is it stupid to try to lose weight and not weight myself?

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I have scales.
Ive not used them.

In the past, when i have, i get dragged into that awful thing where you end up stepping on them everyday.

And being wonderfully pleased if you have lost and then, if you havent. feeling crap and thinking that its not working anyway.. so i may as eat lots of chocolate.

I know ive put on weight, my jeans are tight. I know what i weighed at xmas ( after i had lost 1.5 stone) and i know that the jeans i was wearing are now tight.

Is it stupid to not weight myself. but just go by seeing how stuff fits???

why not weigh yourself somewhere else once a week, at roughly the same time?

where else...????

in a shop or something. god, no. cant imagine anything worse.

besides. what i will then do, is jump on the scales at home. to see if its the same. then ill end up jumping on a few days later.

and then it wont be long till im on them everyday like a crazy woman.

At the gym? They usually have all sorts of cool extras like body fat monitor which is another interesting tool for tracking improvements.

You could throw your scales away you know!

The gym... lol.
I wish :)

Liberate yourself. Get rid of your scales. I am nearly 35 years old and have never owned a pair of scales

(is pair of scales correct? Seems silly now I've seen it written down)

Anyway, as you say, you know your own body, you know when you have lost weight, you feel better when you have.

Good luck!

I used to use wii fit as scales but it was so wildly variable, could get off and answer the door and get back on 3lbs heavier!

We don't have scales at home, there is something tyrannical about them.

I wish I didn't have scales. I'm always on and off them so much so you get obsesed!!!

I weight myself once a moth, if that. I dont need scales to tell me that my clothes fit better or that I am looking good :) Im not bothered by numbers, I am however bothered by how I look & feel.

I'm trying to keep an eye on my weight for the sake of a certain small pony, would also like to lose about a stone and a half so I have a more comfortable margin for giving up smoking. I think if you just want to change your shape and size then you could theoretically do that without access to scales, just measure inch loss?

There is something quite incentivising about numbers isn't there? Will never have my own scales again though. It's too easy to get obsessed.

I'm tracking my food on myfitness pal so I know I'm doing ok. And my jeans which two weeks ago were hard to do up and very tight, aren't :)

I know ill get all obsessed if I even get on the scales just once...

I don't want to measure inch.loss either.. I end up all obsessed.
Am trying to do this as something sustainable.for Life
Measuring isn't
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