[ColdDayInHell]

By Stephanie Quilao

On your weigh-in day, how many of you will do something, anything to eliminate any kind of weight before stepping on the scale to ensure that you get the lowest weight possible? We've all done some thing, mostly silly and some on the not-so-healthy side, to make sure that we have shaved off any possible extra weight before stepping on Bonita Tanita.

Recognize anything on this list:

*Weigh in first thing in the morning after taking a poop and pee.
*Do morning weigh-in but wait till you've had one poop and two pees.
*After 2nd pee, you think a third is possible so you wait.
*Take off all your clothes and jewelry
*Take off all your makeup
*Take off any ponytail rubber bands or bobby pins
*Blow or pick your nose
*Spit in a cup till you can't spit anymore (my wrestler bro used to do this)*
*Weigh yourself, go do cardio and sweat as much as possible, and weigh yourself again to see if you sweated any weight away
*Pick any belly button lint or toe jam
*Cut your toenails and fingernails
*Cut your hair (I know this girl who hacked off her beautiful locks so she could be 2 pounds lighter)
*Have a good cry and shed as many tears as possible
*Do an enema or colonic
*Suck in your gut as you step on the scale (more psychological)
*Exhale to get all the air out of your lungs before stepping on the scale
*Try and pee a fourth time or poop a second
*Wait till the full moon is over because you heard the body retains more water during full moons


Are there any other things you've heard of people doing to get the smallest number on the scale on weigh-in day?

As a side note, I'm not giving pointers so folks can get a "thin as possible" weigh-in, and if you do any of these things religiously or obsessively, then this falls into the un-healthy zone where I highly recommend that you talk to your doctor, counselor, or therapist about.

I wrote this post mainly as a way to illustrate how the desire to achieve a "number on the scale" can sometimes drive us to do illogical and extreme things.


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[Lia]

LOL at that

[daer0n]

ROFLMAO!!!
i do more than a few of those!
It's called "obsession/terrified of being overweight"

[magosienne]

okay, i admit... i'm taking off my glasses before i step on the scale. i'm myopic, so i still see the result

[newtestam]

This whole thing cracks me up. Weight isn't as telling as inches anyways.

[Adrienne]

LOL i can't believe some of these

[Nick007]

LMAO! 2 funny!

[LilDee]

LMAO!! wow! I have taken off my clothes.. just to get an accurate weight.. but some of these.. wow!! haha

[cheller]

wow.

[fiercely]

I like this one: *Suck in your gut as you step on the scale (more psychological)


hahaha

[Karren_Hutton]

hahaha... Ok I pee... and that's it.... and I weigh myself before I take a shower.... incase I absorbe any water! lol

[lauren84]

haha..too funny
when I want to lose weight I slightly touch the wall as I weigh myself **boom...I can lose up to 7 lbs in seconds**

[-Chelsey-]

lol some of those are so true!

[WhitneyF]

Hahaha, I'm guilty of all of these!

*Weigh in first thing in the morning after taking a poop and pee.
*Take off all your clothes and jewelry
*Take off all your makeup
*Take off any ponytail rubber bands or bobby pins
*Weigh yourself, go do cardio and sweat as much as possible, and weigh yourself again to see if you sweated any weight away

[kdmakeuparts]

Totally go to the bathroom before weighing in.
I always weigh in in the morning, only because that is when I go to the gym.
And I always weigh in again after cardio. If I see a lower number it counts!!!!