Comments on: Weight Loss and Verifiable Outcomes

By: 100 Pounds of Lessons — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog

100 Pounds of Lessons — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 02:42:21 +0000

[...] not to let the scale beat you [...]

By: Fool me once, shame on you… — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog

Fool me once, shame on you… — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:15:33 +0000

[...] have written over and over and over about how I’m ditching the scale. Yet somehow, in a moment of weakness I get on it [...]

By: Extreme Kickball and Inches Lost — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog

Extreme Kickball and Inches Lost — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:47:19 +0000

[...] since I’m still boycotting the scale, I did take my measurements. Since I’ve started the gym 5 weeks ago, I lost another 5.75 [...]

By: Picture of Progress — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog

Picture of Progress — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:13:15 +0000

[...] you guys for putting up with me and my whining lately about scale frustrations, Biggest Loser delusions and pitting edema frustrations. I watched the video from last night with [...]

By: Gwen

Gwen — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 05:29:38 +0000

Found you through FGG. I totally relate to what you're saying…it's hard to stay on the right track when you aren't getting the widgets that are “supposed” to result. Five years ago or so I spent a summer really trying to shape up (I worked up to working out 5 days a week for an hour)…in two months I lost no weight at all according to my scale and then in the next month 7-10 pounds came off. This made no sense to me until I realized that I had been getting stronger and building muscle the whole time…which made my metabolism faster. The body is a nonlinear machine, and you just have to hang in there. I try to keep this in mind now when I start up new exercise programs. Like, no change in a week? I just do my best to ignore it, and keep at what I know is good for me.

By: benjamteal

benjamteal — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:44:45 +0000

No problem! I gave up just using the scale a while back, but I am a numbers geek, so I have been using that formula ever since…

By: skinnyemmie

skinnyemmie — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:50:38 +0000

Ben- I hadn't heard of that formula before, but just looked it up and it looks really interesting! At this point, it'd be much more realistic than just doing a weight & height “traditional” BMI calculation. Thanks for sharing!

By: I’m Quitting — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog

I’m Quitting — Skinny Emmie Weight Loss Blog — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:27:22 +0000

[...] I wrote yesterday, I was having hubs hide my scale. He successfully completed his mission, and I am now scale-less. I [...]

By: Clstin31

Clstin31 — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:22:00 +0000

Emma,

I am glad I found your new blog. Since I restarted my journey, I have made a few decisions. One was weiging weekly – weigh day on Saturday because that was the first day I weighed. I restarted some months back and said I was not going to weight at all and measure by the fit of my clothes (in truth that was another denial tool). So I am committed to weighing once a week only. It's a compromise between daily weighing which leads to obessing in my head and not weighing which leads to denial in my world. I started on May 8th and it is working for me. I still say “Show me the money” as you put it but the weekly weighing has definitely been better for me.

Claritta aka going_down

By: KCLAnderson (Karen)

KCLAnderson (Karen) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:55:52 +0000

I stopped weighing some time last year…not sure when. I am so glad I did because weighing had me in an awful cycle of self-loathing, obsession, and fear. It was hard at first, and it took a while for the cycle to stop, but it did eventually and I am grateful because I am truly learning how to eat intuitively and to trust myself. For me success equals peace with food and my body.

By: CurvyJones

CurvyJones — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:35:12 +0000

I locked mine in my trunk for two weeks once. Hahaha!

By: Big Girl Bombshell

Big Girl Bombshell — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:15:40 +0000

How about the Trim Trusting Bombshell…..because I trust you will learn to do all of this and become everything that is hidden in your heart

By: Noel Depp

Noel Depp — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:59:43 +0000

I have had to do that too. Casey hid the scale from me for a month.

By: Marh Wilson

Marh Wilson — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:36:41 +0000

I love this post Emmie! I understand exactly what you are talking about. My Body seems to not lose what I want it to, even though I do everything I should. But my clothes are loose, my breathing is better, and I have more energy so I know I have to remember those results are also the widgets my body has produced.

By: Drfattofit

Drfattofit — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:30:37 +0000

I know exactly how you feel. Last week I gained .2 pounds. POINT 2. WTH? I was irritated and in fact sometimes the scale takes on a personality in my head and laughs viciously. But, you are totally right about other measures. It is about being fit, not just losing weight. Today I noticed a muscle in my are I've never seen before! That's victory. Hang in. It'll happen.

