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I am addicted to it too. So I started a challenge in the Challenges Forum called Monday Only Weigh-Ins. While the scale is an indicator of weight lost, it also is depressing to see it go up instead of down when you're doing everything right--even though somewhere in the back of your mind you know that weight can fluctuate. As I'm here to make a lifestyle change and a long term commitment, I don't want to be focused on the immediate results--including my weight on the scale so I am vowing to only weigh in on mondays! Once a week and I will probably be happier with the results.
If any of you guys wanna kick the scale addiction come join me on my challenge in the Community Contact/SparkPeople Challenges Forum!
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SUITEANGEL
1/15/07 1:06 A
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I weigh myself after I pee and before getting in the shower. But I will also check myself at other times of the day just to see where I stand.
I use to go weeks without checking my weight. And it is way better for me to check daily. That way, eating right is always on my mind.
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I always weigh myself in the morning, just before I hit the shower. That's what i consider my "true" weight.
But I do hit teh scale other times in the day to see how much I fluctuate. I don't see a problem with it, cause I don't consider myself "obsessed". There's times when I will be on the scale 2-3 times a day, then go a week without going on it!
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RINTHEAMAZING
1/14/07 1:59 P
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| I have a scale, but I don't think I'm going to use it again until I feel a difference in how my clothes fit. I think that's going to be the real test for me.
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| hmm. I had never weighed myself in my entire life, except for the doctors office, until I joined spark people. I was shocked to be 137 when I first weighed myself. Thats 27 pounds more than is normal for my frame and than what my last doctors appointment had been. I can definately see the benefits of weighing in once in a while. Its too easy to delude myself if i don't!
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KCARLEY59
1/14/07 12:45 P
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Great Humor. I loved the hopper! I also loved the suggestion that the scale be put out of site until official weigh in day. I also am obsessed with that infernal instrument.
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MEANLITTLEJENNY
1/14/07 10:03 A
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| I feel for you. I am up a pound from yesterday and I was very good yesterday. Is it because I had my coffee first? Do I have to poop? You just drive yourself crazy!!!!!
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| Scales can be our worst enemy at times!!! Unless they are telling us what we want to see :D
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SHEPHERDORA
1/14/07 7:45 A
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| Okay, I can live with that, it means I lost a pound:)
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| Whichever was the first reading!!! :)
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SHEPHERDORA
1/14/07 7:19 A
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| I have been very good about avoiding the scale until this morning. I am supposed to weigh in, but do I take the 253, 256, or 255? I really want the first one but is it the right one?
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FREEDOM2GO
1/14/07 7:16 A
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Scales are the pits. I have two of them which should both be as reliable as each other but they aren't. One is a  scale with a needle that points to lbs and it is 5 lbs less that this scale  which is digital. Today, the digital one shows me as 2 lbs more than a couple of days ago while the other one consistently shows the same weight.
My solution...I just weigh myself once a week that I count and that is on Thursday morning.
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Gosh are we junkies or are we junkies.??
Give us something to get addicted to and we will addict it ....:)
I was a Scale hopper extra-ordinaire. Give me an excuse to get on them and I would -- I would even strip every time -- no point doing it any other way I thought.
You know the scenario --
Up in the morning -- straight to loo -- sit there and squeeze everything possible that is squeezable to get rid of every last bit of get ridables gone, all the time the heart rate increasing cos you are going to get on them FOR REAL this time -- THIS time it MEANS something.
Having got yourself in a state about what they are going to say you square up to them -- lift one foot -- close eyes cos you dont want to see ANYTHING yet, and then two feet. Get steady now, no movement, keep still. Stop weaving about, stand straight and tall -- breathe in.... Dare you open an eye and look?
Of course the next bit determines EVERYTHING. If its gone down -- we start this mad 'am I clever or what!' thing -- the 'give yourself a big pat on the back' thing..the 'walking on air' thing. But if it has moved in the opposite direction even one iota, or stayed still, we go into the 'Hopper' mode.
Now the Hopper is a strange person. Characterised by an inability to see a pair of scales without going into hyperventilation.
The Hopper doubts their own eyes, see's mechanical failure as a given, and thinks that by using all their contortionist skills they can alter the unalterable.
You know the sort of thing....Lean forwards, lean back, left foot only...darn, right foot then. Perhaps one finger on the sink, two? ...Did I wee? can I p....okay we might skip that one lol....
Lets try before dinner, after dinner, midnight, early morning, once a day - ten times a day...I moved the scales -- they were a cm. to the left last time -- no carpets - innaccurate -- must be a hard floor - lets try again!!
Have I been there or what?? Sigh.
I feel for you ladies I do really...but it makes me smile too. Dont get me wrong I love the scales, but they are my worst enemy...well one of them.
When I am weighing myself morning noon and night, I am not doing myself any favours. It is a fact that your body is going to weigh differently depending on what you put in it, what you are wearing, what time of day it is, if you have just worked out ...there are so many variables, it is madness to expect them to always read the same. They are scales -- they GO UP AND DOWN.
To Weigh once a week is cool, once a day is really too much - nothing meaningful happens in a day, twice a day is pure excessive, and more that that -- you are nuts like me!
I binned my scales for just that reason. I have to report that I put on weight. I need to know that what I am doing is actually affecting my weight positively. But I realise that the games I was playing were destructive. I bought a new pair of scales - and it doesn't matter if they say the same as yours, or weight watcher's or joe blog's down the street -- as long as they are accurate in themselves and the darned things go down instead of up. I weigh once a week and put the scales out of sight. If I can see them I weigh. I use a tape measure and take a set of measurements once a week - because I know that scales sometimes LIE!!!!!! and I need to know that my body is changing shape somehow -- that I might not have lost lbs but I have lost inches.
Scale hopping is a nightmare. It keeps you locked where you are..its much kinder and far more productive to put them away until you are required -- ie your weigh in day, to use them.
Hope that helps :)
Elyssande
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SHEPHERDORA
1/14/07 5:43 A
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My scale can't make up its mind, I will get on it three times in a row and come up with a different weight each time, within 7 lbs of each other.
Any suggestions on an affordable scale that will actually work?
I am about ready to scream, I was so excited when I first weighed in this morning, but the second time it showed me one lb heavier after a week. That is going up and not down.
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LUCKYSPRITE030
1/13/07 6:42 P
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| I just started this program on Tuesday and have had a great week food/exercise wise, my problem is that I seem to be obsessed with my scale. I know that scale weight is not the only indicator of losing weight/getting healthy, but I hate the fluctuation that it has eash time i see it. I will "officially" weigh in next tuesday, I just hope that it is one of the "good ones". Just wondering if anyone else has this "issue" (that i hope i will lose over time).
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