my not weighing experiment

I've been thinking about my whole not weighing thing.  Sure, I'm not disappointed on a daily basis by seeing stalls..er...body re-adjustments or thinking I should be losing faster, but I am probably setting myself up for one big huge let down on Friday when I finally weigh.  I mean for someone who used to weigh every day this is a big deal.  A month seems like forever.  In my mind I think I should have lost like 50 lbs or something and you know there is no way that will happen.  I will be lucky if I have lost 15 during that month.  Why do we have to care so much about the stinking number.  Why do I need that so bad to validate the choice I have made?  Maybe I should just go buy some scales and get it over with.  I'm not sure I will do this again. 

Listen Little Miss Perky!  Remember how we all noticed how little you were last week and how you squealed like a little girl?  That's why you waited!  It's like waiting until Christmas day to open your present.

Keep resisting!!  You only have 2 days to go and you've made it this long.  After you weigh in on Friday, then you can decide whether you want to continue this way or not.

I think you will have a big number on Friday.  However, you know it won't be 50 pounds.  That's not realistic. 

We are all hooked on the numbers.  Even from our first appointment, it is the BMI that rules and decides if we're "healthy" or morbidly obese.  It's not all our fault for being obsessed!  Then we're all looking for two-der-ville or one-der-land and it's a psychological difference where we are.

Man, I just went on and on!!!

Stay off the dang scales!!!

Sorry, I totally lost my "perky" there for a moment.  OH NO!  What if chocolate is what really fed my positive attitude and my body just realized it hasn't had any chocolate in over a month and a half!!!!

Okay, I will stay off the dang scales.  I know you are right.

Hmmm...so you are saying that weighing and weight is weighing heavily on your mind, eh?  Knock it off!  Everyone is crazy obsessed with the number on the scale when it there is so much more that determines our happiness and success.  Have you bought smaller sizes?  Are you shrinking?  Is your esteem growing faster than you are shrinking?  Have you become healthier in the short time since your surgery?  YESYESYESYESYES..oh, and YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS!

Sugar, who or WHAT is to say what makes you a success?  YOU DO!  Stop that stinkin' thinkin' and REVEL in how well you are doing!  Before surgery, did you ever lose like you are now?  When you were on a diet before, did you lose this much or this quickly?  Did you tell people how much you lost on any other diets, and not wonder if they were trying to do some sort of ****eyed math to figure out how much you really weighed to begin with???  See...I didn't think so.

You are ROCKIN your surgery!!!  It IS worth it!!!  You WILL succeed, just how you have been all along!!

Janice *stepping off of her mysteriously scale shaped soapbox*

Okay, I guess I needed that kick in the butt!!!  You are right.  I know you are.  I just had a moment.    I will try to put this stinking thinking out of my mind now.

Janice - I just love how you put words together!  You crack me up!

Now I mean this with all my heart, but aren't you the queen of weighing in?  Don't you obsessively weigh several times a day?  Aren't you the one that went to Target and WalMart back-to-back to check the digits?  Ha!  LOL!

I meant, "I mean this will all the love in my heart!".

Man, my fingers get away from me!

Snicker..who???  MOI????

Yes, yes I am Queen.  I have my own little kingdom with a scale on every street corner, every room, and even in the sewer system...just in case...and giiiiiiiiiiiirl, you should see the bling bling crown I just got!!!  (It was right next to the bathroom accessory section at Nordstrom's!!!)

I am quite open about my enthusiasm for weighing (READ:  ADDICTION).   My name is Janice, and I am a scale ho.  SHA (Scale Ho Anon) Meetings beginning to meet next Tuesday, 8 PM, at your local Wally World...I think you know which section of the store, hee hee hee

Amy, think about this....When have you lost this much weight this quickly??? You will never weigh this much again!!  No matter how slow it comes off...each goal met will be a weight that you will never see again! I am so proud of what you have done so far and Friday, when you weigh I will still be just as proud of you and what you have done. I think one of the down falls for people on here is that they expect to see the same numbers as everyone else or what they THINK should be coming off...Do what you are supposed to do and all the rest will follow....You haven't weighed and you are already using reverse thinking.....Be positive!! Play the Glad Game again....Anything loss is a WOW!!! It is a WOW because it is loss and never to be found! Have you been measuring??? write those numbers down! Those numbers show things too. We all care about you...so chin up!!!  Be ready to kick my butt when I act like this ok??   Sherry

Deal!  I will ready and willing to kick your butt when you need it! LOL!!!! We all need it from time to time ya know! Seriously I am happy about being able to lose, I just had a pity party for a minute but since there was no food at my pity party it only lasted like 5 minutes! LOL!