Addicted to the damn scale!

Girl, who does not do this same thing? We are human first, not gods.  I am *hardly* a great example. This is just the self talk I try to give myself, noticing my own patterns. I am not far behind you - age 51 and still gripping my way down this hallway.  There are more and more days of feeling like some of us here:  ****y, confident, at ease with my routine.  But there are plenty of days - isn't ONE too much? - of the whining, crying, wanting to fall back and feel sorry for myself.  I did this to myself, allowing that same cycle to occur time and again.  Eating white junk sugary crap for so many years in epic portions. My body now needs pretty much the exact opposite of what I did before to repair itself:  lean meats, good fats, veggies very simply stated.  I know that I personally will not stop that foolish behavior altogether (booze, breads), so the trade off and balance point is that when I do that type of thing, no whining, get back on the ride.  (((sherrie)))

I think sometimes you need to figure out and address what it is that is triggering you to not stick with it. For me it can be impatience--like when I battled through a stall.  BUT I chose to just keep doing the do and it soon moved. IOW, I didn't bail when it seemingly stopped working. JM2c

For one reason or another, whether born this way or ate ourselves this way, our bodies are trained not to respond in the time period we think it will happen. This will take time, and not many fat peeps have a lot of what it takes to get thru - patience and belief that we really can do this.  Often, I find that I need to fake it til i make it. I can see the scale not moving, knowing I am doing most things just right. Does this indicate failure? Not necessarily.  But I've jumped around lily pads enough to know that I have to give things time.

Not too long ago I had a response on my blog from someone claiming to be a trainer and that my stall was not necessary and was recommending changes I knew weren't beneficial--just to make the scale move. Believe me, the stall was frustrating.  I was at 270 for mid-May to mid-June and then it broke and broke big.   It took everything I had, plus a little whining to make it through.

There is no "this is how it should be".  The math doesn't always play out, week after week smoothly and perfectly.  When you accept that, you free yourself to just do the do. After almost a year, I've finally won back my sanity from the scale.  Now I don't care what it says, when it says it.  If I'm doing things right, that's all I need to know.

Yep, what NeeCee said.  We need the information, but only if we are mature enough to know that even if we do everything right, those numbers can fluctuate and that we simply CANNOT let the numbers on a piece of technology dictate our mood. And if it starts to dictate whether or not we will stay on our diet or not, then it's time for less scale time.  I still can't figure out the benefit of weighing more than once a day.  The numbers only get higher as the day goes on...so why would you want to know that?    Mary 

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