Does anyone NOT weigh themselves?

(mole person) #21

I’m the same. I find as long as I see that number daily I can actually have exquisite control over my weight. When I don’t, I tend to gain because I excuse my behavior and do not have any feedback to keep me in check.

(Marianne) #22

Glad you’ve given yourself permission! Honestly, I think you will love it. Great exercise in letting go - of weight, food, eating, “dieting,” obsession, measuring, etc. Again, nothing wrong with any of that if people find it helps them. We are all architects of our own journey.

(Susan) #23

I have found that if I don’t weigh myself daily, it means I have been sliding and avoiding the scale. Daily weighing in my case means I am on the ball and excited about seeing the lower numbers. I have a bathroom scale, that because of the tiles in the bathroom, is never accurate. I also have a Fitbit scale connected to my phone that is more pleasing to play with.

(Lisa) #24

Absolutely! We all have to do what works for us. I’m at the point in my life that I’m ready after decades of worrying about it.

(mole person) #25

Lol…every floor in my house has a bit of slope. I’ve got a couple of marks on my bedroom floor that I line the edge of the scale along. This gives me at least a consistent reading. The only reason that I know it’s at all accurate is from comparing the weight with other scales.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #26

Amen! Preach it, sister!! :+1:

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

#27

Julie! Thank you from a fellow non-weigher! I thought I was the only one who, when being weighed before a colonoscopy, implored the nurse to record my weight without revealing it to me. ( I too closed my eyes and took off my shoes. AND my socks!) I have been a Non-Weigher (NW?) far longer than I’ve been doing Keto. It was something suggested to me by a doctor when I was struggling with eating disorders.

I feel healthier than ever on Keto, and I have absolutely no idea how much I weigh-- a number with which I was once obsessed! I highly recommend trying this strategy even to those who don’t have eating disorders per se. It helps you to focus more on health and how you feel.

(hottie turned hag) #28

Me, I don’t weigh often.

When I started (Aug 2017) I didn’t weigh until several months in when I could see a BIG change. Thereafter I weighed weekly at the grocer’s, I don’t want to own a scale as my obsessive and perfectionistic disorders would have me on/off/on/off scale many times per day :dizzy_face:

Now the street I’d have to take to get to that grocer’s has been under a big construction project for ages so I just stopped weighing. I can tell the difference easily though at my weight, if I lose (haven’t gained since starting).

(Julie) #29

It helps, doesn’t it, to take the focus off of weight, and put it on just being healthy? I don’t really track ANYTHING–I just try to stay focused on eating “strictly” Keto. Now that I don’t focus on the scale I focus on other signals my body sends me–I now recognize the differences between being hungry, thirsty, or anxious. As I said before, it’s taken me a long time to figure this out. I love that Keto seems to have “mellowed” me.

(Doug) #30

Exactly the same for me. 2 or 3 times a year. I love numbers but am far from being concerned with what the scale says. Hey, maybe someday… :smile::stuck_out_tongue:

(JB ) #31

Loud applause!!! I want to heartily thank you for making your post! I do weigh myself, but I had to lose a lot of judgement to go with it. When I started keto, thankfully I watched the videos of a lady that encouraged people to not be obsessed with what that scale says. I know in t he FB group where I’m a moderator, people let themselves get derailed when the scale doesn’t change or goes up.

I’m 68, started keto when I was 65 and like you, am never going back. In my personal case, I need to be concerned if the scale is reading too low because I’ve had a neurological condition where I can lose muscle mass quickly. This is just evidence that you can’t trust that lying scale! Good job on you success and here’s to many years of living joyfully and healthfully!

(Jane) #32

I hardly weigh anymore - maybe once a month just to make sure I am still within my range of 145-149. I can tell by the way my jeans feel - don’t need a scale.

(Tessa) #33

I wish I didn’t need to weigh myself but I do. I’m about 6 months into keto, started it for weight loss before I even knew all the additional health bonuses. The reason I feel I “need” to weigh myself is to keep myself in check. I’m still learning about foods, keto, and figuring out what works for my body. I can easily pack on 10 pounds before I know it. So if the scale is going up I know I need to change things up quickly. I started to get obsessed with the number on the scale, weighing daily and becoming depressed because it wasn’t going down, then began going up! I cut back to weekly weigh-ins and that has helped. One of my keto goals is to get to a maintenance stage and not even worry about that number on the scale. Some day…

(Cancer Fighting Ketovore :)) #34

I don’t weigh myself that often. I sometimes do out of curiosity (and to make sure I’m not going under-weight). I get weighed enough with all the frequent doctor/medical appointments I have. :confused: Not that my weight bothers me.

