My weight varies about 5 pounds over a day, sometimes up to 8 pounds or so over the course of a week. When I was seriously hypo and under-treated, I had bad puffiness from water retention, and my weight swing was ever bigger over the course of a week.
I also have a pretty complicated relationship with the scale. I think it tells me *something* but not what other people seem to think it says about me. I haven't gotten rid of mine, but I keep it in the closet and have to purposely pull it out to weigh myself, which cuts down how often I actually do so.
I'm feeling pretty shaky about the whole fat and fat positivity issue today. I'm so angry and sad I've been shaking and on the verge of tears for several hours. I have an LJ friend who knows that weight-loss dieting doesn't work, but she's tired of being ridiculed for being fat and is considering WLS. The clueless comments about "Just eat well and exercise!" on her entry about this are making me SO angry and filling me with despair, as is the fact that she'd rather mutilate her stomach than be 300 pounds.
Sorry you got my upset dump today, but I didn't want to dump on my own journal or any of the communities where she posts, because I'm sure this is an agonizing enough issue for her without me spewing all over her...
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Date: 2007-10-03 02:26 pm (UTC)I also have a pretty complicated relationship with the scale. I think it tells me *something* but not what other people seem to think it says about me. I haven't gotten rid of mine, but I keep it in the closet and have to purposely pull it out to weigh myself, which cuts down how often I actually do so.
I'm feeling pretty shaky about the whole fat and fat positivity issue today. I'm so angry and sad I've been shaking and on the verge of tears for several hours. I have an LJ friend who knows that weight-loss dieting doesn't work, but she's tired of being ridiculed for being fat and is considering WLS. The clueless comments about "Just eat well and exercise!" on her entry about this are making me SO angry and filling me with despair, as is the fact that she'd rather mutilate her stomach than be 300 pounds.
Sorry you got my upset dump today, but I didn't want to dump on my own journal or any of the communities where she posts, because I'm sure this is an agonizing enough issue for her without me spewing all over her...