Scale Phobia

In my book, Bucket List Weight Loss, I write a lot about my own scale phobia and how I worked (and continue to work) to overcome it.   I also outline steps you can take to learn to deal with the scale--for instance, how to know the moment is right for weighing, and how to keep the inevitable fluctuations from driving you crazy.

If it's been a while since you've weighed, you're probably not looking forward to the moment of truth.  Nonetheless, postponing that moment can be as hard on your psyche as the gut-punch you're expecting when you step on the scale.  After all, if we don't know our numbers, it's easy to live in denial as we fall back into poor eating habits and find our pants getting tight again.  We carry a nagging guilt as we wonder how many pounds we've gained since our last weigh-in.  Yet we're not ready for the shock, so we put it off.

In the book, I suggest you wait for a day when you're in a good mood and you feel so good and positive about yourself that weight doesn't matter.  Oh, that day will come--sooner rather than later.  You'll finally say to yourself, "It's just a stupid scale. Get on it."   It's just another number.  Even if you've gained eight pounds since your last weigh-in, you're no heavier than you were just before you stepped on the scale.  The relief you experience by JUST KNOWING will feel like an eight-pound weight loss off our shoulders.  And now, you can intelligently begin your journey to the numbers you'd rather see.