By: benjamteal

benjamteal — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:10:49 +0000

Emmie, it's good to see someone approaching the metrics side – a partner in crime. My whole think is treating your body like a business, with metrics and measures and verifiable outcomes.

Have you considered using a formula (like the one from the US Navy) to estimate body fat percentage? It won't be 100% accurate, but it will be directionally correct, and is probably a better metric for changes in your body, especially as you workout and your body composition changes (fat down, muscle up, weight same, but still good).

Ben

By: skinnyemmie

skinnyemmie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:08:56 +0000

I know- like I said to Mary below, I don't know if “new agey” was the right word- perhaps “foreign” is correct because I don't trust it. My body seemed to love being 455 pounds and telling me to eat. Of course, that was my head doing that work, not really my body.
I've been trying to think of a bombshell name for the past couple of days. Maybe it could be “Emmie, the No Scale Bombshell” LOL

By: skinnyemmie

skinnyemmie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:07:28 +0000

LOL Kat! Hopefully if I do go looking for it, I'll realize how stupid I'm being before I find it

By: skinnyemmie

skinnyemmie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:07:01 +0000

You hit the nail on the head, Brittany- “it's hard to learn how to listen”
This is such a foreign concept to me. To put my trust in something that I have to interpret versus just seeing a tangible number is super scary. I'm hovering around 400 pounds. To have to just “trust” that I'm doing everything right puts a lot of faith in myself that I don't think I've earned yet.

By: skinnyemmie

skinnyemmie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:05:06 +0000

Maybe “new agey” isn't the right word, but it is definitely a foreign feeling to try to “listed to my body.” My body used to tell me to binge. I don't trust myself to listen to my body- it's something completely new, and frankly, uncomfortable.

By: skinnyemmie

skinnyemmie — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:03:38 +0000

I think I need to get to weighing myself 1x a month. It's so hard though when I feel like I'm just starting on this journey and I feel the intense need to drop some of this poundage fast. Hovering around the 400 mark is NOT a comfortable feeling knowing I'm working my butt off (figuratively at least. literally is not working!)
Yeah, I do measure, once a month. I'm due up for measurement in a couple of weeks. Hopefully there will be a little change there.

By: Big Girl Bombshell

Big Girl Bombshell — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:46:09 +0000

Good job Emmie! There is much more to this journey. The scale isn't the ONLY measure…you are finding other things to see your success! Listening to your body isn't really new agey either. It's kinda old fashioned. Before scales, people ate when they could, or when they were hungry and that MOVED alot.
That's what I tell myself anyway….Back to Basic and getting to know this body that I've ignored and punished for way too long!

By: Katdoesdiets

Katdoesdiets — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:54:33 +0000

LOL! I have had hubby hide the scale more than once. You know you're in trouble…when you're looking for it when he's not home…or, so I've, uh, heard

By: Brittany

Brittany — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:28:16 +0000

I think our body does know best. It knows what it's doing, the changes it's making, and what it needs. It's hard to learn how to listen though. I left a comment on another blog the other day, saying that my body is probably screaming at me, “It's like talking to a wall!” ;D I'm trying to get better…

By: Mary (A Merry Life)

Mary (A Merry Life) — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:16:53 +0000

I weigh myself, but I don't let it discourage me. Whether it's up or down I'm still going to do the things that I know are making me healthier, whatever the scale says. We tend to put waaaay too much emphasis on that number.

Listen to your body isn't new agey at all. That's stupid. It's what people have done for thousands of years before scales were invented. Knowing and obsessing over your weight is what's new agey and strange. So yes, get your husband to hide the scale. Live a little without it until you know how to listen to your body and do what it needs.

By: Lisa Eirene

Lisa Eirene — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:09:00 +0000

DON'T let the scale number get you down!!!! I am in that vortex right now and it's discouraging. My solution was to only weigh myself 1x a month so I wouldn't get discouraged with the daily/weekly ups and downs.

Do you measure yourself? This was something I did not do during my weight loss. It was only about a year ago that I started measuring because I wasn't seeing a number change. But low and behold, I'd lose inches!