husband to go and buy a digital scale and since then I have lost 5.2kg! I have moved passed being depressed, had no choice in accepting what my REAL weight is, but promised myself that I am GOING to keep track of my weight.  I now weigh myself every morning without my clothing!  I take things from there.  

 

I don't want to live a lie, rather knowing than believing that you are something that you are NOT. Though I have to add, that "THE NUMBER" really isn't whats important because when people look at you, they don't say" Ah, there goes 220lbs" they go on how you look!  So... If you have had some weight loss, its really how you feel about yourself, walking that extra mile, clothes that are so much looser on you etc etc is what REALLY counts.

 

BUT I STILL HAVE TO WEIGH MYSELF EVERY MORNING, I NEED TO KNOW WHERE I STAND! 

I weight myself to see my progress...........It doesnt control my day or ruin it like this am I weighed in heavier than I normally do but i definatly dont freak out about it. In the beginning i would be like ack now its more like oh ok at least i know im eating healthy and still losing weight every month. Im gonna keep on trucking without my scale I really dont know if im progressing every month or not. Yes you can see by inches and how things fit but you dont get the whole fit of it unless you see the weight changes and fluctuation periods which help me every week in how I should and shouldnt be eating.

I weigh myself every day but that doesn't mean I obsess about the number. For one thing, there's the very reason you posted:

">>weigh yourself, take a good long piss and then weigh yourself again! MAGIC<<

I enter the number on my log every morning but barely pay any attention to what the number is. What counts is the long-term trendline which caloriecount.about.com measures very well. My long-term trend is down which is gratifying to see on a graph, but the day to day weights are  up and down.

Since one weigh-in doesn't tell me anything, a weekly weigh-in wouldn't reveal much if anything so I do it daily.

But if you never weigh yourself, there's nothing wrong with that. Everybody has their own motivation and own way of doing things.

 

 

 

I weigh myself maybe once every month and a half or so? Just to see what my weight is. I'll take measurements about that rate also. I gauge how I'm doing purely on how I look. Muscle weighs more than fat, so the number on the scale means nothing to me.