Weigh in days=anxiety?!

I weigh myself every other Sunday and I swear I get so nervous the night before. It's almost like Christmas is the next day so I can't sleep! I toss and turn all night constantly looking at the clock or seeing if the sun is up. The last two weigh ins have been at........3am in the morning! lol. Before that I could sleep until at least 5am. This is how it goes:

Wake up (normally now around 3am)

Go in the bathroom and pull the scale out from under the sink

Use the bathroom and start to undress

Look at self in mirror before stepping on scale (trying to see if I look smaller)

Step on the scale slowly and then step back off (digital scale) and wait for the zeros to register. Step back on and look straight ahead, wait a few seconds and glance down, look at the number on the scale, close eyes, blink,  and look again, step back off and repeat, then smile (or frown) and look at self again in the mirror before getting dressed! Then I hop back in the bed and think about my next two weeks and what I could have done differently the last two weeks. Ughhh...how crazy is that? I couldn't imagine weighing myself weekly or daily....I would explode! lol

Anyone else have anxiety issues around the days you weigh yourself?

Oh trust me I'm right there with you on this one. I used to weigh myself daily, but I noticed I got WAY too depressed when I would see a crazy spike in my weight. So I switched to once a week weighing, but it's killing me! The worst part for me is during the week cause I see the scale on the floor and I so want to weigh myself! I tell myself I should weigh because if I've gained I need to know so that I can change so I don't waste that much time. Or I try to rationalize it in some other way.

But weight in days are not like christmas to me... haha I get so nervous! I sit in the bathroom and stare at that scale for like 5 minutes before I get the nerve up just to stand on it. Ahhhh it freaks me out! I don't want to have gained! But so far I've gotten nothing but good news so I shouldn't be THAT nervous

LOL..I wouldn't call it anxiety but I too got that "Christmas Eve" feeling the night before my weekly weigh in...brought back the child in me

yeah there's defenitally anxiety, but then again i weight myself every morning. usually at the end of the week i average my weekly weight and keep track of my weight loss that way, i find its the most accurate. i also find the more often i weigh myself the less anxiety there is to it, i think if i weighed myself only once a week like some ppl the anxiety would drive me up the wall.

Original Post by darkylinky:

yeah there's defenitally anxiety, but then again i weight myself every morning. usually at the end of the week i average my weekly weight and keep track of my weight loss that way, i find its the most accurate. i also find the more often i weigh myself the less anxiety there is to it, i think if i weighed myself only once a week like some ppl the anxiety would drive me up the wall.

different strokes for different folks...me ..I couldn't get used to dealing with daily fluctuations , even tho' I knew the variances were mainly down to food bulk, water weight, the daily "spikes" got to me so I chose to weigh weekly..that way I eliminated my "anxiety" caused by daily weighing

I wish I felt Christmas eve about it! I get so nervous the day before, my stomach gets upset! I do it once a week though, because I did it daily for a little bit and the daily changes basically gave me a panic attack at the sight of the thing.

I'm a weekly weigh in preacher.

I weigh in every morning and it gives me incentive with either a loss or a gain. If I lost weight, well good going me, I'll do it again today! If I gain then it just gives me that push to go on a longer, faster walk! Win-Win as far as I'm concerned! But I know I may be more of an exception rather than a rule on this.

PS - However, if I did gain, I don't enter it weight updates. I would hate the idea of having to see that little spike! I just pretend it doesn't happen and work out harder!

Now.... what to do with those crummy days that say no change..... hmmmm

I am a sleep-aholic. I LOVE sleep. I would sleep 12+ hours a day if I could. However, my love of sleep has resulted in waaay too many days of me skipping my morning workouts. I've found the only way to get over the sleep addiction is to weigh myself every morning. Every morning I have that Christmas eve feeling and I pop out of bed like I'm in a toaster and hustle on over to the bathroom. 

Another benefit of my daily weigh ins, if I found I've lost, I'm really very motivated to hurry up and workout before work so I can continue the trend. And if I gained, well... *shrug* it motivates me to work even harder so I don't see a gain the next day.

It's all very exciting and motivating for me. We didn't have a scale when I was growing up, so weighing myself every day rather than once a year or so at the doctor's is a real treat.

I admire those that can weigh themselves everyday b/c I know I would be a wreck! lol.  One Sunday I had weighed myself early morning and was happy with the results. Well a few hours later I was trying to weigh my piece of luggage for a trip and my mom suggested I get on the scale, check my weight and then weigh myself again holding the luggage. Well in just that couple of hours I was 2lbs more than I was that morning so I learned my lesson. Once every other week works just fine for me.

I think our relationship with the scale is just one more thing we have to address along with our relationship to food and to our bodies.  I've been raving insane when it comes to weighing and I've been raving insane when it comes to food and body.  The reason this is no longer true is because I've been doing CC just long enough that I can count on the scale, food and my body not doing something crazy on me like it did all the years I deprived/binged and the scale could go down 15 and up 20 in 6 weeks (thank GOD I'm done with THAT!).  Since I'm losing slowly with calorie counting, lifting weights, and movement, the scale doesn't jump up or down in ways that freak me out and I'm learning to trust this.  I still have some anxiety, don't get me wrong.  For example, I've been eating at around maintenance for around a month and couldn't figure out why I couldn't get back on weight loss track.  Then I discovered I'd had a raging infection.  I stood on the scale for my once weekly weigh in mentally prepared for a couple pound gain and found I'd actually lost some instead eating an average of 2100 cals.  I would have never thought this possible back when it was 1200-1500 or bust (and I always did bust).

I have friends who never weigh but watch how clothing fits, but I need the accountability as well as the information.  Anxiety diminished for me when I learned what it took for the scale to stay stable and what it takes for it to move down, however slowly.  I been trying for so many many years to find a way to live with food/weight and always failing, it is totally cool with me if it takes another year or 2 to lose the 30 pounds I have left.