Does weighing yourself fuck with anyone's head as badly as it does mine?

[Singingtherapy]

I've had 30 years as a failed dieter. Constantly starting diets, losing a bit and then putting it back on plus more. I've realised that weighing myself messes with my head and so decided a few weeks ago to just try and cut down a bit and gauge my progress by my clothes. Amazingly it started going really well and I kept it up for 3 weeks. Until yesterday, when I had the stupid thought to have a peep at the scales. Annoyingly I'd only lost a pound. So my brain told me to eat myself stupid! Honestly I reckon I had around 5000 calories. (I do suffer with binge eating disorder). Has anyone successfully lost weight without weighing?

Yes! My new PT has told me to chuck them out. I take fortnightly photos and 4 weekly measurements and I've never been motivated. If I had stepped on the scale at a random point in this journey chances are the 'weight loss' would be minimal and I'd have went face first into a dominos

Yup, strangely I was thinking off this only the other day. The last time I weighed myself was just before going on a girls night out, I felt fine before I stood on those scales but when I saw what I weighed I felt instantly shit. I turned up 2 hours late as I was desperately trying on clothes that I felt nice in.

I binned those fucking scales.

She sent my side by side photos after 6 weeks and the visible change is great

It did. I threw the scales out years ago.

I've never been a dieter, but if I want to 'neaten-up', I skip a few breakfasts and eat smaller portions amd my trousers feel a little looser.
We don't own scales. I got weighed at the doctors 3-4 years ago when I registered. I then weighed myself at my mum's in September to check I've not allowed weight to creep on during the intervening years.

The psychological impact is insane. Definitely back on the mission now. Sensible eating, healthy choices, regular exercise, scales out of bounds!