Weighing obsession

Q: Help!  This happens every time I'm on a diet.  I'm good at the once a week weighing for a couple weeks, but after a few months, I'm weighing myself 3 or 4 time EVERY DAY.  It's a bizarre obsession that I can't seem to break, unless I decide to stop losing weight, which I'm not ready to do yet.

Mozzy: I say throw it away!  Seriously.  People that I've helped lose fat and get healthy have done this and they claim it's the best thing they could have ever done.  Instead of weighing themselves, they went by how good they looked and felt.  Seeing your body transform is far more of a motivator than what the scale says.  Plus, the scale is usually misleading.

If you are strength training and putting on muscle (and you should be), you will be losing fat, but the weight loss won't be showing up on the scale because as we all know, muscle weighs more than fat.  I look so much better at 190 lbs with lean muscle than I ever did at 178 lbs with flab.  I've found that once people get into a regular vigorous cardio program and weight training, they begin to look and feel so good that they just stop weighing themselves altogether.