SCALES ARE EVIL

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Registered: 07-16-2004
SCALES ARE EVIL
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Sat, 07-24-2004 - 12:59pm
**I posted this on another board but wanted to share it here too...I'm very proud of my rant**

I refuse to buy a scale. I know my weight from my last visit to my doctor's office and will compare it when I return in November. So how do I plan on tracking my progress? By how I and my clothing feel - but mostly how I feel.

Here's my rant about scales....

Scales are a useless waste of emotional energy! I've only ever had one once in my life and that was many moons ago and only because the previous tenant in my apartment left behind an innocuous-looking Peter Rabbit bathroom scale which, had slowly taking over my life. I was addicted to it. It was my drug du jour. I was obsessed with finding out what I weighed at various points during the day – in the morning (before showering vs. after showering), when I came home from work vs. just before bed, Friday vs. Monday, the week before my period vs. the week following... honestly, it was getting out of hand. I was starting to worry about myself that I could allow anything adorned with little Peter Rabbits to have so much control over my life and how I felt.

Then I started to notice a few things...the scale hadn’t moved much in the past month even though I'd been exercising regularly and eating sensibly. At first I was thrown into a Bridget Jones fit of despair and began to wonder who exactly was going to discover my half-eaten-by-Alsatian remains when I was living alone in New Zealand?! Huh?! WHO?! But soon enough I began to get suspicious. I was starting to believe that ‘ol Peter-boy was just screwing with my head. Is it really possible to lose 3 kg overnight? or to gain 4 kg in 2 days? I think not. I finally came to an important realisation. The bathroom scale was my enemy! A sneaky, backstabbing enemy that posed as my friend – “oh yes Lisa, I’d be happy to help you keep track of how well you’re doing with your fit new lifestyle. What are friends for?.....ohhh, too bad, looks like you’ve gained 6 kg in the last 8 hours. Whatever did you eat while you were at work? Take 2 cups of plain lettuce and some protein powder and come back before bedtime, we’ll try again then.”

I was letting this cheap piece of cartoon covered metal have control. I was mesmerized by it’s swirling wheel of numbers swishing back and forth on either side of the magic black line, holding my breath like a chronic gambler who’s just put the family’s grocery money on one last bet, waiting with baited breath for this piece of second hand junk to tell me if I was going to feel good about myself today.

Well, no more. I know when I’ve been eating crap, and I know when I’ve skipped a workout. And if I’m eating right and exercising and lifting weights, then I feel good about myself. If I fall into a couple of days of eating crap and having a few sugar filled coctails well then so be it. That’s fine. Just so long as it’s the exception and not the rule. From now on the only person I answer to is me. I don’t give a damn what the enemy says.

**Deep breath**

Sorry about that but I really don't like scales.

Cheers

Lisa

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Registered: 01-04-2004
In reply to: freya71
Sat, 07-24-2004 - 2:19pm
HAHA! What a great post! Thanks for sharing. Good for you for giving up your scale. I wish I could do the same. I know I step on it WAY too often just like you did.

~~Linda

~~Linda

 

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Registered: 04-19-2004
In reply to: freya71
Sat, 07-24-2004 - 5:58pm
Oh thank GOD I'm NOT the only one who weighs before and after a shower!!!!!!!!!!!!

This scale sounds like it might be old/out of whack/out of calibration/not on an even surface.

When you have healed the emotional scarrring caused by that wretched rabbit, buy a digital scale, and weigh yourself ONCE A DAY. Preferebly in the morning, after pee/poop (if your one of those lucky ones who doesn't need coffee )

Oh! And I reponded to your reply about Wicca..I didn't realize it until yesterday when i scrolled to the next page ;)

Amy

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Registered: 06-16-2004
In reply to: freya71
Sat, 07-24-2004 - 9:26pm
I weigh in the morning and before bed....but not everyday.

 

  Shawna

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Registered: 01-05-2000
In reply to: freya71
Sat, 07-24-2004 - 9:33pm
You know I have the same addiction. I have been eating so good and that scale tells me that I'm not!! It hasn't moved down in ages. My clothes are loose and I feel good. Out it goes, THANK-YOU :-) Stephanie 280/225/170 Atkid since 6/15/2003
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Registered: 05-19-2003
In reply to: freya71
Sun, 07-25-2004 - 1:26am
good luck on your weight loss, hope you have a good loss total in Nov.

I personally keep track of my weight and body measurements on Saturdays or sometime during the weekend and logg them online to keep track of it.As of now my goal is be at sz.12/14(pre-pregnancy size) not sure on weight caus i never used to weigh myself. So i am thinking 165/175

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Registered: 03-11-2004
In reply to: freya71
Sun, 07-25-2004 - 11:46am
Hey has anyone bought one of those scales that read body fat? I know when I saw a dietician a few years ago she had one and it helped me stay on track better because I could see faster progress in body fat than pounds. I looked at one at Walmart, but didn't know if it was any good. Hugs, Brenda

Hugs, Brenda 

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Registered: 06-16-2004
In reply to: freya71
Sun, 07-25-2004 - 1:01pm
My pretend sister in law has one and I tried to use it once in her bathroom.

 

  Shawna

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Registered: 04-19-2004
In reply to: freya71
Sun, 07-25-2004 - 5:31pm
Oh jeezus - don't want to know!!!! I don't think I qualify as 80% lean yet...

(moo!)

Amy

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Registered: 07-16-2004
In reply to: freya71
Sun, 07-25-2004 - 6:00pm
A scale that reads body fat?

Pass me the Ben & Jerry's now and tuck me in bed.

I'm quivering with fear now.

Lisa

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Registered: 04-19-2004
In reply to: freya71
Sun, 07-25-2004 - 6:36pm
Must...Be...Destroyed...

***flops up and down on scale and crushes in massive jaws***

Outchth! I bith my thung!

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