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"Hi guys&amp;amp;#133; I&amp;amp;#8217;m still in Chicago&amp;amp;#8212;flying home soon! The moment I arrived in my hotel room, I noticed the scale in the bathroom and, frankly, I was annoyed. I still weigh myself more often than I should (or thought I should) so I was looking forward to spending a few days away from my scale, my enemy, the little digital devil that haunts me constantly, even tucked away under my couch. (I don&amp;amp;#8217;t keep it out in my bathroom at home because I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to see it all the time.) Real victory on this trip, I decided, would be NOT giving in to the temptation to step on the scale&amp;amp;#8212;especially since the mini-bar temptation has been eliminated. (I discovered this last night when I got home late and opened the fridge ready to tear through a bag of peanut m&amp;amp;m&amp;amp;#8217;s or Toblerone that there were only beverages! I seriously thought someone must&amp;amp;#8217;ve called the hotel before I got here to tell them a shape-up blogger would be arriving soon; quick, get rid of the chocolate!) I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t, in fact, gotten on the scale since I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been here. I really wanted the break from constant weigh-ins. Plus, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been eating so many nuts&amp;amp;#8212;they&amp;amp;#8217;re giving them away constantly at this expo since they&amp;amp;#8217;re so healthy, but when you&amp;amp;#8217;re eating buckets of them a day, they are ridiculously caloric. (How ironic would it be if I&amp;amp;#8217;ve gained weight at a nutrition conference? Ugh!) But when I sat through a presentation yesterday about self-monitoring tools for weight loss, I have to admit, I wondered if I should rethink the way I view the scale: with total, utter fear. The speaker talked about studies showing that people who weigh themselves every day lose more weight or maintain their weight better than people who don&amp;amp;#8217;t. And the idea isn&amp;amp;#8217;t to flip out over a few pounds constantly in flux, since we know the numbers on the scale can vary 5, 6, 7 pounds in just one day. The thinking is that daily monitoring will clue you in to major changes&amp;amp;#8212;so that if you&amp;amp;#8217;re suddenly 12 pounds heavier than you were a couple of months ago, you can make changes to reverse the weight gain. Still, I can&amp;amp;#8217;t really wrap my head around the idea that daily weighing is a good idea for everyone. And maybe it isn&amp;amp;#8217;t a good idea for me. While sometimes the numbers are encouraging and make me want to keep working towards my goals, if I&amp;amp;#8217;m not in the right &amp;amp;#8220;head space&amp;amp;#8221; and the numbers have creeped up, I can also feel completely discouraged (which often means a trip to the deli for those peanut m&amp;amp;m&amp;amp;#8217;s). What do you guys think? Scale: friend or foe? Are any of you actually able to weigh every day without obsessing?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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