throwing away the scale...

[Miranda]

Have any of you ever done it? Thrown away your bathroom scale?

I am seriously considering doing it here of lately. I just don't know if I have the b@lls to do it! lol

For the last 30yrs, ever since I hit puberty, and gained my first womanly pounds, the weight watching began. And with it came the routine weighing on the bathroom scale.

Here lately I wonder if I would be better off if I just threw the d*mn thing away lol.

Thoughts?

[nscrbug]

I don't weight myself anymore...seriously. I haven't gotten on a scale in about a year. As far as I'm concerned, I don't need to see a number...I can tell just by how my clothes fit...or don't fit. Ha! Even when I go to the doctor's office...I'll get on the scale, but I tell my doctor that I do NOT want to know what the number is. So he just writes it on my chart and doesn't tell me. I'm sure if there were any concerns, he would say something.

[shootingstar]

I'm not sure if my bathroom scale is completely accurate. So I automatically add around 3-4 lbs. in my head. And the scale is only over 2 yrs. old.
Then back in another city, our bathroom scale broke completely after 10 years.

So I haven't had an accurate weigh scale for um...past 6 months or more. Right now, I haven't made an effort to think about getting a new scale.
I can still fit my clothes. I see myself in shorts and my long tights. Looks ok.

For myself personally I couldn't weigh myself every day nor weekly. I might have weighed myself weekly in a haphazard way for a period of 2 months at different times in life. But I simply drifted away from the habit and became forgetful to weigh-in. It would drive me slightly nuts. I don't know how some of you ladies handle this psychologically.

But then I'm the type of cyclist, that DOESN'T want to be told in advance, how much mileage I will be cycling in total for a cycling tour over a few days or weeks. It would sound too daunting too me at the beginning.

Right now, sleeping well is more important than the exact weight statistic for me.

Numbers...are just numbers. If I thought constantly I was 54, I surely will really start to feel old.

[luvmyguys]

I get on a scale when I'm at a doctor's office and I have to. Other than that, the last time I had a bathroom scale was when I was pregnant and neurotic about not gaining too much.

I get a little OCD when I do things like count calories or weigh myself, so I'm better off just going by how my clothes fit and how I feel.

[GLC1968]

I haven't weighed myself since early February of this year. I was a pretty neurotic weigher...for all my adult life (and most of my teen years) so for me to not step on it...it's pretty major. I don't even own a full length mirror anymore, so I'm totally going by how my clothes fit.

It's freeing. Truly. As much as I knew that the number was just a number, it didn't matter. It still wormed itself into my brain and in so many ways, determined if I'd have a good day or a bad one. It's ridiculous.

It's only been 2.5 months, so I can't say for sure if it's made any long term difference, but in the short term, I feel 1000 times better about myself. I'm fairly certain I haven't lost weight (even though I've been eating way better) but I'm judging my progress in other ways and it's a really, really nice change of pace.

Dump the scale. Who cares what it says? Unless you participate in a sport that has weight categories, it's only a number...and not a very critical one at that.

[lph]

Dump the scale. Who cares what it says? Unless you participate in a sport that has weight categories, it's only a number...and not a very critical one at that.

I've never had one. I weigh myself occasionally at the pool or at my in-laws, but the scale never tells me anything I don't already know, and sometimes it's just confusing.