No Scale Challenge

(Andrew Anderson) #1

No more scale until Star Wars Day! May the 4th.

I’ll admit, I became obsessed and stressed about the stupid scale. Like quitting smoking I need to quit weighing all the time. I know I’m slowly shrinking as a welcome side effect of feeling healthier and that should be good enough. I need to stop dwelling on my mass times the acceleration of gravity.

This may be a n=1 condition of mine, but if this N equals more… feel free to join me in breaking away from the scale for a short period of time.
As always thanks for being an amazing group of supportive people.

(Evan) #2

Can I make a suggestion?

Photos photos photos.

Take them every week and you will then see your visual change. The scale is a number. That number does not tell you muscle muscle percentage fat percentage water or bone percentage.

Now photos you can compare week to week. The photos don’t lie but that damn scale does.

Keep up the work and keep moving on you got this.

(Elizabeth Mitchell) #3

Measure! That’s the best way to prove it’s evaporating.

(Candace) #4

I’m on board! I use to weigh once a week, but starting Keto had me doing it once a day and I’ve been watching my weight go up and down so much, it is really stressing me out.

(jilliangordona) #5

Agreed! I recently took a progress pic and compared it to one in December. I gained 5 pounds on the scale, but had a significant different in my stomach area (much smaller). Pictures and measurements are the way to go!

(Tom) #6

To that end, I would humbly add that it would be ideal to take each progress photo at the same time of day, under the same lighting, same angle, and with the same clothing.

(Andrew Anderson) #7

Okay! I’m excited now, must find the measuring device!

(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #8

I agree with measuring and photos, of course (although photos can be tough … I find them so).

But I still keep weighing. (Mainly because I know that in the past, not weighing allowed me to go into denial about regaining when I fell off the wagon).

I now think of it this way:This is my n=1 scientific experiment, and in science, data is everything, and one needs regular (= every day for me now) recordings of data. By regarding it this way, noting it down and adding it to a spreadsheet, depersonalises it just enough so that I don’t get too emotional about it (after I have to record a gain, which I too often do, or at least a “no loss” day). I’m just my own guinea-pig…admittedly a favourite, pet guinea-pig. :wink:

(Nicole Anne Parlee) #9

I’m in! I don’t see my scale often. I need to get pics and measurements, thanks for the idea!