today at the gym

ACKKK!!  Pack away our scales, are you crazy! hehe  Yes, I'm a typical woman who LOVES her scale.  I've tried going without it a few times, but of course with my luck I actually gained.grrrr  What's that all about!?!ha  Sooo, scale it is..every morning and if not every day, then every few days.  It's almost like a security blanket to keep me in check with myself. 

~~"runs away with scale and hids behind Andy"~~

Holly, I totally get the obsession and until very recently was in your camp.  I even bought a Tanita Ironman (measures weight, body fat, muscle, water, bone, visceral fat, and metabolic age).  Invested $125 in that thing.   For a long time my trainer's been saying put it away, put it away, and I couldn't.  I wanted to know how I was doing.  You know what?  I didn't trust that what I was doing would work.  NOw, with a good solid month of consistency, I don't need it.  If you're doing what works, it will work whether or not you watch it. AND if you don'****ch it, it won't send you into depression when the numbers aren't what you expected. AND if you do watch it daily! (my God!) you'll be victim to every salt or period induced lb of water weight and you'll worry yourself into depression and that might test your motivation. Put it away. Or at least just do once a week.  (The staff at my gym suggest every 1-2 months.) Mine's still in my bathroom.  I'm liking watching it go down but it might be moved to the basement soon.  Imagine the feeling, no****ching it, just doing what you're doing, and in a month seeing 8 lbs or more!

I am going to agree with the others..  sometimes it is hard but we just need to say thank you.   How much have you lost?  not quite enough but thank you for noticing. What exercises have you been doing your butt looks great?  Everything trainer tells me to - thanks for noticing.   You look great! Thank -you. make a concious effort to politley accept the compliment and move on.  Someone once told me that when I argued a compliment it really sounded like I was fishing for more....  I didnt like that idea so I had to quit arguing... LOL

Hey Andy,

Yes... welcome to 'maintaining'.

I suspect that when I reject compliments that I am sort of reminding myself not to get too comfortble... sort of reminding myself that the hard work is not 'over' it's forever.  Partly, I think the emotional scars are so ingrained from years of MO that when people compliment me I think they don't know the truth, which is that INSIDE I am far from the image of someone who has beaten MO, INSIDE I am still the critic, I am still self conscious.  Sometimes this is a bad thing, sometimes this is a good thing.  What I am currently working on 'inside' my head is accepting that it's OK to be the best "I" can be- I can't look 18 with a never MO body, but I can look great for where I am in life and with the past I have.

Anyway, you DO look great, keep up your dedication to mainain.

The dreaded number... statistically the ones who lose are meant to regain and regain even more- the 'number' is a litmus test for me, my reality check to stay focussed.  Not to let it creep on. 

Em