For me the bathroom scale is tool to be used in constantly monitoring my weight, and is not some evil anthropomorphic object to be feared. I weigh myself every morning, before I eat, to see how my weight in progressing during the week. If it is higher one morning than I think it should be, I may increase my exercise that day, cut down my food intake, or eat earlier. However, my official weight, i.e., what I tell people I weigh, is only taken once a week on Saturday, and that is the weight I put down in my spreadsheet which I use to track my weight.

I will talk more about my philosophy regarding weighing oneself every day, etc., in later blog entries, and will be sharing with you parts of my past and present spreadsheets, but today’s entry is about how lost and anxious I am felt, when in November 2014, my trusted digital doctor’s scale broke, and I was without it for a few days. While I was waiting for a replacement, I used a compact digital scale I have, that I take on trips, so that I can still monitor my weight when traveling. However, that travel scale is not as accurate as my doctor’s scale, and is susceptible to being tricked in registering different weights depending how one stands on it. Accurate knowledge is empowering, and that is why I think it critical to have a very accurate and stable scale, so that one can be confident in, and trust, the weight information you reading from your scale. So for those of you who are embarking on a weight loss journey, or to maintain a weight loss, my suggestion is to invest in a good doctor’s scale, which will become a trusted and valuable tool in your journey.