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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Now that I'm losing weight, I'm back to obsessively weighing myself after everything I eat. Yaaaaay. *tap tap tap tap* Voldemort Voldemort ooh Voldy Voldy Voldy Voldemort.

[(Anonymous)]

Weight shouldn't be important- what's better is how your measurements change!

[(Anonymous)]

Well, okay, but I hope you realize the number on a scale immediately after eating means absolutely jack shit.

[deenaa]

This is actually really unhelpful, because our bodies' weight shifts quite significantly throughout the day! Believe it or not, your fluid intake and other various changes can account for differences as large as a kilo!

Instead, why not try having a weekly weigh-in? Do it consistently and you'll have much more reliable data for how you're losing weight over time. This is also a lot less stressful!

Congrats on losing weight, I hope it keeps going well! :)

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Also, the weekly weigh-in would be better if OP does it at morning before eating anything.

[nyxelestia]

To the OP: this is to get the most consistent data (your weight 'for the day' before you eat or drink much/anything).

[(Anonymous)]

I have to be careful about that. That, and calories. Numbers in general are a problem area. I get obsessive and unhealthy fast. I've limited myself to weighing in only once a week on Sundays. So far it seems to be holding.

[comma_chameleon]

That seems like a very bad (and downhill) idea, anon. Not the weight loss obviously, if that's a healthy goal, but the obsessive weighing.

Then again, I don't even own a scale, so I'm not the best person to be judging what's a 'healthy' weighing amount/times.

[starphotographs]

I always forget that scales are a thing that people have in their homes.

[(Anonymous)]

I am another person who has never owned a scale. If my clothes still fit, I don't worry. If my clothes start to not fit (very rarely) I up my fluid intake and move around a little more. Or, if they start to not fit in the other direction, I start eating a little junk here and there, and trying to bulk up at regular meals.

[nyxelestia]

Thirding the not having a scale thing. My family is perfectly fine not knowing our exact weights. The only time we would really need to know our own weights is in like a doctor's office or other medical situation, at which point they would already have a scale.

Also, when people (in the course of a conversation/appropriate context) ask me how much I weigh and I say I don't really know, their reactions are priceless. >:)

[(Anonymous)]

+4 on not owning a scale. How my clothes fit, how fit I am, and how healthy I am is plenty for me. The scale numbers are really unimportant.

[(Anonymous)]

I get oddly defensive whenever people talk about not having or not needing a scale. I know it's not a personal attack, but I just feel defensive. Because I do need the scale to let me know how healthy I am. My mind is so distorted I really can't rely on its perception on how clothes fit or how I look. I need those numbers as a guideline to let me know I'm doing okay and still in a healthy mindset.

/randomanon

[(Anonymous)]

And the good thing is.. you know that looking at a scale works for you. :)

Scales don't work for me mostly because somehow the scale likes to tell me I'm sucking when I'm actually doing well.

For example, I used to wear a woman's 34-36 dress size.

I'm now in a 30-32 thanks to dietary changes and increased exercise.

According to the scale I've GAINED 7lbs.

That's why scales don't work for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Have you been training a lot? Because then that's the secret: Muscle mass is heavier than fat. Which is something people should be told when they go about losing weight by training instead of dieting because if they don't know that, looking at the scale might get pretty frustrating - gaining weight instead of losing it despite all the work they put into it.

[shortysc22]

We've always had one scale in my house and it's in my parents bathroom, so I pretty much weigh myself once every three months or so. When I move out, will I buy one? Probably not.

TW: eating disorder, numbers, measurements, mention of suicidal ideation

[elialshadowpine]

I don't own a scale, either. My dad was obsessed and basically forced me to check my weight daily for a long time. (Dad has... major projection issues. Because he was concerned with his weight and checked daily, that meant I had to, too... no matter that I was healthy.)

I prefer to go by measurements. That, I find, is far more accurate than weighing. When I first went on birth control, I was limited to eating frozen waffles and yogurt smoothies -- those were the only thing I didn't throw up. I didn't actually lose any appreciable amount of weight. I stayed around 120-125 (and a fluctuation of about 5lbs during a day is normal for me), but my waistline went from 36" to 28" in 6wks. The scale did jack-all.

(And yes, I'm well aware that's NOT HEALTHY. I'd been told that people new to birth control could have that reaction, though, so I didn't even think to ask about trying something different. Weirdly, I went back on it later, after having MAJOR emotional issues with the other pills I had been scripted, and even if I was puking, I was at least not suicidal. It totally didn't have that effect the second time, even though I had been off birth control for 6mo or more by that point... so I don't even know. The sick thing is that I was actually disappointed... I am much more content and accepting of my body after finding the body acceptance movement, at quite a bit heavier a weight, than I was back when I was a "socially acceptable" weight...)

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one who read this as sarcastic? Everyone else seems to have taken it seriously. Is my sarcasm meter broken today?

[(Anonymous)]

I read the "yaaaaay" as sarcastic, if that's what you're asking. I also have not read comments here that seem to be reading it any other way than that.

[fingalsanteater]

I'm so much happier after I stopped counting calories and weighing myself obsessively. I gained back a bit of weight, (mostly because I stopped working out and eating only 500 calories a day), I know, but my hair isn't falling out anymore and I don't feel so shitty and angry about plateaus and life in general.

I'm not even going to give you advice because I know I wouldn't want it if I were in your place, but I hope you are losing weight as healthily as is possible because compulsive weighing did me no good and just made me feel bad.

[(Anonymous)]

What in the what what what? I'm hoping the 500 calories per day is hyperbole, because - damn, that's low. Glad you're not doing that anymore!