Daria: Isn’t it kind of vain?
Aunt Amy: Do you have mirrors in your house Daria?
Daria: Yeah.
Aunt Amy: Do you look in them before your go out?
Daria: Yeah.
Aunt Amy: Well then, you’re already going to hell, so you might as well get the lenses. You’ll see the brimstone better.

Since Daria is way smarter than any of us, I wouldn’t consider weighing yourself any more vain than looking in the mirror before you leave the house :)

Excellent post! I used to think people who worried about weight were narcissistic, too. Now I’m as vain as the rest of them. :)

Keep fighting the good fight! We’ll get there, baby, oh yes we will!

That scale gives you a way to chart your progress. When the numbers go down, celebrate. If they stay the same or go back up a pound or two, don’t beat yourself up. Just stick with your diet plan and the numbers will go down again.

I’d use that scale to set my first goal if I were you. Maybe a five-pound weight loss. Keep dates of reaching your small goals until finally, all of those small goals add up to the final goal.

Good luck.

Re: your comment – exactly! I have a very all or nothing mentality. It can work for a long time, but then ‘all’ come back in tide of all consuming blackness and blots out a week of my life. I find my middle ground to be too boggy and unreliably, it slips and slides back towards ‘all’ with alarming regularity, I’m not one of those people who can buy mini candy bars and put them in cupboard so they can have ‘one a day to stop cravings’. If they’re there, they’re eaten. Simple.