Thanks so much
I was looking through the posts for some inspiration and I found this post by LindsayAnne0 who was quoting another member (not sure who) and I really liked it:
"I was just reading the 'sticky' at the top of this forum and found this and thought it would be inspiring to both of us:
"All the scales in the world are broken:
As an Atkineer, you may as well get used to the fact that all the scales in the world are broken. I went from a size 22 to a size 16 and no scale showed a weight loss. Nevertheless, when I went to Ross to buy a new pair of jeans, I was astounded to discover the plus sizes would no longer fit me and the same thing is going to happen to you.
You can lose inches and even drop down complete sizes and still remain the exact same weight on the scale.
In the past, no doubt during another low fat diet, you learned to use the scale to tell your daily fortune. If it dipped down you felt good about yourself but then would wonder why it wasn’t a bigger dip. If it dipped up you felt awful about yourself and decided a good solution for your depression was to binge immediately, after all, the scale claims you are fatter anyway right? And if you stay the same, you don’t know whether to be mad, sad or glad…
Ladies and gentleman I submit to you that using a clunky metal machine to determine our self worth for the day is a masochistic ritual that needs to take a flying leap out of our life. There are other kinds of weight we want to lose. The heavy, heavy burden of self defeating rituals that undermine our best efforts to change is definately something good to lose. Stay off the scale. Determine your own destiny
I think what I need to do is hide the scale and get out the measuring tape and just have my pair of jeans that I currently cannot breathe in nearby and use those things as barometers instead.....