Bathroom scales

Bathroom scales can either be the bane of your existence or a constant encouragement of your progress. For those of us working to lose weight, we love to hop on the scale after a week of working out and eating right to bask in our progress. On the flip side, after a stressful week where we drowned our sorrows in a pint of chocolate ice cream, the bathroom scales is a little more intimidating.

Personally, I have never enjoyed having a scale in my bathroom. Weight goes up and down without too much rhyme or reason. I really don’t want to know if I have gained or lost 1 pound from one day to the next. I once read in a book that if you are trying to lose weight the best plan for weighing yourself is to hop on the bathroom scale every morning and then average your weight at the end of the week. Since weight can go up or down sporadically, averaging your weight will help you to get a more accurate picture of your progress. Alternately, you could do like I have and swear off bathroom scales. I only weigh myself at the gym before workouts to get motivated!