Trying to identify the most common thread in weiht gain. would like your experiences Topic

Dietitian 06/13/12
I never weighed myself as an adult until I was trying to lose and then maintain weight. I didn't even own a scale!

Even now, I keep the scale in the basement (2 flights down from my bedroom) so that I don't see the scale unless I choose to.

Best,
Kathy

Febrown 06/14/12
Looking it see if when a lapse hapens or relase whether people still weigh themselves. In a previous life I did not and feel that contributed to a lase becoming a relase and eventually the collapse of weight maint. Looking to see if I am unique in that or more the norm.

I look back an see I put emotions on a tool. As though not knowing made me not fat or less unhappy. I can say now that was at best stupid as whether I knew or not, the fact was I gained weight. Not really knowing just added pounds. If I had known I don't know if I would have stopped the gain a lot sooner than I did. If I had not at least I would have had more control over decisions.

Ccmandel 06/14/12
I agree Fran...the "not knowing" is just not facing the truth, which in the end, really only hurts us.

All part of the mental process of losing weight, which I believe is so critical.

Susan

Clochette2 06/14/12
Oh, definitely on board for the weighing in. I do it weekly and that works for me. There was a time when I was losing that I did it monthly because progress was slow and discouraging on a weekly basis, but I was really motivated to see the monthly number. Back in the day, I tried to tell myself that I didn't need to weigh in as long as I felt healthy. Well, my weight continued to rise at my annual physical with my doc, until I was 30 lbs above where I wanted to be (and at that point things like blood pressure and blood sugar start to rise as well). I had to make a decision to take charge. I was worried that I would become as obsessed with the scale as I was in high school when my sister and I were so competitive about weight and she developed a full-on eating disorder, and I was pretty close. Slowly (with help and support from some of you) I have come to see the scale as just another tool to help me with my life. I'd much rather check my weight regularly than have to daily check blood sugar or blood pressure because of being overweight.

Febrown 06/14/12
Funny how we give tool power and think deluding ourselves works. I pray I have learned to get past that as I use the Brown university study-red yellow green which requires a daily weigh in with one day per week as the recording day. Kind of made me see the scale as a needed tool like a glucometer is for a diabetic.

You are right has to hurt a lot less than a finger stck! Good for you taking the power away from a tool. You have done so well!-Fran

Dietitian 06/14/12
I think back on the years just before I went back to school in dietetics. Not only did I not own a scale, but I wore stretchy, non-formed pants all the time, and I didn't have a full-length mirror. So, I was shocked when I finally felt sick and tired enough to start weighing myself. And that is when I started to help myself...and that led to going back to school to become registered!
Kathy

Ccmandel 06/15/12
Thank goodness we get smarter as we get older!!!

Susan

Dietitian 06/16/12
Darn body - just when my mind is at its peak, the body is already in decline! :) Kathy

Clochette2 06/18/12
Well, I think my body is definitely better and stronger than it was 3 years ago when I started this journey! Thank goodness. Not sure I am smarter, but definitely have some smarter habits.

Febrown 06/18/12
Well that is a success.

Trying to identify the most common thread in weiht gain. would like your experiences