(JoJo ) #35

I HATE the scale. And just like you, when I visit the Dr. I tell them I don’t want to be weighed but when it’s for a physical, I guess they have to so I either close my eyes or turn around. They definitely think I’m crazy but I don’t friggin care!! As far as I’m concerned, my clothes are my scale! I feel great and that’s what counts.

(Marianne) #36

:+1:

#37

I didn’t weight myself for the first two years of keto/LCHF - and only used a measuring tape about once a month. It was wonderful seeing myself shrink.

And when I implemented a digital scale check out of curiosity about my mass, it was kinda of surreal and upsetting at times. My mass shrinkage/fat loss/muscle gain and waist measurement that is not considered overweight for my height haven’t resulted in an airy-fairy weight AS IF THAT IS THE GOAL, sheesh. Why would I even fkng care??? Well, industrial society has some pretty sick female socialization about how a healthy weight = emaciation/Barbiedoll/weakness + cosmetic surgery for those who can afford it - rather than robustness, glandular radiance, and natural gravitas & health.

Having been raised by a non-obese diet-pill addict mother who kept scales in the bathroom and who after joining WW religiously & unpleasantly weighed her food at the table and counted calories in a life of SAD (probable eating disorder too) and the usual health issues as the years went by - I’ve got a lot of ambivalence about weight vs. actual health anyway, and the scale has brought that to my awareness.

I’m making the most of it, celebrating my substance. I deeply value the privilege having a well-nourished, strong body of substance to support my whole health. And with role models like Cagney & Lacey, Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, Beyonce, and various female triathlelete and ‘ironman’ champs of substance, I’m in good company. :sparkles::sparkles::sparkles:

(Bob M) #38

So, for a test I’m going to do, I restarted weighing myself daily, before going to the gym or showering, as the case may be, no clothes, ring, watch, etc. The first day is Monday, then I fasted 36 hours, went to the gym about the 32 hour point, ate two meals on Tuesday. Here is why I stopped weighing myself:

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I lost about 5 pounds merely by fasting, then gained almost 3 in one day by eating. For me, this is basically the pattern I had before when I was recording my weight. There is way too much “noise”.

Also, I injured my rotator cuffs by doing work on our house. And then I continued injuring them (or at least not allowing them to rest) by doing more house work. So, I’ve not been lifting weights on my upper body, which means I’m sure, muscle loss. We’ll see how many pushups I can do when I workout this week. I was up to over 20. I’ll be lucky to hit 10, I think. The scale does not show muscle mass gain or loss.

In fact, the lowest weight I got to before this was just before I had shoulder surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff muscle. Looking back, I was so low in weight because at the time, I could not exercise at all. I thus was at my lowest muscle mass. The scale does not show that. Once I was finally able to begin recovery, including exercise, my weight ballooned upward. Why? Because I was gaining muscle mass.

#39

I honestly don’t get the obsession with weight people so often have…
I don’t even know my heighest weight as I only bought a scale when I had already lost some weight. Weighing myself was informative, I was very curious about my average TDEE and I had to see my weight changes while tracking calories (or guess them pretty well, there was a time when I automatically ate very similarly nearly every day) to figure it out. Not like that matters most of the time but as I wrote I’m very curious, I collect various data about things I’m interested in.
But when I don’t focus on fat loss super hard? Why would I weigh myself? I know the number and I don’t care about it. If I get fatter or leaner, I will see anyway… I don’t care about my weight, I just want to have little body fat (and more muscles if possible for such a lazy one) but my health is the most important. It’s pretty noticeable if I have more than a little fat to lose…
I never was obsessed with the scale. Even with my very fixed weight (genetics and too much food), there are some fluctuations (but mostly when I eat more/less carbs) and it’s fine. I never ever was sad seeing a big number on the scale. I was there when I ate, I know what I can expect and I know fluctuations are normal too. I always was this chill but my several years stall made me it even more pronounced :D. I will weigh myself again when I eat less for a while. But it still won’t be needed, I just want data.

We are all different, though. My SO easily gains fat unlike me and as we have a scale now, he checks his weight sometimes. It’s always the same, he’s careful nowadays but it’s safer to check.
Some people may be careful but gains fat easily, they really need to see if they gained some, it doesn’t need to be a scale, though, fitting clothes usually do the trick.

If I ever slim down, I will almost never weigh myself I imagine (and I won’t track macros either)… Except when bulking but even so, very rarely as my weight will change very slowly.

(Troy) #40

Only to make sure the batteries still are working
And to prepare to be a Carnival Weight Guesser!!:smile:

I weigh in phases These days
Just to see that magical fluctuation of +3/-3 lbs
Maintenance mode.
Nothing really to see…a good thing