Do you have a scale dance?

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Registered: 03-28-2003
Do you have a scale dance?
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Mon, 05-31-2004 - 4:56pm

I was recently speaking to an artist who has an exhibit called Scale Dances. It is a room filled with bathroom scales. Every single woman who walked in had a big reaction to it, much like superman has to kryptonite! In the background, the artist plays a tape of interviews of women about their scale dance - that is their ritual of weighing themselves. They ranged from weighing a bag of sugar to make sure the scale was accurate to using two scales and placing one foot on each.


I'm cuirous if any of you have a scale dance you'd like to share. I'd also be interested in knowing how it came to be and if you think it's a healthy ritual. I would share mine but I threw my scale out years ago! It drove me crazy and often had the power to ruin my day. One day I just threw my scale in the trash and it was like knocking down the Berlin Wall!


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Registered: 04-19-2004
Mon, 05-31-2004 - 6:15pm
Okay, okay..I'll go FIRST..Somebody better back me up on this cause I KNOW your'e out there!!!

Every morning, I wake up, pee, strip and get on the scale. I record this as my 'official' weight for the day. If I could poop, too, that would be a bonus (but usually requires coffee)cause EVERY half a pound counts!!!!!!!

I find that I lose 1-3 pounds every night while sleeping, esp. if I don't eat after 10 p.m. The longer I sleep, the less I weigh when I wake up, and I have found that getting enough sleep is very important to weight loss. So if I slepted for a week straight I'd be dead I think.


Ok..Who's next?

Amy