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Think I will cut out the ticker from my page!!! 
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MEDDYPEDDY
2/24/2011 2:06AM
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My ticker is embarrassing mostly because nothing happens... but I don´t care that much about it, the scale IRL bothers me a lot more because I am realising that the scale creates a lot of anxiety with me or is it the fact that the scale denies me denial...
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SOLUCKY12
2/22/2011 7:27PM
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Lots of interesting ideas here. I don't let my ticker bother me and have moved it up and down, but I tend to be really honest with it. It sat at 161.5 for a long time over Christmas. It is just one of the many tools on Spark People. It motivates me, so I keep it. If others aren't being honest about their ticker, it really only matters to them as another form of denial. Some people actually lose inches and treasure those results. I just use my clothes as another gauge. Whatever works for you is just fine. There are plenty of sparkers whose tickers don't move much, but enjoy the community messages and other features. They aren't hurting anyone, so who cares? I love your beautiful background picture, but didn't even look at your ticker. 
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KAKIPOPUP
2/22/2011 5:19PM
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I don't know how much you are trying to lose - I am aiming for a fairly large loss and I changed my ticker to show only 10 pounds at a time (this way, each pound moves the indicator a significant amount) - Do whatever works for you - Report Inappropriate Comment |
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JUSTBIRDY
2/22/2011 10:02AM
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I'd keep the ticker. I know that sometimes I am at a plateua, and it is easy to quit monitoring, but if I continue to monitor, then at least things don't get bad as quickly.
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INGMARIE
2/22/2011 8:00AM
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My ticker has and still is doing a see-saw thing too, up a bit one day next few weigh ins it is down so i only moved it when there was a real change. It will happen to you too. keep up the work, You might also be building muscle wich weighs more. 
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SUZYMARC
2/22/2011 6:20AM
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You know I have the ticker on my page and really don't fret about it even though for the past 4 months at least it keeps either inching back up a few pounds then slides down a few pounds. I understand the frustration but I do my best to look beyond the scale tracker. Maybe we should request they put an inches lost tracker option up too? If it bothers you too much take it off your page and put it back on in a few months since it will continue to track as you enter your changes it just won't be visible. If you want post something positive changes you see on a daily basis on your page and not be concerned about the weight tracker and see if that helps motivate you more. Report Inappropriate Comment |
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DSJB9999
2/22/2011 5:31AM
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I think Project-Me's ideas are good! I haven't altered my weight online to allow for my weight on over Christmas so my ticker says I'm at target but its rubbish. If you do look at other people's ticker they may not be honest - like mine isn't!   Have removed my ticker now as its dishonest and I'm not!!! Comment edited on: 2/22/2011 5:33:48 AM Report Inappropriate Comment |
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EXENEC
2/22/2011 5:29AM
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If it causes more anxiety than motivation, I'd get rid of it, at least for now. I've just come off a 6 week plateau myself. I have been a slave to the tyranny of the scale, and it's really such a limited measure of health.
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GINA4EVER
2/22/2011 5:08AM
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Maybe you should remove it for a month and see how you do. I know I like to be motivated but not "policed". I tend to dig my heels in and do the opposite if I feel like someone (or something) is trying to tell me what to do. Maybe that's how you feel about your ticker. If after a month you don't have any changes, then it's not the ticker, and you can put it back. Don't torture yourself by looking at everyone else's ticker either! lol The only one that matters is yours. Good luck!
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I start to feel like myself again! 
Today we had to pick our scooter up from the shop in Benidorm, and we made that into an active day in stead of what it could have been; taking the car there, picking the scooter up and going home again.
What we did was this:
Went for a long walk by the beach and up in a nature park called "Sierra Helada" where I have never gone before and it was wonderful and a bit unrealistic.
We started from the bus station in Benidorm. Through the old town with a lot of shops and cafés, down to the beach (a lot of people sunbathing today).
Walked all along the Levante beach where the Little England 
is with all their pubs. Saw as many drunken englishmen as I could take! 
From there we left the beach and went up hill and the world changed as we turned to the park.
It was quiet and relaxing. The only ones there where people enjoying the beautiful day, and seagulls hanging in the air above us. When we reached the old tower at the end of the track we had the med sea in front and on both sides of us, and the mountain behind us.
It felt like we had come in to another world and that the busy Benidorm was not only a couple of km away.
We stood there breathing in the salty air looking at the sea for a minute and then we headed back to get the scooter and go home. My steptracker tells me we walked 16 km today. Not bad for a lazy monday!
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MIKEAZ
2/21/2011 7:04PM
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Sounds great
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INGMARIE
2/21/2011 5:15PM
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awesome day for you, Funny this about drunken englishmen,I spent a few weeks as a teenager in Sitges and they were there too. Not much have changes I guess. 
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RU4FLGATORS
2/21/2011 5:00PM
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Awesome!! I wanna go there! 
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FCASTELO
2/21/2011 4:38PM
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