I know on the show, he mentioned not weighing yourself everyday. I was just wondering what everyone's plans are to weigh themselves next. I'm going to weigh myself in one weeks time which will be on Tuesday.

i havent watched his videos but i weigh in once a week b/c your weight fluctuates from day to day and your food is still metabolizing from day to day.

I have weighed both daily and weekly in the past. I have very recently switched back to weekly b/c I was starting to get a little wacky about daily fluctuations.

I weigh in almost daily just to help understand my body fluctuations. Still don't understand them though. I do know if you knock back the "eat this and get your meal free" porterhouse steak, it's best not to step on the scale for a couple of days.

I weigh weekly, and while he said on the show to do like monthly, I'll probably still weigh weekly out of habit. As I posted over on the mckenna.com site though, I have a very different view on this system. This isn't a Diet but just a new way of eating (with a benefit of losing weight). So while my goal is weight loss, thats just a side effect of what I hope is a lifestyle change for me. Even if I only lose 1 pound a week, I'll reach my goal in 3 years and thats a lot less time than it took for me to put all this weight on.

Losing weight is important, but my mindset isn't focused on that, but on changing my eating habits (and weight loss will be the natural result from this change). This to me is the more permenant solution (changing my eating habits and getting control of my eating). And a permenant solution is what I'm looking for myself. I'm tired of quick fixes and "instant" results that then have me putting more weight back on later because I didn't learn anything or it was a short term fad that you can't live with. I can see myself living with this method.

mike-thats great. if you found something you can live with,that is key!

Hi,

Ummmmmm...weigh in....oh, the ugliness of it all. I tend to pay too much homage to the "scale god," so am going to have a few weeks of settling into the program before I weigh myself. Right now, feeling how my clothes fit and I feel will be enough.

Trust me carol, you re gonna want to weigh yourself in about 5 days from now. I'm seeing a tiny bit of change in my stomach size and want to hop on that scale so badly!!! I have 3 days till weigh-in.

Yeah, I know how hard the truth hurts, and how hard it is to face those numbers. Heck, look at my weight! Up until about a month ago I refused to get on scales for a LONG time, and actually convinced myself that my weight wasn't really changing much as I felt and looked the same. But when my Doctor's office couldn't even weigh me a month or so ago, I knew it was time to face the music, make it real, and then do something with the feelings that came from seeing my real weight in real numbers. So I went out and picked up a scale from WalMart that was rated for up to 400 pounds (I knew I wasn't there yet) and weighed myself. It wasn't pretty, and I hated seeing the numbers it showed, but it has now given me a weight I never want to see again, and the motivation to lose this.

Also, if you don't weigh yourself now, how will you really know what you've accomplished in a week or so? Plus it gives you bigger bragging rights later on when you reach your goal (or as you are getting closer to your goal) to tell people how much you've lost (and that you've seen it all come off, and not just guessing at how much came off the first few weeks before you weighed).

So yes, the scale is scary, but personally for me, getting that starting weight (and I need to do measurements too soon so I have that too) is part of getting me in the mindset I needed to really work on this and stay committed to what I'm wanting to accomplish.

No pressure...

OH How I hate Mr Scale! LOL
One way you can weigh daily and have it work for many is to record that daily number and then divide by 7 to get a more "real" number.
I think I will try once a week and weigh on Sunday or Monday.
Hoping for a good number this week!
Cathie in UT

I normally weigh myself every time I am at the gym. I gave up pizza for lent and stuck to it, now I am going to do another mock lent and give up weighing myself for 40 days and see how that goes Today was the last weigh in and I haven't changed. I also think that it will give me more motivation to see a big change in the number when I weigh myself 40 days from now... not including sundays... so a few more then 40 days.

I signed on to the 20 lb challenge and the weigh in is on Thursday so that's when I'll do it.

Mike, I give you a lot of credit for facing the truth. It must have been quite startling to have your doctor not be able to weigh you... Kind of a shock that you needed though as you've done something very positive with it!

I felt the same way about not wanting to weigh myself. For months I've avoided it, even though I could tell by how my clothes fit and how I felt that it was not going to be good.

Saturday I took the plunge and it was almost as bad as I thought, but not quite to the highest point I was at last time. You're right that it helps to have a number to look at so you know where you are starting.

Here's to both of us losing a lot of weight (and everyone else too!)

I have lost 4.2 pounds! and have NOT gained anything yet.
I know that it hasen't been that long, but this 4.2 pounds feels GREAT!

Before I started this I had lost 10 pounds on my own, I was feeling AWSOME! But I injured my back and the weight found it's way back to me. Which was OK, at least I didn't GAIN any more then what I had originally lost.