I can't stop weighing myself....

prncssrachel Posted: Jul 25, 2003 02:24 PM

I can't stop weighing myself....

I know I posted on NWR about compulsions, and my mother is OCD about her weight BIG TIME! But I keep weighing myself everyday, sometimes twice a day and I cannot stop. I don't get upset at what the scale says, and I actually lost another pound so far this week, but I also know myself, and I had problems when I was a teenager with the same compulsions as my mom, only my goal weight was always lowering and lowering. Does anyone else ahve this problem?

palebride Posted: Jul 25, 2003 02:35 PM

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i weigh myself everyday - and i think about weighing myself more than once a day...not going to admit how many times. i have complusions just like that. i have never been diagnosed, but i definitely have some strain of OCD because i'm crazy about organization!
Try to take your mind off of it though....I'd say try to cut down to just once a day (nothing wrong witht hat in my eyes) but don't focus your whole day on it. Of course, now that I've started thinking about it - I want to go weigh myelf! I didn't do it this morning......

prncssrachel Posted: Jul 25, 2003 02:51 PM

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I just think every time I go to put something in my mouth, is this going to make me weigh more on the scale. ARGH! It's so annoying. I had a nutritionist who I went to and she would weigh me backwards and not tell me how much I weighed or how much I gained or lost. She would just tell me I was up or down. As great as that was because it kept me focused on the right things, I can't afford to go to a nutrionist to have them do that for me, and it made me not look at my actual weight for YEARS. So I would be in denial about how much I weighed, whether I was thin or heavy. UGH, I don't know. So annoying. I have to try to control it though.

Jen_n_Dale Posted: Jul 25, 2003 04:59 PM

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I do it too rachel. I do it once in the morning and then in the evening. And then sneak a couple after I had to go to the bathroom. Hey, I am honest!!!

palebride Posted: Jul 25, 2003 05:09 PM

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lol - i weigh myself after i go to the bathroom too!
hey - you never know how much of a difference it could make!

lorimari Posted: Jul 25, 2003 05:14 PM

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girls

Men don't do this, only us

prncssrachel Posted: Jul 25, 2003 05:21 PM

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OMG, girls, you just made me feel SO much better! I was getting worried about myself! (newsflash, when you weigh yourself so many times a day, you notice that going to the bathroom DOES make a difference! )

soon2bmrs2004 Posted: Jul 25, 2003 07:13 PM

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I used to do this but I threw the stupid scale out!
I only weigh my self once a week now at the gym.

eternityawaits Posted: Jul 25, 2003 07:34 PM

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I want to use the same scale every time (that way I know it's more accurate) so I only use the scale at the gym. I try to weigh myself only on Friday but sometimes I can't help it and do it every day.

Jen_n_Dale Posted: Jul 25, 2003 09:47 PM

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I also have a digital because I used to have the one with the numbers and noticed I could kind of fix it where I 'lost' 5 pounds. With the digital, there is no way you can do that.

I was at my bro's house once and saw their bathroom scale sitting there in the bathroom. You guessed it, I got undressed and weighed myself.

So.... if someone is taking a while in the bathroom, they are probably weighing themselves not checking the medicine cabinet. Ok, maybe you do that too.

prncssrachel Posted: Jul 25, 2003 10:01 PM

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Jen that's too funny!
BTW- I want to get together one of these days!

Imagin916 Posted: Jul 25, 2003 10:17 PM

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You will only dissapoint yourself when you get on the scale every day (I know I used to) because water shifts, ect that you might gain 1 lb one day, lose it the next, ect. I like getting weighed in every week and seeing the progress, its like a gift to myself every week!

palebride Posted: Jul 26, 2003 01:12 PM

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I'll admit it too - I weigh myself at other people's houses. Only I like to do it with all of my clothes and shoes on - so that when it's too much I can deduct at least 5 pounds for clothes and shoes!

And I started weighing myself everyday becuse I liked to see how my body reacted to certain foods - what caused more weight gain than others. So when I paid attention to what I ate, I could also pay attention to what it was doing to my body. Madem e feel more in control.

stacedz Posted: Jul 26, 2003 04:25 PM

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Totally agree with Imagin...you should really only weigh yourself once a week...water/sodium intake, etc. all can make that scale go up and and down, believe me I have been there but I try and wait to do it every Monday morning at the same time. It will make you nuts girls!

Kathy116 Posted: Jul 26, 2003 04:39 PM

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Yep, I agree with weighing only once a week for all the above reasons. It's much more accurate.

jenny2penny Posted: Jul 28, 2003 07:53 PM

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definetly you will either drive yourself nuts or get discouraged if you keep weiging yourself. Go based on how your clothes fit and you feel. Those are the things that count most. Tone up, exercise, eat great, and of course the numbers will drop, but focus on the feeling you get. Don't let some scale decide if you are happy of not for the day.

Jen_n_Dale Posted: Jul 30, 2003 08:23 AM

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Rachel-
I just fm'd you!

aliciahelene Posted: Jul 30, 2003 04:49 PM

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I weigh myself EVERY day, in teh mroning.and youd think Id learn not to weigh myself when its that time of the month.but yet I still do it. Its truly a sickness..Im obsessed with my wieght!