The MakeMeThinner Support Forum

[dlr2424]

I have to tell you all...that is the ones that can't read the numbers on the scale for whatever reason...(eyesight, glasses, "the girls" being in the way)...I contemplated getting a "Talking" scale..yes they have scales that will read out your weight....however I was too paranoid that someone may be lurking near the bathroom door .... ..hear the WEIGHT.....and tell the world... ....I also was going to get a scale that programs your weight...but again was thinking... what if they got into my program.... ....they would know for sure I was a REAL FATTY.....(like my physical appearence didn't already reveal that)....ohh...the foolish hang-ups we allow ourselves to have...when I hit my goal of 120 I will be sure to get the TALKING...PROGRAMABLE...HUGH NUMBER DISPLAY SCALE.....and be the first to hop on.....BECAUSE I CAN!!!.....
have a great day
Donna...dlr2424

[bk]

my scale, which i looooooove, beeps once after it measures weight, beeps again after it measures body fat, then flashes the numbers a bunch of times. gives me the time to get down on the floor to look at it, because i'm totally blind without my glasses (which of course don't stay on my body while weighing!). my huge # display doesn't really help in that area, but any one that will keep on showing the number is a great help!

[raederle]

I went so far as to get laser eye surgery so I would save myself the 3.2 pounds my glasses weighed, *and* the 1.9 micrograms that my contacts weighed. (Well, they *were* the hard kind, not the soft, so hey-- they weighed a lot for contacts!!!)

[want2Bthin]

I weighed my glasses and they only weigh 1/2 ounce. Dang it! I was hoping for more. I guess that will teach me to pay for the thinner lenses instead of wearing coke bottles.

I do have long hair....

Angelia

[LilMsTexas]

Oh goodness Angelia...DON'T CUT YER HAIR OFF!!

But speaking of hair...........anybody let their legs go for the winter?? lol Maybe we should all go out and buy new razors...even the men...no need for extra facial hair in the summer!!!

[want2Bthin]

Ya know LilM- now that you mention it, I did wait to shave my legs until after I weighed this morning.

Next week: No glasses & shave legs 1st !

Angelia

[Dean0408]

You guys are cracking me up!!

Is it okay to attach 347 helium balloons to ourselves when we step on the scale?

[24KaratGold]

A postscript on the "when to weigh."

I seem to weigh as much as a pound less on the scale 5-10 minutes AFTER I've gotten up and visited the sandbox than I do immediately after. This is a pattern I've noticed since I started MFing. What happened this morning is typical:

I got up, used the bathroom, and got on the scale. 222.5. I got on the scale again, same weight (this is a new scale that I bought in January when I started; it's a Taylor, and overall pretty reliable). I went back into the bedroom and did a couple of things, then went back and stepped on the scale again maybe ten minutes later: 221. And that's what it's stayed at.

I'm not sure why it does that, but as I say I've noticed it several times before.

[doglover]

Interesting 24K. I will try that next week! Thanks and I'll let you know if it's the same for me!
Donna

[horsey girl]

Egads! 24K, You mean I could have been missing my skinniest weight? Actually I did this once but it was after a second trip to the sandbox which I figured accounted for it. I will try this. Horsey Girl

[Nancy]

I just weighed my glasses.........they weigh exactly 47.3 pounds

Yeah, right! And my very close veins weigh in at 19 pounds and my eyelashes and warts add another 6 pounds each...


P.S. Dean-o, those must be really thick glasses...isn't that what the Army refers to as "Birth Control" Glasses?

Gotta love those Mount Palomar lenses, eh? Sheesh! If you ever stared directly into the sun, those 47 pounders could burn your retinas out and start a major forest fire...

[bikipatra]

My very first week it was encouraging to weigh every day. I lost 6 pounds the first 24 hours on the MF plan so I was so thrilled. However, instead of being addicted to the scale and doing my daily weigh in FOR ME I am going to stick to Sunday mornings.

[horsey girl]

NEWSFLASH! 24K is right. I weighed as usual this morning and was up 1.5 lbs from yesterday. Just fluid I told myself as nothing happened yesterday to account for it. 10 minutes later I tried again and it was GONE.:':shock:' Where did it go? Does this mean if I weigh every 10 minutes I can make goal by tonight?':grin:' I knew medifast was easy but I sure didn't know it was this easy! Horsey Girl

[DonicaB]

Horseygirl, You are HI--larious Let me know if it works, I will bring my scales to school and weigh every ten minutes. My students may think I am nuts but who cares.

(As a side note, I am not typing this during class time, I am typing this during my conference period. I try to take a few minutes to read or post just to keep my encouragement up. Please don't think I am one of those teachers.)

DonicaB

[Nancy]

I used to weigh EVERY time I went to the BR.

When our daughter was two and we were potty training her, we used to take the potty chair in the back seat of our Cutlass, for those sudden potty urges.

When I first started on my weight loss program, I was considering carrying a potty chair AND my scale with me in the back seat.

Only problem was, I couldn't find a potty chair to accommodate a 265 pound woman and if I could, how would I ever fit my buns, the potty chair and the scale into the back seat of my VeeDub Beetle Bug? Now there’s a picture for you…