scales

I hate to have scales in the house. I have reverted back to the old me who used to obsess about the numbers on the scale. I got rid of my scales last February and swore I'd buy no more. I haven't bought any  BUT I borrowed a set from my friend.  Now I am  glued to them like ***** to a stick. I weigh myself every morning. This morning I weighed  192. Yesterday I weighed 194. I have been dancing around 5 pounds up and down for the past 18 days. Driving me nuts!!! I don't have that far to go really.Nuts is just around the corner. I hit 193 on Aug 30and haven'tlost any since. I don't mind stalls really but for some reason it bugs me this time. I think it's because I want to hit 180 so badly and it seems far off. Oh well, I'll get there. Thanks for letting me vent!!  

 I understand what you are saying about the scales.  I obsess over the numbers as well.  Knowing this going in I decided to try and make it work in my favor.  So - I weigh myself every morning  and record my weight on an Excell spreadsheet.  Yes, I do have periods of no weight loss and sometimes a slight gain.  But by recording each day I can see a bigger pattern - the plateaus do end and you will start losing again.  You are about 8 pounds lighter than me.  I seem to be doing pretty good right now after weeks of no change.  You know the drill - stick with it it WILL come off.  You are doing a fantastic job!

I was the same way,I was going to my friends and then I had to go out and buy one.I said I was only going to get on the every 1st of the mth will Iam on them every 2nd day.
We just want to see how good we are doing.But I have to stop as Iam going nuts too.So I put them were I can't see them and going to try to stay away untill the 1st.It is funny that it use to be food we could not stay away from now it is the scales so that is a good thing ...

Once when I was obsessed with the scales, I gave them to my DH to hide. They were gone for quite a while until one day I was roothing through the truck and I found them tucked away with alot of his work stuff.  I brought them back into the house and now I am back to the obsessive weighing.

What are we like, ehh....

Yeah, really sucks that some things we just can't seem to unlearn. No matter how much we mutilate our bodies,our mindset remains basically unchanged.   I still obsess about numbers on a scale,. I still occasionally crave certain foods/drinks and can'tstop the craving until I actually put that food or drink into my mouth. Luckily, once I do I no longer want it but I must have it. Once in a long while I actually eat it and regret it because it makes me sick or sometimes throw up. I can justr imagine how I would look now if I could eat what I wanted to. I shudder to think. Fortunately, it is getting easier all of the time. I've gotten so sick on the bad foods that I seldom want them anymore. Life is good.